Elmwood’s Gravestone Architecture
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Funerary Art is well represented in Elmwood Cemetery and some of the finest stone carvings can still be seen in a number of the tombstones placed…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Funerary Art is well represented in Elmwood Cemetery and some of the finest stone carvings can still be seen in a number of the tombstones placed…
Michael Bushnell Publisher Welcome to the first of a series of four Historic Postcard columns dedicated to Elmwood Cemetery in honor of their sesquicentennial on October 1st. When consecrated in…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This week’s Historic Postcard focuses on the upcoming Labor Day holiday and a brief history of the Ford Motor Company’s Kansas City Assembly Plant, the first…
Michael Bushnell Publisher No Historic Postcard series on the Kansas City beer scene, past or present, would be complete without a profile of our present day hometown beer, Boulevard Brewing…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News To date, our Historic Postcard series this summer has focused on Kansas City’s local brewing history, chronicling the stories of local brewing companies such as Heim,…
Michael Bushnell Publisher The new $750,000 M.K. Goetz Brewery wasn’t built in Kansas City until 1936, but it’s long, storied history had already been a major part of the St.…
By Michael Bushnell If a product bore the Katz label, consumers could be sure they were paying the lowest price in town. The same holds true with Katz beer. Like…
Michael Bushnell Publisher Chances are, if your parents shopped at Milgram’s Food Stores here in Kansas City, you probably had Heidel Brau in your fridge. Heidel Brau was a flagship…
Michael Bushnell Publisher Mention the word prohibition to a room full of brewers and distillers and you’ll likely be met with an angry mob complete with pitchforks and torches. But…
Michael Bushnell Publisher The Joseph Schlitz brewing company entered the Kansas City market in earnest when they built a depot near 9th Street and State Line in the West Bottoms…