The house that beef built
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News November 28, 2012 When Kirkland B. Armour began construction of his palatial mansion on the boulevard that bears the name of his uncle, Simeon…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News November 28, 2012 When Kirkland B. Armour began construction of his palatial mansion on the boulevard that bears the name of his uncle, Simeon…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News November 12, 2012 When John Warneke arrived in Jackson County, Mo., in 1866, Kansas City’s population barely topped 15,000 souls, all intent on making a…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News November 14, 2012 Published by and for the Thornton & Minor Sanitarium, this week’s card shows the second location of the hospital originally started by…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News November 7, 2012 This historic postcard was published by the South West News Company of Kansas City, Mo., and shows what was then referred to…
October 31, 2012 Halloween traces its origins to the ancient Celtic holiday “Samhain” (pronounced “sow-in”), celebrating the end of the traditional summer growing season on Oct. 31. The Celts, who…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News October 24, 2012 Electric Park once boasted over 100,000 electric light bulbs that outlined buildings and rides; then after dark they turned night into day.…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News October 17, 2012 Most of the buildings shown in this Southwest News Company postcard published in 1907 were demolished in the late 1940s to make…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News October 10, 2012 George Herman “Babe” Ruth and “Larrapin” Lou Gehrig played in a barnstorming game on Oct. 15, 1927, at Muehlebach Field, Kansas City,…
October 3, 2012 The roots of today’s American Royal can be traced to 1899 when the fledgling event was referred to as the National Hereford Show. Billed as the first…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News September 26, 2012 What is now nothing more than a re-routed, re-manufactured drainage ditch north of 63rd Street was once home to thousands of boat…