St. Joseph, Missouri Mural

Across from the St. Joseph Fire Museum is a building that has a wonderful wall mural. The mural looks like the shadows of a man and woman dressed in late 1800’s or early 1900’s clothing. And they are standing next to a stagecoach. The man is dressed in a suit and the woman is wearing a dress and she has an umbrella.

The building had a sign for a restaurant called “the Mitchell Diner.” I don’t think we checked inside to see if the diner was really open. We were more interested in going to the Jesse James home down the road.

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St. Joseph Fire Museum

The St. Joseph Fire Museum located at 1202 S.11 th St. is St Joseph’s newest addition to the museum system. The Fire Museum displays an extensive pictorial history of the St Joseph Fire Department.

The Fire Museum began its existence as Fire Station #5 in 1938. It was constructed in the height of the depression in 1938 through the use of W.P.A. funds. The Works Progress Administration was created for economic relief. It provided unemployed workers meaningful employment.

The museum was closed on the Saturday that we visited St. Joseph. But one of the most unusual items is the fire hydrant fence. They used real fire hydrants to create a fence and that was cool.

We just took a picture in front of a brick wall that had names of people and businesses.

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St. Joseph, Missouri - June, 2009

St Joseph, Missouri is located about 45 minutes north of Kansas City. When we arrived to St. Joseph, our first visit was to the St. Joseph Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. It was closed because it was a Saturday but they had a sign that told us to go to the Holiday Inn to pickup a St. Joseph Visitor’s Guide and brochures.

We drove to the Holiday Inn which was about two blocks away and picked up our brochures. From there, we headed into the city a few blocks from where we started. St. Joseph has done a good job with providing signage to get in the direction of some of their tourism destinations. So it was pretty easy to find the Pony Express, the Doll Museum, the Jesse James Home, the Patee House, the St. Joseph Fire Museum and a few other attractions in the vicinity.

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Michael Jackson’s Last Photo

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