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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: Mabry Hall
Description: Photograph of the Mabry Hall building at 4112-14 Pennsylvania Avenue, circa 1980. At the time of the photo, the building was owned by Ace Dickinson, who operated Ace's Rock Shop and Museum on the ground floor. The building is arguably the oldest extant commercial building in Kansas City, with some claiming it was constructed in 1843. Other sources suggest a date closer to 1850.
Date: 1980~
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: 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: Mabry Hall
Description: Photograph of the Mabry Hall building at 4112-14 Pennsylvania Avenue, circa 1980. At the time of the photo, the building was owned by Ace Dickinson, who operated Ace's Rock Shop and Museum on the ground floor. The building is arguably the oldest extant commercial building in Kansas City, with some claiming it was constructed in 1843. Other sources suggest a date closer to 1850.
Date: 1980~
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: 3201-3207 East 12th Street
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a building at 3201 E. 12th Street, the southeast corner of 12th and Benton Boulevard, built in 1910.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aladdin Theatre
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of the Aladdin Theatre building at 6044 E. Truman Road (at the corner of Truman and Belmont). It was designed by the Boller Brothers and opened in 1927. The theater closed in 1959, and housed a church at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
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: 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: 3607-3915 Broadway Boulevard
Description: Photograph circa 1980s, looking northwest, of 3607-3615 Broadway Boulevard. Hot Rocks Lounge at 3607 Broadway Boulevard appears in the left side of the photo. Next to it is Peking Chinese Restaurant, located at 3609 Broadway Boulevard. The Betsy Ross Building at 3611 Broadway Boulevard, unoccupied at the time of the photo. Further south, in the right side of the photo, is Ms. Ade's Beauty Salon 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 then, added to the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3130-3132 Troost Avenue
Description: Photograph of a commercial building at 3130-32 Troost Avenue in the early 1980s, with Drake International Security as a ground floor tenant. The building was constructed circa 1922, and is still standing as of 2018, though the neighboring building to the south (at the left of the image) was razed and the space was used as a parking lot.
Date: 1980~/1989~
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: 320 Nichols Road
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of 320 Nichols Road in the Country Club Plaza Shopping District. At the time of the photo, the building housed Russell Stover Candies. By 2000, Russell Stover had moved from this location and MAC Cosmetics moved in. Located in the Plaza neighborhood.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3135-43 Troost Avenue
Description: Photograph of a commercial building at 3135-43 Troost Avenue in the early 1980s. The structure was built in 1926, and had Econo Tax Service, Midtown Office Supply, and other businesses as tenants at the time of the photograph.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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