Downtown! Strolling Down the Avenue Shawnee County Historical Society Bulletin No. 79
by Wallace, Doug W. (Ed)
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
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Topeka: The Shawnee County Historical Society. Very Good. 2002. Softcover. Multiple copies available. Most copies show only light wear. The copy you receive will be the best we have remaining, we will contact you prior to shipping a copy in less than Very Good condition, with marking, damage, etc. ; Downtown! Strolling Down the Avenue (2002) - Foreword and Acknowledgements - I. An Introduction to Downtown - Downtown Topeka's Evolution - A Magical Place - Making It Home Again - II Sentinel In the Sky: Downtown's Water Tower - From Homestead
to Watertower Place - Farewell to a Landmark: The Second Ritchie House - The Water Tower - Water Tower Springs a Leak - The Ugly White Tower - Water Tower Place vs. Ritchie's First Home - Downtown That Never Was: Watertower Place - III. End of the Line: The 900 Block & Veale Building - Tenth and Kansas Has Had Romantic History - 900 Block Survey: 1930 & 1955- Downtown That Never Was: The Leeper Building - Minney Block - Downtown Biography: Martha Addis - Downtown Biography: Herbert West - On the Avenue: McFarland's Restaurant - The Children's Building - New Building on Kansas Avenue - He Owns the Pennant - First House on the Block - The Veale Building - Downtown Biography: Josephine Norton - Downtown Biography: Tinkham Veale - Fire on the Avenue - Downtown Biography: Al Alexander - No Place for Doctors in a Hurry - Chocolate Shop Visitor - Window on the Avenue: Moore's Book Store - Downtown Biography: Drs. David & Dorothy Nicoll - Copeland County - Gordon Building - Downtown Biography: Charles A. Karlan - End of a Topeka Tradition - IV. Let There Be Light: KP&L On The Avenue - Light and Power in Topeka - First Light - Keeping Downtown Warm - Van Buren Memories - Van Buren Smokestack - The Last Power Plant - Downtown Biography: Deane E. Ackers - The KP&L Building - Windows on the Avenue - Lighting Up the KP&L Tower - Downtown Biography: Balfour S. Jeffrey - V. Parish on Capitol Square - Centennial History of Assumption Parish - Downtown Biography: Msgr. Patrick McInerney - In the Shadow of the Almighty - New Topeka Catholic High - Headquarters Company: Fire Station #2 - One of the Finest - The Brass Pole - VI. Movie Palace - New Theater in Town - Stage and Screen - The Jayhawk's Light Show - Bernice Hemus and the Mighty Kilgen Organ - The Piano Band - Topeka's First Radio Station Gets Going - On the Air: WIBW's First Broadcast - Downtown Biography: Miss Maudie - A Fox Theater - Downtown Biography: G. L. Cooper and Maurice Jencks - On the Arcade - One New Year's Eve at the Jayhawk - Never on a Sunday - Those Were the Days - Live; on the Jayhawk Stage - Now Showing! "Fighting Man of the Plains" - Final Curtain - VII. An "Atlas" of Downtown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .
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- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7574
- Title
- Downtown! Strolling Down the Avenue Shawnee County Historical Society Bulletin No. 79
- Author
- Wallace, Doug W. (Ed)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Shawnee County Historical Society
- Place of Publication
- Topeka
- Date Published
- 2002
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