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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: The New Stanley
Description: Photograph of The New Stanley bar and restaurant at 501 Westport Road circa 1980, as well as a view of Pennsylvania Avenue looking southeast from Westport Road. The restaurant and bar opened in 1975 in the building that was the former Doerschuk pharmacy. An establishment called the Old Stanley opened in 1987 under new ownership in the space after the New Stanley closed in 1985.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4632 Wyandotte Street
Description: Photograph of a retail strip at the intersection of Wornall Road and Wyandotte Street circa 1980. Renner's Shoe Repair is among the businesses pictured. Other Plaza hotels and apartment buildings can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 400 Block of Nichols Road
Description: Photograph of Nichols Road between Pennsylvania and Broadway, looking east, in 1977. Embassy movie theater is pictured, advertising the movie "Julia" on the marquee. The theater closed in 1981. The Plaza Bowl bowling alley, at the left edge of the image, opened in 1940 and closed in 1978. The buildings were partially demolished for the construction of a Saks department store, which opened in 1982.
Date: 1977
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3611 Broadway Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980, looking southeast, of 3609-3615 Broadway Boulevard. Peking Chinese Restaurant appears in the left side of the photo, located at 3609 Broadway Boulevard. Also shown in the photo, in the center, is Crazy's at 3611 Broadway Boulevard. And further south, in the right side of the photo, is Shoequet Shoes store at 3915 Broadway Boulevard. This block of buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as part of the Ambassador Hotel Historic District and added to the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mill Creek Building
Description: Photograph of the Mill Creek Building at 4634 J. C. Nichols Parkway, circa 1982. Jenkins Music Company and Safety Federal Savings are current tenants. Construction began in 1922 and opened in 1923, this building was the first of J. C. Nichols' Country Club Plaza buildings, and was initially called the Suydam Building. At the far right of the image, construction is taking place on the dome and tower of a neighboring building.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3245-49 Main Street
Description: 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.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Superior Sound
Description: Photograph of Superior Sound, at 3814 Main, a business that provided audio equipment for performance venues and other businesses, circa 1982. Part of the Madrid Theater, at 3806-3810 Main, is visible to the south.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1006 Linwood Boulevard
Description: Photograph of a building and storefront at the corner of Linwood and Harrison circa 1981. The location was a Safeway grocery store in the '30s, then housed a Western Auto store from the 1940s until August, 1979, and later became home to the Paul Mesner Puppet Theater. The building was vacant at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1981~
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: City Center Square
Description: Aerial photograph of the City Center Square building at 1100 Main Street in downtown Kansas City. It was built in 1977 by the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It occupies the entire block of 11th Street to 12th Street, and from Main Street to Baltimore Street.
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: Giralda Tower and J. C. Nichols Fountain
Description: Photograph of the Plaza near the intersection of Main and 47th Streets circa 1980. Looking southwest from Mill Creek Park, the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain is pictured in the foreground, and the Giralda Tower is pictured at left. Swanson's Department store is also pictured on the southwest corner of 47th and J. C. Nichols Parkway.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 900 Block of West 45th Street
Description: Photograph of 45th Street east of Belleview Avenue, looking east, circa 1986. Jack Rees Interiors, at 4501 Belleview, can be seen at right; Bill Cohen Men's Shop, at 4451 Belleview, is visible at left. Houses and a dental office, at 919 West 45th Street, are visible to the east.
Date: 1986~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4712 Broadway Boulevard
Description: Photograph, circa 1990s, of architectural details of a building on the Country Club Plaza that housed a store called Mailliard's. Mailliard's incorporated in 1967, sold fine men and boy's clothing and closed in the mid-1990s. An Apple store opened in the space in 2004.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Westport Road and Main Street
Description: Photograph of the intersection of Westport Road and Main Street, looking west, in the early 1980s. Part of the Skaggs Drugstore (formerly Katz Drugstore) is visible at left. The commercial building on the north side of Westport Road houses businesses, including the Seville Barber Shop.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Intersection of 47th Street & Wornall Road
Description: Photograph of the intersection of 47th Street and Wornall Road, looking northeast down Wornall, circa 1980. Adler's, a clothing store, is pictured at 308 West 47th Street, on the northwest side of the intersection. Adler's opened a store in this location from August 1976 to January 1983.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 922 East 48th Street
Description: Photograph of buildings at the northwest corner of the intersection of 48th and Harrison in the early 1980s. The Art Research Center, an arts group dating to 1766, made the corner space at 922 East 48th Street its headquarters in 1973. The block is part of a large area, bound roughly by 47th Street, Brush Creek, Rockhill Road, and Troost Avenue, that was demolished and redeveloped into the Kauffman Foundation, its Kauffman Legacy Park, and the Anita Gorman Conservation Center.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Intersection of 45th and Belleview
Description: Photograph of the intersection of 45th Street and Belleview Avenue, looking north along Belleview, circa 1987. Houses, stores, and office buildings line both sides of Belleview, including Jack Rees Interiors at 4501 Belleview.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Nichols Road
Description: Photograph of stores and buildings lining the north side of Nichols Road, west of Broadway, circa 1987. Helzberg Diamonds, at 400 Nichols, is pictured in the foreground, with Country Club Bank, Brooks Brothers, and Saks Fifth Avenue to its west.
Date: 1987~
Object Type: Photograph

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