August 29, 2018 | By The Active Age
Valley Center’s old library sat so close to railroad tracks that it used to shake when a train passed. “We didn’t know whether it was an earthquake or train,” the library’s office manager, Terry Foster, recalls. Two months after its grand opening, VC’s new $2.2 million, 13,400-square-foot community center and library at 314 E. Clay […]
| By Amy Geiszler-Jones
3rd annual Railfest features train rides This year’s Railfest offers a rare opportunity to ride the rails in downtown Wichita. Volunteers with the Great Plains Transportation Museum, located at 700 E. Douglas across from Union Station, have restored the museum’s 1934 Whitcomb locomotive. It will pull several of the museum’s vintage cabooses during the third […]
| By Joe Stumpe
If you look at a map of Wichita today, you won’t find Tremont Street. In its time, though, it was one of the city’s best-known thoroughfares. Indeed, Tremont was notorious across the Southwest for commercialized vice – prostitution, liquor and gambling – plus the usual array of felonies and misdemeanors associated with those pursuits. […]