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Title: Walnut Street Shops
Description: Photograph of the Walnut Street Shops, 12-26 East 39th Street, with windows boarded up prior to a renovation project in 1983-84. The Hyde Park Building can also be seen at the left of the image, and the Netherlands Hotel building can be seen in the background. The Netherlands was soon to undergo its own renovation and be redubbed "Hawthorne Plaza."
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th and Main Streets
Description: Photograph of the northeast corner of 39th and Main Streets, circa 1980, including the Hotel Netherlands apartment building. The Hyde Park building, at right, opened in 1916, and at the time of this photo, the ground floor was occupied by the Adult Literary Guild adult bookstore, which was evicted in 1982 as part of a neighborhood redevelopment effort lead by J. Nelson Happy.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 39th & Main Streets
Description: Photograph of the north side of the 39th and Main Street intersection circa 1983. The Hyde Park Building, on the northeast corner of the intersection, is undergoing renovations. The Price Candy Company Building, at 2 West 39th Street, has New Earth Books and Records as a ground floor tenant. Foolkiller Theater, a longtime tenant and building owner, also occupies the building. The Netherlands Hotel apartment building is visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hyde Park Building
Description: Photograph of the Main Street-facing side of the Hyde Park Building, at 3841-49 Main, circa 1980. The image shows the building with damaged windows on its second story, and boarded-up storefronts and damaged terra cotta tiles on the ground level. The building was owned at the time by Kansas City's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority and was in the process of evicting adult bookstores and bars in an effort to bring new businesses to the area in hopes of stablizing the neighborhood economically. The city provided funds to assist in renovating the buildings, and the project was complete by the end of 1983. The second floor housed medical offices, and the ground floor included a pharmacy, dentist's office, and other businesses. The neighboring Netherlands Hotel/Hawthorne Plaza apartment building and Walnut Street Shops were also a part of the redevelopment effort.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Maynard Ferguson in Brush Creek
Description: View looking northwest of Maynard Ferguson and his band playing in Brush Creek beneath a pedestrian bridge that crossed the stream at Central Street. Several concert attendees can be seen.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Unidentified Building in School Bus Lot
Description: View of a small, unidentified building in a school bus parking lot. Houses in the background can be seen.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: An Interview with Henry Infante
Description: Interview 21 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Date of interview unknown. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
Description: View looking west of the Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral at 415 W 13th Street from Broadway Boulevard. Cars parked in the cathedral's lot can be seen. Pedestrians on Broadway Boulevard are in view.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Gene's Garage
Description: View looking northwest of Gene's Garage at 1226 Jefferson Street. Cars parked along Jefferson Street can be seen. The American Hereford Association Building and bull is in view in the background.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Northeast Along Jefferson
Description: View looking northeast along Jefferson Street from just north of its intersection with 11th Street. A man spraying the sidewalk with a hose on Jefferson Street is in view. Cars parked along Jefferson Street can be seen. Houses and apartment buildings are in view. The Quality Hills Towers complex can be seen in the background.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: An Interview with Josephine Lopez
Description: Interview 23 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Date of interview unknown. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview with Antonio Sandoval
Description: Interview 50 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Date of interview unknown. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: Westminster Congregational Church
Description: Photograph of the Westminster Congregational Church at the southwest corner of 36th and Walnut, looking southwest, in the early 1980s. The construction began on the original section of building in May 1904, and it was opened and consecrated in 1907. An addition was added in 1912. The building was still home to the same church at the time of the photo, but the shrinking congregation voted to disband in July 1995.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 119 Garfield Avenue
Description: Photograph, looking south, of homes on the east side of the 100 block of Garfield Avenue. In the foreground on the left is a single family home at 115 Garfield Avenue, built in 1981. To the south in the middle of the photo, is the single family home at 119 Garfield Avenue, built in 1884. Further south is single family home at 121 Garfield Avenue. 121 Garfield Avenue and 119 Garfield Avenue 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: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Ridge Manor
Description: Photograph circa 1980 of a statue of Lady Justice in front of the home at 5410 NE Oak Ridge Drive, originally built around a log cabin in 1829 by James Compton. A Compton family member lived in the home until 1954, when it was sold to Louise Sandstrom who converted it into a restaurant. It opened in 1983 as Stroud's North, Oak Ridge Manor Restaurant & Bar. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the Dr. James Compton Residence.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: An Interview with Salomon Flores
Description: Interview 55 of SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Date of interview unknown. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Tape without a typed guide or interview notes.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: J. C. Nichols Fountain
Description: Photograph figures in the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain in Mill Creek Park, near the intersection of Main and 47th Streets, circa 1980. The Giralda Tower, at 47th & Baltimore, can be seen in the background at right.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Loose Park
Description: Photograph of people picnicking near a parking area in Loose Park, circa 1980. Archways in the park's Rose Garden are visible in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Allen School
Description: Photograph of the Allen School at 706 West 42nd Street circa 1980. Founded in 1853, the school was the first public school in Westport and Kansas City, and pictured building was built in 1912. Renovations to turn the building into a community center focused on senior citizens began in 1980, and the space also provided offices for the ballet and several other organizations.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Street Musicians
Description: View of a band playing at an unidentified location in the Country Club Plaza.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

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