Chicago World’s Fair a century of progress
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News April 4, 2012 One of the highlights of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair was the Firestone Singing Color Fountain. The description on the back of…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News April 4, 2012 One of the highlights of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair was the Firestone Singing Color Fountain. The description on the back of…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 28, 2012 Originally designed as an ornate drinking fountain by noted Kansas City Sculptor Robert Merril Gage, the American Legion Fountain was a fixture…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 21, 2012 You might visit the area around 103rd Street and State Line Road if you were interested in purchasing an automobile these days,…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 14, 2012 This week’s postcard, published by the Southwest News Company of Kansas City, shows the bandstand and comfort station in Observation Park, Kansas…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 7, 2012 The Hotel Victoria, located at the corner of Ninth and McGee, was a fine, substantial hotel when it originally opened in 1888.…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News February 29, 2012 This Linen style postcard published by the P.K. News Company of Junction City, Kan., shows the confluence of the Republican and the…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News February 22, 2012 The handsome, new three-story Morse Elementary School at 22nd and Charlotte, built of dark vitrified brick, was opened at the beginning of…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News February 15, 2012 Published by the Southwest News Company of Kansas City, Mo., this circa 1906 postcard shows the oldest existing building in Kansas City,…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News February 8, 2012 Around 200 AD (CE), the Roman Emperor Claudius was busy conquering various parts of Europe and Asia, making a general nuisance of…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News February 1, 2012 This postcard showing Manual Training School is numbered 276 and was published by the Elite Postcard Publishing Co. of Kansas City, Mo.…