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Wholesale (Garment) Historic District
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File contains clippings, articles and nomination for National Register of Historic Places for Garment District.
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Vertical File
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Wholesale District
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Nomination form for the National Register for the "sixty-one (61) important buildings of the Wholesale District, mainly along Broadway, West 7th, and West 8th Streets."
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Report
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Interview with Elmer Price and Lou Lesky
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Interview with Lou Lesky and Elmer Price about their experiences in the Kansas City garment industry. Lesky recalls his work at Kansas City Custom Garment Company, a men's clothing maker which switched to military uniform manufacturing during World War II, and uniforms for bus drivers, bakers, and other occupations post-war. Price discusses his white goods businesses in downtown Kansas City and later near 39th and Main. The men recall the Garment District of the past, noting other companies and individuals from the area, and talk about how much it has changed. They discuss the operations of their businesses and the decline of the textile and clothing industry in the United States.
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2007-07-01
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Audio Recording
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HKCF Welcomes Phoenix Back to Garment District
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Article about the reopening of the former hotel at 302 West 8th Street, built in 1888, as a restaurant featuring live jazz.
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1990-03
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Magazine Article
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Q: Why Does the Downtown Area Smell Like Toast?
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The aroma wafting through the air in the Garment [Wholesale] District near 8th and Broadway Boulevards can most likely be attributed to the Folger Coffee Company plant. The coffee company was established in the building at 701 Broadway Boulevard in 1938, after moving from its first plant at 20th and Baltimore Avenue. A salesman for the San Francisco-based company named Frank P. Atha suggested a roasting plant be built in the Midwest. Before this time Folger's had operated only in San Francisco, where the company was founded during the Gold Rush. Atha's idea was accepted, and the company opened its Kansas City branch in 1908 when the price of coffee was 35 cents a pound. The Folger Coffee Company bought the building on Broadway Boulevard in 1940 and completed a $15 million capital improvement project to the plant in the early 1980s.
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1995-10-22
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Newspaper Article
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A Surplus of Quirkiness
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Article features the Harry J. Epstein Co. store and warehouse located in the Garment District in downtown Kansas City. The store specializes in oddities from the last 70 years as well as hand tools that are the company's main business. "While the warehouse is open to the public, it specializes in wholesale distribution of American-made tools and equipment. It sells an eclectic mix of items worldwide, from extension cords to a customer in Saudi Arabia to a batch of key caddies to a buyer in Hong Kong." The founder, Harry J. Epstein was born in Kansas Citiy in 1892 of an immigrant family. The business moved to its current location in 1940.
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2006-07-05
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Newspaper Article
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Interview with Betty Brand
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Interview with Betty Brand about her family's history in and her experience with the Kansas City garment industry. Betty was married to Arthur Brand, whose family started the Brand and Puritz factory in 1928, and describes the family's experience in the garment business, the different suit and coat lines they manufactured, and the large number of immigrants among their staff. She also describes their experience in Kansas City's Jewish community, the retail and restaurant landscape of downtown Kansas City, and shares her paintings and photographs of her family and travels.
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2010-11-15
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Video Recording
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Interview with Alice Nast Statland
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Interview with Alice Nast Statland about her husband Nat Nast. She recounts her husband's history, their move to Kansas City, and his desire to go into the sport shirt business, and his later shift to specializing in bowling shirts. She discusses the business's popularity through the 1950s and '60s, and diversified into caps, jackets and other promotional apparel, and was sold by the family in the early '70s. The brand was revived as Nat Nast Luxury Originals menswear line by their daughters several decades later and garnered a lot of media exposure. She also notes that original Nat Nast shirts could command two to three hundred dollars at the time of the interview.
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Video Recording
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Interview with Eugene Salvay
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Interview with Eugene Salvay about his life and his family's experience with the Kansas City garment industry, with additional information provided by his nephew, Craig Salvay. He discusses his childhood in the 1920s, and his education in aircraft engineering which lead to job in World War II working on B-25s at the assembly plant in the Fairfax District in spite of antisemitism in the hiring process. He recalls his father's work as designer at Fashionbilt before moving on to mail-order company National Bellas Hess, and operating his own business designing custom coats. He also shares stories about his family roots in Lithuania, his Jewish identity and ancestry, and meeting Harry Truman in the 1930s. Salvay also mentions his participation in developing Israeli aviation and his relationship with Moshe Arens.
