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Title
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Kansas City's Pla-More Is Mecca of Amusement
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Description
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Description of the "unique" multi-purpose amusement center, founded in 1927 at 3142 Main Street, including uses as bowling alleys, roller rinks, ballroom, circuses, boxing matches, Ice Capades, coffee shop, concerts, etc.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City Centennial 1850-1950 - Souvenir Program
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Description
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Souvenir program book the Kansas City centennial celebration. The book details the events, organizations involved, and people associated with the celebration. The book contains many advertisements and brief articles detailing the history of various Kansas City area businesses, organizations, and public figures. An index for the book can be found on page 144.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Rear Window
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Description
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Photo of a the Pla-Mor's billboard in 1949, announcing coming attractions of "Vaughn Monroe," "Tex Beneke," and "Ice Hockey."
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Date
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1997-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p457
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from W. 31st Street south to W. Linwood Boulevard and from Central Street east to Main Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1909/1950
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Pla-Mor Amusement Center Exterior
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Description
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View looking west of the entrance to the Pla-Mor Amusement Center, once located at 3142-3144 Main Street. Cars parked along Main Street can be seen.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Ice Skater
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Description
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Ice skater is famed ice skater Sonja Henie and may have been captured during a February 27, 1937, preformance at the Pla-Mor Ballroom.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Pla-Mor Amusement Center Exterior
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Description
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View looking southwest of the side entrance to the Pla-Mor Amusement Center, once located at 3142-3144 Main Street. View was captured from 31st Street Terrace on the north side of the building. The sign in view reads: Pla-Mor - Bowling, Billiards, Coffee Shop.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Pla-Mor Amusement Center Exterior
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Description
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View looking southeast of the side entrance to the Pla-Mor Amusement Center, once located at 3142-3144 Main Street. View was captured from 31st Street Terrace on the north side of the building. Cars parked along the street can be seen. The sign in view reads: Pla-Mor - Bowling, Billiards, Coffee Shop.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Swimming Pool to Be Feature of Pla-Mor This Summer
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Description
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Article tells how brothers Paul and Lyle Fogel, owners of Pla-Mor, are building a swimming pool in the building occupied by the ice skating rink, thus creating all-year activities at the Pla-Mor arena. These include ice skating, roller skating, hockey, basketball games, boxing bouts, conventions or wrestling matches. The arena proper seats close to 6,500 people.
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Date
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1931-04-21
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Margaret Field
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Description
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Ice skater Margaret Field, in flight. Field, a native of California, performed in the travelling production "Ice Cycles of 1947."
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Date
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1947~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the Kansas Citians of Italian descent and their often unfair treatment in the newspapers for their comparatively few members of organized crime, and descriptions of several "cultured and law-abiding" local Italians such as musicians M. A. Lenge, N. DeRubertis, Mike Russo, Arturo Corti, Gustavo Corti, and Rosemarie Brancato; artists Dante Cosentino, Frank Tommassini, and Paulo D'Anna; and scientists and teachers Dr. Louis Laurenzanna, Frank Laurenzanno, Dr. E. Mella, and Elio Monachesi. Other featured articles include: “Cheese Joins the Gang” (p. 3), a photo and article about Charley Casciola, or Cheese Casciola, a "hoodlum machine election 'worker'" acquitted of involvement in "the bloody election day murders March 27, 1934"; and “May We Present W. W. (Tom) Graves” (p. 5), a photo and profile W. W. Graves, Jr. (Waller Washington Graves), or Tom Graves, prosecuting attorney of Jackson County with close ties to the Pendergast machine; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-05-31
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes a notice that Future’s publishers plan to temporarily suspend publication to reorganize the paper, and also note that “youth is interested and youth is organizing,” and “FUTURE is their paper.” Other featured articles include: “Why Charge a Cover?” (p. 2), about the plans for a high-class night club at 79th and Holmes Roads called Mayfair, "advertised as 'the most elaborate night club in the Middle West" with "elaborate furnishings, art, statuary, paintings, roomy booths in blue leather, dance bands of the best steak dinners and what have you"; “The Fireworks Are Coming” (p. 3), describes efforts by St. Louis politicians “fighting the Kansas City boss for control of the state,” and naming numerous scandals they could use to weaken Pendergast’s hold on state politics, including the insurance scandal involving state superintendent of insurance, R. Emmet O’Malley, and the control machine-aligned Matthew S. Murray wields over federal relief funding in the state; and “May We Present Mabelle Glenn” (p. 5), a photo and profile of Mabelle Glenn, "director of music for the public schools" of Kansas City since about 1921 and a native of Illinois, "elected national president of the Music Supervisors' Conference, the first woman in many years to hold the office"; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-07-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Memories of the Pla-Mor
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Description
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History of the "recreation center" and dance hall at Main Street and 31st Terrace, razed in 1972 but host to such muscial entertainers as Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, and Frank Sinatra.
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Date
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1974-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Pla-Mor Swimming Pool and Beach Now Open
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Description
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Photo and ad for the swimming pool at the Pla-Mor Amusement Center, also a venue for dancing, bowling, billards or pool, ice skating, and ice hockey at 32nd Street between Main and Wyandotte Streets.
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Date
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1936-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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