Long ago on independence square (Alton, Rea: zoning, accountant, stone)

[SilverDoc]

Now, I'll try again. Sorry about the poor quality:

[SilverDoc]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

Spring Branch Road and Truman Road are one in the same.

In the late forties, a road named after Truman was destined to stretch from down town Kansas City east almost clear across Jackson County.

Fifteenth Street in Kansas City became Truman Road. Van Horn Road running west from Main in Independence became Truman Road. Spring Branch Road running east of Main became Truman Road.

Truman Road ends at Buckner-Tarsney Road east of Lake City.

I always referred to Buckner-Tarsney Road without thinking. However, does anyone know what Tarsney is? There is a Tarsney Lake south of Grain Valley but was there a town?

Buckner-Tarsney Road begins in Sibley and runs 21 miles south to US Highway 50.

Place name: Tarsney
Description: A town in northwestern Van Buren Township. A post office was established in 1892 and discontinued in 1902. The governemnt postal guides of 1892 and 1893 misspell the word Tarsey. It was named for J.C. Tarsney (1845-1920) who was elected United States congressman in 1886, and was reelected three times. (Postal Guide 1892-1902; MISSOURI HIST. REV. Vol. 15, 429; RESULTS OF COUNTY PLAN., 69



Tarsney Lake is on a tributary of Sni-A-Bar Creek in Jackson County, Missouri and is used for recreation purposes. Construction was completed in 1927. Its normal surface area is 17 acres. It is owned by Jackson Co. Public Works.

[MRG Dallas]

Polk's didn't publish again until post-War, 1946. Looks like some political families were in the grocery business before Clarence Heflin :-)

Cook & Sermon @ 212 W. Maple.
Mike Onka @ 623 N. Sterling

Again, no mention of a Greenstein's for Sally36. There were back-to-back markets at 1303 & 1305 E. Alton. Nothing on the cross-streets mentioned by MAD. One way out at 801 Blue Springs Rd ("RD 4")

Owens "Cut Rate" Food Market @ 200. E. Alton
Powell's Groceries & Meats @ 613 E. Alton (designated as "RD 4")
John Schrepfer @ 1410 S. Emery ("RD 5")

Safeway has 4 listings (although there might have been an overlap from a store relocation?):

1320 W. Lexington
220 S. Main
324 W. Maple
11115 Van Horn Rd ("RD 6")

Get well soon, Sally! Come back and give us more clarification.

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

Boy, do I feel like a dope!! I forgot that when you click on the photo, the info comes up with it! I think it would have been a bit harder if I hadn't gave everyone the answer! None the less, MRG, you be the winner! I gotta try harder! And yes, this was one of the mining sites. It was just to the west of 71 Bypass on the north side. It became (or was) Pixley Mine. There was a conveyor that ran across Truman to the south side, where the office and the weigh scales were. As far as the time frame for this photo, I couldn't say for certain, other than it was before 71 Bypass was changed to 291 and later converted to four

HA Yeah no way I get this without your major clues, Avis, er, Doc !

[WCHS'59]

There was a grocery store on the north side of Alton (23rd Street) a few blocks before Crysler. It was a dark and drab building that was closed when I was a small kid but a big sign on the building said "Cash and Carry." I understood that meant carrying cash out of the store but could not understand what the deal was. Why would they give you cash to carry out of the store? Even when a grownup explained it, I still could not quite comprehend the meaning. A few years later, I got it.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

There was a grocery store on the north side of Alton (23rd Street) a few blocks before Crysler. It was a dark and drab building that was closed when I was a small kid but a big sign on the building said "Cash and Carry." I understood that meant carrying cash out of the store but could not understand what the deal was. Why would they give you cash to carry out of the store? Even when a grownup explained it, I still could not quite comprehend the meaning. A few years later, I got it.

chuckle, I think I just found it at 23rd and Cottage.

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

There was a grocery store on the north side of Alton (23rd Street) a few blocks before Crysler. It was a dark and drab building that was closed when I was a small kid but a big sign on the building said "Cash and Carry." I understood that meant carrying cash out of the store but could not understand what the deal was. Why would they give you cash to carry out of the store? Even when a grownup explained it, I still could not quite comprehend the meaning. A few years later, I got it.

I noticed a few groceries were named "Cash Market" or one had "Cash and Carry" (Your (sic) and Mine Cash and Carry Grocery @ 10303 Van Horn Rd. 1946

[SilverDoc]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

I noticed a few groceries were named "Cash Market" or one had "Cash and Carry" (Your (sic) and Mine Cash and Carry Grocery @ 10303 Van Horn Rd. 1946

Is this the one you mean WCHS?:

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

Is this the one you mean WCHS?:

That might be it. Coil's @ 900 E. Alton Albert W. Coil 1936 That's at the Cottage intersection, and that must be his home facing Cottage. 1130 S. Cottage.


There was also a Smith's Grocery @ 1025 S. Cottage, which puts it a block n. of Alton @ W. Stone St.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

Is this the one you mean WCHS?:

That was it. In the space above the "Coils" sign was a rather large sign across the width of the building that said "cash and carry."

Back in those days the building was a little further from the edge of the then two lane street.