What Part of Downtown Is This?

[ComandanteCero]

can someone give a description of the direction and general area of downtown this picture shows?

edit: this pic is from the KC Star's photo collection, you can order a quality print from them

[HalcyonKC]

In the upper left portion of the picture I can see the Kansas City Board of Trade (Second) building, which was at 8th & Wyandotte.  This picture appears to be facing northwest.

Very interesting photo.  A good percentage of the buildings in the upper left quadrant are now gone, and replaced by the Tower Properties parking lot sea on the north edge of downtown.  Also the trench for I-70 would now cut across the top edge of the photo, roughly parallel to the tail wings on the plane.  I don't see any evidence of the highway existing in your picture, although it's difficult for me to make out just what everything is.

Picture of the Kansas City Board of Trade (Second):
http://www.kclibrary.org/lhimgs/kcpl/re ... 91_reg.jpg

[ComandanteCero]

In the upper left portion of the picture I can see the Kansas City Board of Trade (Second) building, which was at 8th & Wyandotte.  This picture appears to be facing northwest.

good call!  Didn't see that, now it makes sense.

Man.... lots of good stuff was lost 

[Highlander]

I don't see any evidence of the highway existing in your picture, although it's difficult for me to make out just what everything is.

I believe the plane is a DC-3 which was (along with its variants) a mainstay of the US Army air force in WWII.  So, the picture was probably taken shortly after or before the war when the plane was widely used by civilian commercial airlines including TWA.  The plane came into being in 1935.  In any event, the photo is probably well before the interstate highway program was commenced. 

[scooterj]

The intersection in the lower right corner is 10th & Walnut, the large building on the lower right is the Commerce Trust Building.  (The central lightwell has since been filled in.)

[eliphar17]

You can see the diagonal street of Delaware splitting off from Main right below the W on the right wing.

[anniewarbucks]

Basicaly this area.

[Stockton]

I see Scooter's in the lower right, Commerce, 10th and Main, The Junction, Hanover Lofts and I think the plane is blocking the NY Life building.

[Rusty]

Depressing. 

[chrizow]

i want to die.

[staubio]

edit: this pic is from the KC Star's photo collection, you can order a quality print from them

Is there a link to somewhere you can search the collection?

[Stockton]

Is there a link to somewhere you can search the collection?

http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/
http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/subjects.cfm

[staubio]

http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/
http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/subjects.cfm

Ah, yes.  Commandante said this was from the Star, but I assume most everything is at the library too.  Thanks.

[Rusty]

i want to die.

I'd jump off a tall building with you, but so many are gone...

[Stockton]

Ah, yes.  Commandante said this was from the Star, but I assume most everything is at the library too.  Thanks.

My fault. I'm going to have to sit here and check out this site.

http://www.thekansascitystore.com/KCPhotoGallery/

[bbqboy]

Re: What Part of Downtown Is This?
« Reply #13 on: Today at 09:34:08 AM »

Quote from: chrizow on Today at 07:36:36 AM
i want to die.

I'd jump off a tall building with you, but so many are gone...

Yeah, plunging towards your death off a Parking Structure doesn't have the Same Ring to it.

[mean]

Given the part of the loop in that pic, you'd have to just fall down face first in a surface lot and hope for the worst.

[swampranger]

You can probably throw yourself on a rusty nail or some broken glass in that surface lot and hope for a dramatic infection.