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Title
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In Search of the Main Man: Main Street Legend
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Milton Morris (1911-1983), owner of a jazz bar at 3241 Main Streets and previous locations starting on Troost Avenue in the 1930s. Description of his Main Street club, Milton's Tap Room, "threatened by a redevelopment project" and owned by 53-year-old Ray Riepen, "one of Milton's acolytes." Reminiscences of Milton's experiences back to the Pendergast era with many details such as witnessing the shooting of machine enforcer John Lazia, etc.
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Date
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1989-12-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Kansas City Modern: Growing Pains and Pleasures
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Description
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Article about the city of Kansas City in general, highlighting its history of social stratification, with description of the following Kansas Citians, among others: (1) Jay Dillingham, (2) Evan Connell, (3) J. C. Nichols, (4) Martha Gaylord, or Mrs. Gleed Gaylord, (5) Milton Morris, (6) Tom Pendergast, (7) H. Roe Bartle, (8) Charles Wheeler, (9) Girard Bryant, (10) Nathan Stark, (11) Frank Paxton, Jr., and (12) Robert Freilich, with photos and illustrations. "[B]uilders and developers are perpetrating ugly as well as good works in this Missouri metropolis of tree- and statue-lined boulevards, of stockyards, shameless politics, and roisterous jazz clubs of old."
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Date
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1974-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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City Window: Hollywood Asks Morris about Truman, Pendergast
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Description
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Photo and biographical article Milton Morris, or Milt Morris, a 71-year-old (in 1983) bar operator and "a chauffeur for Western Missouri Judge Truman at the same time he was a go-fer for the Pendergast machine." Description of Morris's interviews by movie makers, including Kansas Citian Ed Asner, for a potentially televised mini-series about the intertwining lives of Tom Pendergast and Harry Truman.
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Date
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1983-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Friday, Saturday and Sunday Night Fever
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Description
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Sampling of some local discos with photos and history of dance venues in Kansas City back to the early 20th century. Information about jazz age nightclubs, involving Milton Morris, or Milt Morris, proprietor of Milton's Taproom dance bar at 3241 Main Street.
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Date
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1978-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Memories of Milton's: Bartender John Albertson Recalls a Classic Club, Character and Chapter in KC Jazz History
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Milton Morris (1911-1983), owner and operator of night clubs such as the "speakeasy, the Hey Hay Club, and Milton's Tap Room, the dark, eclectic musician's haven on Main" Street from 1930 to 1989 combined. Reminiscences about Morris and Milton's by his former employee, John Albertson with several details about Jazz Age Kansas City through the 1970s.
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Date
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2001-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
