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Old 02-18-2021, 04:36 PM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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Buy yourself a fancy cigar! The phone company charged $25 to install a mobile phone, the other $200 was the average cost to beef up the electrical system in the car to feed the tubes in the transmitter/receiver.
Which explains why mobile phones were rare sights prior to the development of cellular radio transmission.

Between the amount of hardware you needed to put in your car and the sizable expense ($225 was a good chunk o'change in 1947), I suspect most people regarded mobile phones as a luxury they could do without. Only the true road warriors (traveling salesmen, e.g.) installed them.
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Old 02-18-2021, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Independence, MO
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My wife has a question. She saw a photo of the Milgram Store on the Square at Main and Lexington. Anyone have any sources to say when the store closed? Thanks.
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Old 02-18-2021, 08:41 PM
 
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My wife has a question. She saw a photo of the Milgram Store on the Square at Main and Lexington. Anyone have any sources to say when the store closed? Thanks.

Unfortunately I can't. The uptown store and the new store at 24 Hiway & Dodgion are both listed in the 1960 directory, which is the latest online year I can access from home.
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Old 02-20-2021, 10:54 PM
 
Location: Independence, MO
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Unfortunately I can't. The uptown store and the new store at 24 Hiway & Dodgion are both listed in the 1960 directory, which is the latest online year I can access from home.
That's later than I thought. I don't recall it being there in 1963, but my memory is not the best anymore.
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Old 02-21-2021, 02:20 PM
 
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For you older than me timers-

What restaurant was located at Truman & Osage in 1957? It was associated with a local legend.
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Old 02-21-2021, 04:40 PM
 
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For you older than me timers-

What restaurant was located at Truman & Osage in 1957? It was associated with a local legend.
Ok admittedly, I can’t get this w/o cheating. So in the interest of our friends, I won’t cheat
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Old 02-21-2021, 09:29 PM
 
Location: Independence, MO
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For you older than me timers-

What restaurant was located at Truman & Osage in 1957? It was associated with a local legend.
Besides the bowling alley after it moved there. Blue Valley Federal S&L, and a teen club in the basement on the opposite side of the street, I don't recall anything else.
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Old 02-22-2021, 08:45 AM
 
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That's later than I thought. I don't recall it being there in 1963, but my memory is not the best anymore.
Polk's 1961 still has Milgram's at that 103 S Main location

It's listed as "vacant" by 1963
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Old 02-22-2021, 08:49 AM
 
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Besides the bowling alley after it moved there. Blue Valley Federal S&L, and a teen club in the basement on the opposite side of the street, I don't recall anything else.
I'm stumped too

I might have cheat after all
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Old 02-22-2021, 09:06 AM
 
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What restaurant was located at Truman & Osage in 1957? It was associated with a local legend.
Ok, I'd ordinarily accuse of Fake Question, since by 1961-1963 there is no eatery on N Osage nor on W Truman at that intersection

Local legend? too early for Maris . . . Whitey Herzog? I don't think he was a restauranteur

We also know it wasn't Harry or Bess Truman, the Sermons, the Peaces, the Knoepkers, Sally36 or WCHS

And with my library card expired due to COVID . . . I'm outta luck
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