1982 Oak Park Mall Kansas City Treasure Troves 2020-06-10 | Initially presented by a local CBS Reports about how malls, Oak Mall in particular, could change a community, it also revealed how very segregated it was. Aside from the obvious social and economical inequalities, racial discrimination is apparent through the interviews, and the lack of diversity is unmistakable.
Nelly Donnelly Reed Kansas City Treasure Troves 2021-04-11 | Nell Donnelly Reed (March 6, 1889 – September 8, 1991) was an American fashion designer and businesswoman, known for her house dresses, who founded the Nelly Don brand. On December 16, 1931, Nell was abducted along with George Blair, her chauffeur, by three men and held for $75,000 ransom. Following her retirement, Nell was closely involved in many local organizations. She donated land in Jackson County, Missouri, to the Missouri Department of Conservation in the name of her second husband, which is now known as the James A. Reed Memorial Wildlife Area.
Kansas City Spanish Flu Outbreak of 1918 Kansas City Treasure Troves 2020-03-28 | The first cases of influenza in Kansas City, Missouri developed among the city’s two army motor corps schools, and from there spread to the civilian population. Possibly starting at Camp Funston in Ft. Riley, KS, the outbreak took 2,300 Kansas Citations lives, enhanced by poor leadership.
Glore Psychiatric Museum Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-10-08 | The Glore Psychiatric Museum is part of a complex of St. Joseph, Missouri museums. Its exhibits feature the 130-year history of the adjacent state mental hospital, and illustrate the history of mental health treatment through the ages. It has been called one of the fifty most unusual museums in the United States.
Lucile H. Bluford: Journalist and Activist of The Kansas City Call Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-09-01 | Lucile Harris Bluford (July 1, 1911 Salisbury, North Carolina - June 13, 2003, Kansas City, Missouri) was a famous journalist and opponent of segregation in America's education system, and after whom the Lucile H. Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library is named.
West Plaza Gas Explosion Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-07-24 | A fiery explosion that leveled 11 homes and damaged 17 was not enough to drive away residents of the West Plaza neighborhood in 1962. http://midtownkcpost.com/residents-rebuild-in-west-plaza-after-1962-gas-main-explosion
Savoy Hotel & Grill: Kansas City- West of the Mississippi! Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-06-25 | Before London opened its famous hotel by the same name, Kansas City’s Savoy Hotel and Grill was indeed the first. The bottom floor Built in 1888 by Scottish brothers, John and Charley Arbuckle, the Savoy is the oldest operating hotel west of the Mississippi. When Cowhands expected their coffee to be "brown gargle”, hot, black, strong and thick enough to float a six-shooter in, according to writer C.B. Miller, the Savoy is expected to be just as strong, and just as famous as Doge City and Tombstone.
Annie Chambers: Kansas City Madam Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-05-27 | By the time of her death, Chambers' own life had neatly paralleled Kansas City's untamed years of the late nineteenth century that were followed by extensive reform efforts in the early twentieth century.
The Swope Mansion Murders Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-04-30 | In one of the most notorious trials in Kansas City's history, a jury found Doctor Bennett Clark Hyde guilty of murdering Kansas City real estate developer and philanthropist Thomas H. Swope on May 16, 1910. Despite strong evidence linking Hyde to the crime, this verdict would be overturned by a higher court in a few months time, leaving the city to ponder whether Hyde had committed the murder.
Shawnee Indian Mission School Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-04-03 | Shawnee Mission, like many other missions, was established as a manual training school attended by boys and girls from Shawnee, Delaware, and other Indian nations from 1839 to 1862. Reverend Thomas Johnson established the Mission which also served as an early territorial capitol, supply point on the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails, and a camp for Union soldiers during the Civil War.
Arabia Steamboat (past & future) Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-03-07 | The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991 in the Kansas City River Market. The Kansas City Star named it "Rookie of the Year" in 1992 after having received over 20,000 visitors in two months. As of 2013, it continued to draw more than 80,000 visitors per year.
OMalleys Pub in Weston, MO (a little history) Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-02-10 | For history buffs, it has an interesting story and is the oldest pub in Missouri. During the 1840s, five stone cellars were dug up and used to lager and chill the beer in solid oaken tanks. Today, that space is used to house O'Malley's Pub.
Workhouse Castle (little history) Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-01-18 | City workhouse castle or Vine Street workhouse castle is a castle structure located at 21st and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri. Built in 1897, the building was originally designed as a city jail for petty offenders such as vagrants and debtors. It was eventually abandoned in 1972. Daniel and Ebony Edwards have attempted to restore the abandoned workhouse for the community, but due to politics, the property was "taken," according to the The Workhouse - Kansas City Historic Castle FB site. Today it's left to the vandals. *UPDATE: As of January 2020, the city has conditionally approved $1.2 million in tax money toward Dixon's proposal for the castle's restoration as an event space, and the land's re-purposing into a $150 million housing development called Enterprise Village Ecosystem (EVE). This is preemptively backed by UrbanAmerica, a company which in turn qualifies for up to 25 years worth of tax breaks by association with Eighteenth and Vine Redevelopment Corp., of which Dixon is the President. The city then discovered that Dixon had already been simultaneously under FBI investigation as of 2019 for allegedly committing financial fraud and death threats while spending at least $20,000 of the Black Economic Union's money to pre-launch EVE. This controversy also prompted the proposal of an upgrade to the city's Ethics Code to introduce background checks of applicants, and the resignation of a tax board member under concern of potential future conflict of interest due to his employment by UrbanAmerica.
Leilas Hair Museum (*Now Closed) Kansas City Treasure Troves 2019-01-02 | Just outside of Kansas City is a historical town known for its uniqueness, and this museum certainly has preserved a unique part of history: the art of hair. Leila's Hair Museum is listed as one of the Top 10 Quirkiest Attractions, along the U.S. Interstates, by the Society of American Travel Writers.
Kansas City Treasure Troves (KCTT) Introduction Kansas City Treasure Troves 2018-12-28 | Welcome! This will be a series of short videos about what makes Kansas City special. Join us each month for an update... and don't forget to SHARE and HIT the SUBSCRIBE button!
