00:00 - 03:00
Homo. on the puter editing the railZEN graphics and adding them to the video.
03:00 - 10:00
Zzzz
10:00 - 11:00
Up, showered. I et brekkus that Suyen fixed. Headed into woik via 169 in the Odyssey.
The car was on the spare which was half flat. Bob and I went to QT to air it up before going to our story. We went to KCK where there was a rolling gun battle which resulted in a car crashing into a dry-cleaner.
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4433024&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
I went to YJ's for kawfee and to try to relax. I am stressed out lately.
Saturday 22 September 2007 13:49:49
I was sent to shoot a vo on fiesta Mexican at Barney Allis Plaza.
Paul sent me to get vo at Barney Allis Plaza of Fiesta Mexicana.
15:00 - 17:00
I edited in Avid 2.
I checked out and loaded van 4. Bob and I went to KCK to set up and do our live. We were delayed due to a baseball game, so instead of doing a live for our package at 6, and our vo/sot for 6:30, we just did our package a little after 6:30.
Saturday 22 September 2007 18:02:54
We were live from this location at 18th and State in Kansas City, Kansas. We were waiting on a baseball game to end so we could do our live. I shot the church sign in the background there. The name of the church is interesting. But of interest to me is the googie sign. Actually, there are a lot of these all over the area. They were made for a grocery store chain, I'm not sure which one. However, the stores are not there anymore, but the signs have been recycled for other uses. Some are grocery stores, some are churches, like this one in KCK.
There is some interesting googie in the area...
9:00 - 23:59
I drove to the Metro North mall, where Suyen was panicking because she had some clothes hemmed, and didn't realize she needed cash. I met her there and we got it woiked out. Then we went homo, then we et at Taquiria Mexico. Then we went to YJ's. Then we went homo.
Sunday September 23, 2007
7008 N BELLEVIEW AVE, KANSAS CITY, MO
1. Start at 7008 N BELLEVIEW AVE, KANSAS CITY going toward NW 70TH ST go < 0.1 mi
2. Turn LEFT on NW 70TH ST go 0.2 mi
3. Turn RIGHT on N SUMMIT ST go 0.4 mi
4. Turn LEFT on NW 68TH ST go < 0.1 mi
5. Turn RIGHT to take ramp onto US-169 S go 2.2 mi
6. Take the I-29 S/US-71 S LEFT exit onto I-29 S go 6.5 mi
7. Continue on I-35 S go 0.4 mi
8. Continue on US-71 S go 0.3 mi
9. Continue on I-70 E go 2.7 mi
10. Take exit #4C/23RD ST go 0.2 mi
11. Turn LEFT on E 23RD ST go 0.8 mi
12. Turn LEFT on CHELSEA AVE go 0.1 mi
13. Turn RIGHT on E 22ND ST
14. Arrive at E 22ND ST AT CHELSEA AVE, KANSAS CITY
E 22ND ST AT CHELSEA AVE, KANSAS CITY, MO
Distance: 13.9 miles, Time: 21 mins
E 22ND ST AT CHELSEA AVE, KANSAS CITY, MO
1. Start at E 22ND ST AT CHELSEA AVE, KANSAS CITY going toward CHELSEA AVE
2. Turn LEFT on CHELSEA AVE go 0.1 mi
3. Turn RIGHT on E 23RD ST go 0.8 mi
4. Turn RIGHT to take ramp onto I-70 W go 2.2 mi
5. Bear LEFT on I-670 W go 1.1 mi
6. Take exit #2T/WICHITA/12TH ST onto
I-35 S toward WICHITA go 1.4 mi
