KANSAS CITY ~ Lawrence, KS ~ and The End of the Midwest

Centropolis · #1 Posted **Nov 2, 2010, 4:42 AM**

We are leaping a yawn west 482 miles across the productive breast of the midwest from Indianapolis to Kansas City. The first section of photos covers Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, separate municipalities although both are represented in this thread. I make no claim as to having accurately represented either, nor did I come even close to covering all relevant urban districts, situations, or possibilities. Incorporated 1853, Kansas City is distantly related to St. Louis by bonds of blood, the great Chouteau family, but most semblance has been lost in time to benefit of novelty for me. One time great meatpacking, Costra Nostra stronghold, and deep soul, now the isolated, friendly, bespectacled babe and rail superpower.

The second section of photos covers Lawrence, Kansas, and some revelry, the majority of which is thankfully not covered here.

The smallest, third section ends fairly west of the first two sections down the old Interstate 7-0.

The photos begin on the rural Osage Plains of western Missouri, east of KC, and the sections blur some, but everything generally moves in a westerly direction.

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Kingofthehill · #2 Posted **Nov 2, 2010, 4:45 AM**

I have really got to make it out to Kansas City one of these days.

Centropolis · #3 Posted **Nov 2, 2010, 5:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

I have really got to make it out to Kansas City one of these days.

You could destroy Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas) with your style of photography.

ColDayMan · #4 Posted **Nov 2, 2010, 5:54 PM**

Oh lawd, that's far out!

Chef · #5 Posted **Nov 3, 2010, 1:29 AM**

Nice pics. I really want to go to Kansas City, it is one of the road trips I'm mulling over.

cadetwhite · #6 Posted **Nov 3, 2010, 4:13 AM**

I really love Kansas City, with a bit of work it could be such a bad ass city. Seems like you're hard pressed to find people on the streets in Kansas City.

Centropolis · #7 Posted **Nov 3, 2010, 1:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by cadetwhite

I really love Kansas City, with a bit of work it could be such a bad ass city. Seems like you're hard pressed to find people on the streets in Kansas City.

Yes and no. It was a sunday morning, so that is one thing. I also neglected the traditional places for heavy foot traffic, namely Westport and the Plaza and focused on lesser photographed areas like the loop and quiet neighborhoods near downtown. I'll have to do another KC thread sometime.

BG918 · #8 Posted **Nov 3, 2010, 2:14 PM**

Great shots of some areas that are rarely photographed. Love some of that contemporary infill.

Jarrod · #9 Posted **Nov 3, 2010, 3:15 PM**

Thanks for the pictures! I always forget about Kansas City

Centropolis · #10 Posted **Nov 12, 2010, 3:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jarrod

Thanks for the pictures! I always forget about Kansas City

Thanks. So does everyone else...I'll take this old "cowtown" over any of the others like it, any day, every time.

Ex-Ithacan · #11 Posted **Nov 14, 2010, 12:04 AM**

That was entertaining. All kinds of pics. You covered the gammitt from urbanity to countryside. Thanks for bringing us along on your trip.

Thundertubs · #12 Posted **Nov 17, 2010, 1:31 AM**

I'm a fan of KC. Cool shots from the Flint Hills as well.

LSyd · #13 Posted **Nov 17, 2010, 3:14 AM**

awesome work.

is that a dead Fiero in pic 7?

what's this?

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pico44 · #14 Posted **Nov 20, 2010, 4:26 PM**

The Flint hills rule. Maybe it's because I have prairie settler in my blood, but I really believe it to be one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world. Pictures like this make my heart ache.

xzmattzx · #15 Posted **Nov 20, 2010, 7:05 PM**

Great pictures!

Centropolis · #16 Posted **Dec 3, 2011, 4:22 PM**

I put up a thread and forget to check for comments, but this thread makes me nostalgic for both mid autumn (le sigh) and the feel of really driving west (yeah, I know it's my own thread). This thread has an unfinished 2nd half.

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Originally Posted by LSyd

awesome work.

is that a dead Fiero in pic 7?

what's this?

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Thanks, man.

That's an 80s Trans Am...my first car was very similar to that but a beat up Firebird, but what I really wanted a 80s Trans Am like that.

I should have walked inside there. It's some kind of intercellular-vis a vis -stellar/trans-dimensional portal. No, there's some kind of artwork in a garden in the center, it's the main HQ for UMB Bank, I think. One of the stranger post modernish buildings.

#17 Posted **Dec 3, 2011, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by pico44

The Flint hills rule. Maybe it's because I have prairie settler in my blood, but I really believe it to be one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world. Pictures like this make my heart ache.

absolutely. similar to looking out over the ocean - just vast and beautiful. especially when the wind sets up waves in the tall grass. but for whatever reason i actually prefer it to the ocean.

these are some gorgeous pics, centropolis. i'm a little jealous of KC for being closer to these kinds of landscapes than saint louis.

Centropolis · #18 Posted **Dec 3, 2011, 8:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by IWant2BeInSTL

these are some gorgeous pics, centropolis. i'm a little jealous of KC for being closer to these kinds of landscapes than saint louis.

Thanks, I hear what your saying. I was the only soul around, and could here the wind blowing through the grass.

There are areas in the central/eastern Ozarks that are close, but no cigar.

photo mine

ifeeldope9779 · #19 Posted **Dec 4, 2011, 7:41 PM**

I love warehouse/meat packing districts of KC. Really interested to see how this city develops in the next few years. Nice pick for a song at the later end of the thread too.

ChiSoxRox · #20 Posted **Jan 2, 2012, 4:33 PM**

I was just in KC last month over Christmas. As a fan of older buildings, downtown has some lovely streetscapes, and there are some amazing murals on the south end of downtown by I-670. There's also a nice skyline shot from the Arthur Bryant's parking lot, east and a bit south of downtown; while I haven't gotten to the Crown Plaza area yet, it's on my to-do list. Thanks for the pictures.