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Just as point of reference, the west bottoms area of Kansas City (which is where this photo was taken) has not flooded again since the great 1951 flood. After that flood, a 50 foot concrete flood wall was built. Even in 1993 which caused anxiety in Kansas City about flooding, the water level never reached closer than 10 feet below the top of the flood wall. The 1951 flood however decimated the stockyards and meat packers in the area. The area never totally recovered as the livestock to market pattern changed and Omaha became the biggest packing town. This Esther Bubley photo from 1948 (part of the Newberry Library
CB&Q collection) shows the west bottoms as it's height prior
to the 1951 flood. The elevated track is the old Kansas City
Public Service line that entered a tunnel beneath the photographer
to get to downtown Kansas City. Bill Hirt On 6/22/2020 8:49 AM, William Barber
wrote:
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