Long ago on independence square (Kansas City, Country Club: tournaments, home, purchase)

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Malta Bend is also the resting place for buried treasure in the form of a sunken riverboat. The Hawley family (Steamboat Arabia) has set their targets on excavating that one next.

I knew you'd have the response Thx

Just flipping thru '63 Polk's Independence . . . so many names, personally and businesses, the Good Ol Daze fer shure

Many of my RJH classmates are listed, having Independence addresses. The way the City and Raytown Skool District weaved its way thru generally 51st between Noland and Blue Ridge Blvd And to the north. An ex gf lived in the 3700 block of Scott Yet I had friends who would go to Truman at 41st St Terrace, which would be ten blocks north of where we would move in early 1965

I've been away for so long that it's difficult for me to imagine certain roads/intersections. Somehow I cannot picture Blue Ridge north of I-70

Not that I had any reason to go that way

I am also amazed looking at the Rand StreetGuide how close so many things dear and precious to me were. Why did things seem like further away when we were kids? I'm generally looking from Pittman west, LS Rd east. 23rd north, and 72nd south. All on the same page

That wasn't my entire world back then, and could have gone further west, but pretty much added a visual perspective.

Sorry for the rambling . . . just feeling nostalgic

[MRG Dallas]

Who can correctly ID the TG&Ys Locations (approx)

I was going to tell you how many, but decided against it, owing to your Collective Genius

1963

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Who can correctly ID the TG&Ys Locations (approx)

I was going to tell you how many, but decided against it, owing to your Collective Genius

1963

My fuzzy memory thinks there was one in Fairmount. There was definitely one at 24 Hiway & River, but I don't know if it was there by 1963.

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

My fuzzy memory thinks there was one in Fairmount. There was definitely one at 24 Hiway & River, but I don't know if it was there by 1963.

If 10301 Independence Ave is Fairmount, then give yourself one credit. I keep getting inconsistent markings on both Google Maps and Mapquest

You are correct on the other, 24 Hiway Shopping Center. It was, however, an original tenant since the SC was constructed same time as Truman Library, circa 1957 You are thus credited another point

Any more? Anyone else?

[MRG Dallas]

Ok in an attempt to Wake Up The Echoes of this thread, I'm doubling down on the number of Five and Dimes

So opening up the playbook to include ALL TG&Ys and "others"

PS Bonus . . . the slogan in the first sentence is associated with what?

No cheating, TIA

[MRG Dallas]

More Drivia:

The answer is: In 1957 Thomas J Lipton Inc acquired a locally-owned regional "food" company, which is now nationally famous and sold in all 50 states TJL Inc expanded its Independence plant and distribution facilities in 1962 to accommodate this acquisition

In the form of a question, please.

You have 30 seconds, good luck.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

More Drivia:

The answer is: In 1957 Thomas J Lipton Inc acquired a locally-owned regional "food" company, which is now nationally famous and sold in all 50 states TJL Inc expanded its Independence plant and distribution facilities in 1962 to accommodate this acquisition

In the form of a question, please.

You have 30 seconds, good luck.

What was the Wish-Bone restaurant?

This old-school landmark was located on top of the hill at 45th and Main streets, overlooking the Country Club Plaza. Lipton bought the restaurant because of its salad dressing, which had become regionally famous; now it's a famous national brand.

Meanwhile, the restaurant is no more; it met its demise in the late 1980s, IIRC.

[kcmo70]

I used to get my grade school supplies at the TG&Y at Independence Avenue and White. There used to be a Western Auto store close by. I know it's not in Independence.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by kcmo70

I used to get my grade school supplies at the TG&Y at Independence Avenue and White. There used to be a Western Auto store close by. I know it's not in Independence.

TG&Y! There was one of those in the Swope Parkway shopping center about 3/4 mile south of where I lived.

That was one of the regional "five and dime" chains that competed with Woolworth's. (Sam Walton ran one on the square in Bentonville, Ark., in the 1960s. Then, like Kresge and Woolworth, he got this idea that a discount department store would do well. The rest is history.)

But can anybody tell me what TG&Y stood for?

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

TG&Y! There was one of those in the Swope Parkway shopping center about 3/4 mile south of where I lived.

That was one of the regional "five and dime" chains that competed with Woolworth's. (Sam Walton ran one on the square in Bentonville, Ark., in the 1960s. Then, like Kresge and Woolworth, he got this idea that a discount department store would do well. The rest is history.)

But can anybody tell me what TG&Y stood for?

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