Long ago on independence square (Lee's Summit, Liberty: apartment, hotel, houses)

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Those landmarks were the Independence Hotel (aka Watkins and a host of other names), and the Vaile Mansion.

Samuel Locke Sawyer built this house as a gift for his daughter Fannie. She married William L McCoy, a local realtor and merchant. He was a nephew to our first mayor.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

She owned a baby blue Thunderbird, by the way.

Walter Jones would know, also.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by pearjas

Here's a curveball! Can anyone name what this place is (or was?) It's been mentioned on here a time or two and the actual address has been talked about as well.

The house in the background looks similar to one a friend used to live in. Is this in the 600 block of West Lexington?

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by pearjas

Here's a curveball! Can anyone name what this place is (or was?) It's been mentioned on here a time or two and the actual address has been talked about as well.

I believe this to be the burned out bowling alley (Kirby Bowl?) on west Lexington. The building was eventually rebuilt and occupied by Moody Motors Ford.

Moody Motors is where Walter Jones met Sharon Kinne when she brought her Thunderbird in for service. Kinne killed her first husband and blamed it on their tot daughter. Collecting the insurance, she bought the Thunderbird. When Jones refused to divorce his wife and marry her, she killed Patricia Jones, his wife. Pumped four bullets into her on a then desolate Phelps Road.

As to the house in the background, the current house to the west does not seem to match the profile, but Google aerial shows a vacant lot just to the west with what looks to be a footprint of a house size structure. Its location, though, is very close to the former Moody Motors. Therefore, I could be whistling Dixie.

The home barely seen in the far background could be the present day house.

[Mad Anthonie]

This fine house has graced Independence since 1896. Where is it?

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

This fine house has graced Independence since 1896. Where is it?

It was later occupied by a city councilman. His family is well known for something else.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

This fine house has graced Independence since 1896. Where is it?

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

It was later occupied by a city councilman. His family is well known for something else.

Originally the home of Mathew Smith it was later the Hawley home. The Hawley family opened the Steamboat Arabia Museum after digging the river boat out of a farm field. This fine old structure is on 24 Highway near Lee's Summit Road.

[Mad Anthonie]

Welcome to the Weekend Where's? Your assignment is to identify the street running E-W across the center of this 1957 view.

Extra credit for identifying individual structures!

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Welcome to the Weekend Where's? Your assignment is to identify the street running E-W across the center of this 1957 view.

Extra credit for identifying individual structures!

A stone's throw from the not seen summer white house.

Lexington and Union on the west end.

The portion west of Union was once called Electric Street.

The Granada theater is mostly out of range on Spring Street.



Lexington and Spring on the east end.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

A stone's throw from the not seen summer white house.

Lexington and Union on the west end.

The portion west of Union was once called Electric Street.

The Granada theater is mostly out of range on Spring Street.



Lexington and Spring on the east end.

Well darn, that was too easy! Perhaps I should look for something a tad tougher.