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Title: Union Station
Description: Photograph of a vacant Union Station and the Kansas City skyline in the late 1980s, looking north from Liberty Memorial.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Union Station
Description: Photograph of Union Station and the Kansas City skyline in the late 1980s, looking north from Liberty Memorial.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Plaza Lights
Description: Photograph of the Plaza Christmas lights, looking northeast across Ward Parkway and Brush Creek from the grounds of the Alameda Plaza Hotel in the 1980s. The hotel, later the Intercontinental, stands on the southwest corner of Ward Parkway and Wornall Road.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Plaza Tennis Courts & Residential Buildings
Description: Photograph of the east side of the Plaza in the 1980s. Brookside Boulevard, and just beyond it, the Plaza Tennis Center courts occupy the foreground at the bottom of the image. Residential buildings, including the Casa Loma, Hemingway, and Locarno apartment buildings, and the Alameda Plaza Hotel line Ward Parkway.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Crossroads Aerial View
Description: Aerial view, taken from an elevated location near Oak Street and Truman Road, of the Crossroads area of Kansas City in the 1980s. Liberty Memorial, the KCPT broadcast tower, and the BMA Tower are among the structures visible in the background of the image. Buildings on the blocks at the lower left of the image were later demolished to make way for the construction of the Kansas City Star printing building and to create additional surface parking lots.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Quality Hill
Description: Aeriel view photograph looking northeast over the block bound by 10th and 11th Streets on the north and south, Pennsylvania Avenue on the west, and Washington on the east. Neighboring blocks are also pictured. Pictured buildings include the Virginia Hotel building at 1080 Washington, the Jarboe Hotel building at 501 West 10th, and the Musicians Building at at 1021 (later 1051) Washington.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Kansas City Skyline
Description: Photograph of downtown Kansas City in the 1980s, looking southwest from the intersection of Walrond and Norledge avenues, in Kessler Park. Among the buildings pictured are City Hall, Jackson County Courthouse, the Fidelity National Bank and Trust Building, and Town Pavilion.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: River Market and North Kansas City
Description: Photograph taken from a elevated location of the River Market neighborhood, North Kansas City, the Missouri River, and the Downtown Airport circa 1990. The image appears to be taken from a building on the site currently occupied by Ilus W. Davis Park, which was cleared in 1994 and developed into a park and civic mall shortly thereafter. The United States Courthouse building, at 9th and Grand, can be seen in the lower left of the image. The Broadway Bridge is visible at far left, and the Heart of America Bridge, which opened in 1986, at right.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Plaza Aerial View
Description: Aerial photograph looking east through the Plaza along Brush Creek and Ward Parkway in the 1980s. Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image, from roughly Roanoke Parkway on the west to McGee at the east.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

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