Category: Lost
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Electric Park was Midtown’s Coney’s Island
On a day this hot a century ago, Midtowners would have hopped on the streetcar and headed south to 46th and the Paseo, where the popular Electric Park with its beach, roller coasters and dancing awaited them. The first Electric Park, a popular destination for Kansas Citians at the turn of the century, was located…
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Early orphan boys home story has a tragic twist
Before the current shopping center was built there in the 1960s, the corner of Westport Road and 43rd Street was home to the Kansas City Orphan Boys Home. Even earlier, the land was known as the Roger homestead, a nearly-five-acre tract of land with a big orchard behind it. The 12-room frame home, according to…