7. Take LEFT exit #1A/SOUTHWEST TRAFFICWAY onto SOUTHWEST TFWY go 0.5 mi
8. Arrive at W 31ST ST AT SOUTHWEST TRFY, KANSAS CITY
W 31ST ST AT SOUTHWEST TRFY, KANSAS CITY, MO
Distance: 6.1 miles, Time: 10 mins
W 31ST ST AT SOUTHWEST TRFY, KANSAS CITY, MO
1. Start at W 31ST ST AT SOUTHWEST TRFY, KANSAS CITY go 1.5 mi
2. Continue on BELLEVIEW AVE go 0.4 mi
3. Bear LEFT on ROANOKE PKY go 0.1 mi
4. Bear LEFT on W 47TH ST(US-56) go 0.3 mi
5. Turn RIGHT on BROADWAY ST go 0.1 mi
6. Continue on WORNALL RD go 9.1 mi
7. Arrive at 12000 WORNALL RD, KANSAS CITY, on the RIGHT
12000 WORNALL RD, KANSAS CITY, MO
Distance: 11.6 miles, Time: 25 mins
12000 WORNALL RD, KANSAS CITY, MO
1. Start at 12000 WORNALL RD, KANSAS CITY go 0.5 mi
2. Turn LEFT on W MINOR DR go 0.8 mi
3. Continue on W 119TH ST go 5.0 mi
4. Arrive at 10000 W 119TH ST, OVERLAND PARK, on the RIGHT
10000 W 119TH ST, OVERLAND PARK, KS
Distance: 6.3 miles, Time: 13 mins
10000 W 119TH ST, OVERLAND PARK, KS
1. Start at 10000 W 119TH ST, OVERLAND PARK going toward GRANT ST go 0.1 mi
2. Make a U-Turn at GRANT ST onto W 119TH ST go 1.8 mi
3. Turn LEFT on METCALF AVE go 1.2 mi
4. Take ramp onto I-435 E toward US-50 E go 6.9 mi
5. Continue on I-435 N go 9.2 mi
6. Take LEFT exit #63A/KANSAS CITY onto I-70 W go 2.6 mi
7. Take exit #5C/JACKSON AVE go 0.1 mi
8. Continue on E 29TH ST go < 0.1 mi
9. Turn LEFT on JACKSON AVE go 0.3 mi
10. Turn RIGHT on E 31ST ST go 0.5 mi
11. Turn LEFT on INDIANA AVE go 0.5 mi
12. Turn RIGHT on E 35TH ST go < 0.1 mi
13. Arrive at 3310 E 35TH ST, KANSAS CITY, on the RIGHT
3310 E 35TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO
Distance: 23.3 miles, Time: 26 mins
3310 E 35TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO
1. Start at 3310 E 35TH ST, KANSAS CITY going toward INDIANA AVE go < 0.1 mi
2. Turn LEFT on INDIANA AVE go 0.5 mi
3. Turn RIGHT on E 31ST ST go 0.5 mi
4. Turn LEFT on JACKSON AVE go 0.2 mi
5. Take LEFT ramp onto I-70 E go 2.3 mi
6. Take exit #8A/WICHITA onto I-435 S go 3.0 mi
7. Take LEFT exit #66/63RD ST/RAYTOWN/LEE'S SUMMIT onto BLUE PKY(MO-350 E) go 2.9 mi
8. Continue to follow MO-350 E go 5.3 mi
9. Continue on US-50 E go 4.6 mi
10. Take the TODD GEORGE RD/GREENWOOD exit go 0.3 mi
11. Turn LEFT on SE RANSON RD(MO-RA) go 0.1 mi
12. Continue on SE TODD GEORGE RD go < 0.1 mi
13. Continue on SE TODD GEORGE PKY go < 0.1 mi
14. Turn RIGHT on SE SHENANDOAH DR go 0.6 mi
15. Turn LEFT on SE BATTERY DR go < 0.1 mi
16. Turn RIGHT on SE 7TH ST go < 0.1 mi
17. Arrive at 2300 SE 7TH ST, LEES SUMMIT, on the LEFT
2300 SE 7TH ST, LEES SUMMIT, MO
Distance: 20.6 miles, Time: 26 mins
2300 SE 7TH ST, LEES SUMMIT, MO
1. Start at 2300 SE 7TH ST, LEES SUMMIT going toward SE BATTERY DR go < 0.1 mi
2. Turn LEFT on SE BATTERY DR go < 0.1 mi
3. Turn RIGHT on SE SHENANDOAH DR go 0.6 mi
4. Turn LEFT on SE TODD GEORGE PKY go < 0.1 mi
5. Continue on SE TODD GEORGE RD go < 0.1 mi
6. Turn RIGHT to take ramp onto US-50 W go 1.1 mi
7. Take the 291 NORTH/HAMBLEN RD/INDEPENDENCE exit onto SE 291 HWY(MO-291) go 3.0 mi
8. Continue to follow MO-291 go 0.4 mi
