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adminNortheast News This week’s postcard shows the result of countless days of rain and the lack of a levee system in the West Bottoms during a flood in June 1908.
The
adminNortheast News When Isaac “Ike” Katz was 13-years-old, he quit school and went to work for the Great Northern Railway to help support his family.
Katz walked the aisles of passenger
adminNortheast News As we approach the rainy summer season, it is fitting that we run a postcard showing three scenes from the West Bottoms area immediately following the great flood
adminNortheast News Fifty eight years ago today, a string of savage storms rose from the southern plains states and tore a devastating path across the Kansas City area that some
adminNortheast News In the late 1950’s, an empty plat of ground just north of the old Boy’s Hotel at Admiral Boulevard and Highland Avenue caught the eye of three local
adminNortheast News In January of 1859, the town of Wyandot was incorporated and two streets were cut across what we now know as the Huron Indian Cemetery.
adminNortheast News “Cliff Drive, Kansas City, Missouri.”
So reads the description on the front of this postcard published by the Fred Harvey Company.
adminNortheast News Building the imposing new City Hall at Fifth and Main Streets required the installation of roughly 60 circular caissons, five feet across, to support the massive structure.
adminNortheast News This week’s postcard shows the view of Fairyland Park from the top of the roller coaster in the 1930s.
adminNortheast News In 1950, there were only two bridges that spanned the Missouri River to the north, offering access to downtown Kansas City.
The old Hannibal Bridge, originally constructed in 1917,
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