The Curse of Kansas City
This article about the Hyatt Regency disaster published in the Weekly World News on August 11, 1981 has a curious inset. Some of these I’ve never heard about, like the Kemper Arena roof collapse in...
View ArticleAlert Today, Alive Tomorrow
If you are not just headed to the Kansas City Public Library to look at porn or have sex, you may want to visit their excellent free exhibit Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living With the Atomic Bomb,...
View ArticleOld Photos: Vintage Kansas City
On my rare visit to Barnes and Noble, a store that encourages consumer to buy books online, I discovered a new batch of books containing vintage photos of Kansas City and other nearby places of...
View ArticlePersonal Recollections Of The Terrible Kansas Blizzard of 1886
We interrupt our tropical coverage to bring you this gripping account of the Blizzard of 1886 (or as we call it in present “Tuesday”) The post Personal Recollections Of The Terrible Kansas Blizzard of...
View ArticleThis Post Will Save Your Life
I know it’s been a few years since the last post, but the rusty Fallout Shelter sign on my building prompted another trip to the library like in the olden days when I kept this blog up. Apparently the...
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