9. Take ramp onto I-470 N go 6.6 mi
10. Continue on MO-291 N go 1.6 mi
11. Make a U-Turn at HIDDEN VALLEY RD onto S MO-291(MO-291 S) go 0.2 mi
12. Arrive at 3900 S STATE ROUTE 291, INDEPENDENCE, on the RIGHT
3900 S STATE ROUTE 291, INDEPENDENCE, MO
Distance: 13.6 miles, Time: 18 mins
3900 S STATE ROUTE 291, INDEPENDENCE, MO
1. Start at 3900 S STATE ROUTE 291, INDEPENDENCE go 1.2 mi
2. Take ramp onto I-70 W toward KANSAS CITY go 12.8 mi
3. Bear LEFT on I-670 W go 1.1 mi
4. Take exit #2T/WICHITA/12TH ST onto I-35 S toward WICHITA go 1.4 mi
5. Take LEFT exit #1A/SOUTHWEST TRAFFICWAY onto SOUTHWEST TFWY go 0.5 mi
6. Arrive at W 31ST ST AT SOUTHWEST TRFY, KANSAS CITY
W 31ST ST AT SOUTHWEST TRFY, KANSAS CITY, MO
Sunday 23 September Daymap
I got up late. So I drove straight from the house in the mini van to my first assignment. Paul wanted me to go help John with the morning live at a place where two bodies were found in the trunk of a burned car. Then I came to the station and transferred to the cherrybomb. Then I was give 3 assignments, which two of them were impossibly close together. I first went down to 120th and Wornall to pick up a vo/sot on a tailgate party at a hospice. After getting lost looking for it, the woman at the reception desk informed me that the event didn't really begin until 12:15. No bother, I had to go to breaking news where a child was bitten by a dog at 169 and 119th in OP. I got vid of that, then I was to go to shoot a 12 year old Preacher for Phil. Actually that was my 2nd assignment on my sheets. However, it was scrapped, then it was on again. So I was there for over an hour. I got sound with the preacher of the small church and video of the kid preaching. Then I was sent out Lee's Summit to try to get video and sound of a motocycle police escort of a retired officer who was killed in a motorcycle accident over the week. I had a hard time finding the exact location, but when I did they had just finished a prayer, and were taking off in the procession, of which I brought up the tail I tried to get vid with my dash cam as I followed the procession. It went to 39th and 291 in Independence to Speaks, funeral Home. I got out and got video until I was releaved by Matt and Megan. It was to be their story. However, Paul asked if I could get something at the Lakeside Nature Center before 16:00. I told him I couldn't, and he seemed mad and adamant that whatever I needed to do, I could do it after I was supposed to leave. As it was, just the drive back to the station put me in at 16:00, and I stayed over to dub the video I shot.
Total Distance: 112.4 miles, Total Time: 2 hours 40 mins (approx.)
17:00 - 19:00
I unloaded. I went to QT to get Suyen a snack, and met her at Redemptorist. After choich, we went to Price Slopper in Grandview and got some vittles.
We went to Parents. We et and watched "The War" on PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/
We headed homo. I got mad because Suyen didn't want to go to YJ's.
Megans story, which I had a hand in aired at 21:00.
