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Title: Hotel President: Good Food, Walnut Room, Coffee Shop, Rounup Cocktail Bar
Description: Illustration and ad for the "Hotel President" or President Hotel (shown next to the Kansas City Power & Light Building and Municipal Auditorium) at 14th and Baltimore Avenues with its own restaurant, the Walnut Room, and Roundup Cocktail Bar.
Date: 1936-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Drum Roll Please
Description: Color photograph of the restored entry of the Drum Room of the now historic Hilton President Kansas City Hotel that reopened in June 2006.
Date: 2006-08-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Drum Roll, Please, as Dining Spot is Reborn
Description: After being closed for 25 years, the Drum Room in the Hotel President is due to open on May 10, 2006. The restaurant opened in 1941 and such celebrities as Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, the Marx Brothers and Sammy Davis, Jr. performed there. "It has been rebuilt with a contemporary interior design that honors its past with black-and-white photographs of jazz greats and a restored 280-square-foot mural of South Sea islanders that was painted for the room in 1941 by New York artist Winold Reiss." Article includes a picture of the interior of the room as well as the Drum Room sign on the outside of the hotel.
Date: 2006-05-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Dish-approval Ratings
Description: Reviews of the Walnut Room and Drum Room, two restaurants located in the historic Hilton President Hotel (1329 Baltimore).
Date: 2006-08-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Barn in the U.S.A.
Description: Article describes the 2012 reopening of the President Hotel restaurant as Providence New American Kitchen following the closing of the Drum Room in 2008. The interior design, decor, and menu are described.
Date: 2012-11-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Decades of Dedication Lead to Industry Award
Description: Article reports the induction of Kansas City restauranteurs Manny and Vivian Lopez into the Missouri Restaurant Association's Hall of Fame. Manny Lopez grew up in the Argentine area of Kansas City, Kansas, began his career preparing salads at the Hotel President, and opened Manny's Restaurant with his wife Vivian in 1980.
Date: 2006-01-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Mann Lopez Sees Restaurant as His Legacy to Kansas City
Description: Review of Manny Lopez's life. Manny began as a "salad and toast boy" at the President Hotel when 14 years old and later owned and operated his own restaurant, Manny's. He was indcuted into the Missouri Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2005.
Date: 2006-12-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Mrs. Harriet T. Bailey
Description: Obituary for Mrs. Harriet Bailey, dying at the age of 91, the former operator of the Tea House restaurant at 9 East 45th Street with her sister for 35 years, the "co-manager of the Wolferman downtown dining facility," and "the Hyde Park Hotel restaurant," and "past president of the Women's Chamber of Commerce and the Woman's City Club."
Date: 1972-03-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of Ira Van Noy (company president born in Indiana in 1861 with residence at 2642 Benton Boulevard) and his brother Charles Van Noy (junior partner born in Goshen City, Missouri in 1870), collectively known as the Van Noy Brothers, founders of the Van Noy Railroad News Company in 1897. Description of their business established as "local cigar and news dealers at No. 1076 Union avenue in 1893" and expanded to many hotels, railroad lines, restaurants, and news and cigar stands by 1908.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

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