Flood-related photo

[puniraptor]

do we have a single townie on here with reliable honest to goodness townie knowledge? it seems like we've only got a bunch of bobby t's types who get their townie knowlege from other bobby t's types. awful.

[Dr Rick Daris]

do we have a single townie on here with reliable honest to goodness townie knowledge? it seems like we've only got a bunch of bobby t's types who get their townie knowlege from other bobby t's types. awful.

juliette street is named after the first person murdered in manhattan.

 

[GoodForAnother]

obvious and very poor photoshop

I wish we could just be friends

[TownieCat]

To be fair to rd, I can see how the Randolph Bridge could be mistaken for "big bridge first and then filled under and around with dirt" based on the above pic.

very agreeable

As a native Riley Countian I drove across that bridge on the reg growing up. So much silt has built up in that end of TCR that it actually looks very similar to the 1960s pic above.

[TownieCat]

thats the north end bridge by olsburg / new randolph

Only people over the age of 90 refer to it as "New Randolph", grandpa.

[puniraptor]

thats the north end bridge by olsburg / new randolph

Only people over the age of 90 refer to it as "New Randolph", grandpa.

[kso_FAN]

Finally got a chance to watch, this is amazing.

[puniraptor]

Finally got a chance to watch, this is amazing.

america's valley 

[kso_FAN]

Finally got a chance to watch, this is amazing.

america's valley 

"All cooperate here in the valley, even baby racoons are mothered by the family cat."

 

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

do we have a single townie on here with reliable honest to goodness townie knowledge? it seems like we've only got a bunch of bobby t's types who get their townie knowlege from other bobby t's types. awful.

to back up this observo- i went to a pak last year with townies such as kk, rd, stevesie60 and doom_catz... ill give you 7 guesses as to where we went steve. just kidding. ill just tell you cuz you probably already know. we went to bobby t's. i even remember rick daris calling the waitress by name and her calling him "bad boy ricky d" back.

[Dugout DickStone]

do we have a single townie on here with reliable honest to goodness townie knowledge? it seems like we've only got a bunch of bobby t's types who get their townie knowlege from other bobby t's types. awful.

to back up this observo- i went to a pak last year with townies such as kk, rd, stevesie60 and doom_catz... ill give you 7 guesses as to where we went steve. just kidding. ill just tell you cuz you probably already know. we went to bobby t's. i even remember rick daris calling the waitress by name and her calling him "bad boy ricky d" back.

I love Bobby T's.

[sonofdaxjones]

interesting tuttle creek factoid #1- you guys know that super long straight bridge that goes across the damn or whatever? well guess what? they built a big bridge really high up off the ground first and then filled the underneath part in with tons of dirt and rock and not vice versa. mind blown, right you guys? 

Back in the day Dax used to see B-52's flying really low over that bridge.

[DQ12]

Lotta talent at Bobby T's.  Looooooootta talent.

 

[WillieWatanabe]

I randomly came across this album today. Lots of old school Manhattan/Blue Valley pictures.

https://www.facebook.com/jason.burgess2/media_set?set=a.845014711751.2450599.17019501&type=1&l=2932e51c55

A photograph showing people looking at the new town site for Randolph, Kansas. Randolph relocated and rebuilt because of the construction of Tuttle Creek Reservoir.

An interior view showing a basketball game at Randolph High School auditorium, Randolph, Kansas. John Matchett is the player on the right waiting to jump at the tip-off.

Date: Between 1923 and 1925

View of President Theodore Roosevelt addressing a crowd from the Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Kansas. Photo was taken at the now remodeled train depot next to the mall.

Wildcat Valley Manhattan Kansas 1900.

An informal portrait of fisherman Doug Smith and the 120 pound catfish he'd caught in the Kansas River.

[Dugout DickStone]

moar

[ben ji]

OMG THAT FISH IS ALMOST AS BIG AS DOUG SMITH

[steve dave]

I'd love to see Doug smiths formal shots

[WillieWatanabe]

Date: Between 1920s and 1930s
This black and white photograph shows the Perry Packing Company from Manhattan, Kansas transporting crates filled with chickens to a unknown destination.

Date: September 16, 1970
This black and white photograph shows President Richard Nixon and Governor Robert Docking at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. President Nixon deliver his speech "It's Time to Stand up and Be Counted" at the annual Landon Lecture Series held each academic year to honor former Governor Alf Landon. Accompanying the President from his speech are from left to right: First Lady Pat Nixon, Theo Landon, former Governor Alf Landon, Governor Docking, and Kansas' First Lady Meredith Dockin

A photograph showing Robert Francis Kennedy speaking at a Landon Lecture Series, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

Creator: Lykins, Dan
Date: 1968

Martin Luther King at Kansas State UniversityTwo photographs of Martin Luther King speaking at Kansas State University's regular convocation series. The topic of his speech was the future of integration. This was Dr. King's last speech on a university campus before his death on April 4, 1968.

This is an aerial view showing flood waters from the Kansas River in downtown Manhattan, Kansas.

Date: 1935

A photograph of the Manhattan Municipal Airport dedication at Manhattan, Kansas. Mayor Richard Dean Rogers was involved in building the airport.

Date: April 19, 1953

[WillieWatanabe]

He captioned this photograph: "Some have already reached that moment which each valley resident may eventually face when, like a character in a Thomas Wolfe novel, he 'stands upon the hillside overlooking the town he has left, yet does not say 'the town is near' but turns his eyes upon the distant, soaring ranges.'"

"Dr. Burkman visited the deserted home of a former acquaintance who lived near the dam site and was bought out by Army Engineers when construction started in 1952. The incompleted earth and rip-rap structure can be seen at right."

"The Blue River, now docile after several years of drought, was a contributing factor in the flood on the Kansas River, according to Army Engineers. Valley residents argue that debris found upstream proves that the Blue was backed up by the rampaging Kansas River which it joins near Manhattan."

A distant view of the Tuttle Creek Dam project on the Kansas River in Riley County, Kansas. Tuttle Creek Dam was constructed by the U. S. Army Engineer District, Kansas City, Corps of Engineers.

This is a stereograph showing Judge Samuel Kimble's stone home located 2001 West Poyntz Avenue in Manhattan, Kansas. It was built between 1894-1904 and was called Kimble Castle. Samuel Kimble was a Riley County District Judge.

Date: Between 1905 and 1910

This is a birds-eye view of Kansas State Agricultural College looking north from the main building in Manhattan, Kansas.

Date: 1892