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Title: 1813-1823 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings spanning 1813-1823 West 39th Street, circa 1990. Cafe Allegro, at 1815 W. 39th, and Jimmy's Jigger bar, at the southwest corner of 39th and State Line Road, are among the businesses pictured. These commercial buildings, and the other on 39th Street between Bell and State Line, were dubbed Jamestown Square in the late 1980s, and were subject to redevelopment plans for the buildings and surrounding streetscape and parking lots. University of Kansas Medical Center buildings are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its east, at the right of the photo, is Kelly's Bar at 500 Westport Road. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City. The Manor Bakery building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grand Emporium
Description: Photograph of the Grand Emporium Hotel and Saloon, at 3832 Main, circa 1982. The building was constructed in 1912 as the Martha Washington Candy Company, and Grand Emporium opened in May 1982 as a bar, restaurant, and live music venue with plans for hostel-style rooms to rent on the second floor. It changed ownership several times before closing in 2007. Toedman Cabs stands to its south, in a building that was constructed in the 1950s.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Clint's Comics
Description: Photograph of Clint's Comics, at 3943 Main, and neighboring businesses at the intersection of Main Street and westport Road, circa 1982. Signs for Harling's Upstairs bar and Love Records can be seen on the Southwell Building to the north, and Bell's Restaurant is in the adjacent building to the south. Clint's later moved to the Love Records space and operated there for several decades.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Motor Pool Parts and Service
Description: Photograph of Motor Pool Parts and Service at 3807 Main Street, circa 1982. The building opened in 1925 as a Safeway grocery store. The Boston Apartments building at the corner of 38th and Main can be seen in the background of the image, and Pink Garter, a bar and stripclub, can be seen at the right of the image, south of Motor Pool.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The New Stanley
Description: Photograph of The New Stanley bar and restaurant at 501 Westport Road circa 1980, as well as a view of Pennsylvania Avenue looking southeast from Westport Road. The restaurant and bar opened in 1975 in the building that was the former Doerschuk pharmacy. An establishment called the Old Stanley opened in 1987 under new ownership in the space after the New Stanley closed in 1985.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its east, at the right of the photo, is Kelly's Bar at 500 Westport Road. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City. The Manor Bakery building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of the southwest side of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Sanford and Sons' main building is known as the Bridger Building, one of the oldest buildings in Kansas City.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3611 Broadway Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980, looking southeast, of 3609-3615 Broadway Boulevard. Peking Chinese Restaurant appears in the left side of the photo, located at 3609 Broadway Boulevard. Also shown in the photo, in the center, is Crazy's at 3611 Broadway Boulevard. And further south, in the right side of the photo, is Shoequet Shoes store at 3915 Broadway Boulevard. This block of buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as part of the Ambassador Hotel Historic District and added to the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Bar at the corner of Westport and Pennsylvania circa 1974. Mack-Lang Printing stands to its southwest in the Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road.
Date: 1974~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kon Tiki Room
Description: Photograph of an alley on the south side of a building at 3251-3257 Main, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1981. Signs advertise the House of Chun Chinese restaurant and the adjacent Kon Tiki Room tiki bar. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3251-57 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 3251-3257 Main, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1981. Signs advertize the House of Chun Chinese restaurant and the adjacent Kon Tiki Room tiki bar, and a section of the Warner Plaza apartments are visible at the left of the image. A twin building stood across Warner Plaza to the north. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3235-57 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 3251-3257 Main, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1990. Signs advertise the Cellblock bar and the adjacent Kon Tiki Room tiki bar. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco. The adjacent apartments appear to have been demolished in this image.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3245-49 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 3245-3249 Main, on the northeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1981. A sign reading "The Right Drink at the Right Price" hangs on Milton's Tap Room jazz club at 3241 Main and can be seen on the adjacent building at the left of the image, and a section of the Warner Plaza apartments are visible at the right. A twin building stood across Warner Plaza to the south. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1600-10 East 18th Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 1600-10 E. 18th Street, the northeast corner of 18th and Vine, circa 1989. The building opened circa 1905, with retail and nightclubs on the ground floor and apartments and professional offices on the second floor. The storefront at 1600 E. 18th is partially boarded-up section. El Capitan Lounge inhabits the storefront at 1610 E. 18th. A banner advertises the 7th Annual 18th & Vine Heritage Festival, which took place in September, 1989.
Date: 1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club, at 504 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its east, at the right of the photo, is Kelly's Bar at 500 Westport Road. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City. The Manor Bakery building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gillis Building
Description: Photograph of the Gillis Building at 500 Walnut Street, the southwest corner of 5th and Walnut, in the early 1990s. Built on the site of the Gillis Opera House, the Gillis Building opened 1926, and was the home to Grandpa's Saloon and Grandma's Pie Pantry at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Westport Inn, at 500 Westport Road, in the early 1980s. Standing to its west, at the left of the photo, is the Chouteau-Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road, with Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club as its tenant. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kenny's News Room
Description: Photograph of a building at 3740-42 Broadway Boulevard in the early 1980s. BF Goodrich's parking lot is visible in the photo, north of the building. In the right side of the photo is Kenny's News Room Restaurant & Lounge.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Boulevard Manor & Cavalier Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Boulevard Manor Hotel and Cavalier Apartment buildings on Armour between Troost and Forest in the early 1980s. The Cavalier building, at 1109 East Armour, was built in 1929, was known as the Ritz at the time of the photograph and was placed on the city's dangerous buildings list after a series of fires in the 1980s. It was demolished in 1996. Boulevard Manor, at 1115 East Armour, was built in 1923 as the Marquette Club, a Catholic men's community center and apartment complex. The building was taken over for use as a barracks by the Army during World War II, after which it returned to civilian residential use. The building was donated to the Urban League of Kansas City in 1970, and appears vacant with boarded-up lower level windows at the time of the photograph. Universal Lounge, a bar, appears in the background of the image at the southwest corner of Troost and Armour.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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