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The iconic Western Auto sign, seen in this file photo, is being restored and should come back to life in mid-to-late summer 2018. The Star File The downtown Kansas City skyline will soon again be ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City’s famous Western Auto sign has had an on-again, off-again relationship with light. After a handful of dark years, the condominium association in charge of the ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City residents will soon see a familiar shape lighting the skyline again. When the sun sets Friday, the Western Auto sign will be turned back on after years of darkness.
The lights will be returning to an iconic part of the Kansas City skyline soon. The Western Auto sign south of downtown has been dark for most of the last two years. The cost to maintain it and ...
The bold, bright Western Auto sign is an iconic piece of Kansas City’s downtown skyline and central to a recent inquiry to “What’s your KCQ?,” a partnership with the Kansas City Public ...
After the Western Auto sign captured attention last week ... Thursday Night Football cameras showed the rooftop sign in the Kansas City skyline as the Chiefs played Broncos last week.
In 2000, after Western Auto had been bought out by Sears ... whose white rooftop sign is also a part of the Kansas City skyline. The hotel was built in 1926 by Frank Alonzo Dudley, a lawyer ...
The KC skyline has its share of unique lighting systems as well. The storied Western Auto sign is an iconic piece of Kansas City’s skyline. Also, the Marriot building in downtown KC can display ...
ACI Boland Architects Principal Greg Highbarger selected the Western Auto Building 2107 Grand Blvd. in the Crossroads Arts District as his favorite building in Kansas ...