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Kansas City's Ward Parkway Center


A vintage snapshot of the gaslit Promenade at Kansas City's WARD PARKWAY CENTER. It was the first fully-enclosed shopping concourse in Greater Kansas City. Stores opened between October 1961 and October 1963. 
Photo from Kroh Brothers Development Company / Kansas City Public Library


WARD PARKWAY CENTER was developed on a site sandwiched between two major north-south thoroughfares; Ward Parkway and State Line Road. Ward Parkway is in the foreground of this aerial view.
Photo from Montgomery Ward & Company Annual Report 1962