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Title: Scimeca's Grocery Satisfies the Demand for Import Foods
Description: Article profiles Scimeca's grocery store at 1447 Independence Avenue in the northeast area of Kansas City. It was founded by Phillip Scimeca and his son, Frank, in 1936.
Date: 1988-09-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Frank Muehlbach Obituary
Description: Obituary for Frank Muehlbach, dying at the age of 87, former president of the George Muehlbach and Sons, Incorporated grocery business established in Kansas City about 1875. He arrived in Kansas City about 1919 and is not to be confused with George Muehlebach of brewery and hotel fame (spelled differently). Frank Muehlbach died in 1973.
Date: 1973-07-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Snyder's Supermarket Turns the Big 4-0
Description: Snyder's Supermarket at 2620 Independence Avenue is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Bill Snyder opened the store in 1972 and it was one of the first in the area to offer check cashing and money order services. Long-time employee and manager Jerry James became the owner in 2004.
Date: 2012-05-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Brywood Update, Expansion Planned
Description: Tri-Land Properties, Inc., owners of the Brywood Shopping Center on East 63rd Street, "is asking for $8.6 million in tax incentives, including regular TIF, Super TIF and the establishment of a community improvement district." One of the major priorities for the shopping center is the renovation and expansion of the existing Price Chopper.
Date: 2008-04-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Corner Market Did Business on Ninth Street
Description: Postcard image and short article about Benedict L. Bredburg's Metropolitan Grocery. The store was located at 5000 E. Ninth St. in Kansas City, Missouri. The postcard dates from the early 1900s.
Date: 2008-12-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Good Man
Description: Article profiles grocer Gus Fleming who operated Lynn's Market on the 800 block of Newton Street from the 1950s through the 1970s. The author and other Old Northeast residents reminisce about Gus and their childhood years shopping at the neighborhood market.
Date: 2008-04-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Leon's Thriftway Celebrating 40 Years of Service
Description: Article profiles Leon's Thriftway, located at 39th and Kensington, and reported to be "the nation's oldest black-owned and operated grocery store." The owner, Leon Stapleton, managed a Safeway store at 12th and Brooklyn before opening his own business in 1968. In 2008 the store celebrated its fortieth-year anniversary.
Date: 2008-06-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Argentine Library and Supermarket Proceeding
Description: Article discusses the new Metropolitan Avenue Redevelopment District that stretches west from the 18th Street Expressway to S. 24th Street and north from Metropolitan Avenue to the railroad tracks. A grocery store and new public library will be built within this new district which is eligible for tax increment financing (TIF). The Argentine Library at 2800 Metropolitan Avenue is currently housed in the historic 94-year-old Carnegie building which is now "impractical and inadequate." The new library building was conditionally approved by the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools-Unified School District 500 "which governs the city's public libraries." Of the estimated $6 million needed, the community must raise $2 million of that amount. "The new 21,000-square-foot, one-story library will be fully accessible to all patrons," and will be located on Strong Avenue between 31st and 32nd streets.
Date: 2011-12-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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