May 1936. "Bank that failed. Kansas." Medium-format nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the ... died long before
the Depression. Many towns in Western Kansas boomed in the 1870's
based on false expectations and advertising by ... Ummm. There is no Columbus County in Kansas. The city of Columbus, however, is in Cherokee County.
[Oops. I meant ...
KansasCity, Missouri, circa 1908. "Grand Avenue north from Twelfth." 8x10 inch dry ... firm of Van Brunt and Howe, which did a lot of work in the KansasCity area after Henry Van Brunt relocated from Boston. You can just make ...
... bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the KansasCity, Kansas, plant of North American Aviation." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by ...
KansasCity, Missouri, circa 1906. "Junction of Main and Delaware Streets." 8x10 inch ... As you might have guessed from the signs.
That's the KansasCity Times newspaper building in the middle, with the spire thing on ...
March 1943. "KansasCity, Missouri. Produce freight yard used by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ... Yard and is now called Berkeley Parkway in this part of KansasCity).
Groceries "And stop on your way home for a quart of milk." ...
... March 1943. "Amarillo, Texas. General view over the city and the Santa Fe railyard." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office ... Amarillo really is that flat. It's almost uncanny. Makes Kansas look like the Swiss Alps.
Wagon Top! Note the unusual B&O ...
... conditioning made them unnecessary.
I'm not in Kansas anymore It is photographs like this that drive me into sublime ... dip. I think Joseph Pulitzer gave the fountain to the city in 1916.
Ancien Pauvre This is certainly not the Plaza of nouveau ...
March 1943. KansasCity, Missouri. "Mildred Williams, one of several women freight handlers ... would surely have surpassed them all.
Stowe Building, KansasCity That's the Stowe Building next to her shoulder.
(The ...
KansasCity, Missouri, circa 1906. "Walnut Street." Home of the $2 hat. 8x10 inch dry ... today:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=11th+and+walnut,+kansas+city+mo&um=1&ie=U...
& some info about the building at ...
... first grade about 20 miles west of Hauppauge. The New York City Board of Education had a much less relaxed dress code. Boys from first ... New School I started the first grade in 1954 in rural Kansas. We were in a building that had been built in 1911 and only housed six ...
... mouth open and lights out to understand why.
Not in Kansas anymore The article below is from page 3 of the Sunday, December 30, ...
The 1930 U.S. Census shows him living in Hillsboro City, Washington County, Oregon. He married at the age of 21, it shows him as ...
... got in our in our '53 Chevy coupe and went from New York City to the SF Bay Area, mostly along US 40. Entertainment consisted of ... to '87. I think the longest trip we took in it was from KansasCity to Washington, DC and back.
Wagons We had a 1956 Ford wagon, ...
KansasCity, Missouri, circa 1906. "Petticoat Lane." And Denture Alley. 8x10 inch dry ... I feel a song coming on! Ev'rythin's up to date in KansasCity
They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!
They went and built a ...
Circa 1906. "City Market, KansasCity, Missouri." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, ... Museum
Everything has always been up to date in Kansascity.
Locavores beware As a produce grower just west of KC I had ...
... Cigars, anyone? It looks like the main street of Ybor City near Tampa, Florida.
[Close, but no cigar. - Dave]
Titusville, ... my eyes playing tricks, but I think I see a reference to KansasCity in the banner stretched across the street.
I'm guessing ...
... meal. Alleva Dairy, one of the oldest stores in the city, is the first stop. Next door is a great pasta shop. There's a wonderful ... at least for awhile. Most of them migrated to Ohio and Kansas not liking city life and having farming backgrounds. This is an ...
KansasCity, Missouri, circa 1906. "Jackson County Court House." Please mind the ... lexicon.
Pre-Grading Remnant Although the old KansasCity court house was truly magnificent, what interests me more is that ...
... maybe even suburbia, a stationary engineer, to those of us city folk, is usually the building superintendent, or as we know him (or her), ... of the Washington-Virginia Railway, departing from Mid-City Terminal at 12th and Pennsylvania. - Dave]
Bon-Ami When I ... balm to her outraged feeling, the former Kansas hatchet wielded read from the witness box passages of Scripture ...
KansasCity, Missouri, circa 1906. "Elks Club." Welcome to B.P.O.E. 26. Detroit ... World's Fair. After the fair it was purchased and moved to KansasCity.
Magnificent Building What a beautiful building. Does anyone ...
KansasCity, Missouri, circa 1906. "Board of Trade Building." 8x10 inch dry plate ... This was Burnham & Root's most important commission in KansasCity. The Chicago firm won an architectural competition held for the ...