It’s Stadium Drive Now, But Leeds’ Main Street Once Looked Like This 

The neighborhood along the Blue River known as Leeds was an industrial area with a rural feel whose Black population grew significantly in the early 20th Century. Today, Stadium Drive (connecting downtown to the Sports Complex) is what most people see of it.
Here’s a fun fact about the Leeds neighborhood east of downtown Kansas City along the Blue River. Its founding in 1889 was celebrated with a really big barbecue.
But this sleepy 1917 picture postcard, looking east down 37th Street (Leeds’ main drag) is a little misleading.
Even before Chevrolet opened an auto plant there in 1928, Leeds (named after the manufacturing town in England) was home to industries of various kinds, including quarries, woodworking shops and a plant that produced railroad ties.
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