On this Monday's Central Standard, author Stephanie Powell Watts shares a collection of short stories inspired by the uneducated and the the aspiring. Many of her characters are based on her own life or the lives of someone she's encountered.
Shiloh stands as one of the bloodiest clashes in American history, one sealed the fate of the Civil War and cemented the long, drawn out conflict that followed the 1862 battle.
It’s summertime, and with high gas prices, a vacation may be out of reach for your budget. But no matter what your finances look like, you can definitely afford a trip to your local library.
A family of serial killers who were never caught...a fortune left buried along the banks of a creek by the Dalton gang...and orphans shipped from New York for a “good” life on the prairie.
Cars line up along the newly opened Romanelli Shops at Gregory Boulevard and Wornall Road, 1931.
Credit Wilborn & Associates / The History Press
From the interior of the Colormax Paint Store on Wornall Road, the Waldo streetcar station is visible. In the background are shops on Broadway across the tracks form the station.
Credit Wilborn & Associates / The History Press
One of the last runs of the Country Club Streetcar line, as it pulls into the Waldo Station area from the south, circa 1955.
Credit Dorothea Eldrige / Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri
View looking north on Wornall at 75th Street in the Waldo Shopping area, 1961
Credit Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri
View facing southwest of the Romanelli Shops (southwest corner of Wornall and Gregory Boulevard). The shops, designed by the J. C. Nichols Company, received a design award for attractive refurbishing of older buildings. 1965.
Credit Randy Storck / Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri
Looking South along the 7400 block of Broadway. 1977.
Credit Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri
Looking southwest from the northeast corner of Gregory and Wornall. 1993.
Credit Dory DeAngelo / Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri
Waldo Theater, Partial frontal view; located at 7428 Washington. 1993.
Credit Betty Tillotson / The History Press
The "rock barn" near 75th Street and Wornall Road--believed to be one of the first structures in Waldo--before it was demolished in 1997
Next time on Central Standard Friday, join historian Monroe Dodd for the history of the Waldo neighborhood with LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story.
On this Tuesday's Central Standard, a look at a tradition of African American verbal combat and insults that’s ruled neighborhoods and childhoods long before rap. At the heart of this tradition? 'Yo Mama jokes.
