Kansas City Star Centennial IV, Kansas City, MO. June 4, 1950
Entry/Object ID
AM1994.3.4D
Scope and Content
Kansas City Star Centennial IV, Kansas City, MO 1950
Picture of downtown district; with the Kansas City Union Station
in the foreground. This picture was made by Frank Meister from the top of the Liberty Memorial. The main street viaduct over the train sheds leads the eye--even as it lures the feet of visitors northward into the heart of the town. The massive white building at the upper left is the Municipal Auditorium. The right of the white smokestack is the Kansas City Club at 13th street and Baltimore avenue, almost concealed by the 32 story Kansas City Power and Light building. Farther to the right are the Fidelity building, the Bryant building, the Federal Reserve bank building, Southwester Bell Telephone building, the City Hall and the Jackson County courthouse.
Picture of Americans and visitors waiting for trains in Union station.
Kansas City's Broadway a thoroughfare between the downtown district and South side residential areas.
Picture typical residential block in Kansas City
Picture of comfortable homes neither mansions nor cottages but somewhere in between.
