Long ago on independence square (Kansas City, Overland: bargain, tourists, treasure)

[SilverDoc]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

It's too cold to go out and take a current photo, so y'all can try to find the location of the shot from the past.

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

Here ya go:

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

This is the same site that MAD put up, Wilson and Truman Road with the old Coke facility to the right.

I know what it is, I put it there!! Mad mentioned it was too cold to get a new shot that was in his old photo. I got one and posted it. Capiche?

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

I know what it is, I put it there!! Mad mentioned it was too cold to get a new shot that was in his old photo. I got one and posted it. Capiche?

Sorry, I offended you. That was not my intention. It looks like I might not have understood what you were trying to do.

[SilverDoc]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

Sorry, I offended you. That was not my intention. It looks like I might not have understood what you were trying to do.

No offense taken. I get a bit testy from time to time. No harm, no foul. I'm not always easy to understand.

[Mad Anthonie]

Here is a good chunk of the history of Englewood from today's Examiner.

Ted Stillwell: The Dummy Line and the development of Englewood - Entertainment & Life - Examiner - Independence, MO

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Here is a good chunk of the history of Englewood from today's Examiner.

Ted Stillwell: The Dummy Line and the development of Englewood - Entertainment & Life - Examiner - Independence, MO

I was not aware that Englewood was once incorporated, if only for a short time.

Before I was 16, the Plaza and then the Granada were the theaters of choice. After I began to drive, the Englewood theater was the the movie place of choice. Maywood theater, sometimes, but very seldom. I never attended the Byam theater in Fairmount.

Fairmount and Mt Washington, though, did not come into Independence until 1961 rather than 1948.

[Mad Anthonie]

More information about the Dummy Line is found here...

Missouri Valley Special Collections : Item Viewer

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I was not aware that Englewood was once incorporated, if only for a short time.

Before I was 16, the Plaza and then the Granada were the theaters of choice. After I began to drive, the Englewood theater was the the movie place of choice. Maywood theater, sometimes, but very seldom. I never attended the Byam theater in Fairmount.

Fairmount and Mt Washington, though, did not come into Independence until 1961 rather than 1948.

Granada was my most-frequented, followed by an occasional trip to the Englewood. The Maywood was already a bowling alley in the days of my youth, and I rolled a few games there. The Byam was long gone by then. We did frequent the Fairmount shops, as we lived NW of there until the summer after 3rd grade.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Granada was my most-frequented, followed by an occasional trip to the Englewood. The Maywood was already a bowling alley in the days of my youth, and I rolled a few games there. The Byam was long gone by then. We did frequent the Fairmount shops, as we lived NW of there until the summer after 3rd grade.

Now, you got me to doing a bit of movie nostalgia.

The Electric on north main was in business when I was a kid, but I never went there.

I have not been to the current theaters on the square but I have attended the AMC 20 on 39th Street. I attended the Blue Ridge theaters at the Blue Ridge Mall and the old AMC theaters that were in the Independence Center parking lot. There are or use to be some indoor theaters on 63rd Street in Raytown that I occasionally attended.

I attended all the downtown Kansas City "hard ticket" theaters such as the Empire, Saxon/Midland, Roxy, Capri, etc, where one did not show up without being in coat and tie. There was even a ticket sales area next to the Empire (formerly the RKO) where reserved seat tickets could be purchased in advance to the previously mentioned theaters.

I also went to the Granada in Kansas City, Kansas. I saw the Elvis Presley spoof Bye Bye Birdie there. For some reason, that was the only place in the area playing it. Back in those days, almost all new movies seemed to be spectacular events, whereas, today films like Bye Bye Birdie and many others are uninspiring.

The Uptown on Broadway in KC was a favorite theater that I went to many times. As far as KC neighborhood theaters, I attended the KIMO theater on Main Street once. I always wondered if there was a connection between the KIMO theater and radio station KIMO in the 300 block of north Osage. Apparently not. KIMO seemed to be a popular name for movie theaters, although I do not know the inspiration behind that name.

Radio station KIMO with the "IMO" tried to convey "IndependenceMO". That station may have been the first with those call letters. I was on the big island of Hawaii in the sixties and there was radio station KIMO. They took the call letters when our location station went belly up. Later the call letters went to Montana.

The 40 Hiway drive in at Noland and Forty highway, the Twin on Kentucky, and the Heart in KC, and the 63rd Street drive in in Raytown were probably the only drive ins I went to in the area.

[WCHS'59]

There was another theater I attended, once, in Overland Park on Ward Parkway.

It was a Durwood (now AMC) theater and was advertised as the first twin theater setup in the world.

I went there just to see what a twin theater looked like. I understand those theaters are now closed.

[kcmo70]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I was in the third grade at McCoy in 1949-50. Vada Trask was born in 1898 so she would have been around 52 as the principal.

Not sure when McCoy closed but Trask left McCoy in 1956 to go to administer a new grade school. She died in 1985.

I wonder if we went to the same McCoy? Was there a McCoy in indep? I went to the one at 15th terr & White. Started in 57 and went through the 7th grade in 1964. When I started the principal was Miss Blackburn and the secretary was Miss Davis. Later a Mr. Drake came in to be the principal.