We had dinner here, at the Majestic, Kansas City’s steakhouse,The Majestic is also a Jazz club, but jazz combos were not playing the night we were there.There was a piano player, however.Kansas City strip.Twin Filets Oscar style.Creme brulee.
Union Station, like many across the country, once was bustling with train traffic and passengers. Now, it’s little more than a venue for shows and and couple restaurants.Electric baggage wagon and cart from 1914.Kansas City Massacre 1933 story.Bullet hole from the shootout.Another one.
The Community Christian Church was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and build in 1942. The angular façade and rhombus-shaped plan conform to the irregularities of the sloping site. Gunite was sprayed over sheets of corrugated steel that were then sandwiched together to form the walls. The innovative material allowed Wright to reduce the thickness of the walls to a mere 2.75 inches.
Kansas City skyline from the National World War I Museum.Kansas City skyline from the National World War I Museum, later the same day!Western Auto used to be a hardware store chain.Broadway BoulevardI thought this was funny.We thought this was for a suspension bridge, but it is actually for the Kansas City Convention Center.Hallmark Cards’ headquarters are in Kansas City, across the street from our hotel.The World’s Largest Shuttlecock, at the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.Also at the art museum, Rush Hour sculpture by George Segal, 1995. Evokes “the deep isolation that can occur even when we are surrounded by others.”
