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Title
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Making Union Station Tick
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Description
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Restoring and repairing the big clock handing atop the Grand Hall.
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Date
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1999-12
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Meet Me Under the Clock at Union Station
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Description
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From its Heyday Early in the 20th Century as One of the Busiest Passenger Depots in the Country, to its New Incarnation as Science City, Union Station Has Always Been at the Heart of Kansas City and in the Hearts of Many Kansas Citians.
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Date
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1999-12
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City, This Is Your Life: 10 Events That Molded Who We Are
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Description
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Illustrations and description "of Kansas City's top 10 defining moments: (1) the Ice Age and its shaping of Kansas City's terrain as "the West Coast of the country"; (2) Missouri statehood in 1821; (3) township status in 1850; (4) the Civil War; (5) the Hannibal Bridge; (6) "[t]he 1895 designation of Independence Avenue, from Woodland to Gladstone, as our very first mile of boulevard"; (7) first Convention Hall in 1899 and Union Station in 1914; (8) 1925 City Charter; (9) urban sprawl following World War II; and (10) "the 1984 court-ordered desegregation of the Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools."
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Date
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2000-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article