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Title: The Real Thing
Description: Review of Anthony's Restaurant and Lounge, located at 701 Grand. The author writes that 27 year-old Anthony Spino III, the third generation of Spino restauranteurs, runs the type of old fashioned Italian-American restaurant often imitated by national chains.
Date: 2005-11-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Parts of Grand Aren't So Grand
Description: Review of unaesthetic areas along Grand Avenue/Boulevard such as the east side between 19th and 20th, the empty lot where the former Law Building once stood at the corner of 12th and Grand, and "GiGi's Wigs and the now-closed Lil' Jake's barbecue joint. Without that pink concrete pig, that brickwork looks pretty tired."
Date: 2007-11-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Grand Boulevard Gets an Even Grander Name
Description: "Grand Boulevard in downtown Kansas City was officially dedicated Grand Boulevard of the Americas on Monday with flags from 34 countries adorning light poles along the roadway." The flags of 152 countries in the Organization of American States were flying on Grand Boulevard from Crown Center to River Market. "The project was the brainchild of trade development consultant James Malouff III, who dreamed for years of Kansas City becoming a Midwestern hub for international business, trade and tourism."
Date: 2008-04-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Grand Boulevard of the Americas
Description: Grand Boulevard from the River Market to Crown Center has been renamed Grand Boulevard of the Americas. This is an honorary name and therefore busineses "won't be forced to make expensive address changes."
Date: 2007-06-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Blues Parade
Description: Looking northeast from the southwest corner of 11th and Grand at SCBA parade in honor of the Kansas City Blues baseball team.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Detailed description of the extension of Grand Avenue south to Westport from Kansas City in 1857, "decidedly one of the handsomest and most attractive streets in the State--and is evidently destined to become one of the principal business streets of the city," passing through McGee's Addition.
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains. ..
Description: Photo of the "Metropolitan Block, M'Gee's [sic] addition to Kansas City," on Grand Avenue in the 1850s.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Thorough description of the caravans of covered wagons passing through Kansas City's Grand Avenue, for trade with Santa Fe, New Mexico, "which consisted last year of over nine thousand wagons."
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

Title: Elliot Sporting Goods Building
Description: View looking west of the Elliot Sporting Goods building, located at 1508 Grand Avenue. A car parked on Grand Avenue can be seen.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coca-Cola Building and Vicinity
Description: Promotional drawing produced by the Ennis-Edwards Realty Company and included within a booklet promoting the advantages of the Coca-Cola Building. The illustration highlights the building's close proximity to the Liberty Memorial, Union Station, rail lines, major streets, the downtown hotel district, the retail district, the office building district, and the headquarters of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Artwork

Title: 12th Street
Description: Photograph of 12th Street, looking west from Grand Avenue. Signs for the Regent Theater, the State Hotel, the Katz Drugstore, the Hotel Phillips, Kresge's department store, and the Jones Store can be seen. The Street is crowded with pedestrians.
Date: 1961~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tornado Damage to Buildings
Description: Tornado damage to buildings at 15th and Grand. Side of one building reads Boston Clothing House. Men and buggies and dirt street in view.
Date: 1882
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Parade Scene
Description: Float in unidentified parade heading south along Grand Avenue near 14th Street.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Parade Scene Along Grand Street
Description: Unidentified child watching parade along Grand Avenue near 14th Street.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Photograph

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