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Yup. We got your Twinkies™ ri-cheer in Kansas City, home of Interstate Bakeries, from whose ovens emerge all Hostess™ products, Wonder Bread™ in pure white and wheat, Dolly Madison™ brands and Drake’s cakes™ of “Seinfeld” fame. That’s only in Kansas City, people!
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Do outsiders think Kansas Citians are sentimental or perhaps poetic because we are the home of Hallmark Cards?
I don’t know the answer to that. But yes, we are, and our city is greatly enhanced by Hallmark’s presence. Actually, as much as poets and artists, the location of Hallmark in Kansas City since 1910 has actually sprouted a higher per capita number of printers and printing companies here. Kansas City is an excellent printing town, thanks to Hallmark cards.
There are all kinds of tours and Hallmarkian attractions here. Most huddle around Crown Center, the company’s luxury shopping mall…. only in Kansas City.
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While other cities have their Six Flags entertainment parks, Kansas City’s Worlds of Fun is one-of-a-kind. Built in 1973 by Kansas City sports promoters Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman, it was a stand-alone until 1995 when they sold it to Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. family of parks. Jules Verne’s book, “Around the World in Eighty Days,” is the overall theme of the park, which is divided into five areas – Africa, Scandinavia, Europa, the Orient, and Americana.
Oceans of Fun, a side-by-side water park, opened in 1985, with gigantic water slides, a wave pool and all expected trappings of a top-drawer water park.
Ride-wise, it’s everything a Six Flags or even a Disney park offers. The next best thing, I suppose is the Six Flags park in St. Louis, so a lot of people drive some distances to Kansas City to enjoy Worlds of Fun. It absolutely delivers the value for any travel, or the admission fees.
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Sparxafire! In my zone of highlighting quirky or unique things about Kansas City, today we discuss our National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial. Drive far and wide across the great land of ours, drive to every corner of the U.S. and you will not find another national museum dedicated to World War I. For we have the one and only, right here.
The Liberty Memorial itself is a 217-ft. tall monument to that war, built in 1926 and dedicated by Calvin Coolidge, “Silent Cal” (”the magnitude of this memorial, and the broad base of popular support on which it rests, can scarcely fail to excite national wonder and admiration.”)
It’s a big deal; the real deal, with research and educational services, a gift shop and everything! You can buy a commemorative shot glass for $5!
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Hands down, best city song in the world! “Goin’ to Kansas City!” Anybody care to argue? I thought not!
What other city has a song written by Leiber & Stoller? What other city has a song covered by the likes of the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Little Richard, Peggy Lee, James Brown …. Written in 1952, the breakout version by Wilbert Harrison hit the top of the Billboard charts in 1959.
This song is so cool, Kansas City really has to struggle to keep up with coolness and deserve it. I know I have to struggle to be one of the “crazy, little women” here! But I am! It’s all relative.
Kansas City is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri encompassing parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is situated at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers (Kaw Point), and it sits opposite Kansas City, Kansas. It is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the most populous city in Missouri, the seventh largest city in the Midwest, and the 39th most populous city in the United States. As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 447,306. The city's municipal water was recently rated the cleanest among the 50 largest cities in the United States, containing no detectable impurities. Kansas City has more fountains than any other city in the world except Rome. The city also features more miles of landscaped boulevards than any city except Paris.
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