City - Kansas City MO - The Grand Boulevard 1906 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Kansas City MO - The Grand Boulevard 1906 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Hdr Photography
Description
Colorized photo from 1906
Original title: Grand Avenue north from Twelfth
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 1116 Grand Blvd Kansas City, MO
You can't see it in this, but the original had severe damage on the sides, I was able to crop out a lot of it without removing too much of the image. But you can still see that the corners and edges have white areas.
This scene confused me at first, the building down the block, the Thayer building, takes up a city block and this was photographed from different angles and sides. For a while I was following another image I have of this, coloring the buildings and was trying to figure out why the buildings didn't look right.. it was a different street... poo.
But I figured it out and all was well again. The Thayer building is confusing as well, because every image shows it as a red building with white peppermint stripes, but this building does not have any of those features.
Also I'm not sure what year this is. There is a banner for Henry M Beardsley, he won in 1906, but ran again in 1908. I have a series of images from 1906, or at least was perceived to be 1906. So this image could be from 1906 or 1908. He lost his second term by the way.
This street changed a lot over the years. The Bryant building on the left was built in 1891, but torn down and replaced by a newer taller version, covered in Art Deco, and its still there now. And the post office down the street on the right, it lost its dome over the years (or I couldn't see it), but its there too. But many of these buildings don't exist today.
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