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4438960&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Monday September 24, 2007
00:00
Homo. Woiked on the puter
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4375698&version=26&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1
01:30
Zzzz
11:10
Up. Uploading railZEN
YJ's Snack Cafe 18th and Wyandotte, Kansas City, Missouri. I had kawfeee, black with splenda.
Monday 24 September 2007 13:44:33
I came to YJ's Snack Cafe at 18th and Wyandotte. I had a small cup of kawfee, black with splenda. Dave told me that his little snack bar is being fetured on a program on a cable channel.
Monday 24 September 2007 13:46:01
My view out the window of YJ's is of TIF property across the street. It is a building that had been completely gutted and turned into luxury apartments for upper income non-family occupants. It is very typical of the kind of developement the city encourages in the crossroads.
14:00
Woik. I changed the tar.
14:30 - 15:00
I dubbed the Maximon to SX for Tess.
15:00 - 17:30
Dave, the intern and I went to Rockhurst to interview an economics professor about the GM strike. We then went to the GM Fairfax plant in KCK to talk to and get interviews with strikers.
17:30 - 20:30
The intern and I got vittles at QT. I batched in Avid 3. Edited.
We headed back to Fairfax. We did our 9 live, Mike ENG'd. I edited in the truck. We did our 10 live, tore down, headed back. I unloaded and headed homo.
Monday 24 September 2007 21:26:40
Monday 24 September 2007 21:27:35
Monday 24 September 2007 21:28:05
Photologists eye view.
Monday 24 September 2007 21:31:06
Here is Dave pretending to do a live for the benefit of this photo.
Monday 24 September 2007 21:49:12
Steve pretending to do a liveshot with van 2 in the background.
Monday 24 September 2007 21:51:30
This is the Kansas City, Missouri Skyline from Sunshine and Fairfax, in Kansas City, Kansas.
22:30 - 23:59
Homo via 169. Suyen was woiking on the Puter. She's on call. She had a hard day. I et salad. Watched the boob tube -- "King of the Hill"
Tuesday September 25, 2007
office
00:00 - 04:30
I worked on the puter
Bedroom
04:30 - 12:15
Zzzz
homo
12:15 - 14:30
Suyen came homo. She was mad. I put dishes away in the kitchen. We made up. Suyen tried to go to bed. She has been up all night and all day. I showered and dressed. Suyen got up to go to the mall. I headed to woik via 169.
WDAF
14:30 - 15:15
Woik. I got my stuff together. I found out I'm working with Nancy.
I cut the tip of the week for tonight.
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Business/Detail?contentId=4460206&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=4.1.1
I then started working on another problem solver.
I cut the tip of the week for tonight.
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Business/Detail?contentId=4460206&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=4.1.1
I then started working on another problem solver.
Wednesday September 26, 2007
living rooom
00:00 - 00:30
I watched "King of the Hill" on the boob tube.
Season 6, Episode 9: The Bluegrass Is Always Greener
Original Air Date: 24 February 2002
Connie plays the fiddle in Hank's bluegrass band, but keeps it a secret from her father, who wants her to go to Van Cliburn's violin academy.
oraface
00:30
I woiked on the puter
Finally got this to upload
bedroom
02:30
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tried to sleep
05:15 - 12:35
Zzzz
12:35 - 13:45
Homo. Et. Hung out. Dressed.
169, YJ's Snack Cafe
13:45 - 14:24
I headed out. I went to YJ's. I had a small cup of kawfee with splenda. I got some deli meat. I headed to woik.
14:24 - 15:25
I loaded Van 2. Tess, Bri the Intern and I went to Bonner Springs.
We attended the press conference on the murder of the woman at Family Dollar. They have the three people they believe committed it. We set up van 2 and we did live vo/sots at 5 and 6.
Wednesday 26 September 2007 16:44:34
Tess is furiously editing a vo/sot on the announcement of the Bonner Springs, Kansas Police that they found the killers of the woman in the Family Dollar, that happened in November 2005.
Wednesday 26 September 2007 16:57:03
Tess is preparing for her top of the 5 pm hit.
