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Title: Restaurant at Southeast Corner of Gregory and Baltimore
Description: View of a restaurant once located on the southeast corner of Gregory Boulevard and Baltimore Avenue in the Tower Homes Residential District.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 603-607 Main Street Buildings
Description: View looking east of buildings once located at 603, 605, and 607 Main Street. 603 Main Street is occupied by Gents Furnishings, a large portion of the front exterior of 605 Main Street has been covered with signs for the Folly Theater Burlesque and Vaudeville Show and is for sale from A. W. Childs & Sons realty company, and 607 Main Street is occupied by the Kelly's Lunch restaurant and their menu is recorded on the front windows.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant
Description: Advertising card for Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant showing a rear view of five bulls standing in a row. The first bull has small horns and its tail sticks straight up in the air. As you move right, down the line, each bull has longer horns, but a droopier tail. One of two cards, identical except for background color (this one is pink). Card is damaged; some of image is torn off. Front of card says: "How Old are You?" and each cow is labeled, from left to right: "20 .."." 30 .."."40 .."." 50 .."." 60." Along side of card it says: "High Water Mark, 8 Feet 9 Inches in the Room." On the bottom it says: "Dan Griffin, Nights. Eugene Potts, Days. Geo. E. Wisner, Prop." Back of card says: "Geo. E. Wisner's Saloon and Restaurant, Stock Yards. Anheuser-Busch Budweiser Beer." Address given on back of card:
1605 Genesee St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Four Winds Restaurant
Description: Postcard showing the interior of the Four Winds Restaurant, once located inside of the Municipal Airport. The back of the card reads: "The Four Winds at the Airport in Kansas City...overlooking the exciting panorama of the jet age. Magic Carpet Cocktail Lounge and private party accommodations up to 125." A Joe Gilbert Restaurant."
Date: 1970~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: 610-616 Main Steet Buildings
Description: View looking west of buildings that once stood along 610-616 Main Street. Individuals posed outside of the Olympic Commissary Company address can be seen. Signs for Coffee King Lunch and the Hanlin Supply Company are also in view.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1411 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of a retail building at 1411 West 39th Street, circa 1990. La Fonda El Taquito closed at the location in 1989 and Westport Pizza Company opened later that year. Wyoming Beauty beauty shop occupies the storefront at 1413 West 39th.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pizza Hut
Description: Photograph of a Pizza Hut resturant on the northeast corner of 39th Street and State Line Road, circa 1990.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kelly's Bar & Stanford and Sons
Description: Photograph of Kelly's Westport Inn, at 500 Westport Road, circa 1980. Standing to its west, at the left of the photo, is the Chouteau-Bridger Building at 504 Westport Road, with Stanford and Sons restaurant and comedy club as its tenant. Both buildings were built circa 1850 and are among the oldest buildings in Kansas City.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Ridge Manor
Description: Photograph circa 1980, looking north, of a 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: 5410 Northeast Oak Ridge Drive
Description: Photograph circa 1980 of a small guesthouse on the grounds of 5410 NE Oak Ridge Drive.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oak Ridge Manor
Description: Photograph circa 1980, interior of the home at 5410 Northeast Oak Ridge Drive, originally built around a log cabin in 1829 by James Compton. James's daughter, Emma Compton. lived in the home until 1954, when it was sold to Louise Sandstrom who converted it into a restaurant. Sandstrom kept the interior furnishings intact. The restaurant 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: Union Station - Westport Room
Description: Interior view of Union Station at 30 W. Pershing Road during its renovation. The photograph shows work being done on the murals Arrival at Westport Landing; Outfitting at Westport Landing; Commerce of the Prairies. The murals were commissioned in 1937 to decorate the Westport Room restaurant and cocktail lounge inside of Union Station.
Date: 2000~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Crown Center - Mayor's Christmas Tree
Description: View of the Mayor's Christmas Tree on display in Crown Center. Signs for Hall's department store and the American Restaurant can be seen. Cars traveling along Grand Boulevard are in view.
Date: 2015~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Wendy's
Description: Photograph of a Wendy's fast food restaurant at 3118 Main Street, not long after the date it opened in 1983.
Date: 1983~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3251-57 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 3251-3257 Main, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1981. Signs advertise the House of Chun Chinese restaurant and the adjacent Kon Tiki Room tiki bar, and a section of the Warner Plaza apartments are visible at the left of the image. A twin building stood across Warner Plaza to the north. 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: Bell Restaurant
Description: Photograph of Bell Restaurant at 3947 Main Street, circa 1981. The building opened in 1924 as a neighborhood grocery store, and Bell operated in the location from 1969 until it closed in 1986.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 1700 West 39th Street
Description: Photograph of the building at 1700-02 West 39th Street in the early 1980s. Fric & Frac restaurant occupies the corner space, at 1700 W. 39th.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 4428-4440 Saint John Avenue
Description: Photograph circa 1980s of a multi-use building - apartments on the second floor, businesses on the first floor - at 4428-4440 Saint John Avenue, built in the early 20th century.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Fric & Frac
Description: Photograph of Fric & Frac restaurant at 1700 West 39th Street circa 1990. The restaurant opened at this location in 1976.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 5000 Block of Main Street
Description: Photograph of the 5000 block of Main Street, looking south across the intersection of 50th Street, in the late 1970s. The Peanut bar, at 5000 Main, is pictured on the west side of the street, and Milgram's grocery, at 5011 Main, is pictured on the east side.
Date: 1970~/1979~
Object Type: Photograph

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