25 Kansas City Fountains!
25 fountains in Kansas City, Missouri!
1. J. C Nichols Memorial Fountain
2. Seville Light Fountain
3. Neptune Fountain
4. Court of the Penguins Fountains
5. Diane Sitting Fountain
6. April Fountain
7. Pomona Fountain
8. Mermaid Fountain
9. Four Fauns Fountain
10. Allen Memorial Fountain
11. Fountain of Bacchus
12. Boy And Frog Fountain
13. Court of Lions Fountain
14. Kansas City Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fountain
15. Kansas City Firefighters Memorial Fountain
16. Barney Allis Plaza Fountain
17. Spirit of Freedom Fountain
18. Gift of Life Fountain
19. William Volker Memorial Fountain
20. Woman with Shell Fountain
21. Parterre Garden Fountain
22. Crown Center Square Fountain
23. Eagle Scout Tribute Fountain
24. Laura Conyers Smith Rose Garden Fountain
25. Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain
JC Nichols Fountain Refurbishing
JC Nichols Fountain
Easter Sunday On The Country Club Plaza
KC Parks: Fountain Day 2015
The second Tuesday in April marks the day when Kansas City, Missouri’s 48 public fountains spring back to life! Please join the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners for the official start of 2015 fountain season in the City of Fountains. Celebrate renovation of J.C. Nichols Fountain, honor the return of the original fourth “dolphin”, and applaud repair of the Seville Light Fountain located just across the street.
Country Club Plaza District - Kansas City
A 4k aerial tour of the Country Club Plaza area using my Mavic Pro and Litchi. Gimbal needs to be calibrated, please forgive left side of video. It was a nice flight though. Music used with permission by Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Magic Fingers off their 1992 album UFO Tofu.
The Country Club District is the name of a group of neighborhoods comprising a historic upscale residential district in Kansas City, Missouri, and Johnson County, Kansas, USA, developed by noted real estate developer J.C. Nichols. The district was developed in stages between 1906 and 1950, and today is home to approximately 60,000 and includes such well-known Kansas City neighborhoods as Sunset Hill and Brookside in Missouri, Mission Hills, Fairway, and the oldest parts of Prairie Village in Kansas, making it the largest planned community built by a single developer in the United States. Ward Parkway, a wide, manicured boulevard, traverses the district running south from the Country Club Plaza, the first suburban shopping district in the United States.
J.C. Nichols began developing the district in 1906 with a neighborhood he called Bismarck Place. As his development expanded to include Countryside, he began to develop a master plan, which he dubbed the Country Club District because of its proximity to what was then the site of Kansas City Country Club, now Loose Park. Eventually, Nichols acquired a tract of land crossing from Missouri into Kansas, which now includes the neighborhood of Sunset Hill (in Missouri) and the city of Mission Hills (in Kansas). Nichols also built the nearby Country Club Plaza, the first shopping district in the United States designed to accommodate patrons arriving by automobile. Today, the Country Club District is the largest contiguous planned community built by a single developer in the United States.
Nichols used restrictive covenants, or deed restrictions, in each property in the district to control the use of the land. Most of the covenants pertain to the uses to which the property owner could put his land, or setback and free space requirements.
A controversial aspect of the covenants in the district, however, was the use of racial restrictions that prohibited ownership and occupation by African Americans. The 1948 Supreme Court decision Shelley v. Kraemer rendered such restrictions unenforceable, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited the future incorporation of such covenants. Nevertheless, restrictions continue to appear in the deeds to Country Club District properties. The restrictions require that a notice to amend be filed five years in advance of the deed restrictions renewal date, usually every 20 to 25 years; and that all homeowners must agree to the change with a notarized vote. This practical difficulty is the reason racial restrictions continue to appear throughout the district. At the same time, this practical difficulty has protected the other covenants from change, and thus has helped to preserve the essential character of the neighborhood and to resist encroachment by commercial developers.
