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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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Q.: When Did the Kansas City Greyhounds Hockey Team Play Here?
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Description
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''The team first took the ice in 1928 as the Pla-Mors, but the Greyhound Bus Company became a team sponsor for their second season. Hence the name change. This minor-league team played in the American Hockey Association. Competition came from the St. Louis Flyers, the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights and four other teams. Earl J. Thompson, Fred Gordon and Porky Levine all played for the Greyhounds at the Pla-Mor recreation center. Home ice was at 3127 Wyandotte. The facility doubled as a swimming pool during warm-weather months. Team names--and ownership--changed often. The Mo-Hawks, Royals and Americans also played in Kansas City. But the greyhound mascot was kept until the early 1940s. Local hockey action ended briefly because of World War II. A new U. S. Hockey League began after the war.''
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Date
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1990-06-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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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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New Role for Pla-Mor Ballroom
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Description
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Photo and article about the renovation and reopening of the "old Pla-Mor ballroom, 3140 Main street," as "Freedom Palace under billing as headquarters for the 'world's hottest pop-rock super groups.'" Mention of several of the hall's past bands (Harry James, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and Guy Lombardo) and newer ones (Canned Heat, Led Zeppelin, Joe Cocker, and John Sebastian), etc.
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Date
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1970-05-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Pla-Mor Amusement Center
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Description
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Ad for the Pla-Mor Amusement Center with a large illustration and map of the building.
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Date
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1927-11-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper 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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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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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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Title
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The Great Skate Revival
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Description
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Review of roller rinks during the current late-1970s trend as well as those of the past, notably the Pla-Mor Amusement Center.
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Date
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1979-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Last Dance
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Description
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Stories of the two major ballrooms of the city, once located at 31st and Wyandotte Streets (the Pla-Mor) and at 3101 Gillham Plaza (El Torreon), popular as dance halls in the 1920s-1940s with some of the biggest names in the business, until rock 'n' roll took over and they were used as rock 'n' roll concert halls.
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Date
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1980-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
