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Wreckers Erase Unique Station
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Description
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Article about the tearing down for a parking lot by the Kansas City Terminal Railways of the 1934 Art Deco gas station next to Union Station, despite its architecture befitting its surroundings.
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Date
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1979-01-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The Ancient Vogel-Wiedenmann Dwelling, Seventy-two Years Old, Is Razed
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Description
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Illustration and caption about the demolition in 1924 of the former Louis Vogel home (also called the Vogel-Widenmann home), built about 1852 at 1303 West 43rd Street and planned for replacement "by a gasoline station."
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Date
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1924-10-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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A Gasoline Filling Station in Fashionable Architectural Garb
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Description
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Illustration and caption about the aesthetically disguised gasoline station built by the Standard Oil Company at 62nd Street Terrace and Brookside Boulevard and designed by architect John Van Brunt.
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Date
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1916-04-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Terrorist Attacks Create Consumer Panic: Tuesday's Gas Craze All in Vain
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Description
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Photo and article about the "rumors of a gas shortage dr[iving] hundreds of people to wait in long lines" at gasoline stations in Northeast Kansas City (and elsewhere in the metro area) in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the East Coast.
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Date
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2001-09-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Brookside Changes
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Description
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Brief article about the Brookside district or Brookside neighborhood and the demise of the Brookside Amoco Station, among other traditional neighborhood institutions, with the advent of modern city planning.
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Date
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2000-09-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Service Station at 1812 Vine, Kansas City, Mo., Opened
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Description
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News article with photo and caption about the "first Cooperative filling station and garage in Kansas City, Mo. . . . open for business at 1812 Vine street." The station handled only CO-OP products obtained from the Consumers Cooperative Association in North Kansas City, Missouri. It was managed by "J. A. Jeffress, professor of mathematics at Lincoln high school."
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Date
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1935-06-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Cities Service Oil Company Station
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Description
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View of front and south side of Cities Service Oil Company station at 3441 Broadway Boulevard.
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Date
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1957-10-25
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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H. H. Trenton Tires and Accessories
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Description
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Partial front and side view of H. H. Trenton Tires and Accessories and of Monark Gasoline and Oil Company, located on either side of Monroe Avenue at Independence Avenue.
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Date
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1924-08
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Phillips 66 Service Station
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Description
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View of the Phillips 66 station located at the intersection of Gregory and Wornall roads. Phillips Oil and the J. C. Nichols Company received an award for their design of this site.
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Date
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1964
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Mobil Oil Station
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Description
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Mobil Oil Service Station, located at the intersection of Troost Avenue and Armour Boulevard. Architect Eliot Noyes received an award for simplicity in commercial architecture and site use for its design.
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Date
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1968
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Skelly Service Station
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of Chuck and Lee Rhed's Skelly Service Station.
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Date
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1945
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Standard Station
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of Brick's Cabins Standard station.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Broadway Boulevard
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Description
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Looking southwest from the northeast corner of Broadway and Linwood.
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Date
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1931
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Hudson Station
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Description
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Full frontal view of unidentified Hudson Station.
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Date
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1955
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Troost Avenue
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Description
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Looking southeast from the northwest corner of 46th and Troost.
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Date
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1930
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Object Type
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Photograph
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