Northland development prompts need for local hospital
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News November 30, 2011 In 1950, motorists in the Kansas City area used four bridges to cross the Missouri River – the ASB (Armour Swift &…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News November 30, 2011 In 1950, motorists in the Kansas City area used four bridges to cross the Missouri River – the ASB (Armour Swift &…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News November 23, 2011 Thanksgiving, as an observed national holiday, had very humble beginnings in a tiny settlement bordering the Massachusetts Bay in the year following…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News November 16, 2011 Published by the Webb-Freyschlag Mercantile Company of Kansas City, this undivided back postcard shows a river scene from Ft. Quindaro in Kansas…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News November 9, 2011 This week’s black and white photo postcard spotlights the central part of the great frieze carved in to the north wall of…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News November 2, 2011 This week we feature a real photo promotional postcard produced by the Denver Omnibus & Cab Company of Denver, Colo. The description…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News October 26, 2011 The word Halloween actually traces its origins to the ancient Celtic holiday Samhain (pronounced sow-in) celebrating the end of the traditional summer…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News October 19, 2011 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 October 11, 2011 In the late 1880s, Kansas City was awash with excitement that it too would soon have its own Harvest Festival. An up…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News October 5, 2011 This week we feature a postcard advertising the Ralph Sanitarium, once located at 529 Highland. An article from the Kansas City Medical…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News September 28, 2011 This photo-chrome postcard showing two scenes from the American Royal Parade was mailed on October of 1965 with a 4-cent, Abraham Lincoln…