Dean Gorsuch of Gering, Neb., went to the ground during a Steer Wrestling event at the American Royal Wrangler Million Dollar Tour Gold Rodeo at Sprint Center last fall.
The Kansas City Star
In what began as a small microbrewery in downtown Kansas City, Boulevard Brewery is now the largest Missouri independent maker of beer.
DAVID EULITT
Saison beer by the Boulevard Brewing Company
JIM BARCUS
Boulevard's Amber Ale
submitted image from Boulevard.
The Community Christian Church "Steeple of Light" sculpture was designed by Dale Eldred for the church, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
TIM JANICKE
J.C. Nichols fountain on the Country Club Plaza
Shane Keyser
The Steamboat Arabia's huge anchor and tie-down.
Roy Inman
The Union Station Massacre on June 17, 1933: Five men were slain in an attempt to free bank robber Frank Nash, including Nash
A pork sandwich with fries and burnt ends sandwich at Jones Bar-B-Q, 609 North 6th in Kansas City, Kan.
JENNIFER HACK
Stephen "Smokey" Schwartz served up his specialty, a chopped burnt end sandwhich, at Burnt End in Overland Park.
Mike Ransdell
Samples of Christopher Elbow's Artisanal Chocolates
A box of Christopher Elbow Artisan Chocolates
Christopher Elbow chocolates: lemon (yellow), hazelnut praline (pattern) and strawberry
ALLISON LONG
Ashley Fuller, historic interpreter in the electric kitchen in the 1950s All Electic House at the Johnson County Museum
Roy Inman photograph©
On July 18, 1981, the day after a fatal collapse of the skywalks at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, crews searched through the rubble and began clearing it away.
Country Club Plaza after the annual holiday lighting ceremony
The Bartle Hall pylons in the foreground as the Comet Hale-Baopp flies overhead
VIC WINTER
The 1985 World Series champion Kansas City Royals
The Scout, a statue in Penn Valley Park.
DAVID EULITT
Caption: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Shuttlecocks on the lawn.
"Shuttlecocks," in the sculpture park at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Allison Long
Bloch Fountain at Union Station at night.
David Cook
Fitzroy Barrett
Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame player George Brett
JOHN SLEEZER
Ginger Rogers with Fred Astaire
Kansas City icon and KMBC-TV anchorman Larry Moore
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson (16) turns around to hand the ball off to running back Mike Garrett (21) in Super Bowl IV in New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 11, 1970, against the Minnesota Vikings.
Leavenworth native and Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge
ERIC MCCANDLESS
Walt Disney with one of the first Mickey Mouse dolls. With brother Roy, Walt delivered the Star and Times to subscribers on a midtown route from 1911 to 1917. In 1919, he applied for a cartoonist position at the newspaper but was not hired. Months later he took a job at a Kansas City film advertising company and learned the fundamentals of animation.
Charlie Parker
SONY VIDEO SOFTWARE
Kansas City's Thomas Hart Benton
Maurice Greene
KEVORK DJANSEZIAN
Bob Berdella kidnapped, tortured and killed six young men and buried body parts in the yard of his Hyde Park home in Kansas City.
Baseball’s All-Star Game will be played in Kansas City in July, and it’s a big darn deal. The city has been spiffing up, and really, so should we all. A whole lot of out-of-towners are headed this way, and you don’t want to seem clueless, do you? We’re here to the rescue with what we’re calling “Fifty Things Every Kansas Citian Should Know” (listed in no particular order). This gallery represents some of them, so
check out our full list.