While he utilized the restrictive covenant model to bar non-whites from his neighborhoods, Nichols was not the first in Kansas City to engage in the practice. In fact, such practice had been in full force in Kansas City since the time Nichols was born in the 1880s. Moreover, although Nichols's covenants were discriminatory, Kansas City historian William S. Worley noted that Nichols was among the first of his contemporaries to abandon the practice of barring sale to Jews.
Today the Country Club District is still predominantly white, and still is home to Kansas City's wealthiest residents.
The Country Club district includes many homes by or after plans of many noted architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, McKim, Mead, and White, Louis Curtiss, and Mary Rockwell Hook. Several homes are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Notable residents of the Country Club District have included:
Mayor Harold Roe Bartle
Mayor Richard L. Berkley
H&R Block founders Richard Bloch and Henry Bloch
Senator Kit Bond
Major League Baseball Hall of Famer George Brett
author Evan S. Connell
Hallmark Cards chairman Donald J. Hall, Sr.
Hallmark Cards founder Joyce Hall
composer John Kander
businessman R. Crosby Kemper Jr.
pharmaceutical magnate Ewing Kauffman and his wife Muriel Kauffman
United States Senator Claire McCaskill
UCLA and KU chancellor Franklin David Murphy
political boss Tom Pendergast
Ambassador Charles H. Price II
columnist Calvin Trillin
professional golfer Tom Watson
Mayor Charles Wheeler.
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KC Fountains Project: April 14, Fountians Day 2015!!! - Ep 12
If you can't to love Kansas City right now, then I don't know when you ever will! -Mayor Sly James
The annual Kansas City Fountains Day celebration was focused on the newly renovated JC Nichols fountain & the Seville Light fountain. The weather was perfect, the students played & sang, the Mayor spoke, the waters flowed freely & fun was had by all!
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Fountain Day 2016
Fountain Day 2016 at the William Volker Memorial Fountain in Theis Park. The second Tuesday in April marks the day when Kansas City, Missouri’s public public fountains spring back to life! Please join the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners for the official start of 2016 fountain season in the City of Fountains and the kick-off for a new fundraiser for our city’s fountains – the Feast of Fountains.
Major renovation for J.C. Nichols Fountain
Kansas City’s most famous fountain is almost ready for its grand reopening.
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Possible US-led attack on Syria sparks rallies in Kansas City
Protesters around the world took to the streets to protest Saturday for and against a possible U.S.-led attack on Syria, as President Barack Obama announced he would seek congressional approval for such a move.
Obama said the U.S. should take action against Syria to punish it for what the U.S. believes was a deadly chemical attack launched by Syrian President Bashar Assad this month that killed more than 1,400 people. But Obama said he wants Congress to debate and vote on whether to use force, and has said any possible strike would be limited.
There were calls for peace and chants for help on the same Kansas City street corner near the J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain on Saturday, as protesters both for and against U.S. intervention in the Syrian crisis spoke out.
We hope that, just by standing out here, holding a sign, it's going to wake a few people up, maybe show to our Congress that there are American people out there who are against this, who are going to speak out against this, protestor Jeremy Freund said. I know they're already well aware of that, and hopefully, they take that into consideration when it comes time to vote on this.
The Syrian-Americans in the metro say they can't stand the reports from home anymore, that too many people are dying, and now the Syrian government is accused of using chemical weapons on its own people.
Including kids. They are being killed in their sleep. When I heard that, it was basically the worst thing I have ever heard in my life, Mohammad Taha said.
They believe a limited air strike is the only way now to try to push Assad out of power.
It's important that we take the lead, and we say this is wrong. We can't let him keep doing this to his own people, Alma Habib said.
But those opposed to U.S. involvement say the U.S. is not the world's police.
Getting involved in a civil war that we have nothing to do with, in a region that's already de-stabilized, is going to do nothing but further de-stabilize the region and could potentially turn this into a much bigger mess than it already is, Freund said.
