1940 Downtown and other Assorted Aerials

I had to do some plan scanning/production the other day in the map room at City Hall and while the scanner was taking its sweet time processing the scans, I sniffed around some old aerials and took some pictures.  I just posted them to Twitter so I'm being a little lazy by embedding them but you can explore them as you like.  I just find them interesting but I'm a map geek.  If I were to blog about them, I would dig into the first one, download it, and surf around.  I spy a Grand Avenue viaduct under construction to the river.

6th Street Trafficway before the #northloopkc destroyed everything
1940 pic.twitter.com/snpeFf7Ohu

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017

North KC 1940
Big black blob is Wheeler Airport hidden because of WWII pic.twitter.com/ERXFjb9gRY

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017

Westport, Coleman Highlands, Roanoke etc 1940 pic.twitter.com/758W3pSegy

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017

Strawberry Hill before I-70 destroyed it pic.twitter.com/vcXTzPh5BP

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017

Westside KC before SW freeway destroyed it
1940 pic.twitter.com/ZdxvFW3Jp5

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017

Municipal Stadium 1940.
Also zoom into 18th and Vine to see how Paseo was stroaded pic.twitter.com/hBn8E6F0mW

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017

I can't figure out where this is.
1940 aerial pic.twitter.com/t4yXg1DGm0

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017

Hey look sprawl....aka Waldo pic.twitter.com/npnfvbHVEd

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 23, 2017

1963 aerial. The old building lines up with north side of livestock building pic.twitter.com/eQTantWzKv

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) March 31, 2017

I was trying to find that old building we saw by Kemper in this 1957 aerial @polycitywander pic.twitter.com/nR23VocDex

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) March 31, 2017

@jhwkcmo 1957 but more pic.twitter.com/vnUpL7BmNv

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) March 29, 2017

#ProgressKC
Urban renewal flashback#NorthLoop pic.twitter.com/Fdw4TjtojL

— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) March 11, 2017

 Someone also has some more conversation and pictures about the North Loop I thought I would share.

Here's a slide I made for a presentation 6 years ago, and my essay on Squeezebox last year:https://t.co/bcO7L6tUcK pic.twitter.com/aNiNA2z9c2

— Nicolas Bock (@nicolasgbock) August 24, 2017