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Downtown: Lewis and Clark Point
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  • Updated By yooperprof on January 19, 2004
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    • across the wide Missouri - Kansas City
    across the wide Missouri
    by yooperprof
    From atop this bluff in downtown Kansas City (MO) you can see the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers. It's at this point that the Mighty Missouri decides to abandon its own southward flow toward the Gulf of Mexico and instead heads almost due west to join forces with the Mississippi at a spot just above St. Louis. Explorers Lewis and Clark apparently spent a night on the hilltop while on their journey to the ocean 200 years ago. Wouldn't they be proud to know that they are remembered in the name of the "Lewis and Clark Viaduct" that links Kansas City MO with Kansas City KS?

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  • Address: at the western end of 7th, in the freeway loop
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    Downtown: Chouteau Society Marker - Lewis & Clark Point
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  • Updated By yooperprof on July 5, 2004
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    • Parlez-vous un peu? - Kansas City
    Parlez-vous un peu?
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    The Chouteau Society is a local club dedicated to educating the community about the importance of French heritage in the Kansas City region. They have sponsored a series of historic markers throughout the metroplex, including this one at Lewis & Clark Point. If you expand the photo, you can read what they have to say.

    What? You say that your French is a little rusty? Okay, here is a partial translation:

    The French-speaking community made a significant contribution to the ultimate success of the epochal Lewis & Clark expedition. The St. Louis Chouteau brothers, fur traders Auguste and Pierre, lodged the two captains in their substantial homes many times during the winter 1803-04, and assisted them in procuring supplies, boats and personnel. Pierre acted as a downstream agent and post office for the expedition.

    French voyageurs had ventured up the Missouri River for over a century before 1804. In 1742, French explorers, the Verendryes, reached an area two-thirds of the way along Lewis & Clark's route in present-day Montana. Le Page du Pratz's 1758 publication "The History of Louisiana" (with accompanying maps) was a useful resource. The Indians had told the French of the Rockies and the West, including the Great Salt Lake, and of mountains a river system leading west. . .

    Captain Baptiste Deschamps and his Gallic recruits took supplies and personnel in his large red pirogue (canoe) as far as the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota. A French-Shawnee interpreter, George Drouillard, also acted as chief hunter, arbiter of disputes, and enforcer of the two captains' orders, and Lewis praised him highly in his reports. Another French-Indian interpreter, Toussaint Charbonneau, was occasionally a problem. But his young Indian wife, Sacagawea [sic], procured from her brother, a Shoshoni chief, the indispensible horses to ride over the snow-covered mountains. Her little French-Shonshoni child, Jean-Baptiste, was with her on the entire voyage, and later returned to this area to live.

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    Downtown: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
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  • By basstbn on March 17, 2003
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    • Downtown - Kansas City
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    This cathedral's golden dome has been a distinctive part of Kansas City's downtown skyline since the 1920s. Renovations costing $7 million were completed in 2003.

  • Address: 416 West 12th Street
  • Directions: Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, west of Broadway
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    Downtown: Down Town
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    • Central station, was beautiful. I just had to check out City Market also & had a wonderful time. If you like Steam boats make sure you go to the Steamboat Arabia Museum.

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    Downtown: hanging pot from salvation army
  • By lakshmip on January 11, 2006
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  • Address: broadway
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    Downtown: The Folly Theatre
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  • Updated By basstbn on December 8, 2004
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    • photo courtesy follytheatre.com - Kansas City
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    The Folly Theatre, originally named the Standard Theatre, was constructed in 1900 as a burlesque and vaudeville house. Young artists such as the Marx Brothers, Gypsy Rose Lee appeared on stage there, as well as a young actor named Humphry Bogart. In later years, "dancers" such as Sally Rand ruled the hardwoods. By 1794, the Folly had become a sordid pornogrophy palace and the place folded - doomed for the wrecking ball. Several concerned Kansas Citians rallied around the "Grand Old Lady of 12th Street." The theatre was saved, renovated, and is now the grand home of The Folly Jazz Series, Children and Family Series, Friends of Chamber Music and many performances of the Harriman Arts Series.

  • Address: 300 West 12 Street, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Phone: 816-474-4444
  • Directions: One block west of Broadway on 12th Street
  • Website: www.follytheatre.com
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    Downtown: clock tower
  • By lakshmip on January 14, 2006
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    This clock can cheer any kid who comes to children's mercy hospital.$ sides have four animals.

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    Downtown: Lewis and Clark Point - Another View
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    • a good place to watch take-offs and landings - Kansas City
    a good place to watch
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    This shot - taken in summer 2004 - looks north across the Missouri River toward the arches of the Broadway Bridge and the Downtown Airport. I remember flying into and out of that airport before the opening of KCI in 1973.

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    Downtown: public library
  • By lakshmip on December 25, 2005
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    public library parking garage wall. The wall looks like a book shelf.

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    Downtown: Kauffman Performing Arts Center
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  • Updated By basstbn on March 5, 2009
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    Downtown KC has undergone numerous changes in recent years, including the openings of the Sprint Center (sports and concert arena), H&R Block World Headquarters, Power & Light Entertainment District, and new printing plant for the Kansas City Star. The next new opening will surpass all the others in splendor.

    Having endured many a symphony concert or opera production in cramped, out-dated quarters, I am excited about the opening of the Kauffman Performing Arts Center in 2011. This spectacular edifice, designed by Moshe Safdie, with accoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota, will contain a hall for the symphony, a second hall for the opera and ballet, as well as a smaller multi-purpose hall. The cost: $326 million, almost totally funded from private sources. The Muriel Kauffman Foundantion has led the fund drive, itself contributing well more than $100 million.For more about the PAC, visit www.kcperformingartscenter.org.

  • Directions: Downtown
  • Website: http://www.kauffmancenter.org/
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