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Title: King Joy Lo Restaurant
Description: Postcard showing the interior of the King Joy Lo restaurant at 1217 Grand Avenue.
Object Type: Postcard

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: Sidney's Diner
Description: View looking northeast of Sidney's Diner and other storefronts near the intersection of Valentine Road and Broadway Boulevard. Cars traveling along Broadway Boulevard can be seen. Signs for Shoequet Shoes and the Peking Chinese Restaurant are in view. A small portion of the Hyde Park Hotel Building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Storefronts on Broadway
Description: View looking northeast of a row of storefronts located at the intersection of 36th Street and Broadway Boulevard. Cars parked along Broadway Boulevard can be seen. Signs for Hot Rocks Lounge, Peking Chinese Restaurant, and Shoequet Shoes are in view. The Hyde Park Hotel Building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Storefronts on Broadway
Description: View looking northeast of a row of storefronts located at the intersection of 36th Street and Broadway Boulevard. Cars parked along Broadway Boulevard can be seen. Signs for Merit Drugs, Hot Rocks Lounge, Peking Chinese Restaurant, and Shoequet Shoes are in view. The Hyde Park Hotel Building can be seen on the left hand side of the image.
Date: 1985~
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: Liggett's Drugstore
Description: View looking northwest of Liggett's drug store from the intersection of 12th and Main streets. Cars parked along 12th Street and pedestrians can be seen. Signs for The Rexall Store and the King Joy Lo Chinese restaurant are in view.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liggett's Drugstore
Description: View looking west of along 12th Street from Main Street of Liggett's drugstore. Cars parked along 12th Street and pedestrians can be seen. Signs for Thompson's Cafeteria and the Senator Hotel are in view. The lower portion of the King Joy Lo Chinese restaurant an be seen.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liggett's Drugstore
Description: View looking northwest of Liggett's drugstore, once located at 1118-1120 Main Street. Cars and pedestrians on 12th Street can be seen. The King Joy Lo restaurant on the 2nd floor of the building is in view. A sign for the Rexall Store can be seen.
Date: 1950~
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

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