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
— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017
1940 pic.twitter.com/snpeFf7Ohu
North KC 1940
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Big black blob is Wheeler Airport hidden because of WWII pic.twitter.com/ERXFjb9gRY
Westport, Coleman Highlands, Roanoke etc 1940 pic.twitter.com/758W3pSegy
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Strawberry Hill before I-70 destroyed it pic.twitter.com/vcXTzPh5BP
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Westside KC before SW freeway destroyed it
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1940 pic.twitter.com/ZdxvFW3Jp5
Municipal Stadium 1940.
— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) August 24, 2017
Also zoom into 18th and Vine to see how Paseo was stroaded pic.twitter.com/hBn8E6F0mW
I can't figure out where this is.
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1940 aerial pic.twitter.com/t4yXg1DGm0
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
— Wes Minder (@WesKCMO) March 11, 2017
Urban renewal flashback#NorthLoop pic.twitter.com/Fdw4TjtojL
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