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Title
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Local Nightclubs
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Description
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Composite photograph which features eight different nightclubs/speakeasies located in Kansas City during the 1930s. Photograph was made from image as published in the Future newsweekly, Vol. 1, No. 12, March 29, 1935, p. 1, MVSC F051 F996. Includes: Dante' Inferno, Red & Dutch at 924-28 W. 8th, Hey-Hay Club at 4th and Cherry streets, DeLuxe Night Club, Harlem Nite Cub, Wiggle Inn, Derby Tavern, and King Kong on 12th Street.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Hey-Hay Club
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Description
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View of local speakeasy/nightclub Hey-Hay Club located at 4th and Cherry streets. Photograph was made from image as published in the "Future" newsweekly, Vol. 1, No. 12, March 29, 1935, p. 1, MVSC F051 F996. As stated in this publication concerning this club, "our 10-cent beer was served in 26-ounce schooners and tasted of soap, ether, sour mash and, oddly enough, onions."
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Grand Emporium
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Description
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Photograph of the Grand Emporium Hotel and Saloon, at 3832 Main, circa 1982. The building was constructed in 1912 as the Martha Washington Candy Company, and Grand Emporium opened in May 1982 as a bar, restaurant, and live music venue with plans for hostel-style rooms to rent on the second floor. It changed ownership several times before closing in 2007. Toedman Cabs stands to its south, in a building that was constructed in the 1950s.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Motor Pool Parts and Service
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Description
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Photograph of Motor Pool Parts and Service at 3807 Main Street, circa 1982. The building opened in 1925 as a Safeway grocery store. The Boston Apartments building at the corner of 38th and Main can be seen in the background of the image, and Pink Garter, a bar and stripclub, can be seen at the right of the image, south of Motor Pool.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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3245-49 Main Street
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Description
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Photograph of a building at 3245-3249 Main, on the northeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1981. A sign reading "The Right Drink at the Right Price" hangs on Milton's Tap Room jazz club at 3241 Main and can be seen on the adjacent building at the left of the image, and a section of the Warner Plaza apartments are visible at the right. A twin building stood across Warner Plaza to the south. 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.
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Date
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1981~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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1600-10 East 18th Street
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Description
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Photograph of a building at 1600-10 E. 18th Street, the northeast corner of 18th and Vine, circa 1989. The building opened circa 1905, with retail and nightclubs on the ground floor and apartments and professional offices on the second floor. The storefront at 1600 E. 18th is partially boarded-up section. El Capitan Lounge inhabits the storefront at 1610 E. 18th. A banner advertises the 7th Annual 18th & Vine Heritage Festival, which took place in September, 1989.
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Date
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1989~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Hotel Parkview - Jockey Club Entrance
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Description
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View looking west of the entrance to the Jockey Club in the Hotel Parkview at 1000-1006 Paseo Boulevard. A sign in view reads: Freddy Finch's Orchestra - 8:30 Till Closing - Matinee Every Saturday - 3 Till 6 PM.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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View Looking North from the Westport Arms Apartment Building
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Description
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View facing north across Armour Boulevard from the west side of the Westport Arms Apartment Building in the Hanover Place Residential District. A sign for the Pioneer Room cocktail lounge, once located at 301 Armour Boulevard inside of the Westport Arms Building can be seen. Cars parked along Armour Boulevard are in view. The Ellision Apartment Hotel Building can be seen on the north side of the street.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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View Looking West along Gregory Boulevard from McGee Street
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Description
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View facing west along Gregory Boulevard from its intersection with McGee Street in the Tower Homes and Armour Hills residential districts. The building housing the Country Club Bowl bowling alley and Alibi Room cocktail lounge can be seen. A building housing Trillin's Restaurant is in view. Cars parked in the lot outside of Country Club Bowl and along Gregory Boulevard and McGee Street can be seen. Houses in the Armour Hills neighborhood are in view in the distance.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Southwest Corner - Gregory Boulevard and McGee Street
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Description
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View facing south along McGee Street from its intersection with Gregory Boulevard in the Tower Homes Residential District. The building housing the Country Club Bowl bowling alley and Alibi Room cocktail lounge can be seen. A car parked along McGee Street is in view.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Street Hotel
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Description
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Postcard showing the Street Hotel, once located at 1508-1512 E. 18th Street. The reverse side of the postcard reads: 18th St. at Paseo. This hotel has 60 guest rooms with private bath and telephone service. Conveniently located on the first floor are: a Haberdasher, a Tailor, Post Office, and the famous Blue Room Cocktail Lounge and Restaurant.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Toedman Cabs
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Description
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Photograph of Toedman Cabs, at 3834 Main, circa 1982. The company occupies a building that was constructed in the 1950s. To its north is the Grand Emporium Hotel and Saloon, a bar, restaurant, and live music venue.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Pink Garter
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Description
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Photograph of the Pink Garter "go go girls" lounge at 3821 Main Street, circa 1982. The business had recently opened in this location after relocating from a building at 3114 Main when it was razed for a redevelopment project. Grimm Tattoo parlor, in the Normandy Building at 3825 Main, can also be seen at the right of the image. The Pink Garter building was torn down in 2009 to provide a parking lot for an adjacent building.
