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Title
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Plaza Tennis Courts
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Description
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Photograph of tennis courts at the Plaza Tennis Center, between 47th Street and Ward Parkway on the north and south, and Brookside Boulevard and Baltimore Avenue on the east and west, during the 1980s. The tennis complex was built in 1928. Looking southwest over the courts, numerous Ward Parkway apartment buildings can be seen, including the Casa Loma Apartments and Locarno Plaza Apartments.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Plaza Tennis Courts & Residential Buildings
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Plaza Aerial View
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Description
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Aerial photograph looking west along 47th Street in the 1980s, with the intersection of 47th and Main Streets near the center of the image. The Nelson-Atkins Museum's grounds can be seen in the lower right, with Westwood, Kansas, at the top edge. Brush Creek is visible at the left of the image, with Plaza-area commercial and residential buildings filling the bulk of the image.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph, Cityscapes
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Title
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Main Street and J. C. Nichols Parkway at 47th Street
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Description
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Photograph, looking south from the top of the Fountain View (later American Century Investments north tower), toward the intersection of 47th Street with J. C. Nichols Parkway (at right) and Main Street (at left). Streetcar tracks can be seen running behind commercial buildings in the foreground, southeast diagonally across Main Street. Nichols Fountain, in Mill Creek Park, is visible at the center of the image. Main Street and Brookside Boulevard were later realigned as part of a Brush Creek beautification and flood control project in the 1990s. South Plaza apartment and office buildings are visible in the background of the image, with Country Club Plaza commercial and residential buildings in the foreground right.
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Date
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1980~/1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
