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Faces of the Past: Don't Touch That Dial
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Photos and bios of John Harrington and Bette Hayes, local television personalities of Kansas City's past. Description of Harrington as a WDAF-TV news reporter during the Cold War era, working on both local and national news stations, and with reporters such as Robert McNeil of the McNeil-Lehrer Newshour. Description of Hays "as queen of the local daytime TV from 1952-70" on WDAF-TV women's programs.
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1991-05
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Magazine Article
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Don't Touch That Dial
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Photo and bio of Johnny Dolan, "one of the top names in local radio" from 1965 to 1977 for WHB, "[c]alled the 'Dick Clark of Kansas City,'" then from 1978 to 1985 becoming "the Kansas City Kings' radio voice" for KMBZ and KC 95, following the team to Sacramento, California, in 1985.
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1991-05
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Magazine Article
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Faces of the Past: Don't Touch That Dial
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Photo and bio of Torey Southwick, former host of local children's and juveniles' television shows (on KMBC-TV, KMBZ-TV, and KCPT-TV) from 1956 to 1972, using a sidekick puppet called "Ol' Gus."
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1991-05
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Magazine Article
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Past Times: The Other Pendergast
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Photo and biographical article about James Francis Pendergast, or Big Jim Pendergast (1856-1911), "founder of the Pendergast dynasty" and First Ward City Council member in Kansas City. Description of his life and career as a native of Ohio moving with his family to Saint Joseph, Missouri, and then to Kansas City in 1876 as an iron worker before winning a large amount of money "on a racehorse named Climax" in 1881 and buying "a saloon and hotel, his springboard to prominence" in city politics. Noted for both his "virtues" (financial support of poor and distressed people and political support of the park and boulevard system and Union Station, etc.) and "vices" (associations with saloons and gambling, etc.), with a memorial statue of him "by Missouri-born sculptor Frederick Hibbard. ..placed in Mulkey Square Park at 12th Street and Kersey Coates Drive," later relocated in 1990 to "Case Park on Quality Hill, overlooking the West Bottoms."
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1992-01
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Magazine Article
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Past Times: The Frontier's Royal Family
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Article about the settling of the later Kansas City by Francois and Berenice Chouteau in 1821, describing their place and the place of the Chouteau family in the early history of Kansas City, then called Chouteau's Landing, and experiences through Francois's death in 1838 and Berenice's in 1888, with a photo of a "Chouteau Society of Kansas City plaque" at 416 West 12th Street.
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1991-09
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Magazine Article
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For Thirtysomething Kansas City Kids
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Photo and biographical article about Frank Wiziarde, formerly Whizzo the Clown on KMBC-TV as a children's entertainer. Description of his collections of "video, film, papers, photos and artifacts" given by his daughter "to the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas State Historical Society, Johnson County Historical Museum and Kansas City Museum."
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1991-03
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Magazine Article
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Kersey Coates: The Man behind Quality Hill
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Photo and biographical article about Colonel Kersey Coates (1823-1887) and his residential development Downtown following the Civil War called Quality Hill.
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1991-12
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Magazine Article
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Don't Touch That Dial
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Photo and bio of Harold Ensley, "the 'Sportsman's Friend,'" in "his 37th year of TV, still fishing, hunting, camping. ..and talking," starting "at KIMO Radio in Independence in 1951" and becoming nationally known, residing in Overland Park, Kansas.
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1991-05
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Magazine Article
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