Postcards From the Edge of Time

[FangKC]

No building in that postcard remains.

[FangKC]

A postcard of the Blue River near Independence Avenue when it was a popular boating and recreational spot.  Note the houseboats.

[FangKC]

An old promotional postcard for Fitz overalls produced by the local Burnham, Munger & Root garment company at 8th and Broadway.

[anniewarbucks]

Municipal Stadium was home to the Kansas City Blues and Monarchs baseball teams. It was located south of the 18th and Vine Jazz District at Brooklyn and 22nd Street. The stadium was also know as Muehlebach Field after the owner.

Didn't the Royals also play there for a little while or were they always at Kaufman?

[bbqboy]

Didn't the Royals also play there for a little while or were they always at Kaufman?

Yes. That picture is from the '50's as the Scoreboard has the Schlitz sign and the fence is at it's outermost dimensions, wrapping around the Light tower in Left field that had the Butternut Bread clock on it.

[FangKC]

Photo of Union Station from the Spencer Library Collection at Kansas University.

[Sportster]

Didn't the Royals also play there for a little while or were they always at Kaufman?

Municipal Stadium, 22nd & Brooklyn.
The Royals did play here a short time I remember going to autograph day there and getting Bob Oliver's autograph. Used to go to Chiefs games there, Spurs games too, saw Pele play there too.

Sportster
...what parking problem

[AllThingsKC]

[FangKC]

The grand days of train travel. When people dressed up in suits to take a trip.

[bbqboy]

Fang, can you find ANY pic of the Union Station Gas station?

[FangKC]

Wreckers Erase Unique Station 
The tearing down for a parking lot by the Kansas City Terminal Railways of the 1934 Art Deco gas station next to Union Station, despite its architecture befitting its surroundings. 
Date January/10/1979 
Source: Kansas City Star 

[AllThingsKC]

Wreckers Erase Unique Station 
The tearing down for a parking lot by the Kansas City Terminal Railways of the 1934 Art Deco gas station next to Union Station, despite its architecture befitting its surroundings. 
Date January/10/1979 
Source: Kansas City Star 

[FangKC]

Gasoline station on the SW corner of 17th and McGee in 1930.



Pen-Jac station near the President Hotel on the SE corner of 14th and Baltimore in 1928.

[FangKC]

Station on the SW corner of Linwood and Broadway next to the VFW Building in 1931.

[AllThingsKC]

Station on the SW corner of Linwood and Broadway next to the VFW Building.

What year is that photo from?  Do you know?

[FangKC]

[schugg]

Station on the SW corner of Linwood and Broadway next to the VFW Building in 1932.

WOW

[AllThingsKC]

And, where was this one located?

[schugg]

And, where was this one located?

119TH AND METCALF     

[FangKC]

City Ice gas station in Overland Park in 1932.