Kansas City 1940 : A Watershed Year by John Simonson read MOBI, TXT
9781626193239 1626193231 1940: It's the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, when President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finally run the corrupt Pendergast political machine out of power. The new reform-minded city government is bent on cleaning up the sinful "Paris of the Plains" and streamlining its future with wide, new miles of trafficways. Notorious nightclubs have closed. The City Market opens. Glenn Miller swings, Bojangles taps and "Gone with the Wind" premieres. Old buildings make way for parking lots. A dying meteor lights up the night sky above a racially segregated city, home to Charlie Parker, Thomas Hart Benton, Walter Cronkite, Satchel Paige and Thomas J. Pendergast, ex-con. It's all on display here in photographs snapped by WPA workers and stories curated by John Simonson., 1940:It’s the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, whenPresident Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finallyrun the corrupt Pendergast political machine out of power. The newreform-minded city government is bent on cleaning up the sinful “Paris of thePlains†and streamlining its future with wide, new miles of trafficways.Notorious nightclubs have closed. The City Market opens. Glenn Miller swings,Bojangles taps and Gone with the Wind premieres. Old buildings make way for parking lots. A dying meteor lights upthe night sky above a racially segregated city, home to Charlie Parker, ThomasHart Benton, Walter Cronkite, Satchel Paige and Thomas J. Pendergast, ex-con.It’s all on display here in photographs snapped by WPA workers and storiescurated by John Simonson., 1940:It’s the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, whenPresident Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finallyrun the corrupt Pendergast political machine out of power. The newreform-minded city government is bent on cleaning up the sinful “Paris of thePlains†and streamlining its future with wide, new miles of trafficways.Notorious nightclubs have closed. The City Market opens. Glenn Miller swings,Bojangles taps and Gone with the Wind premieres. Old buildings make way for parking lots. A dying meteor lights upthe night sky above a racially segregated city, home to Charlie Parker, ThomasHart Benton, Walter Cronkite, Satchel Paige and Thomas J. Pendergast, ex-con.It’s all on display here in photographs snapped by WPA workers and storiescurated by John Simonson., Get a unique glimpse into Kansas City in 1940, a pivotal year in the city's history, preserved by a rescued archive of Work Project Administration photographs.
9781626193239 1626193231 1940: It's the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, when President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finally run the corrupt Pendergast political machine out of power. The new reform-minded city government is bent on cleaning up the sinful "Paris of the Plains" and streamlining its future with wide, new miles of trafficways. Notorious nightclubs have closed. The City Market opens. Glenn Miller swings, Bojangles taps and "Gone with the Wind" premieres. Old buildings make way for parking lots. A dying meteor lights up the night sky above a racially segregated city, home to Charlie Parker, Thomas Hart Benton, Walter Cronkite, Satchel Paige and Thomas J. Pendergast, ex-con. It's all on display here in photographs snapped by WPA workers and stories curated by John Simonson., 1940:It’s the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, whenPresident Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finallyrun the corrupt Pendergast political machine out of power. The newreform-minded city government is bent on cleaning up the sinful “Paris of thePlains†and streamlining its future with wide, new miles of trafficways.Notorious nightclubs have closed. The City Market opens. Glenn Miller swings,Bojangles taps and Gone with the Wind premieres. Old buildings make way for parking lots. A dying meteor lights upthe night sky above a racially segregated city, home to Charlie Parker, ThomasHart Benton, Walter Cronkite, Satchel Paige and Thomas J. Pendergast, ex-con.It’s all on display here in photographs snapped by WPA workers and storiescurated by John Simonson., 1940:It’s the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, whenPresident Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finallyrun the corrupt Pendergast political machine out of power. The newreform-minded city government is bent on cleaning up the sinful “Paris of thePlains†and streamlining its future with wide, new miles of trafficways.Notorious nightclubs have closed. The City Market opens. Glenn Miller swings,Bojangles taps and Gone with the Wind premieres. Old buildings make way for parking lots. A dying meteor lights upthe night sky above a racially segregated city, home to Charlie Parker, ThomasHart Benton, Walter Cronkite, Satchel Paige and Thomas J. Pendergast, ex-con.It’s all on display here in photographs snapped by WPA workers and storiescurated by John Simonson., Get a unique glimpse into Kansas City in 1940, a pivotal year in the city's history, preserved by a rescued archive of Work Project Administration photographs.