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  • July 11, 2018
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Big Eleven Lake – an Urban Oasis

Michael Bushnell Northeast News In continuing with our 7-11 themed issue for July 11th, we offer this Max Bernstein-published Linen-type postcard of Big Eleven Lake in Kansas City, Kansas. The…

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  • April 25, 2018
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Beauty Springs eternal on Cliff Drive

Michael Bushnell Northeast News “Fountain and Cliff Drive, North Terrace Park, Kansas City Missouri.” So reads the description on this divided back, hand-colored postcard published around 1910. This view was…

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  • April 11, 2018
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Paseo no more

Well, boys and girls, the fix is in. Get a good look at those street signs that say The Paseo on them because if the Mayor and his blue ribbon…

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  • April 11, 2018
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Kansas City’s first memorial

Michael Bushnell Northeast News Dedicated on June 2, 1909, the August R. Meyer Memorial, at 10th Street and Paseo Boulevard, was the first memorial to be placed in a Kansas…

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  • November 29, 2017
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The House That Beef Built

  Michael Bushnell Northeast News When Kirkland B. Armour began construction of his palatial mansion on the boulevard that bears the name of his uncle, Simeon B. Armour, the roadway…

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  • June 28, 2017
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Smear Merchants

Northeast News June 28, 2017 Last week a smear campaign was launched against the Kansas City Museum for a tentative (operative term) parking plan that sought to take a small…

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  • February 22, 2017
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Kansas City’s first memorial

By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News February 22, 2017 Dedicated on June 2, 1909, the August R. Meyer Memorial, at 10th Street and Paseo Boulevard, was the first memorial to be…