admin- March 9, 2011
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Loss of the great American shoe store
By 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…
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- March 2, 2011
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Taming the streets of Kansas City
By 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…
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- February 23, 2011
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Swope Park – a home to exotic animals
By 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…
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- February 16, 2011
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Turnpike a mecca for modern motorists
By 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…
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- February 2, 2011
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Roberts home example of new homeowner postcards
By 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…
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- January 26, 2011
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General Joseph O. Shelby – Undefeated to the last
By 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…
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- January 19, 2011
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Twelve-story edifice houses famous Bellas Hess for 60 years
By 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…
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- November 3, 2010
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Elm Ridge Race Track was short lived
By 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…
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- October 27, 2010
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Halloween rooted in Celtic tradition
By 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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- October 20, 2010
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Grand festival packed KC around turn of the century
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 20, 2010 In the late 1880s, Kansas City was awash with excitement that it, too, would soon have its own Harvest Festival. An up-and-coming…
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