Likely the best blogging we'll share today and a reminder of this town's glory days which still vex our local imagination. Read more:
Matchless city: A night at the Continental
From a collection of hundreds of American matchbook covers dating to the late 1940s, I've culled a number of examples from Kansas City to present here. They offer a tiny sliver of that midcentury town as it was about to turn 100 years old in 1950.