Really nice glimpse at local history for Midtown and perspective on KCMO during its glory days and the lifespan of former local icons.
Take a look:
Take a look:
Postmark: July, 1955
Kansas City was expanding in the heat of summer 1955. A hundred thousand more people since just before World War II. New freeways and viaducts and cloverleaf interchanges. A new bridge rising over the Missouri River at the foot of Broadway, and a new underground parking garage across from Municipal Auditorium downtown.
The country still had families, discretion and humility.
ReplyDeleteWould be nice to live like that
ReplyDeletesad what happened to to plaza
ReplyDeleteWow, look at that! Even the buildings were classy, clean, and ALL white!
ReplyDeleteDon't kid yourselves, there were still robberies, muggings and even rapes on the Plaza then, but J C Nichols Co. had their own Police Dept., KCMOPD never dared set foot there, and nothing about crime on the Plaza ever made it into the media.
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