Why a Midtown self-storage facility was built to look like fake apartments

Photography by Jeremy Theron Kirby

At first glance, the perfectly coordinated paint colors and tidy porches on a block of Midtown neighborhood buildings appear commonplace. To the casual passerby, the white windows look like drawn drapes, not the solid walls that they truly are. What appear to be front yard gates actually don’t open. Since the late nineties, the bricks,… Continue reading Why a Midtown self-storage facility was built to look like fake apartments

A cool collection of vintage KC restaurant menus is now online

Photo courtesy of Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.

The Kansas City Public Library features a collection for those with a taste for nostalgia, which includes forty-seven scanned restaurant menus and illustrations all over the Kansas City area. The images are part of the S. Stephen Lispi Collection and feature art by the Kansas City area illustrator during the mid-twentieth century, such as a… Continue reading A cool collection of vintage KC restaurant menus is now online