Postcards From the Edge of Time
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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
SO sad more of the old plaza couldn't have been better preserved. South Plaza is pretty solid at least.
- FangKC
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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
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.
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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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
Interesting, all the still surviving houses.
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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
There used to be a racetrack at 38th and Summit in the Roanoke neighborhood.
http://kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.p ... OX=1&REC=7
http://valentineneighborhood.org/page2/ ... age14.htmlIn 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://kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.p ... OX=1&REC=7
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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
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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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
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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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
11 years. not long at all
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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
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.
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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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
The photos were taken by the Life photographer William Vandivert in 1938.
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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
I'm picturing it with a narrower street and ample trees, maybe bike lanes.... Sigh.grovester wrote:What year do you think it is? The building stock is amazing, but it already looks abandoned.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...
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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
The block looks a little better in the 1940 tax photos.
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- FangKC
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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
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.
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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Re: Postcards From the Edge of Time
Yea who needs buildings like that. They do a city no good, that's for sure.