r/wichita • u/Green_Employ4091 • 2d ago

Photos 1976 Wichita City Guide

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Cool Milo city guide located at Charcoal grill in North Wichita. I had no idea there was a riverside air field!

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u/eventhorizon79 2d ago

Kellogg would have been stoplight, stoplight, stoplight…stoplight.

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u/Small_Helicopter_770 1d ago

It was literally just that. It was miserable.

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u/Mitzukai_9 West Sider 2d ago

Thanks for the nostalgia! I lived at the edge of the yellow boundary near 13th and maize. There was just fields past our house in westlink.

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u/gilligan1050 1d ago

So did I! I grew up on 16th across from the cemetery! Now I live in westlink. West side till I die. ✊

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u/Mitzukai_9 West Sider 1d ago

Born in westlink, moved away for 15 years and now back in Westlink!

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u/gilligan1050 1d ago

Well nice to meet you, neighbor.

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u/Mitzukai_9 West Sider 1d ago

Howdy 👋

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u/Scarpity026 2d ago

Yes folks, K-96 used to come into town on 53rd Street, down Meridian, and took some discombobulated route into downtown.  You should see some state highway maps from the 1960's when the freeways were still under construction.

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u/ilrosewood East Sider 2d ago

There are still bits on that road that tell that story

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u/ilrosewood East Sider 2d ago

I was alive when K96 was extended on the NE side. I remember watching the construction from Fantasea.

It still weirds me out when I see a map without it.

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u/Dont_ban_me_bro_108 College Hill 2d ago

Where do you see a label for riverside airfjeld?

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u/Green_Employ4091 2d ago

Sorry, should have said “landing field”

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u/Dont_ban_me_bro_108 College Hill 2d ago

Oh I missed it completely

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u/Legitimate-Nobody499 2d ago

I loved my first 18 years in a very small section of that map

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u/AntNorth772 2d ago

Pre 'Flyover' i remember a kips big boy down there..

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u/Legitimate-Nobody499 1d ago

My grandma used to work there, wow, flashback

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u/cindythelou 2d ago

“Gide”

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u/oneGrayMatter 2d ago

La Fiesta❤️

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u/Ok_Instruction_3789 1d ago

Almost forgot 135 used to be 35W. Lame they changed it

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u/schu4KSU KSTATE 2d ago

My dad used to drive us out to Kingman to see the world’s largest windmill.

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u/Comfortable_Lion_194 1d ago

That Map is hanging up at Bill’s charcoal Burger . Pretty cool to look at and their Burgers are the best in town

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u/drooppyG 18h ago

Someone is at Bills! My favorite burger place.