Postcards From the Edge of Time

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119TH AND METCALF       :lol:

  I thought I recognized that Wal-Mart in the back ground.  Or, as it was called back then, "Wal-General Store." 

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Neat old coffee ad.

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Greenlease Cadillac Building at Gillham and McGee Trafficway near 30th Street.

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Greenlease Cadillac Building at Gillham and McGee Trafficway near 30th Street.

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Old reservior in Kessler Park.

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The Jet Lounge was a popular hangout in the former State Hotel (aka Stats Hotel) on the NE corner of 12th and Wyandotte.  Twelve Wyandotte is on the site today.



The State Hotel (aka Stats)

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The buldings south of Washington Square Park are now gone and replaced by the Westin Crown Center Hotel.  The Plaza and Ryan hotels used to stand on the sight then known as Signboard Hill across from Union Station.

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Union Station, streetcars, and the Sweeney Automotive, Tractor, and Aviation School in 1926.

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An aerial of Union Station shows the massive train sheds that surrounded it in 1930.

It was the largest train shed cover between Lawrence, Kansas, and Oak Grove, Missouri.   :P

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One of the iconic images of the clock and the North Hall in Union Station.

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Allen's Drive-In




Smak's Drive-In

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Petticoat Lane (at Main and 11th) at Christmas in 1926.  The John Taylor Department Store is shown (later became Macy's).

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Peck's Department Store at 11th and Baltimore (on the NE corner).

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1012 Baltimore. A parking garage was constructed after it was demolished.

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Union National Bank at E. 9th and Walnut after renovation and facade modernization.  The former building known as Keith & Perry Building had been a Victorian structure.

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Terra-cotta detail on a the building found on the NW corner of 39th and Walnut.





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More terra cotta splendor at the intersection of Main and Westport Road.



Details on building on the NW corner of 39th and Main.

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The bas relief on the base of the Liberty Memorial at night.





Union Station at night.

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The front entrance to the Hawthorne Apartment Building near 39th and Main. The building was formerly called The Tacoma.

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The Montgall Hotel, shown in this old photo, still remains at the corner of Truman Road and Montgall (near Prospect).

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Ah, yes, Allen's Drive-In. I believe it was the closest drive-in frequented by my friends who went to Southeast High School in the late 50s and early 60s. I went to Paseo High School. (Let's not discuss what happened to that beautiful, old building.) The closest drive-in was The Y, which later became Max's. You could get a Big Max for 50 cents. That was long before the Big Mac. Teenagers really did drive through those places just as depicted in the movie, American Graffiti. Do any pictures exist of those eateries? I don't know what is there now. I'm 1000 miles away.

Thanks for posting all these wonderful pictures. Oh, yes. Peck's. I bought a winter coat there when I was 16. If you wanted to go shopping, you went downtown.