Wednesday 26 September 2007 16:57:42
Here is a better look at our live set up for the 5 pm newscast.
Bonner Springs City Hall
19:00 - 21:00
I et. I edited while Tess and Bri went to Dairy Queen. A car mirror was smacked by something. A lady came by and said it was an older red chevy pickup that did it. The cousin of one of the accused people showed up and wanted to know what the latest news is. We did our live at 9.
We did our live at 9. I edited the vo, Tess did the sot. I told the police about the mirror. Then the owner of the car showed up later. He is also the owner of the BP Gas Station in town. We did a practice live with the Intern. Then we did our live at 10, tore down and headed back.
Wednesday 26 September 2007 21:57:44
Tess is getting ready for her 10 PM liveshot in front of the Bonner Springs City hall with the intern, Bri, looking on.
Wednesday 26 September 2007 21:58:01
This is a wider look at city hall and our liveshot setup. I put a light over to the right, (my left) of Tess to throw some light on her background and to backlight her a bit.
Wednesday 26 September 2006 21:58:16
This builder plate is so typical of the early 60's. City hall in Bonner Springs is a mid-century modern design made to be more functional than pretty.
Wednesday 26 September 2007 21:59:28
5 minutes to our hit
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Wednesday 26 September 2007 21:59:50
I turned the flash off and got a better picture.
WDAF
22:30 - 23:00
I gassed up the van, unloaded it and put it up. I checked my schedule. I work 11 to 19:00 Saturday and 05:30 to 13:30 Sunday.
169
23:00 - 23:30
Headed homo
Thursday September 27, 2007
00:00 - 00:35
Watched "King of the Hill"
00:30 - 03:00
Puter
03:00 - 11:00
Zzzz
yard
11:00 - 12:30
Weedeated and mowed
Oklahoma Joes 3002 47th Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66203
12:30 - 14:00
I went and got Suyen at MTN. We et at Oklahoma Joes.
14:00 - 18:30
I went to the DAV Thrift Store. I went to shoot some trains, Then I went to an architectural salvage place, then I went to Surplus exchange. Then I went to the Antique store. Then I met Suyen at YJ's. We took Tima for a walk.
I went to the DAV Thrift Store. I went to shoot some trains, Then I went to an architectural salvage place, then I went to Surplus exchange. Then I went to the Antique store. Then I met Suyen at YJ's. We took Tima for a walk.
Thursday 27 September 2007 14:39:40
Royal Motors on Soutwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. I know this sign has been recycled many times. I saw footage from the flood of 98 where this sign is in the background. It does not light up anymore. I doubt it has seen anything more than a coat of paint in over 30 years.
Thursday 27 September 2007 14:40:20
Don's liquor has great signs. This building also fell victim to the flood of 98. It is fairly typical modern storefront design from the 50's and 60's -- made of cinder block walls, reinforced concrete and brick facing material. I love the googie sign on the front.
Thursday 27 September 2007 14:40:30
This is a closeup of the Don's liquor googie sign. It probably hasn't always been a liquor store. Note, the two bottles in the hole in the sign.
Thursday 27 September 2007 14:40:54
This is another view of the Royal Motors sign.
Thursday 27 September 2007 14:41:01
The Royal Motors office looks almost prefabricated. It looks to me like an old gas station -- probably one of the newer gas stations in the early 60's that only pumped gas -- as opposed to a service station.
Thursday 27 September 2007 14:42:35
Tima is giving me that look. C'mon, let's do something fun!
Thursday 27 September 2007 14:45:25
I slowed down to snap a picture of the Danny's Barbeque sign. I think it is orignal googie, but it has been updated to fit the new location of the BBQ joint. Danny Edwards has been forced to move from downtown by the Sprint Arena folks so that they can open up a chain bbq joint downtown, and has recently opened here on Southwest Boulevard. This building was newly constructed (In the past two years) to originally house a panini joint. I didn't think the Panini place was a good fit in this neighborhood.
search.cityguide.aol.com/kansascity/restaurants/danny-edw...
