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Title: Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Maintaining Auditorium Plaza Park
Description: Reprints of newspaper clippings from 1960 with illustrations and information about "the chronology of the latest attempt to sell the Auditorium Plaza garage [underground parking lots next to Municipal Auditorium] for commercial development."
Date: 1961-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Distant partial frontal view, looking southeast. Also shows Muehlebach Hotel and Towers, Aladdin Hotel, Kansas City Power and Light Building, and Auditorium Plaza Garage.
Date: 1956-07-22
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Parking Attendant in Garage
Description: Uniformed parking attendant standing among cars inside the Municipal Auditorium Plaza Garage, located beneath Barney Allis Plaza, on the day of its dedication and opening, December 4, 1955.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Men Standing near Dedication Plaque
Description: Three unidentified men standing near dedication plaque at the opening/dedication of the Municipal Auditorium Plaza Garage, located beneath Barney Allis Plaza.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: Director of Traffic Department Jack A. Hutter drives a modern sweeper used to help keep the garage clean.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: L. P. Cookingham At Garage Dedication
Description: L. P. Cookingham welcomes the first official parkers to the garage: former Mayor William E. Kemp, President of Chamber of Commerce Frances J. Fitzpatrick, and "Miss Downtown" Sharon Knickmeyer.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage Opening
Description: Guests at preview party inspect garage from tractor-drawn "Preview Express."
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: During dedication and opening ceremonies Director of Public Works Reed McKinley poses with Mr. McKinley in the oldest car provided by the Horseless Carriage Club.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: City Manager L.P. Cookingham welcomes the first car into the garage while garage manager Robert W. Hoffman presents a parking ticket to Director of Traffic Jack A. Butter.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: The garage is officially opened as Mayor H. Roe Bartle and Sharon Knickmeyer, "Miss Downtown", are driven through the entrance.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: During dedication and opening ceremonies, City Manager L.P. Cookingham interviews Director of Traffic Department Jack A. Hutter and garage manager Robert W. Hoffman during the city's Sunday afternoon television show, "Profile".
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: View of audience and television camera from speakers' stand during opening and dedication program.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: Unidentified police officer pretends to write up a ticket to an unidentified gentlemen posed in a Reo.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Walt Bodine Interview
Description: Walt Bodine, WDAF Radio, interviews Mrs. Gerald Frieling, wife of Kansas City Public Service Company Executive; Mr. John Monroe, member, Kansas City Board of Parks Commission; Mr. Graham W. Watt, Administrative Assistant to the City Manager; and "Miss Downtown" Sharon Knickmeyer while transcribing a short program to be broadcast on "Monitor" over the NBC Radio network.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage Dedication
Description: Former Mayor William E. Kemp giving the dedicatory address prior to the opening of the garage.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Miss Downtown
Description: Miss Downtown, Sharon Knickmeyer, poses with former Mayor William E. Kemp in Reo supplied by Horseless Carriage Club.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: During dedication and opening ceremonies, Mayor William E. Kemp discusses garage with unidentified man.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage Dedication
Description: Former Mayor William E. Kemp giving the dedicatory address prior to the opening of the garage.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Auditorium Plaza Garage
Description: Miss Downtown, Sharon Knickmeyer, and Mayor H. Roe Bartle pose in old Reo.
Date: 1955-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Officials at Garage Dedication
Description: L.P. Cookingham, city manager; Barney L. Allis, President of the Trianon Hotel Company (Muehelbach Hotel); and Nathan Rieger, Mercantile Bank and Trust Company discuss garage at reception prior to preview.
Date: 1955-12-02
Object Type: Photograph

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