Town owes history to oil
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 10, 2013 This early postcard shows the Sugar Creek Refinery, Standard Oil Co., near Kansas City, Mo. The Missouri River and the operations of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 10, 2013 This early postcard shows the Sugar Creek Refinery, Standard Oil Co., near Kansas City, Mo. The Missouri River and the operations of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 3, 2013 Built in 1907 by the Scarritt Estate Company (formed in 1903 by the children of the prominent early-day Kansas Citian, Nathan Scarritt,…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 27, 2013 Spring Valley Park, located between 28th Street at Woodland Avenue and 29th Street at Brooklyn Avenue, lies in a natural canyon carved…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 20, 2013 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 March 13, 2013 In 1885, Mr. Alfred Zartman, assisted by a J.W. Jenkins and a George Larkin, conducted a Sunday School class in the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 6, 2013 This historic postcard was published by the South West News Company of Kansas City, Mo. and shows what was then referred to…
February 20, 2013 This linen style postcard published by the Sanborn Souvenir Company of Denver, Colo., shows the newly constructed Fort Collins Municipal Light Plant in Fort Collins, Colo.…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News February 13, 2013 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 6, 2013 Once the pride of the Black Ball Line, the Ferry Kalakala was, and quite frankly, still is the world’s first streamlined ferry.…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News January 30, 2013 If you’re noticing a theme here in the historic postcard column over the last couple of weeks, you’d be correct. TWA Stratoliners, quaint…