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2011-06-04
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Video Recording
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Downtown Looking West from near 10th and Walnut Streets
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Panoramic view of downtown buildings facing west from Walnut between 9th and 10th streets. The photograph may have been taken from the roof of the Ridge Arcade Building at 916 Walnut Street. Several downtown buildings can be seen, including: the Victor Building, the New England National Bank Building, the Dwight Building, the Board of Trade Building, the First National Bank Building (current location of the KCPL Central Library), The Elmhurst Building, the Shubert Theater Building, the Huntzinger Building, the Graphic Arts Building, the Western Newspaper Union Building, the Baker-Vawter Building, the University Club Building, the Kansas City School of Law Building, the Cosby Hotel Building, the Savoy Hotel Building, the Gibraltar Building, the New England Life Building, the Bunker Building, the New York Life Building, the Dunlap Building, the Westgate Hotel Building, the Poindexter & Sons Building, the Barton Hat Company Building, and the U.S. Rubber Company Building. The Quality Hill neighborhood and Garment District can be seen in the distance.
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1927
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Photograph
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Historic Landmark Offers Contemporary Living Spaces
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The Atriums at SoHo West, the former site of Historic Suites of America Hotel, has been converted to loft/condo residences. Three buildings comprise The Atriums, one of them, the larger west building, was constructed in 1889 and was originally the Builders and Traders Exchange.
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2005-01-30
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Newspaper Article
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Garment District Sculpture
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Side view of the Garment District sculpture which consists of a metal sewing needle and a four hole red button at the base. Photograph was taken during the dedication of the sculpture and the Garment District Museum, located in Kansas City's historic Garment District at 8th and Bank Streets near Broadway. No identification for the group of people included in the scene. Dedication took place on October 4, 2002.
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2002-10-04
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Photograph
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Garment District Sculpture
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View of the top of the Garment District sewing needle sculpture located at 8th and Bank streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Photograph taken on October 4, 2002, when the Garment District Musuem and the sculpture were dedicated.
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2002-10-04
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Photograph
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Burnham Manufacturing Building
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Elevated view looking southeast of the Burnham Manufacturing Company Building at 8th and May streets.
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Photograph
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Garment District Sculpture
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Full,back view of the Garment District sculpture with crowd of people standing in front of the sculpture. Photograph was taken on the day that the sculpture and the Garment District Museum were dedicated, October 4, 2002. Sculpture is composed of a metal needle and thread with a four hole red button at the base. Kansas City mayor, Kay Barnes, can be scene in the center of the crowd just below the fire escape on the building in the background. Location is 8th and Bank Streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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2002-10-04
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Photograph
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Garment District Sculpture
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View of the base of the Garment District sewing needle sculpture located in the historic Garment District in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, at 8th and Bank Streets. The base of the sculpture includes a button which is in view as well as the dedicatory plaque. The sculpture and the Garment District Museum were dedicated on October 4, 2002. The plaque includes a list of donors, honorees, as well as some brief history.
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2002-10-04
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Photograph
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Garment District Museum
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Exterior view of unidentified female model taking part in a historic clothing fashion show in the Garment District located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The event was held October 4, 2002, in conjunction with the dedication of the Garment District Museum and the sewing needle sculpture. Location is at 8th and Banks neara small park area called Garment District Place.
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2002-10-04
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Photograph
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Garment District Sculpture
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View of crowd looking at he Garment District sculpture, many reading the plaque at the base. Sculpture is located at 8th and Bank Streets in Kansas City's downtown historic Garment District. Photograph was taken on the day that the sculpture and Garment District Museum were dedicated, October 4, 2002. Individuals are not identified. The sculpture is a large sewing needle with a four hole red button at the bottom.
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2002-10-04
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Photograph
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