Fairmont Park: A summer escape near the city
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 31, 2013 This week’s postcard offers a look at Fairmount Park from Independence Avenue. This view would have been from the vantage point of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 31, 2013 This week’s postcard offers a look at Fairmount Park from Independence Avenue. This view would have been from the vantage point of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 24, 2013 Once a cornfield with a wood fence around it, Heathwood Park at 10th and L Road was created as part of the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 17, 2013 What became known as “The Junction” was actually the intersection of three primary streets in early downtown Kansas City with Vaughn’s Diamond…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 10, 2013 If you’re a fan of Lake Ozark, Mo., and everything that is the Lake of the Ozarks, then remember seeing the Larry-Don…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 3, 2013 During the American Revolution, a number of patriots made flags for our new nation. Among them were Cornelia Bridges, Elizabeth (Betsy) Ross…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 26, 2013 From a statistical standpoint, the 1908 flood in Kansas City was not as disastrous as the 1903 or 1951 floods. In June…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 19, 2013 Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, is the flood of 1951, which was dubbed “The Great Flood”…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 12, 2013 Seems fitting with the spring rains we’re experiencing that we run a photo postcard showing a scene in the West Bottoms during…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 5, 2013 Just in time for Sugar Creek’s annual Slavic Festival this weekend, we bring you this postcard published by the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 29, 2013 Published by the Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain Railroad by Buxton & Skinner Litho, St. Louis. This promotional postcard bears…