By JUSTIN KENDALL
Our blog brother in Dallas, Unfair Park, points out that Life magazine's photo archives are now a Google search away.
This includes a couple hundred beautiful black-and-white (and some color) shots of a bygone KC, during floods, construction, elections and crime. Here's the time machine link to old Kansas City. You can buy framed versions of the photos from $79.99 to $109.99.
Yes, the Library's special collections site at http://kchistory.org is a great source for photos. But the Life photos are really great- and they have Raquel Welch in a Roller Derby outfit
DLC, I love the KC Bomber photo. I was really tempted to use it. Should have. Sweet regret.
MoJo, the fountain photo is sweet.
Justin, isn't it? The old Gerhardt Furs? I remember that when I was very small, walking around the Plaza at Christmastime.
IMO, the photographer distilled the best of KC (and the best of what I love about it) to one fine moment in time.
MoJo, I just enlarged the photo. Yep, Gerhardt Furs is in the backdrop. Cool shot.
Hey, do you remember the old Harzfeld's building downtown, where at Christmas, they'd have those big mechanical dolls all dressed up and showcased in Dickensian-type clothes?
I used this 1960s-ish b&w photo (credit: Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Library) for the back cover of my recently published book set in Kansas City.
Posted at: November 21, 2008 2:41 PM