More Downtown KC

Took another sojourn thru the downtown area... northwest side of town along 8th Street mostly. The old Garment District... buildings from the 1880s and early 1900s. The first two shots show the New England building.

"Spot"
Thayer Place
State Street Building.... beautifully landscaped. Next eight shots.

Eight Street... lofts and offices. The entrance to the 8th Street Tunnel was in that green patch just ahead of where I'm standing. The tunnel ran down to the West Bottoms to provide quicker access to that area and the Union Depot which was still located there prior to Union Station's completion in 1914.

Entrance to the Garment District Museum.

Kansas City Remembers

Downtown Looking Up, Mostly

Old signage. "Hotel Bray" "Fireproof" "Rooms $1.50" (I think on that last one.)
Took a brief walk downtown on Saturday. I like the contrast in architecture. City Center Square on the left, Mark Twain Tower on the right.
Brookfield Building looks completely deserted.
Spoon, Barney Allis Plaza.
Symmetrical.
Few vines left for the trellis.


Library parking on left... condos on right.
Mark Twain Tower.
Tapestry of styles.
More old signage. Peck's Drygood Store...


Library parking.
Floral alleyway behind condos. Alley is between Baltimore and Wyandotte.
Greening up the alley.
Mark Twain Tower entrance.
Mark Twain Tower facade.

Deacon Ordination

Four men were ordained as Deacons today at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. I was shooting video so I could only take a very few photos. It was a two hour service.

Dueling Orbs

A reflective moment outside the Sprint Arena.

Sprint Arena Pictorial

Toured the new Arena a while back... has some very interesting vistas both inside and out. According to todays KC STAR Pollster Magazine has ranked the Sprint Center one of the top five entertainment venues for the first quarter of 2009 in the United States and number 14 in the world. (Talk about totally unintentional timely blogging :) )