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KC History: What Led To Vietnam

By Andrea Silenzi and Monroe Dodd

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How did America end up in Vietnam? Coming up on Central Standard Friday, a look at the 40 years of political, military and diplomatic decisions that led to U.S. involvement in Indochina, going back to Versailles Peace Conference in 1919.

2:53 pm

Thu August 2, 2012

KC History: This WWI Memoir Isn't A Major Motion Picture, Yet

U.S. Army Medal Of Honor, World War I

By Andrea Silenzi and Monroe Dodd

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Around the time that the 19th Century turned into the 20th, the most extraordinary man grew up in the woods of Western Missouri. There he learned to track and shoot with consummate skill.

3:33 pm

Thu July 5, 2012

KC History: Forgotten Tales of Missouri

By Andrea Silenzi and Monroe Dodd

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Coming up on Central Standard Friday, join host Monroe Dodd for a history of the Show Me State rarely shown, including the chamber pot war of 1812, Long’s Dragon Boat, and wind wagon technology from 1846.

4:26 pm

Thu June 7, 2012

KC History: Waldo & The Westport Presbyterian Church

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Credit The History Press

From "The Waldo Story" by LaDene Morton

Credit Wilborn & Associates / The History Press

Cars line up along the newly opened Romanelli Shops at Gregory Boulevard and Wornall Road, 1931.

Credit Wilborn & Associates / The History Press

From the interior of the Colormax Paint Store on Wornall Road, the Waldo streetcar station is visible. In the background are shops on Broadway across the tracks form the station.

Credit Wilborn & Associates / The History Press

One of the last runs of the Country Club Streetcar line, as it pulls into the Waldo Station area from the south, circa 1955.

Credit Dorothea Eldrige / Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri

View looking north on Wornall at 75th Street in the Waldo Shopping area, 1961

Credit Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri

View facing southwest of the Romanelli Shops (southwest corner of Wornall and Gregory Boulevard). The shops, designed by the J. C. Nichols Company, received a design award for attractive refurbishing of older buildings. 1965.

Credit Randy Storck / Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri

Looking South along the 7400 block of Broadway. 1977.

Credit Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri

Looking southwest from the northeast corner of Gregory and Wornall. 1993.

Credit Dory DeAngelo / Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri

Waldo Theater, Partial frontal view; located at 7428 Washington. 1993.

Credit Betty Tillotson / The History Press

The "rock barn" near 75th Street and Wornall Road--believed to be one of the first structures in Waldo--before it was demolished in 1997

By Andrea Silenzi

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Next time on Central Standard Friday, join historian Monroe Dodd for the history of the Waldo neighborhood with LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story.

8:30 am

Sun June 3, 2012

PHOTOS: What Kansas Looked Like Then And What It Looks Like Now

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