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Old 08-19-2014, 09:38 AM
 
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Recently, in fact.

The Carmel Hills
That is the current occupant of the space shown. Your job is to identify the 1957 occupant.
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Old 08-19-2014, 10:59 AM
 
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That is the current occupant of the space shown. Your job is to identify the 1957 occupant.
Should I decided to accept it . . .

Cairns Nursery
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Old 08-19-2014, 01:30 PM
 
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Should I decided to accept it . . .

Cairns Nursery
Let me get the opinion of our judge...

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Here are two photos appearing in the Spring 2007 issue of the Jackson County Historical Society Journal. The article is "On the Right Side of the Tracks: Wyandotte, Kansas City & Northwestern Then and Now" by Ernest W. Griffin, as mentioned by Major Tom 58.

The photo of Walnut and Crane would appear to be that of Walnut facing east. If so, the area to the left with the two buildings was where the Cairns Greenhouses would later appear (but set back a ways) and those greehouses have now been replaced with the Carmel Hills Living Center.
I do believe he concurs, thus you are the winner!!!
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Old 08-19-2014, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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Let me get the opinion of our judge...



I do believe he concurs, thus you are the winner!!!



They had a retail operation in there also. I recall driving in off Walnut Street to order a Cymbidium Orchid corsage for delivery to my Dickinson Road sweetie for a formal dance.



They used coal to fire the greenhouses during the winter. There were huge stacks piled up along the track area. I don’t know if they unloaded directly from rail cars or had to buy from a local jobber. There might have been double tracks along there at one time.



The thing about coal is that the handling of inventory is on a LIFO basis. Last In, First Out. So, it is likely when the area was cleared for the Carmel Hills complex that there was coal there that had been delivered, fifty, seventy, eighty years from the time of cleanup. I do recall that area as being really filthy.


It looks like Cairns is still in business with a retail shop along the 4400 block of south Noland Road.


I think I mentioned once before that Kansas Street had a bridge across the railroad tracks that seemed to end in the greenhouse area. The only time I recall driving across that bridge was around 1958 shortly before it was condemned and then the city decided not to replace it. In fact, I think I drove across it right after I ordered the orchid; I had to get back up town for some reason and went up Kansas.


Cairns also had a perpetual advertisement in the Granada Theater with a circular subdued lighted clock to the right of the screen.
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Old 08-19-2014, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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Those were cues for the projectionist. In days of old the movies came on multiple reels. It would start on one projector, and be switched to a second at the end of the reel. A good projectionist made the switches seamlessly. By the 1970s someone had designed a giant horizontal reel. The entire movie would be spliced together onto this platform, thus no need to switch.
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A lot of people were unaware of that. Sometimes it seemed as though the signal came when there was action to come and as a kid I thought that is what the signal was. Most of the time, one was so immersed in the movie, the splotch was not noticed as there were several changes made. It was not a standard sized splotch either. Sometimes it was small and sometimes it was really noticeable. Sometimes it seemed as though someone in Hollywood just took a stylus of some kind and scratched a small mark in a few frames.


We were speaking of a small signal in the upper right of the screen to alert the projectionist it was time to change projectors.

I was watching an old movie the other night and the signal in this film was a huge oval in the upper right. I had never seen the projectionist signal being so big nor being oval shape. It was usually just a small circle. Of course, the delivery of this film to the cable viewer was by DVD but the mark was copied from the original print.

The movie was "The Mountain Men" with Charlton Hesston and Brian Keith. This movie has a one star rating but I have always enjoyed watching it.

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Old 08-19-2014, 05:27 PM
 
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I want to "hear" MRG sing again. More music trivia.
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Old 08-19-2014, 06:49 PM
 
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I want to "hear" MRG sing again. More music trivia.

You name it, I'll sing it.

How bout this one:

Major Tom to ground control . . Major Tom to ground control . . .
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Old 08-19-2014, 08:01 PM
 
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You name it, I'll sing it.

How bout this one:

Major Tom to ground control . . Major Tom to ground control . . .


(That is a thumbs up and not the finger)
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Old 08-20-2014, 01:13 AM
 
Location: Independence, MO
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Here's a 1976 night shot of 40 & Hardy. Just a vacant lot today.
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Old 08-20-2014, 05:47 PM
 
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Sorry trivia fans, I have been busy, busy, busy. Here is a quick quiz...

During Truman's presidential administration which two cabinet posts were deleted?
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