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Title: Ike and Mike Katz
Description: Newspaper clippings with photos and information on Isaac Katz (1879-1956) and his younger brother Michael Katz, or Ike and Mike Katz, founders and operators of the Katz Drugstore chain in Kansas City for almost 50 years after emigrating here from Poland.
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Katz Drug Store
Description: File contains photos, illustrations, and information on the Katz Drug Stores or Katz Drugstores established by Polish natives Isaac Katz (1879-1956), or Ike Katz, and his brother Michael Katz, or Mike Katz (dying in 1969). Business started as a fruit stand near Union Depot in the 1890s before changing into a confectionery (and general store) and moving in 1914 to 12th and McGee Streets with an additional store at 8th and Grand Avenues. Becoming a drugstore during World War I due to a city law on business hours and becoming known for its catchy advertising slogans and cut-rate prices, etc., and opening several other store locations around town and in other cities before being sold to Skaggs drugstores in 1970 by Earl Katz (in turn bought out by Osco Drugs in 1984).
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Biography of Isaac Katz (1879-1956), Owner of Katz Drug Stores
Date: 2007
Object Type: Biography

Title: Four Area Osco Stores to be Closed by CVS
Description: One of the Osco drugstores being closed by CVS Corp. is located at 3948 Main Street. This store opened as a Katz Drug store in December, 1934 and has been a Westport neighborhood landmark for many years. The building is known for its clock tower.
Date: 2006-07-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Is Time Running Out For Famous Building?
Description: There is now concern about preserving the old Katz drugstore at 3948 Main Street which may be sold by CVS Drugstores. The Historic Kansas City Foundation would like to see it on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places. Article gives the history of the Katz brothers and the beginning of the drugstore chain. The building was designed by Clarence Kivett, a nephew of the Katz brothers.
Date: 2006-07-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: May We Present Isaac Katz
Description: Photo and biographical article about Isaac Katz, "owner of a newly purchased cigar and confectionery store at the corner of 12th and McGee" in 1917, changing it to the Katz Drug Store that year due to a business law of the Herbert Hoover administration. Description of his life and career, emigrating to Kansas City from Poland and called "the David Belasco of the retail drug business."
Date: 1935-03-15
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 12th Street
Description: Looking west along 12th Street from the east side of Walnut.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Katz Story in the Best Horatio Alger Tradition
Description: History of the Katz Drugstore chain starting in 1914.
Date: 1959-03-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 12th Street
Description: Looking west along 12th from the east side of Walnut.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Katz Officials at Luncheon
Description: Various Katz Drugstore officials at a South Central Business Association luncheon at the Blue Bird Cafeteria at 3215 Troost Avenue. The luncheon was held to celebrate the opening of a new Katz location at the intersection of Linwood and Troost.
Date: 1941-06-03
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Katz Drugstore Interior
Description: Interior view of the Katz store located at the intersection of Linwood and Troost. The store was the 17th in the Katz chain, and opened June 6, 1941.
Date: 1941
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Phillips Hotel
Description: Distant frontal and side view; also shows Katz Drug Store as first floor tenant.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Argyle Building
Description: Full frontal and side view; located on northeast corner of 12th and McGee. Shows Katz Drug Store as tenant.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Katz Drugstore
Description: Full frontal view; located on northeast corner of 10th and Minnesota, Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grand Avenue
Description: Looking north along Grand from just south of 8th.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Country Club Line Streetcar
Description: Route 56, Country Club line car travelling near 75th and Wornall Road. Also shows Katz Drug Store sign.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Truman Corners Shopping Center
Description: Looking north from southern end of shopping center; located in Grandview, Missouri. Also shows Katz Drug Store sign.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Truman Corners Shopping Center
Description: Looking north from southern end of shopping center. Also shows Katz Drug Store sign.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Grand Avenue
Description: Looking north along Grand Avenue from 8th Street.
Date: 1949
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Katz Drugstore
Description: Full frontal and partial side view of store located on ground floor of Boley Building, northwest corner of 12th and Walnut.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Photograph

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