I couldn’t find any article or a reference to any specific bombing in Kansas City for this set of the Life Magazine photos taken in 1953. I think they just illustrate a few unrelated episodes in a day of the KCPD’s Bomb Desk.

Who wants to identify the hotel visible in the window? And what is the headlight-shaped object on the desk – intercom?

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The following photos were taken in 1945 in Josephsville, MO. Narrated by some old guy.

In my day we didn’t have the Easter Egg Hunt, we had to hunt for eggs every day, because we were hungry, that’s why.

In my day there was no entertainment, we had to quilt all day long and listen to Eunice’s old jokes every day; that damn Eunice, I get a heartburn just thinking about her.

In my day kids didn’t sit around and watch TV, they had to haul firewood long distance uphill both ways, and only rich people could afford wheels.

In my day we didn’t go fishing for fun and we didn’t have us no fancy boats; we had to go catch us some dinner.

In my day we had to churn our own butter, and churn and churn and churn; damn kids get off my lawn!

In my day we only got to keep the back side of a cow, we had to sell the front half to the government.

In my day we couldn’t afford the rubber tires, you were lucky to get round wheels on your tractor. Have you ever tried tractoring with square wheels? I thought so!

In my day you’d already get yourself a whipping if you sat around and read all this stuff for this long. Damn whippersnappers!

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It is true that anywhere in the world when people who may not even speak English find out that you are from Kansas, they smile and say something about the Wizard of Oz. And just like L. Frank Baum made Kansas known worldwide, some marketing genius made Wamego, KS a worthwhile side trip for anyone passing through the state.
Wamego is located near Manhattan, KS and close enough to I-70 to make a detour. It doesn’t have any discernible claim to the Oz fame, except for actually being in Kansas.

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I don’t suppose many of you are browsing Russian blogs, so I thought I’d link some interesting pictures. The source is here and here is a Google translation. I also added some related links in case you are wasting time at work.

Red Square

Manezhnaya Square. Hotel “Moscow”

Central Lenin Museum. State Historical Museum

The old building of Moscow State University

Mayakovsky Square and monument to VV Mayakovsky

Pushkin Square

Kutuzovsky Prospect

Building Museum Battle of Borodino panorama

Swimming Pool “Moscow”. This pool was build instead of planned Palace of Soviets which was supposed to replace the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,presently restored on the same spot.

House of Friendship with the Peoples of foreign countries

V.I.Lenin State Library of the USSR

Karl Marx Prospect with the monument to Karl Marx

Sverdlov Square. Bolshoi Theater.

Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation

Andrei Rublev Museum(formerly Andronikov Monastery)

Planetarium

Chkalov Street

Komsomolskaya Square

Monument to the worker and a farmer woman. She is holding a sickle and he has a hammer. Hammer and sickle-get it?

Monument in honor of the Space Development

Dzerzhinsky Square

Moscow City’s Palace of Pioneers and schoolchildren

Student dormitories Patrice Lumumba University.

South-West Suburbs

Lomonosov Prospect

Leninsky Prospect.Public is greeting Cosmonauts returning from space.

Leninsky Prospect. Department store “Moscow”

Borodino Battlefield

Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye (XVI century)

Highway Circling around the city.

Domodedovo Airport

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I noticed this fountain this morning with about 8 feet of foam on the top. By the time I was back to take a picture someone, obviously without a sense of humor, turned it off. Still a nice combination snow-white foam and flowers.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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