Thursday 27 September 2007 14:45:49
I always love this view of the city from Southwest Boulevard as I am driving Northeast.
Thursday 27 September 2007 15:01:00
I stopped by Santa Fe Interlocking which is in the southern part of the West bottoms of Kansas City, right on the line between Missouri, and Kansas.
Thursday 27 September 2007 15:01:24
This is the view to the west of the interlocking of the bridge over the Kansas River. There are tracks on the upper and lower parts of the bridge.
Thursday 27 September 2007 16:34:21
Art Deco in Kansas city. Recently there was a discussion on a local musicians forum on art deco in KC...
www.argumentmachine.com/threads/2007-Sep-26/143623/143623...
This was my reply...
www.argumentmachine.com/threads/2007-Sep-26/143706/143733...
Art Deco was really invented, or should I say, the phrase was really popularized in the 1960's. I didn't know that until recently. Were you to ask a person, say, in the year 1935, about one of the new WPA civic office buildings going up, and redefining the skyline of Kansas City, he might respond that those are Modern office buildings. We might laugh at that notion today, because, obviously, our definition of modern has changed. But, In 1935 were you to say, oh that is Art Deco, people might look at you strange. Yes, that is what that sty le has come to be known as in retrospect, but Art Deco is part of the modernist movements of the 20th Century. I find even the term modernism to be kind of out of place, because I think that what modernism really means to most people is futurism. Art Deco, or the decorative arts movement of the 1920's and 30's was really what people thought, at least in the beginning, what the future would be like. Now, think what you would envision as the future at that time. Industrial design was introducing streamlining -- cars, trains, ships, airplanes and yes, even buildings. Streamline a building, then throw in homages to the glorious classical past and you have Art Deco. Kansas City's rise into the modernist era came as a result of the depression. The WPA built the grand art deco KC downtown skyline which was to define Kansas City pretty much until the 1980's, and in many ways still does. However, like many things Kansas City does, and the midwest in general, our great art deco structures came at a time when the sty le was considered to be conservative, not when it was considered to be cutting edge. In other words, when everybody else was doing it, so were we. Many of the structures in our area are Art Deco redo's. In other words, sometime in the 20's or 30's, somebody had a victorian functional or eclectic building, and decided to spruce it up a bit with a modernized exterior. Were you to look at some of these buildings, which may actually date to the late 1800's, you would see that the front may have the motifs of the last period of remodeling, but the inside is of an earlier period. So, many of Kansas City's examples of the sty le which later became known as art deco, are not really outstanding or important. This cities greatest embrace of Art Deco is in the downtown area. Elsewhere, later modern sty les have taken root in the city, and Kansas City is par with or even outstanding in examples, of say, mid-century modern. The best example of that is all the Donald Drummond homes in Prarie Village. Speaking of homes, I think the best way to examine the Art Deco ness of a city, is to see how well the sty le was embraced in the housing market. The Kansas City area doesn't seem to have too many examples of Art Deco homes. It seems we jump almost from Art's and Crafts straight into the Cape Cod or Colonial homes of the 30's and 40's, then to ranch of the 50's. I think as a midwest city, Kansas City is on par with alot of midwest cities. I don't, however, think that Kansas City would be known for it's Decorateive Art Moderne. In short, KC was too poor and conservative to really embrace the sty le, until the late 30's, when it was going out of sty le everywhere else.
Thursday 27 September 2007 17:08:33
Here is Tima sneaking into the cool space in YJ's.
