Flooding no stranger in West Bottoms
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 18, 2014 The Kansas City Flood: “The heavy rains during the month of June in the Missouri and Kaw River valleys was the cause…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 18, 2014 The Kansas City Flood: “The heavy rains during the month of June in the Missouri and Kaw River valleys was the cause…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 11, 2014 Built in 1906-07 by the Swenson Construction Company at a cost of $15,000, the stone arched 15th Street Bridge spans what was…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 4, 2014 Overcrowding, frequent escapes, unclean bedding, vermin, lack of medical attention, poor food, habitual gambling, prisoners kept in cells in idleness and intoxicating…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 28, 2014 This Phost-tint Postcard shows Linwood Boulevard looking East from Euclid Avenue. The stately, colonnaded Los Angeles Apartments stand next to another luxury…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 21, 2014 On July 10, 1915, the skies over the tiny hamlet of Atlanta, Mo., turned black, the air grew still and oppressively humid…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 14, 2014 According to the Nor’easter, Volume 1, Number 1, under the leadership of Editor Nathan Scarritt, the first journalistic endeavor at Northeast High…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 7, 2014 This week’s postcard gives us a look at Fairmount Park from Independence Avenue. This view would have been from where the old…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 30, 2014 When it opened in 1914, Longview was hailed as “the world’s most beautiful farm.” Longview Farm was the country estate of Kansas…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 23, 2014 In 1890, when Judge Azariah Budd donated 20 acres to the city’s fledgling Parks Department, the city limits had barely reached Hardesty…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 16, 2014 This panoramic post card of downtown Kansas City, MO. looking east from Broadway, was copyrighted by G.H. Otto in 1899, just a…