Iconic igloo inspires museum memories
Michael Bushnell Northeast News If you’ve forgotten what the third floor of the Kansas City Museum looked like when your elementary school booked a field trip there, here’s a little…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News If you’ve forgotten what the third floor of the Kansas City Museum looked like when your elementary school booked a field trip there, here’s a little…
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…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News The holiday we celebrate as Thanksgiving had very humble beginnings in a tiny settlement bordering the Massachusetts Bay in 1621. The previous winter had been extremely hard,…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This advertising postcard from The Westmoreland Company shows a residence at 74th and Mercier streets. The actual residence shown on the card is a house…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Kansas City’s Electric Park was named for the 100,000 electric light bulbs that outlined the park’s buildings and rides after dark that literally turned night into…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Kansas City Fire Department was not only the talk of the town, it was the talk of the…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News In the late 1880s, Kansas City was awash with excitement that it too would soon have its own Harvest Festival. An up and coming group…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Most of the buildings shown in this Southwest News Company postcard published in 1907 were demolished in the late 1940s to make way for the new…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Electric Park View is the title of this postcard published in 1913 for Electric Park in Kansas City, Mo. Electric Park was named for the…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News According to the Nor’easter, Volume 1, Number 1, under the leadership of Editor Nathan Scarritt, the first journalistic endeavor at Northeast High School was launched on…