Long ago on independence square (Union, Pacific: 2013, tenant, station)

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by oldtimer 308

I had a paper route, the Independence Examiner, and lived on S Fuller. School was just a few blocks down the street and we walked to school. Fifth and sixth grades there and 7th & 8th at the Jr High near downtown just past Truman's home. We move before I could start High school at Wm. Chrisman in 1963. I had an old gold with blue lettering with the logo of a bear on it until about ten years ago when it finally fell apart. Katz's used to sell rock candy and cinnamon oil extract which we used to make cinnamon oil soaked toothpicks. I recall the car dealership on Lexington and a white brick building that looked like a castle, a diner and had the best cherry cokes one could get. I had a lot of great times there for the sort time we lived there and it was a great place to be a kid. I loved the library which was in the basement of a building and that is where I met Frank and Joe Hardy, boy detectives and read their adventures by Franklin W. Dixon. It was this series that ignited my passion for reading and has lived on within me. Independence, MO was without a doubt the best years of my life.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane

Welcome to the group from another former paperboy (1970-74). Hope you'll stick around and help our collective memories.

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

Mad might have posted a photo of the diner a few years ago. That library might have been the basement of the Jackson County Library on north Osage.

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

Here is Mad's photo of Slover's on Lexington. I am trying to think of something shaped like a castle but am not having any success.

Thanks for finding and posting that. I was incredibly busy yesterday.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Yeah, I recall TPS being of that same format. It was owned by a Wm. W. Bailey, Jr. ("Won't you come home, Bill Bailey, won't you come home?")

Sure enough, WCHS nailed Cooper's Hobbies: the blue house with the vestibule 1312 W. Lexington. J. Glenn & Vida V. Cooper, proprietors.

The Kansas City Times of June 16, 1955, also has Coopers Hobbies at 1312 W. Lexington.

However, Google Earth shows a vacant lot at 1312 W. Lexington.

The house was apparently torn down between July 2015 and June 2016 and the lot appears to be part of a TIF area owned by the RLDS.

At one time that former hobby shop was divided into three apartments.

Quite a bit of land on the west side of Lexington in that area apparently now belongs to the church. Maybe they need more parking......

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

It is the largest non-profit association of its type in the world and its members consider it as the premiere organization of its kind in the world.


It was organized in 1930 and has members in the U.S., Canada, China, and Japan.


It holds a national convention in odd years. A national training session (even years) was held in Colorado just this past month.


A book on the history of the association is available on Amazon.


Each state has a chapter that comes under the aegis of the world headquarters.




Its world headquarters is in Independence, Missouri.


Name it.

The International Association of Nostalgic Persons?

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

It is the largest non-profit association of its type in the world and its members consider it as the premiere organization of its kind in the world.


It was organized in 1930 and has members in the U.S., Canada, China, and Japan.


It holds a national convention in odd years. A national training session (even years) was held in Colorado just this past month.


A book on the history of the association is available on Amazon.


Each state has a chapter that comes under the aegis of the world headquarters.




Its world headquarters is in Independence, Missouri.


Name it.

As a point of order, it is difficult to maintain a quorum on this thread



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...rliamentarians

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

As a point of order, it is difficult to maintain a quorum on this thread



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...rliamentarians

Yer, out of order, chuckle.

[CaseyMO]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I posted a photo of Mrs Cooper's Hobby Shop (her home) a few years ago and now I cannot find it. But a current look on west Lexington via Google, shows the house either to be gone or someone has boxed in the front of the house and changed its color. That Burger Chef either replaced the Natatorium or was next to the filled in Natatorium site.

Here you go...

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by CaseyMO

Here you go...

That white house with the awnings next to it is gone also.

[pearjas]

Yay!!!

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Good job, you're hired!

[WCHS'59]

What was once Jim's Tamales at Highway 24 and Arlington became Grandpa's Cafe three years ago. The place was wiped out around 1:30 am yesterday by a Volvo SUV in a 100 mph crash by a drunken driver being chased by the Independence Police.

The Police did back off at about Sterling prior to the crash but continued the pursuit. The driver could not make the curve at Arlington.

The driver had five outstanding warrants in Jackson County and had been convicted eight times previously for suspended or revoked drivers license.

[WCHS'59]

From the Examiner 100 years ago this week:

"A proposition to move the old log courthouse, Jackson County’s first court house, from this city to Swope Park, has provoked a discussion. The house, which has been owned for many years by Mayor Christian Ott, was given by him last spring to the county court for the people of the county. He said he would take care of it until he needed the ground for other purposes. He told Judge Stephen C. Woodson of the county court that that time had come and that Swope Park would be the most suitable place. Mayor Ott said he had been trying for a year to study out some suitable place in Independence, but had not succeeded."




If the old courthouse had been moved to Swope Park one hundred years ago rather than staying In Independence on west Kansas street, I doubt if it would look near as good as it does today.