Once again the Kansas City mood is getting way too dark around here . . .
Accordingly . . .
CHECK THIS KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY FUN CLIP THAT TAKES A LOOK AT LOCAL FAMOUS PEOPLE!!!
The neat Kansas City documentary is a promo for a local website that looks promising if this bit of cinema is any indication.
More in a bit . . .
Got to keep the loonies on the path.
ReplyDeleteThe race to the bottom continues.
ReplyDeleteFurther proof this City is going backwards rather than forward.
ReplyDeleteI kinda like it!
ReplyDeleteAnd their site doesn't seem to be up...
ReplyDeleteIn cities, gentrifiers have the political clout - and accompanying racial privilege - to reallocate resources and repair infrastructure. The neighborhood is "cleaned up" through the removal of its residents. Gentrifiers can then bask in "urban life" - the storied history, the selective nostalgia, the carefully sprinkled grit - while avoiding responsibility to those they displaced.
ReplyDeleteNo, this is not really correct at all. Pendergast didn't have anything to do with the booze. The concrete thing wasn't his, either. He took very little off the top of those operations. Lazia was not at all what they say he was. These people aren't friends with any of these families so they don't know what really went down. This is kind of insulting. These people think that prohibition was a good time. This is all wrong. Please read. There are lots and lots of books about this. Better yet, go ask someone to read their uncles diary and look at his books. You won't see much of this peppy jazz music if you read it from the real person. If you dig around, the mob was suffering during the depression as well. It wasn't sunshine and lollypops. There is a reporter from the KC star who is a "close" family friend who has written and even made a movie about this. Look, here it is...there is what happened, the people involved and their ideas about what happened, and then there is an idea somewhere in the middle made of both.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy following these families and their adventures....oh lord, the latest and the armed car ATM thing, the internet gaming, the drama and the trial, the fire, the divorces, the other fire, the strip club, casinos, lord have mercy these families around here have their own story lines.
But look, once you get to know these people you see that they are kind and gracious. They are hard people to hate. They are good people and will always be there for you. After you get to know them, you don't care about all that other stuff because that is not what they are about. They are fun people to be around. They are interesting.
I like their male porn better!
ReplyDeleteSorry to see Thomas Corrigan wasn't mentioned...
ReplyDeleteHe built the first horse drawn railway back in the late 1880's.
His house is up the hill on Ward Pkwy. at 55th St. And there's the Corrigan Bldg. at 19th & Main, where they are building (at 19th&
Walnut), the track sections for the new streetcar line...interesting coincidence.
They forgot old man Nutter.
ReplyDeleteyeah, the depression sucked, but why would you put something depressing in a promotional video? Obviously this is supposed to be fun. I like it a lot. And the site is up... I just looked at it. Pretty cool... Glad someone is talking about kc greatness then and now. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteSo some trust fund chick and her long haired boyfriend want to remind people of KC's past. Jesus all anybody ever thinks about in KC is the past. Yawn.
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