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Title: Malls Shop For Their Future
Description: Article details with the current problems associated with shopping malls and how they are trying to reinvent themselves. Includes a sheet which lists many of the local malls, giving the year opened, square footage and current status. According to this list, Metcalf South Shopping Center at 9635 Metcalf Avenue was the area's first planned enclosed mall. Oak Park Mall is listed as the Kansas City area's biggest mall.
Date: 2000-11-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Facelift for the "City Beautiful": Urban Renewal in Olathe
Description: Extensive article about the history of Olathe and its urban renewal. In 1965, Olathe had established its Urban Renewal Agency and made public its tentative plan for the redevelopment of the downtown area of Olathe. Article also talks about the Fairview Neighborhood and has a sidebar about Metcalf South Shopping Center.
Date: 2008
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: The Ghosts of Shopping Seasons Past
Description: Article on the current status of two Kansas City area shopping malls, Metcalf South in Overland Park and Metro North off Barry Road. Once major local retail centers, both malls are almost empty. The article also includes reminisces on the malls�?? past holiday decorations and events.
Date: 2014-12-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Curtains
Description: Article describes the events of Sunday, January 25, 2015, at the Glenwood Arts Theatre, the cinema's final day of operation at its Metcalf South mall location. A brief history of the Glenwood is provided. Brian Mossman, one of the theatre's owners, and filmmaker W. David Keith, whose film Metcalf South Memories was the final film screened at the Glenwood, are interviewed. Plans for the future of the Glenwood are described.
Date: 2015-01-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Interview with Sherman Dreiseszun
Description: Interview with Sherman Dreiseszun about his life, his work in the Kansas City garment industry, and other ventures. He was the first of his family born in the United States after his parents and siblings migrated to Kansas City from the Polish-Russian border and later served as gunner in the Army Air Corps in World War II. He later owned the Vic-Gene Manufacturing Company with his nephew Frank Morgan, which he described as manufacturing knock-offs of popular garments including Pendleton jackets and corduroy "slick shirts." He and Morgan later opened Metcalf South Shopping Center in Overland Park,
Date: 2004-10-05
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Interview with Davida Singer Pessen
Description: Interview with Davida Singer Pessen about her life and experience working at Kansas City department stores and other clothing retailers. She discusses her start circa 1960 at Klein's and Rothschild's, continuing in retail through moves to Omaha and St. Louis, and returning to the work in Kansas City as a single mother. She recalls working in a various of department stores and boutiques at Metcalf South and The Landing, and moving in to work at multiple locations of the fine clothing store Woolf Brothers. She also discusses issues including price markup, demand differences from one outlet of a store to another, the decline and ultimate closure of the Woolf Brothers company, and her retirement in 2010.
Date: 2011-06-13
Object Type: Video Recording

Title: Glenwood Theatre Sign
Description: The Glenwood Theatre sign is currently up at the Metcalf South Shopping Center. However, the center is due in the future to be made over. Theater co-owner Wade Williams says the sign will migrate to the Ranch Mart at 95th and Mission Road. Ranch Mart reopened last year as the Leawood. The sign ended up at Metcalf South because 200 people marched on city hall to keep the historic theater sign. Includes a picture of the sign.
Date: 2007-08-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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