Thursday 27 September 2007 17:10:20
Suyen relaxing at YJ's after work
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:13:54
Tima being walked on Wyandotte.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:14:11
Suyen and Tima walking south on Wyandotte in Kansas City, Missouri
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:16:28
Suyen is walking Tima south on Wyandotte in Kansas City, Missouri.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:23:31
Here is the block that has the Leedy-Volkous galleries south of 20th in Kansas City Missouri. It looks to be mostly eclectic architecture.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:25:07
The Hotel Midwest, until recently was a bad flophouse. This Hotel and the others around it took advantage of their placement directly north of Union Station. Obviously, when passenger train traffic died down, so too did these hotels prospects. This area was really seedy until the last 5 years, when progress from all the artists moving into the wharehouses for the open spaces and cheap rent started happening.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:25:25
I love this front of the Midwest. Even when it was a flophouse, the furniture and decorations look like they hadn't been changed since the 1950's
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:25:39
ECLECTIC ARCHITECTURE. The former Coca-cola, then Western Auto building. Now it is luxury apartments.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:25:49
I beleive this used to be a hotel. Now it is a restaurant and luxury condo's upstairs. This building is at 19th and Main.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:36:29
The hotel Monroe is now luxury condo's. Next door to it, is the office space of Thomas Pendergast, the boss who ran Kansas City politics in the 1920's and 30's
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:26:56
Here is a closer look at Pendergasts offices. I've heard that there was a hallway that went between the two buildings, so that Pendergast could rent rooms in the adjoining hotel and entertain guests.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:27:26
Hotel Monroe's Neon sign looks to be of an Art Deco design, which I think, was common in the 20's, 30's and 40's and even into the 50's. Googie replaced this style of signage, though it is similar, and often mistaken for one another. It is curious how Art deco went out of style realy in the 1930's and 40's, yet the signage stayed on after the architectural and desing styling of deco went out.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:29:39
I've got to get another picture of Town Topic. Liz, who has been working for Town Topic since 1966, works here. Love the googie sign. Town topic is being hit by the tax raise brough on by the recent assesment. Though it may not be the intention, the result is that local businesses that have been here for years, are finding it harder to survive, while luxury condo's have sprung up everywhere tax free.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:31:52
Pizzabella has recently opened, in this past week. It looks to be an upscale pizza joint.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:32:52
I'm trying to get the low angle shot on the rocket to the moon moonliner to give the illusion it is about to be launched into space.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:33:05
18th street looking west from Baltimore in the golden light of an early evening September sunset.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:33:20
Speaking of Pendergast, he had a lot to do with the old art deco skyline of Kansas City. This is the power and light building looking from the south on Baltimore.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:37:21
I love alleys. In the distance is the most cutting edge art deco in Kansas City (cutting edge for its time). That is the Liberty Memorial seen peaking above the building in the distance.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:48:02
Suyen working on her puter outside YJ's after our walk with Tima.
Thursday 27 September 2007 18:50:30
Mmmm, doesn't that look good? YJ's is about to get a visit from food network. This is the reason why. It is Curry and rice and shrip with a hawaiin sweet potato and pineapple salad.
Thursday 27 September 2007 19:05:43
Tima is here being cute, trying to get attention.
Thursday 27 September 2007 19:07:46
Tima watiting pateintly for us humans in front of YJ's Snack Cafe
Thursday 27 September 2007 19:30:00
Tima is again being cute. PET ME PLEASE!!!!!!
Thursday 27 September 2007 19:38:19
YJ's signage at dusk.
Thursday 27 September 2007 19:38:51
YJ's signage with the flash turned on.
Thursday 27 September 2007 19:39:14
Suyen is talking to Mom about Dad's birthday.
Friday September 28, 2007
00:00 - 00:30
Watched "king of the Hill" on the boob tube.
oraface
00:30 - 03:00
woiked on the puter
Zzzz
I uploaded this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVIVVwG5mvg
13:00 to 17:00
Headed out. I got moolah. Suyen and I et together at Oklahoma Joes. I went to the River Market Antiques and paid for the lamp and loaded it. I went to the west bottoms and shot trains....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLQgTn4pAc
Friday 28 September 2007 15:36:45
I beleive this is the former Unitarian Church social hall in Kansas City Missouri. It is for sale. It now houses Weird Stuff Antiques, and has a big dance hall upstairs.
Friday 28 September 2007 15:37:21
I think this is the former Unitarian church HQ.
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