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by crazywarriorman
Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:10 pm
Forum: Downtown
Topic: AT&T Building Renovation, 8th Street and Locust
Replies: 63
Views: 17872

Re: AT&T Building Renovation, 8th Street and Locust

All that old telco equipment probably ran pretty hot. Actually, this building more than likely housed nothing but workers. All the teclo equipment would've been down the street in the long lines building https://long-lines.net/places-routes/Kansas_City_MO/1425_Oak_St_KC_MO_Completed_Relay_Tower-A.j...
by crazywarriorman
Thu Aug 08, 2019 11:30 am
Forum: Downtown
Topic: Cambria Hotel(SW Corner of 9th & Wyandotte)
Replies: 64
Views: 24291

Re: Cambria Hotel(SW Corner of 9th & Wyandotte)

Was there a streetcar on Wyandotte then? They're redoing the water main lines on that street and you can see old rails that they've dug up. I can only assume it's from the streetcar.

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by crazywarriorman
Fri Aug 02, 2019 5:54 pm
Forum: Power & Light District
Topic: OFFICIAL - Strata (H&R Block's 2nd Tower)
Replies: 781
Views: 289454

Re: OFFICIAL - Strata (H&R Block's 2nd Tower)

Oops, here we goImage

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by crazywarriorman
Fri Aug 02, 2019 5:03 pm
Forum: Power & Light District
Topic: OFFICIAL - Strata (H&R Block's 2nd Tower)
Replies: 781
Views: 289454

Re: OFFICIAL - Strata (H&R Block's 2nd Tower)

I was downtown exploring today and got the chance to look over the site of where the new tower will be. You can see that H&R Block definitely planned on building a second tower evidenced by the the large amount of concrete footings on the rooftop https://bn1302files.storage.live.com/y4pqGjwrK41b...
by crazywarriorman
Sun Apr 28, 2019 10:00 pm
Forum: General Kansas City
Topic: Kansas City Civil Defense Questions
Replies: 1
Views: 1256

Kansas City Civil Defense Questions

As some of you may know, Kansas City is home to one of the worlds loudest air raid sirens. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article195809654.html Kansas City originally had 3 of these sirens. One is located at the old army records building off of Independence, another was located on top of the ...