See The Postwar Prosperity Of Minnesota Avenue In Kansas City, Kansas, in The 1950S

Years ago, the “other” Kansas City — the one in Kansas — had its own busy downtown. Though less grand than its Missouri cousin, a stretch of Minnesota Avenue west of 7th Street was lined for decades with shops, banks, theaters and eateries.

This installment of the Past|Present series looks down Minnesota Avenue in KCK, first with a postcard from the 1950s, followed by the exact same view in 2023.

Video series by Monty Davis and Randy Mason | The Kansas City Star

Past|Present is a new video series from The Star that travels through time to show how scenes Kansas City depicted in vintage postcards look today. Check out the series here: https://www.kansascity.com/topics/kc-past-present

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