adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 16, 2011 Greeting postcards, such as this, have long been used to convey greetings conveniently to friends and relatives afar. The man who became…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 9, 2011 These days all you’ll find near the intersection of Delaware Avenue and 8th Street is some green space and a few surface…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 2, 2011 The Northeast News print advertisements placed by the Oldsmobile Company in 1939 tout the new Olds “60” as the “car that tamed…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 23, 2011 “An idea to create the largest zoological garden in the United States. There will be nothing better in the world. Swope Park…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 16, 2011 This chrome-style postcard showcases one of the new service areas along the newly completed Kansas Turnpike. The Kansas Turnpike was the brainchild…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 2, 2011 Around the turn of the 20th Century, it was not uncommon for local photo-postcard companies to go door-to-door in Kansas City’s more…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Jan. 26, 2011 “I won’t be reconstructed, I’m better now than then. And for a Carpetbagger I do not give a damn. So it’s forward…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Jan. 19, 2011 Published by Hall Bros. in the early 1920s, this color postcard with Art Deco side accents shows the National Cloak and Suit…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Nov. 3, 2010 Titled “Elm Ridge Driving Park,” this week’s card shows the Elm Ridge Race Track. Only in operation from April 28, 1904 through…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 27, 2010 Marked by old greeting postcards like these, the tradition of Halloween traces its origins to the ancient Celtic holiday “Samhain” (pronounced “sow-in”),…
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