Long ago on independence square (Liberty, Lexington: prettiest, exclusive, love)

[MRG Dallas]

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Originally Posted by WCHS'59

From the Pearjas Collection: the former JC Penny Store, which was the official headquarters for Boy Scout and Cub Scout uniforms and equipment. Pack 146 and Troop 146 of Eden Heights Church on east Sea avenue was where I was a member.

The Courthouse Exchange restaurant is down stairs and may very well be the best dining place around the square. I asked one time if there were plans for the upstairs and was advised there were but it was unknown.

The walls in the dining area are the original rubble or stone foundation walls for the basement. There is reportedly a ghost living in that downstairs area and or upstairs but I have yet to meet a waitress that has seen it.

Courthouse Exchange says it has been on the square since 1899 and used to be in the 100 block of east Maple.

101 Lanes Shoes
103 Western Army Store (can't believe it's still there)
105 Vacant
107 Gibbons Cafe Missouri Sewing Machine Co.
109 Singer Sewing Center Peiser Bldg.
111 Bunting Hardware
113-115 JCP
115 Martin Bldg. JCP Lunch Room
119 DuVall's
121 Bunyar Drug Owens-Wyatt Bldg. Everett Saunders, physician
123 Slusher Shoes
129 FNB
129-131 FNB Bldg (tons of lawyers here) Bogert & Brown Prescriptions



I'm curious as to what was in the now empty lot to the east of The Courthouse Exchange. Also, where did CE used to be?





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[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Judging from the many female names on the 1960 address of those apts. I bet many of your teachers lived there

I knew two from William Chrisman who did. And it seems to me one of the McCoy teachers might have lived there also. There might have been others.

[WCHS'59]

101 Lanes Shoes
103 Western Army Store (can't believe it's still there)
105 Vacant
107 Gibbons Cafe Missouri Sewing Machine Co.
109 Singer Sewing Center Peiser Bldg.
111 Bunting Hardware
113-115 JCP
115 Martin Bldg. JCP Lunch Room
119 DuVall's
121 Bunyar Drug Owens-Wyatt Bldg. Everett Saunders, physician
123 Slusher Shoes
129 FNB
129-131 FNB Bldg (tons of lawyers here) Bogert & Brown Prescriptions

MRG,

If someone were to have asked me, I would have said Slusher shoes was over on north Liberty past Bank of Independence. Must have been someone else over there.

Rather than wear clothing issued by WCHS ROTC that had been used and reused every year for many years, I purchased my ROTC outfit at the Western Army Store.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

It's a home decor and design center

It was Tucker Furniture at 205 W. Lexington. Turner Music (at least in 1960) was further west at 405

Yes, Turner Music did move in there at a later date displacing Tucker.

That building is only one story. Must have been a major fire at that location at some point in time and they only built back the one story.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by pearjas

Well I think I have it figured out! Link to album: 2013 Photos by independencesquare | Photobucket

Great job, but there is a major problem! You have generated so many posts I'm having trouble keeping up!!! I have some shots of some of these from the 1970s, I'll try to match them up with yours.

[SilverDoc]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

It's a home decor and design center

It was Tucker Furniture at 205 W. Lexington. Turner Music (at least in 1960) was further west at 405

After Turner Music moved into the former Tucker's Furniture:

[SilverDoc]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

It's a home decor and design center

It was Tucker Furniture at 205 W. Lexington. Turner Music (at least in 1960) was further west at 405

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

101 Lanes Shoes
103 Western Army Store (can't believe it's still there)
105 Vacant
107 Gibbons Cafe Missouri Sewing Machine Co.
109 Singer Sewing Center Peiser Bldg.
111 Bunting Hardware
113-115 JCP
115 Martin Bldg. JCP Lunch Room
119 DuVall's
121 Bunyar Drug Owens-Wyatt Bldg. Everett Saunders, physician
123 Slusher Shoes
129 FNB
129-131 FNB Bldg (tons of lawyers here) Bogert & Brown Prescriptions

MRG,

If someone were to have asked me, I would have said Slusher shoes was over on north Liberty past Bank of Independence. Must have been someone else over there.

Rather than wear clothing issued by WCHS ROTC that had been used and reused every year for many years, I purchased my ROTC outfit at the Western Army Store.

I've always remembered Slusher's being on the south side of Lexington.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

After Turner Music moved into the former Tucker's Furniture:

I think there is still a drug store there on the right hand of the picture at the alley.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

I've always remembered Slusher's being on the south side of Lexington.

He, Don Slusher a Democrat, was elected mayor in the sixties when all the Democrats had been pushed out of power by the Good Government League candidates. He apparently managed to do that by being a very popular shoe store owner.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

From the Pearjas Collection: the good ole Plaza Theater or what use to be, chuckle.

Other than the Plaza I remember it as the home of DuVall's Womens Clothing, which I thought was an upscale shop.

This is how those buildings looked in the early 1970s.