[3] August 5, 1901: A suspicious fire destroys Kansas City’s Crystal Palace, once a prime tourist attraction, only five days before its scheduled demolition.
[3] August 5, 1901: A suspicious fire destroys Kansas City’s Crystal Palace, once a prime tourist attraction, only five days before its scheduled demolition.
[5] August 2, 1951: Kansas City receives formal notification that the NAACP will bring suit against the municipal segregation policy at the swimming pool in Swope Park.
[7] July 17, 1981: One hundred fourteen people die as two skywalks collapse at the Hyatt Regency Hotel during a tea dance.
[9] July 12, 1963: Stanley H. Durwood, chief executive of Durwood Theaters (later American Multi-Cinema and then AMC Entertainment), builds the country's first multiplex movie theater in the Ward Parkway shopping center.
[11] July 3, 1869: Forty thousand people gather along the banks of the Missouri to celebrate the opening of the quarter mile long Hannibal Bridge, designed by Octave Chanute, which makes Kansas City a commercial hub for the railroads that are rapidly expanding to the west.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/This+Week+in+Kansas+City+History/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/burnt-end
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/10388#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/water-rights
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/6192#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/hotel-horror
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/hotel-horror#comments
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/multiplex-born
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/10168#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/bridge-future
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/bridge-future#comments
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=8
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=5
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=6
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=7
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=10
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=11
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=12
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=13
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1980?page=16