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Date
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1982~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dante's Inferno Nightclub
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Description
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Street level view of local speakeasy/nightclub Dante's Inferno at 1104 Independence Avenue. Photograph was made from image as published in the "Future" newsweekly, Vol. 1, No. 12, March 29, 1935, p. 1, MVSC F051 F996. As stated in this publication, "the interior is decorated with a lurid red substance which must be as inflammable as the flames of hell it symbolizes."
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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First issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes a statement on the newspaper's objective, maintaining that the newspaper is not against any certain political party or vice, but that it is simply for "good government." Featured articles include: “Council Passes Cab Ordinance” (pp. 2 & 4) discussing councilman Frank H. Backstrom’s reaction to the ordinance and detailing other ordinances appropriating bond funds.; "Adult Education--A Fine Work" (pp. 2 & 6) concerning "the program of adult education going forward under the FERA, with the hearty co-operation of the city's Board of Education" and supervised by Roy Gallemore. It describes courses offered at Lincoln High School and its "sixty-three colored teachers employed, a goodly number as compared with the hundred and sixteen white teachers."; “Trivia” (pp. 2 & 6) and "Borderline Businesses Pay Most Sugar" (pp. 3 & 8) on the bombing of the Harlem Nightclub as an example of the vulnerability of semi-legitimate ("borderline") nightclubs and other businesses in Kansas City to its strong-arm tactics of organized crime through the police department. A photo of the Harlem Nightclub bombing is included.; "What, Precisely, Is a Machine?" (pp. 3 & 5) on the definition of political machines and the Pendergast machine in Kansas City fitting this definition through unofficial financing, voting fraud, etc.; "A New Administration for the County" (pp. 3-5) detailing the new administrative officials, new budget laws, and efforts to reduce the city deficit. A picture of J. W. Hostetter, Eugene I. Purcell, and Battle McCardle is included.; “NYM” (p. 4) on the National Youth Movement began in Kansas City in May 1932 with a portrait of Joseph C. Fennelly.; "May We Present Mrs. Charles N. Seidlitz" (p. 5) on Alice Richards Seidlitz "one of the founders of the Junior League of Kansas City," wife of Charles Seidlitz ("president of the Seidlitz Paint and Varnish Company"), and daughter of George Richards ("son of the founder of Richards and Conover Hardware Company"). A photo of Alice is included.; "Be Proud, Citizens!" (pp. 5 & 8) on the ironic description of Kansas City by Judge Brown Harris "as 'probably the most law-abiding city in the United States.'" Irony due to the judge's association with the Pendergast machine and "federal indictments" in relation to the Union Station massacre of Eugene Reppert ("former director of police"), Thomas Higgins ("chief of detectives"), George Rayen ("of the police motor theft bureau"), Tom Bash (sheriff), etc.; Book review (p. 7) of "Heaven's My Destination" by Thornton Wilder (author of "Our Town" and "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"), describing a scene in the book with the main character (a devoutly religious man) unknowingly eating at one of Kansas City's "bawdy houses" and experiencing other misadventures.; Also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on sports, fashion, finance, cooking, music, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-01-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the high number of night clubs in Kansas City (“more … per capita than in any other city in the United States”) and their status as jazz music venues as well as fire hazards, and including photos of Dante's Inferno, the Harlem Nite Club, the Red & Dutch club, the Hey-Hay Club, the Wiggle Inn, the King Kong, the Dump, and the DeLuxe Night Club, etc., with brief descriptions of others including the Sportsman Club and the Chesterfield Club. Other featured articles include: “One Place the Machine Failed” (p. 2), photo and article about C. Whit Pfeiffer, "secretary of the charity bureau" and "[p]erhaps the man most responsible for the high level that relief work has been carried on in Kansas City and Jackson county," and describing lack of influence by the Pendergast machine in the favorable "distribution of Federal Emergency Relief Administrations funds" to Kansas City during the Great Depression; “May We Present Henry D. Ashley” (p. 5), portrait and biographical article about Henry Ashley, a prominent local lawyer and former "president of the Park Board," as well as co-founder of the "Country Day School" with A. Ross Hill and facilitator of the location of the Kansas City Art Institute on "A. R. Meyer's estate"; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-03-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper
