Postcards From the Edge of Time

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Hill Haven Apartments, W. 47 and Jefferson, 1940.

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SO sad more of the old plaza couldn't have been better preserved. South Plaza is pretty solid at least.
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I came across this postcard, which I had never seen before.

It appears to be a view from on top of the New York Life Building at 9th and Baltimore looking southwest. I don't know the exact year, but it appears to be post-1900, since the old convention hall is in the image.

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Interesting, all the still surviving houses.
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There used to be a racetrack at 38th and Summit in the Roanoke neighborhood.
In what is now the Roanoke district of Westport, the race track was part of the Kansas City Interstate Fairgrounds which covered the area between 38th Street and Valentine Road, Pennsylvania and Roanoke Road. And the heart of the fairgrounds was the race-track at 38th Street and Summit.
http://valentineneighborhood.org/page2/ ... age14.html

http://kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.p ... OX=1&REC=7
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The curve on Valentine Road just east of SW Trafficway follows a curve of the old race track. Roanoke Park was originally the quarry from which the stone for houses and retaining walls in Roanoke, Valentine, and Coleman were built.
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Late to the game, but back in 2003, Fang posted a picture trying to identify a building on 31st just north of the current Penn valley college location. This was St. Joseph's Orphans Home. See http://www.kchistory.org/cdm4/item_view ... OX=1&REC=2
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11 years. not long at all :D
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Advertisement for the RKO Mainstreet vaudeville show, and films, in 1931, about 10 years after the theater opened.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd love to see the simian gigolos and Brazilian monkey jazz band.

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This is about the best photo I've seen of the Grand Avenue Depot. It sat behind the Western Auto Building between the Grand Avenue and McGee viaducts.

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I found this old image from Life Magazine of Kansas City.

I think it's E. 14th or 15th Street looking east of Troost towards Tracy Avenue.

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Another image from Life Magazine of the first Gillis Theater in the River Market, on E. 5th Street (at Grand), when it was a burlesque theater. This photo was probably taken in the early 1920s. That structure burned in 1925, and the current Gilliis Theater building was constructed after that.

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FangKC wrote:I found this old image from Life Magazine of Kansas City.

I think it's E. 14th or 15th Street looking east of Troost towards Tracy Avenue.

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FangKC wrote:I found this old image from Life Magazine of Kansas City.

I think it's E. 14th or 15th Street looking east of Troost towards Tracy Avenue.

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What year do you think it is? The building stock is amazing, but it already looks abandoned.
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The photos were taken by the Life photographer William Vandivert in 1938.
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grovester wrote:
FangKC wrote:I found this old image from Life Magazine of Kansas City.

I think it's E. 14th or 15th Street looking east of Troost...
What year do you think it is? The building stock is amazing, but it already looks abandoned.
I'm picturing it with a narrower street and ample trees, maybe bike lanes.... Sigh.
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The block looks a little better in the 1940 tax photos.
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While looking at the 1940 tax assessment photos, I came across this little jewel of a house, that used to be on the NE corner of W. 11th and Washington.

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The 1940 tax assessment photo also provided what used to be near the SE corner of E. 9th and Holmes.

The corner Victorian building was called the Burnet Hotel. It was also once called the Columbia Hotel, which I assume had to do with the Columbia Hotel across the street moving at one time, and the building changed names.

The other image is of the Chase Apartment Hotel, at 911 Holmes, which was an 11-story reinforced concrete building that was constructed in 1923. The hotel structure was a Radisson Hotel from 1923-1927, and became the Chase Hotel in 1928.

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Yea who needs buildings like that. They do a city no good, that's for sure.
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