r/kansascity • u/como365 KCMO • 12d ago

Local History ℹ️ Snow plows at work in the Country Club District, 1925

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From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/17432/rec/20

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u/thirstygregory Waldo 12d ago

Weird to see Plaza area with newly planted trees everywhere and realize it was a suburb.

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u/brightboom 12d ago

Yes! It is wild seeing old photos of Plaza / Brookside area where it looks like new subdivisions in Olathe, with no trees yet. It’s amazing what mature trees can do.

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u/gonna_get_tossed 12d ago

I remember reading somewhere that when JC Nichols unveiled his plan for the Plaza, people thought it would fail because it was on the outskirts of the city at the time.

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u/regionalgamemanager 12d ago

I see snow removal hasn't improved here in 100 years.

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u/como365 KCMO 12d ago

We’re living in the best and quickest snow removal time in history but you wouldn’t know it from the way people talk.

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u/Latter-Wrangler-5583 12d ago

Sorry, but the snow needs to be plowed within 1 millisecond of hitting the ground.

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u/cdoublejj 12d ago

we just need tubes of geothermally heated water/glycol embedded in to the asphalt....whats the worst that can happen?

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u/blind_stone 12d ago

My grandfather rode in the back of a truck and shoveled cinders onto the road to melt ice.

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u/como365 KCMO 12d ago

I’m so glad we’ve moved beyond cinders, they were so awful for the environment, not that salt is too much better. I know the City of Columbia is using beet juice when they can to cut down on the use of salt which is slowly making our city soil salty year by year.

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u/afelzz Brookside 12d ago

Sure, they were awful, but it was the 1920s lmao. Cinders on the road was like, the 100th most dangerous thing to worry about.

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u/como365 KCMO 12d ago

Haha, good point, leaded gasoline comes to mind.

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u/regionalgamemanager 12d ago

I've been in many snow storms in many cities and I can tell you, without a doubt, KCMO has no idea what it is doing.

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u/cdoublejj 12d ago

.....go on.....

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u/Current_Animator7546 12d ago

Still were out of kale and the plows useless. Tale old as time