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Laflaneuse Born elsewhere but grew up in KCMO and lived there for 30+ years. Grew up in Gladstone, then lived in Quality Hill, a Nelle Peters apartment building on the Plaza, and Brookside.
Rwiggum Born in Kansas City, MO. I've had an extensive hand in editing and maintaining the pages for and related to the KC native band
The Get Up Kids including all of their albums, members, side-projects and etc.
Rwiggum (
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SakuraAvalon86User_talk:SakuraAvalon86 I was born in Kansas City, MO, and have lived here for 21 years. Interested in Downtown KC, Lee's Summit, Independence, and Raytown. -- 12:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Subversionarts Native Kansas Citian for 30+ years, raised in Raytown, resided in Independence, Liberty, North Kansas City, currently in Westport/Hyde Park. Interests: Kansas City renaissance, KC barbeque, City Beautiful movement and its lasting impact on the coming green revolution, Kansas City's growing regional influence, balanced views of the rebirth of downtown and its impacts on surrounding entertainment districts and Ollie Gates' sales tax moratorium proposal. Looking to see much larger regional transportation proposals, like say a bullet train linking Lawrence, KC, St Louis, Chicago, and also maybe New Orleans and Denver.
nae'
blis (work for KCMO, lived here five years. Also I'm an admin so I can deal with deleted pages if we need something that got lost) -- 17:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Reverend Loki (Currently live and work in KCMO, metro area resident for over 20 years) 18:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)reply
KCMODevin (Resident of a Kansas City suburb, been watching/studying area development and architecture for 3 years. Interested in helping the pages regarding Downtown, Architecture and Local Development.)
Hobbes747 (Born and raised in KC and lived there for 31 years. Currently living in Dallas but I miss it and working on the KC pages is cathartic. :P I used to work for the KCMO school district and so did my dad.)
Chris Belton native. I want to help out with the geographic side of the Kansas City Area.
americasroof Old and senile and wanting to dump my knowledge base on KC as the center of the world before I die (who else thinks KC's interurban is cool or can tell you what EMT really means??!!!). Don't even live in the city anymore but am considering a return since ill gotten gains elsewhere go further in the big Wheat Head field. Interests: transportation, civil war (Westport was actually biggest west (and probably most important) of the Mississippi believe it or not!), north of the river, history, hard facts about KC, agriculture heritage, Truman. Turn offs: the marauding "let's prune wikipedia" crowd who don't understand the joy of eventually connecting the dots even if the initial article is a stub or poorly written and unfortunately the excessive boosterists (whose closed mindedness reminded me of why I was glad at the time of leaving the city).
KHill-LTown Grew up in the Northland and a proud Kansas Citian, though I'm in a workaholic exile at Kirksville.
mobyrock Native Missourian. Live just north of KC Greater Metro.
mobyrock 02:23, 4 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Senorpepr Belton native 18:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Moonraker0022 Has lived in Overland Park and now in Olathe! He cannot wait until KC gets the NHL, WNBA, and the NBA inside the T-Mobile Center. Love the new KCMO flag! Go Chiefs! Go Royals!
Tesau Olathe and Johnson county citizen, rather interested in transportation stuff.
Conman33 — Brookside/Plaza-area native. Die hard Chiefs fan and season ticket holder. Most Chiefs articles are usually started by me or contributed to. Check my user page for more info.
CloversMallRat - Lived in Kansas City since birth. My family members also have, including my grandpa who worked at several local pizza joints in town and my dad who knows a lot about malls when he grew up, like when Metro North Mall was just opening and such. I luv KC!
Blood sliver moved to in grade school and love it!
Grey Wanderer Native Columbian, but take interest KC topics such as History and Education.
flyingemberBorn in Independence, lived in Liberty, school in Warrensburg, year and a half in Springfield and Joplin, family in eastern MO, live in Kansas City North and work downtown. I have photos from across the entire state and have read hundreds of sources about Missouri as well as enjoy exploring industrial areas, natural and historical locations across the state.
UntiedShoes I grew up in Liberty, MO. I really enjoy most aspects of Kansas City.
House1090 Love KC and hope to relocate here soon. Do a lot of research.
House1090 (
talk) 20:59, 11 September 2009 (UTC)reply
MetroFan2009 I love to edit about Kansas City Public Transit.
GC Buffalo Originally from
Garden City, Kansas, I'm currently a student at
KU. I enjoy editing articles about high schools and colleges within Kansas City, as well as sports-related articles.
Kansas212 I live in Topeka, but I visit Kansas City often.
RayChrysler Kansas City-area resident, interested in Kansas City businesses in general but technology in particular.
Smuckola Writer, history enthusiast, and photographer.
TheFactFairy Artist and Kansas City Resident, writer, and interested in humanitarian and social reform topics but here to help find facts for all!
Chrysanthemum123 Wikipedian in Residence at the Kansas City Public Library who hosts edit-a-thons on KC topics. Particularly interested in editing topics related to gender, representation, and social reform in KC history. Feel free to reach out to collaborate on KC-related editing projects! [email protected]
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Electric Park, Kansas City - common name of two parks constructed and run by the Heim brothers (
Heim Brothers Brewery), the latter of which inspired Walt Disney's design of Disneyland. Some sources claim that the second was the largest
Electric Park ever. Local sources can turn this into a significant article here.
Kelso's Pizza -- I was reading the discussion about whether or not Kelso's was notable, and remembering when I had my first pizza back in the 70's before Pizza Hut was even starting its march through the midwest followed by Domino's. I mean, I could be wrong, but I think Kelso's or Pizza Shoppe has a historical basis for being notable. Pizza chains really are a recent phenomenon, and I'm curious where these two are chronologically compared to that. If someone did some real research away from the internet, I bet they could find something.
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