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adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Shortly after lumber baron Robert A. Long completed his palatial Gladstone Boulevard mansion in 1910, he began to assemble large tracts of what was then farmland just…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher While the Charles E. Whitaker Federal Courthouse might be an iconic addition to Kansas City’s skyline, the now long forgotten and demolished YMCA building at 10th and Oak…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This Linen-era, Art Tone, “Glo-Var” finished postcard was published exclusively by the Beals Postcard Company of Des Moines, Iowa. It shows LCT-291 being launched into the Missouri…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher With the dog days of summer wrapping up, it seems fitting to showcase something cool and historic at the same time. Hence, we offer this linen style…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher This real photo postcard was published by the North American Postcard Company of Kansas City, Mo. The view shows vehicles, both motorized and horse drawn, owned by the…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher The intersection of Thompson Avenue and Gladstone Boulevard looks only a little different in 2023 than it did in 1910 when this hand colored postcard was published by…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher In 1886 Thomas Stafford and Charles Murray, students at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., along with some members of the Olive Street Baptist Church, organized a mission…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Sweeney’s Army Motor Mechanics School is shown on this real photo postcard dated Aug. 18, 1918. The school was founded by Emory J. Sweeney in 1908 at 429…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher The venerable Densmore Hotel located at 906-914 Locust was part of Kansas City’s downtown for almost 100 years. Built in 1898, the Densmore was unique in that it…
adminMichael BushnellPublisher Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, the flood of 1951 was dubbed “The Great Flood” with the local mantra, “May there be no…
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