curiousKC | History Questions Up for Vote This Month
curiousKC | History Questions Up for Vote This Month
From local legends like Disney to how a Missouri town was shaped Share this story Published March 1st, 2021 at 1:40 PM Above image credit: (Left) Nell Donnelly Reed, the rivers in the Kansas City area and Walt Disney are the topics up for a vote in this month s voting round. (Collage | State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Valley Special Collections)
Part of boundless curiosity is looking back in time. We wonder why or how things came to be. We wonder about local legends’ legacies and how they got started.
Change Up Realized
Look what they ve done to the place. And now that they re divorcing, let s revisit one of my favorite things about the Kanye and Kim era: the $50 million house they bought and all the weird things they did to it. You most likely know by now that Kim and Kanye basically live in an abandoned museum.
SAVE TIGER!!!
Tiger Woods was injured in a serious car crash Tuesday and needed to be extricated from his vehicle with the jaws of life, the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department said. Woods was the sole occupant in the crash near the Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Opal Louella (Smith) Wyckoff died January 20th, 2021 on her 79th birthday surrounded by her loving family at her home after a short illness. She was born January 20th, 1942 to Ralph and Edna (Phillips) Smith at their home in Metz, Mo. She married William (Bill) Wyckoff on May 30, 1962 in Bronaugh, MO. Upon graduation from Metz High School, Metz, MO, she began working at Nelly Don as a seamstress. After marrying William, they moved to Pittsburg, KS where he worked as a truck driver for the Van Tassel Company, and Opal enjoyed accompanying him on trips around the U.S. In May 1965, Opal and he opened Wyckoffs Service Station and Café at the Junction of Highway 54 and 43. Opal did the bookkeeping, cooked, ran the café, and maintained the inventory for the mini-convenience store located in the station. In 1972, the business closed due to the expansion of Highway 54 into a four-lane highway. At that time, they bought a farm south of Deerfield, MO.