1943:
Farmers & Bankers Life Insurance Building, First &
Market. This
corner of downtown Wichita has changed little over the decades.
Note the KFBI sign in the above left photo; that radio station
(named for Farmers & Bankers Insurance)
broadcast from the fifth floor. The building to the left,
now called Landmark Square, was originally known as the
Elks Building. First Street appears as a two-way thoroughfare
in the left-hand photo; today it is an eastbound one-way
street.
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