Part 1/7 Kansas City Streetcars

[@youarepredictable]

My dad grew up in downtown KCMO, right near 29th and Mercer, just of SW Boulevard. Born in 45 and lived his first 20 years there. Used to live above their family grocery store there. He always tells stories about the old streetcars.

[@g..._anthony27]

I'm going to try and download the footage because it needs to be saved

[@g..._anthony27]

Wish I could find that west bottom entrance

[@samoto22]

this is beautiful, what a shame we got rid of it, everyone just had to get in their cars huh :/

[@intervestcom8054]

Kansas City, Missouri is the cultural capital of the US in between Chicago and San Francisco. Culture is one great part of the mix that makes KCMO so great. The kicker is that KCMO is inexpensive all the while having world class amenities.

[@alangray9117]

It's not anymore. After almost 40 years in Kansas City I had to move After gentrification from Sly James. He sucked.

[@DCussen]

I MUST have this soundtrack...

[@nilasanders9467]

Thank you! I so enjoyed watching every minute of this and remembering how exciting they were to ride.

[@b1aflatoxin]

Great share! It would be nice to see these professionally digitized wouldn't it? I grew up decades after the 1957 street car demise, but I always heard stories, and saw the last few remnants of track around town. It was like a ghostly infrastructure.

[@kitchfairman5043]

Bravo!

[@BradKarthauser]

Love your channel.

[@jimhoward1655]

Cool

[@MrBnsftrain]

Nice video! I liked the footage of changing destination boards a 6:10. I hope KC opens more new streetcar lines. Where was that miniature ride-on steam train at 7:04?

[@gotnoshoes99]

That miniature train ran in Swope Park and was later replaced with a gasoline powered miniature F3 which still runs out at Line Creek Park.

[@albirdo694]

Gotnoshoes 99, thank you for posting the great footage of the old KC streetcars. I'm a high school student working on a short documentary project that relates to the history of Kansas City. Would you mind if I used a bit of material from your videos on KZbin? I didn't want to borrow anything from them without asking you. Thanks!

[@gotnoshoes99]

Sure, go ahead and use whatever you want this is all pretty much public domain stuff.

[@meinerHeld]

What iiiis this music?! :]

[@gotnoshoes99]

+meinerHeld I uploaded these videos exactly as they came to me including the music so I can take neither the credit or the blame for the content or quality. Although the music sounds at first like 70's game show music after awhile it kind of grows on you.

[@meinerHeld]

+gotnoshoes99 Oh I was lovin' it. Hence the smiley emoji. :]

[@merccadoosis8847]

@gotnoshoes ~ this type of music used to be called ''easy listening". There were a great many stations that played this type back in the 1960s thru the 70s. It was so relaxing that it was also called 'dental office music' as dentists used it to calm down tense patients!

[@3506Dodge]

these aren't really streetcars, they're interurban vehicles.

[@meinerHeld]

+3506Dodge Interested: what do you mean?

[@BradKarthauser]

We had interurban lines in Milwaukee which stopped running about the time I was born. What a shame.