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Pictures taken at Ward Parkway through the window.

Hey thanks! I better be discrete about which school this is, 'cause we did not have permission to be there. Are they really leg braces?! Yes, a back brace and a leg brace and some others. Why was the school abandoned? Was there a massacre there? Ha! We could tell from the paperwork that the school w...

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AllThingsKC wrote:

ha --- perfect!

the two office buildings are at 9th and grand. they are the same height and the two airshafts line up with each other. a good example of how early 20th century buildings could be so harmonious.

no -- it's KC!

I took this picture last June. It shows the construction site on Oak St between 55th St and 54th. It looks as though there was a tunnel under Oak St. I am calling it a tunnel -- as opposed to a sewer -- because it had a flat floor, as if for walking. I went back a week later, prepared to go inside, ...

I went inside last summer. The insides were pretty trashed out and chewed up. There was none of the original signaling electronics, although you could see where the racks had been. There was a storage room with radios from (I think) the 1960's. http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5298/sspx0367ht0.jpg...

bravo pumpkinstalker! the lantern is one of the holy grails of kansas city urban exploration. cheffreygo: if you check here occasionally http://www.kcurbex.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=30 you could probably connect with other people. the entire board used to be open to the public, but there was an inci...

That's a good use for that building and that neighborhood, but I hope that the antique store can re-open elsewhere. They always have great furniture.....

anyone know what the hold up is here? I have a suspicion about this project, that it was dropped on the ballet and they felt that they had to go along with it. I think that they would have preferred a purpose-built building next to the new performing arts center, which was the original plan. The po...

They still have not started construction.

I was there Friday night and I highly recommend a visit. They have some major architectural fragments: terra cotta, stone, metal and wood. There is a 12-foot electric Town Topic sign painted on both sides. They have a large inventory of old porcelain sinks in the basement, for both commercial and re...

advocrat wrote: Is there any potential use for the mudflats under Southwest Trafficway?

...the otherwise unused area going up the grade to the North under SW trafficway.

I don't understand -- where is SW Trafficway elevated?