It’s fifteen years in tha making…
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I did not know about this – thanks for posting! We visit Kansas City three or four times a year. That city has a lot of amazing things to do in their downtown area, and this adds to the attractions.
The city is under the radar for many, with most thinking it’s a decaying old city. The downtown area is a thriving place full of family attractions, including the Union Station area.
We vacation there. AT UNION STATION, on the front steps, they start tours of the city. The one tour we chose was driver/narrator dressed as gangsters. At one stop of many historical places, they got out, on the sidewalk to re-enact a mobster hit. Very informative and entertaining.
Myself, I had to put my finger in the bullet hole chip that occured during the shootout. Jelly Bean Nash’s attempt to avoid going to Fort Leavenworth, created a gun fight with the feds and gangsters. Nash is buried here in our local mausoleum. endmrw0324261124
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My most recent visit was January, 2002. Maybe I’m ready to stop by again?
Kansas City Union Station by Edmund, on Flickr
Kansas City Union Station by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
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It’s especially nice at Christmas.
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When I was getting qualified as a Train Dispatcher I rode one train and got off a the Gary, IN station that got involved in some of the Depression era Chicago gang warfare - observed a number of bullet impact points in and around the station before I caught the next train back East. I had to qualify on the Akron-Chicago Division - New Castle, PA to Pine Jct. IN and the various branch lines to Painesville, Cleveland, Mineral City, Lorain, Holloway and Wooster.
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I looked at the pictures. I just don’t know what to think about it. Is it preserved? Or isn’t it? How much did they rip up the original bridge to build all the new stuff? I was a historic preservation architect for a long time, and I have to say, I have yet to figure out what to think of this project. Somehow it makes me think of turning the Alamo into a Taco Bell or something like that.
Hint: it’s only ‘historic preservation’ in the sense that there’s historic fabric over the river still. Think of it as a steel frame supporting the decks, walkways, restaurants, etc. – something its structure does quite well.
As with the old London bridges that extended a CBD across a river (“the continuance of commerce by other means”?) the experience is more about having the comforts of ‘going out’ with more interesting scenery (and perhaps less trouble with rent). Be interesting to see if there’s enough take rate to do something with the adjacent span eventually…