KC’s first fire fighters honored
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News October 22, 2014 In March 1867, the Missouri Legislature granted permission to allow Kansas City, Mo., to organize an official fire department. In August of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News October 22, 2014 In March 1867, the Missouri Legislature granted permission to allow Kansas City, Mo., to organize an official fire department. In August of…
This postcard published by the Elite Postcard Company of Kansas City doubles as an advertising postcard for the Jenkins Music Company, also of Kansas City. The view on the front…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News October 8, 2014 This week’s historic postcard is a Real Photo postcard that shows a shot of the Shrine Parade in Kansas City in 1924.…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News October 1, 2014 About two years after the opening of the “new” Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River, Kansas City’s first Livestock Exchange building was…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News September 24, 2014 This marketing postcard was produced by the Oldsmobile Motor Company for Kansas City Motor Company located at 17th and McGee. It was…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News September 17, 2014 This Kodachrome postcard published in the late 1950s shows the numerous apartment buildings built on the south side of Brush Creek near…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News September 10, 2014 The Grand Opera House located at Seventh and Walnut is this week’s historic postcard, made in Germany and a wonderful example of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News September 3, 2014 This extremely rare, hand-colored postcard depicts the Living Flag presentation done under the auspices of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) at…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News August 27, 2014 This week we honor the American worker with a glimpse inside the old Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company in the West Bottoms area of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News August 20, 2014 With school days on the horizon and the summer break drawing to a close, we take a look at an early vocational…