Scenes from Knobtown slideshow

The recent Pitch feature story about the life and death of John Uhlmann provides a glimpse of Knobtown, a section of the Kansas City area between Lee’s Summit and Raytown. Cut by the Little Blue River and a state highway, the sparsely populated area gives tattoo artists, drag racers, quarrymen and exotic dancers a place to operate. Photographer Sabrina Staires captured images of a portion of the city that doesn’t appear in Zagat guides. Click here for a slideshow.