Kansas City Landmarks Slide Collection

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: 1801 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings and storefronts from the southwest corner of 39th and Bell Streets to 39th and State Line Road, circa 1990, including Don Pepe Cafe and Cafe Allegro. A University of Kansas Medical Center building stands in the background, across State Line.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Thomas Carlyle Apartments
Description: Photograph of the Thomas Carlyle Apartments building at 700 Ward Parkway circa 1990. Construction began on the building, designed by local architect Nelle E. Peters, in 1928. It belonged to a complex of buildings called the Poet Apartment Buildings, consisting of seven residential buildings named after literary figures including Carlyle, Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1700 Block of 39th Street
Description: Photograph of the 1700 block of 39th Street, looking west from Genessee Street, circa 1990. Fric and Frac, at 1700 W. 39th, and Virgil's Cafe, at 1712 W. 39th, are pictured on the north side of the block along with other restaurants. Johnson Hardware can be seen in the background, on the northwest corner of 39th and Bell.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Osco Drugstore
Description: Photograph of Osco Drugstore at 3948 Main, at the corner of Main Street and Westport Road, circa 1990. The building was originally designed by local architect Clarence Kivett and opened as a Katz Drug Store in 1934. After Skaggs acquired the Katz chain in 1971, the stores began operating under the Skaggs name. In 1985, the store became an Osco drug store after another round of mergers and rebranding.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1610 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 1610 West 39th Street circa 1990. Atomic Electric Company and V. L. Walkenhorst Furniture service occupy the Spanish-style building.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1206-20 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of businesses and buildings on the north side of the 1200 block of West 39th Street, circa 1990. Signs for Kansas City Floral and Nutri-Tan Tanning and Nutrition Center stand in front of the buildings.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mr. Z's In & Out
Description: Photograph of Mr. Z's In & Out convenience store at 1600 West 39th Street, circa 1990. The Tudor-style building was built as a gas station in the early 1930s.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: European Motorsports
Description: Photograph of European Motorsports auto repair center at 1023 West 39th Street, circa 1990. The building was demolished in the mid-1990s and the lot used for parking for an adjacent apartment building.
Date: 1990~
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: 1801 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings and storefronts from the southwest corner of 39th and Bell Streets circa 1990, including Don Pepe Cafe. The L-shape of commercial buildings at this corner of 39th and Bell were dubbed Jamestown Square in the late 1980s, and were subject to redevelopment plans for the buildings and surrounding streetscape and parking lots.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 5745 Rockhill Road
Description: Photograph, circa 1990s, of a single family home built in 1920. Mediterranean style. Stucco exterior. Considered part of the Brookside neighborhood.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1321-23 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of the front door of an apartment building at 1321-23 West 39th Street, circa 1990. The building was demolished in 1997 and later served as parking access for the adjacent apartments.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 401-421 Garfield Avenue
Description: Photograph, looking north, of homes on the west side of the 400 block of Garfield Avenue. On the far right is 421 Garfield Avenue, built in 1887. To the north is the single family home at 417 Garfield Avenue, built in 1887. Further north is the single family home at 415 Garfield Avenue, built in 1188. These homes were placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as part of the Pendleton Heights Historic District in 1992. Located in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1400 Block of 39th Street
Description: Photograph of the south side of the 1400 block of West 39th Street, circa 1990. Victory Chapel stands in a storefront at the corner of 39th and Terrace, and McDonald Printing occupies the storefront to its west.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 5719 Grand Avenue
Description: Photograph, circa early 1990s, of a single family home built in 1924.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liberty Memorial
Description: Close-up photograph of Liberty Memorial circa 1990. The photograph shows sculptural details, called Guardian Spirits, near the top of the memorial's tower. Four Spirits are depicted on the tower, and are called Honor, Courage, Patriotism, and Sacrifice. Built as a memorial to World War I, the monument and its attached museum were dedicated in 1926 and were designed by architect H. Van Buren Magonigle in Egyptian Revival style. Structural deterioration lead to the memorial being closed to the public in 1994. It was restored and reopened, with an expanded museum, in 2006.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1411 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of a retail building at 1411 West 39th Street, circa 1990. La Fonda El Taquito closed at the location in 1989 and Westport Pizza Company opened later that year. Wyoming Beauty beauty shop occupies the storefront at 1413 West 39th.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 308 - 316 Garfield Avenue
Description: Photograph, looking south, of a single family home at 308 Garfield Avenue (on the right), built in 1887-88. To the south is the multi-family home at 316 Garfield Avenue, built in 1963. Both homes were placed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places as part of the Pendleton Heights Historic District in 1992.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 5828 Grand Avenue
Description: Photograph of a single family home built in 1922.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

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