Long ago on independence square (Kansas City, North Kansas City: real estate, 2015, hotel)

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

“The SMASHER Strikes Again”

“The Carpet Store that Has More”

You have 30 minutes . . . good luck

John Chezik, home of the desk-smashing good deals!

Carpet Corner.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Ok, since y’all are fallin’ all over yourselves to answer my Drivia Qs, let’s try this one

Name the three most “popular” public parking lots Two are clearly the largest the third looks to be a bit bigger than two more if you name any of the two I will give you credit. So you get five to make three

Now I know what Sally36 felt like in The Early Years.

Sam's was probably the biggest parking lot operator, especially around old Municipal Stadium.

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

John Chezik, home of the desk-smashing good deals!

Carpet Corner.

Smashingly good, Mate

No on the carpeting

Yes on Sams. At least as far as number of lots, I’m seeing two larger. Sams may have as many or more spaces because its lots were pretty big but again think of downtown for the top two

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

"W-(snap)-H-B, dial seventy-one. Kansas City, Miss-ooo-reee. (spoken) World's Happiest Broadcasters!"

Maybe the only radio station in the Kansas City market whose required top-of-the-hour FCC station ID was sung rather than spoken.

Of course, I grew up listening to KPRS as much as or more than I did WHB. Every morning during drive time, the station would shout out names of area high schools followed by the bridge of the chorus of the song "Soul People." That meant someone who went to that school listened to the station and called to check in. You could probably guess what most of those were, but one of them — "Truman High!" — is relevant to this discussion, and another — "Pembroke-Country Day!" — surprised me until I went there. (Pem-Day graduated its first Black student in 1973, three years before I graduated. There were 10 of us in an Upper School student body of about 225 when I was going through the school. I would have been its first Black valedictorian, but my grades slipped in the last semester of senior year, and I graduated second after being at the head of the class from the day I entered seventh grade in 1970. A very popular former Lower School teacher — my brother was in his class in fourth grade — told me some years later that the slip to second place may not have been due to slacking off on my part, even though I know I did slip off my pace that last semester.)

Interesting info on the jingle producer.



The President Hotel?

And now I'm stumped on the restaurant. Self-service: that usually means a cafeteria, and I gave the old jingle for the Forum, Myron Green's big rival downtown, many posts upthread ("When you're really looking...for modern homestyle cooking..."). Or was it also the Forum? Putsch's, the third member of the Kansas City cafeteria triumvirate, was on the Plaza.

Yes, the Forum. I can still picture the sliced cucumbers in vinegar side? And the breaded baked fish fillet

My wife remembers the desserts

I didn’t catch the Forum jingle I saw the “excellent service” as a tad misleading, but hey. By the way the Forum was actually one of a chain of restaurants that was also located in other cities. I always thought it was a Kansas City only

No on The President.

Any others? Or shall I reveal the elusive answers?

[CaseyMO]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

The "convention center" is a locally-famous hotel

I'm guessing here since I don't recall any of the jingles. How about Muehlebach Hotel?

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by CaseyMO

I'm guessing here since I don't recall any of the jingles. How about Muehlebach Hotel?

A Gold Medal for the 100% responder

The Muehlebach is correct!

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Ok, I’m shooting blanks on Jingles, so

A new Category is “KC Boomer Business Slogans”. I believe we all qualify as Boomers. Well, maybe not all . . Ahem

These come from Polks KC Mo 1970, Classified Business Ads, arranged alphabetically by business type (if that’s any help). Also, most of these businesses are known to y’all

“The SMASHER Strikes Again”

“Truly a Family Store”

“The Wonderful World of Banking”

“Good Food . . . Excellent Service”.

“The Carpet Store that Has More”

“Home Furnishings Since 1872”

“HI NEIGHBOR!”

“Midwest’s Finest Convention Center”

“@ (blank) The AGENT is Key Man”

“The One Stop Yard Where You Can Get Everything”

“Any Kind of Lumber . . . Kansas City’s Largest Lumber Yard”

“Kansas City’s Most Popular AM and FM Radio Stations”

“Born and Raised in Northtown”

“The Color News Station”

You have 30 minutes . . . good luck

Collectively, y'all didn't do too good Now drop and give me twentee

Western Auto

Kopp's

Kansas City Life

Cash Bargain

Schutte Lumber

KMBZ/KMBR

Farmland Industries

KMBC CH. 9

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

I didn’t catch the Forum jingle I saw the “excellent service” as a tad misleading, but hey. By the way the Forum was actually one of a chain of restaurants that was also located in other cities. I always thought it was a Kansas City only

Damn, I should have gotten the Muehlebach, which built a "convention center" addition in the late 1960s just to the north of the hotel proper; as I recall, the addition spanned the block from Baltimore Avenue to Wyandotte Street.

As for the Forum: When a Southwest High grad I knew and I drove cross-country from Kansas City to our colleges — I dropped him off in Williamstown before proceeding across Massachusetts on State Route 2 headed for Cambridge — we stopped in downtown Cleveland and ate at the Forum Cafeteria on East 9th Street there. What other cities did they have locations in?

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Collectively, y'all didn't do too good Now drop and give me twentee

Western Auto

Kopp's

Kansas City Life

Cash Bargain

Schutte Lumber

KMBZ/KMBR

Farmland Industries

KMBC CH. 9

<huff, puff>

Kansas City and Boston have this in common:

Iconic neon signs that got preserved and serve still as local landmarks.

In Boston, it's the very animated Citgo sign that overlooks Kenmore Square.

In Kansas City, of course, it's the old logo sign atop the former Western Auto headquarters.

The only difference: Citgo is still in business.

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

Barney Allis Plaza (the Municipal Auditorium garage)*

1200 block McGee Street; this one had a BBQ joint in a building on its north side; that place's neon sign flashed briefly during that KCPT/Flatland KC documentary on burnt ends made a few years ago, with one alteration. I think the guy who ran the place had the last name Edwards

There was a pretty large one across from the Empire (later AMC Mainstreet, now Alamo Drafthouse, I think) theater at 14th and Main. Or is my memory playing tricks with me here?

*Here's a trivia question about the Municipal Auditorium garage, which opened about 20 years after the auditorium did: It's entirely underground on the 12th Street side, but its top level is above ground across 13th from the auditorium. Why is this so?

Hmmm

Because underground parking typically winds downward anyway? So this is just part of the spiral and especially being later in time construction, it was the only/best way to go.

Or . . . there is a flooding issue? Wild guess