And having both sides so close together led to some healthy debate, but protesters said that kind of free debate is exactly what they're fighting for.
We have a democracy in the United States, and the people's voices really get heard. I don't have that back in Syria, in my country, Habib said.
Local members of the political community also voiced their opinions after the president's announcement.
After weeks of claiming he could and would make this decision on his own, the president's announcement today marks an astonishing change of course, said U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri. While congressional approval is the best course of action and the right thing to do, it would have been the right course of action months ago.
U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver II said he has been one of the biggest proponents of enforcement of the War Powers Act.
I think the president has done the right thing, Cleaver said. I am still opposed to military intervention, but I want to hear more from constituents and get more information that should be available to members of Congress in the next few days.
The demonstrations erupted on both east and west coasts of the United States, and cities in between.
In Houston, which has a large Syrian-American population, about 100 people lined up on opposite sides of a street in an upscale neighborhood to express opposing views on a possible U.S. attack.
We want any kind of action. The world has stood silently and it's been too long. Something needs to be done, said Tamer Barazi, a 23-year-old civil engineer who carried a Syrian flag and a sign stating Syrian Americans for peace, democracy and freedom in Syria.
Taste & See KC: Ward Parkway
Ward Parkway was named after KC businessman and real estate pioneer, Seth E. Ward.
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KC Fountains Project: JC Nichols Fountain restoration preview: Ep 7
Just a teaser of the JC Nichols Fountain upcoming restoration project.
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A Whole New World Cover
Music by: Alan Menken
Lyrics by: Tim Rice
Filmed: KC, MO Union Station and JC Nichols Memorial Fountain, Open fields in Kansas
We are US service members spouses. Novices at making music videos. As we move around every 3-4 years, we find ourselves feeling disconnected and have a hard time finding our place in the community. With our music videos as a hobby, we now have an outlet to explore and express our natural creative talents. It's also a great distraction while our Airman and Solider spouses are away for long periods of time. Vocal Lorelei Palmer and Creighton Shivell (my nephew on my husbands side) Recorded in 2015, in a studio with minimal enhancements. Since we live in a different state from my nephew, my wonderful friend whose a great singer and co-actor in theater, helped preform in this video. An Army dentist, my friend: Trent Adams... whom I am eternally grateful for helping out. Last but not least to my BFF whom I regard as my other half technically speaking. I can't do my videos without her help, and her talents with camera and technical knowledge. My amazing friend and support: Kayla Craythorn. We hope you enjoy our video thanks for watching. Please subscribe for future videos.
KC Fountains Project: JC Nichols installation day vlog - Ep 9
The exciting day that the JC Nichols fountain returned to its KC home! Don't miss Tues, April 14, 2015, 11am for the celebration of Fountain Day!!
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KC Fountians project: JC Nichols Fountain restoration: Ep 8
Top secret location! Fountain restoration! Plus, playing with fire! Those are the ingredients for a great vlog!
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Tour of KC 2016
Criterium of the Tour of Kansas City Bike Race 2016
2/4/16 Eulogy to DEATH OF THE MIDDLE CLASS RALLY & ERISA
FUNERAL PROCESSION with Hearse, Caskets & Shovel, around town with eulogy at J.C. Nichols Fountain , Plaza, Kansas City MO. A 34 car procession, with 60 in attendance...More video coming Eulogy spoken by Michael Savwoir, [pronounced Sav-Wha]... Missouri Kansas City Committee to Protect Pensions
Kansas City parks get new cameras
The city is installing new cameras to watch for crime when you head to the park
7-15-13 Kansas City March For Trayvon Martin Pt 1
March For Trayvon Martin, 7.15.2015, Troost & 31st down Benton to Freedom Fountain @ 4700 Cleveland on Brush Creek. JUSTICE FOR TREYVON!! Much love to Mothers United, the local anarchist crew, Black Bloc, GKCIWW, and of course the many individuals who walked from 31st or who joined us from their homes and cars along the way!!!