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The Signboard Hill Area
Title
The Signboard Hill Area
Description
Photo and caption about the urban renewal plans for Signboard Hill, "east of Main street and south of Pershing road" and 120 acres surrounding it "between the Union Station. ..and Hospital hill, [22nd Street] to [27th Terrace]." View depicting also Liberty Memorial and the "older part of the Hallmark Cards plant," later the company reponsible for building the Crown Center shopping complex there.
Date
1963-02-20
Object Type
Newspaper Article
A Dream of What Might Be When Kansas City Acquires "Signboard" Hill [and] What Will Happen if "Signboard" Hill Is Allowed to Continue
Title
A Dream of What Might Be When Kansas City Acquires "Signboard" Hill [and] What Will Happen if "Signboard" Hill Is Allowed to Continue
Description
Large illustrations of potential developments on Signboard Hill (later the site of the Crown Center mixed use complex) across Main Street from Liberty Memorial and Penn Valley Park. First illustration of neatly planned public buildings and facilities with careful landscaping, etc. and second illustration of unmanaged, rough-looking hill covered with large commercial signs of all types.
Date
1923-05-27
Object Type
Newspaper Article