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Vintage Kansas City Radio and Television
A large collection of images from KBMA-TV / KSHB-TV's 41 Treehouse Lane / The Mother Nature Show, Dialing for Dollars, The Creature Feature, All Night Live and other Channel 41 shows. Also includes images from WDAF, KY102, KCMO, KBEQ, WHB and more.

Pictures of Kansas City
Mostly old photographs from North Kansas City south to Waldo and the Plaza. Also includes images of St. Louis, Columbia, Springfield, Sedelia, the Ozarks etc.

Pictures of Johnson County and Kansas City, Kansas
Pictures from the '40s-'50s of Kansas City, Kansas and the Johnson County area. Also includes other cities like Manhattan, Wichita, Topeka, Hutchinson, Emporia etc.

Pictures of Olathe, Kansas
Primarily images from the '40s-'70s of the Olathe business district and surrounding area.

Kansas, Missouri and OLATHE???
There's a good reason for the abundance of Olathe images. When the site was first developed the focus of the collection was on vintage images from Olathe. After a month or so it occured to me that if you lived in Olathe you would be just as interested in images from the rest of the Kansas City metro area so the site was renamed from Olathe Recycled to OldKC.com

Special Thanks
I am truly in debt for contributions from Gwen Anderson, Mary Lou Anderson, John Bara, Dave Bales, Alan Barley, Robert Bell, Tom Bowman, Brent Brooks, Corky Carrel, Gary Charles, Dan Cochran, John Coleman, Gracie Cook, Bonnie Craig, Jay Cooper, Richard Crane, Sheila D'Agostino, Pamela Daniels, Wynona Dodd, Rob Forsythe, Bob Garrett, Harold Glazer, Tom Hand, Tom Hastings, Matthew Heinrichs, Mike Haile, Steve Hartwich, Brian Holland, Robin Japins, Flowler Jones, Roger Jones, Gregg Katz, Timothy Keeling, Keith LeBrun, Ed Muscari, Mike, Terri McDaniels, Rod Padley, Dale Robinson, Scott Sargent, Doug Scott, Roberta Solomon, Dave Stewart, Eric Stevens, Frances Stout, Eric Swegle, Shannon Swift, Kathy Tretbar, Steve Wagner, Cris Walkinshaw, Edward Walls, Dave Wilson, Dick Wilson, Machelle Winder and Ruth from the Olathe Public Library. In fact, I owe a "thank you" to all of the staff at the Library as they have been and continue to be extremely patient and gracious during my many hours spent there.

Image Sources
The bulk of the images above are from postcards, photographs, family slides, films, yearbooks, brochures and newspapers.

Many of the pictures of the businesses on Park Street and Kansas Ave. in Olathe were taken by Gus Pierce and were cropped/edited to highlight specific buildings or areas.

Harris Hudson took the photograph of Lake Olathe.

The polaroids of Worlds of Fun are from the Wells family.