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Old 12-22-2016, 02:28 PM
 
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Thanks! No longer there, then. No wonder I haven't seen it. Was remembering a smallish, brick building.
They were my pediatricians also. And I think they eventually were over in the red brick building south of Lexington. Forgot the name of it. Might have also been where Victor Drumm Bowles had his orthodontic practice.


I recall the building is still there.
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Old 12-22-2016, 08:18 PM
 
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They were my pediatricians also. And I think they eventually were over in the red brick building south of Lexington. Forgot the name of it. Might have also been where Victor Drumm Bowles had his orthodontic practice.


I recall the building is still there.
Try 311 W. Kansas .... I've misplaced my trusty notes from Polk's (they're somewhere around here) but that address also rings the bell and it was home to a lawyer who's name I recognized, either Piedemonte or JD Williamson.

Nope, check that. It's 317, Piedimonte Law

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Old 12-23-2016, 12:49 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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My family moved to Independence in 1946 from southeast Kansas right after my father came back from the war.

Every Christmas thereafter, until I became a knowing person, my mom would take me up to Bundschu's department store on north main and we would go down into their "bargain basement." This was where they would discount and sell all the stuff that did not sell on the three or four floors, above. In the basement, I would wait in line and then sit on Santa Claus's knee and tell him what I wanted for Christmas.

Red Ryder [played by Allen "Rocky" Lane or Wild Bill Elliot and of course, Robert "Bobby" Blake as Little Beaver] was a big deal in the movies in those years and one year I told Mr. C. that I wanted a Red Ryder BB gun. He looked at me and said he was afraid that I could shoot someone's eye out and then proceeded to give me a talk about BB guns. I was so deflated by what he said that I knew there was no way he was ever going to leave one in my house.

I was twelve when I got one for a present.


I watched "Polar Express" last night and that brought the above to mind.

Back in those early days, one of the things that got me to wondering about this guy Claus was that we had no chimney for him to come down. My mom explained that when people did not have one, he came in through the front door. I thought that odd since I knew we always locked the door before retiring. But, I accepted that explanation for a year or two more. I had the measles at Christmas when I was finally told there was no Santa Claus and by then there was so much scuttlebutt at school that I was not surprised or even disappointed.
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Old 12-23-2016, 03:38 PM
 
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Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

My gift to y'all this year is a quiz.

What do the following have in common?
-Dixon Park
-Ridgeway
-Sheffield
-____ _____ Power House
-____ _____ Shooting Park
-Oak Grove Park
-Beaumont
-St. Clair
-
-Park Junction
-Kirkwood
-McClure
-Evanston
-Arlington
-Fairland Heights
-Hawthorne
-Bristol
-
-
-
-Norwood
-Tisdwell
-Proctor
-Pacific

The winner will receive some slightly used wrapping paper after December 26th!

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Old 12-23-2016, 04:52 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

My gift to y'all this year is a quiz.

What do the following have in common?
-Dixon Park
-Ridgeway
-Sheffield
-____ _____ Power House
-____ _____ Shooting Park
-Oak Grove Park
-Beaumont
-St. Clair
-
-Park Junction
-Kirkwood
-McClure
-Evanston
-Arlington
-Fairland Heights
-Hawthorne
-Bristol
-
-
-
-Norwood
-Tisdwell
-Proctor
-Pacific

The winner will receive some slightly used wrapping paper after December 26th!


Colonel Thomas H. Swope was quite familiar with all those places, almost on a daily basis.
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Old 12-24-2016, 05:43 PM
 
Location: Independence, MO
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Old 12-24-2016, 10:04 PM
 
Location: South of KC
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Dr's Van Bibber & Pugh were also my doctors in the 50's to 1970. Somewhere in this forum I asked for their original office location and someone told me where it was. My wife and I found it. Also found Dr Van Bibber's obit on the Internet. He was an impressive man.
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Old 12-25-2016, 07:05 AM
 
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Merry Christmas Independence!
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Old 12-25-2016, 02:21 PM
 
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It was W Kansas but there must have been two buildings there in 1960, which would have been two years before the move near The San.

The newer building (which still stands) must have replaced both, likely Dr Bowles took over the area and build his own building, and is number 317. There is no room for a 321 to the west.




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That's why I put the name in at the last minute, in case it rang anyone's bell. Also, we might attract future contributors who might be Googling the names.

107 Old Courthouse Bldg Civic Relief Comm. Community Welfare League Jackson Co United Funds & Council

115 Harbin Agency bookkeeping Yeager-Sermon Insurance

117 Vacant

119 Leathercraft Shop (Chas R. Bray)

123 MWC

@ S. Liberty intersects

215 City P&L

219-221 Goodwill Industries

@ S. Osage intersects

301 Earle G. Sperry osteo

307 Woodhaven Apts 2 Mrs. "Fannies" (lol, love those old names) 1 Vacant + Herman "Herm's Weinshienk

311 Howard Cook & Co real estate & ins.

315 Land Title & Abstract


317 VanBiber & Pugh phys med (my drs.) Roy H. Schaefer Dentist

321 Victor Drumm Bowles dentist (my orthodontist)

@ S. Spring intersects
@ S. Pleasant intersects
(Not open between S. Pleasant and S. Union)

@ S. Union (800 block begins)

.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

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Old 12-26-2016, 08:29 AM
 
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My gift to y'all this year is a quiz.

I have filled in some blanks to help you.

What do the following have in common?
-Dixon Park
-Ridgeway
-Sheffield
-Blue River west side Power House
-Blue River east side Shooting Park
-Oak Grove Park
-Beaumont
-St. Clair
-Mount Washington
-Park Junction
-Kirkwood
-McClure
-Evanston
-Arlington
-Fairland Heights
-Hawthorne
-Bristol
-Maywood
-Englewood
-Fairmount

-Norwood
-Tisdwell
-Proctor
-Pacific
-Independence

The winner will receive some slightly used wrapping paper after December 26th!

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