Long ago on independence square (Lee's Summit, Liberty: investor, sale, credit)

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Where was a business located that was commonly known as B&B?

What sort of business was it?

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Oops, I wasn't aware of that one. I'll add that the business I refer to was there in 1959, and lasted for many more years.

Perhaps this clue will help...

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Perhaps this clue will help...

Bogart and Brown?

What did I win?

[ChuckWC75]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

In the forties, fifties, and sixties in Independence, as elsewhere, one could sit down at the lunch counter in Kresge’s or Woolworth’s on Maple or Kresge's at Maple and Main and buy a nonfood item.



This item was probably the only nonfood item one could buy at the lunch counter.


The lunch counter kept it in an upside down bottle attached to a metal device.


What is this item?

Perhaps Alka-Seltzer. I think I remember some sort of dispenser. If so, not a very good advertisement for the food.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Bogart and Brown?

What did I win?

One free prescription refill at the B&B Maywood location.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by ChuckWC75

Perhaps Alka-Seltzer. I think I remember some sort of dispenser. If so, not a very good advertisement for the food.

No not Alka Seltzer, but close. Close enough.


Bromo Seltzer was prominent on the counter in a large cobalt blue bottle turned upside down on a metal dispenser that dispensed the right amount of granules. The large label on the bottle was turned upside down for easy customer reading. The waitress placed a glass of water (real glass) under the dispenser and turned a knob getting the exact amount needed. I think the price was ten cents.


I did not think it was a good advertisement for the food either but the practice actually came from the older days when one could not get instant relief in a drug store, so the Bromo Company sold the idea to a number of lunch counters across the country. They prepared the stock in the special larger upside bottle. Apparently, there were no solid tabs or tablets sold in the drug store in those days.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

One free prescription refill at the B&B Maywood location.

Oops, make that one free prescription at Bogart & Brown's Englewood location, or their other location in the First National Bank building on the Square.

The BB Super Drugs on Truman Road in Maywood was not connected with Bogart & Brown's. It was owned by Benjamin Bloustine.

[Mad Anthonie]

Although cable TV began in 1948, it did not come to our area until the 1970s, when Jackson County Cable TV began from a small office at 1600 S Noland.

What "Cable" business did we have in Independence in 1959?

[WCHS'59]

1933-1950, Childers Prescription Shop
Brothers William H. Childers and A. Layle “Petey” Childers opened Childers Prescription Shop in 1933 in the lobby of the First National Bank at Liberty and Lexington. Petey was only two years out of high school but had attended Kansas City Pharmacy School long enough to be pharmacist qualified. A few years later Ralph Thomas became a partner and the three ran the business until 1950. The shop was the favorite of Harry and Bess Truman.


1950
Childers, Childers, and Thomas sold their interest in Childers Prescription Shop to Frank R Brown Jr. The $100,000 sale [$988,863, today] included three prescription delivery cars. The prescription shop was only valued at $30,000 to $40,000. However, the sales amount included a large sum for goodwill, that is, Brown (and Bogart) could capitalize on the Childers name with the contract authorizing the buyer to retain the name of Childers Prescription Shop. The sales amount also included an amount that was paid to insure none of the three sellers would compete with the new owners for a period of five years.


The written contract also specified that Childers, Childers, and Thomas could continue to work at the drug store after the sale—at the behest of Brown.


The written contract specified that Childers, Childers, and Thomas could not engage in working in the pharmacy business anywhere within Independence or in Jackson County outside of the city limits of Kansas City for the next five years. Additionally, the three could not work in any other pharmacy in Independence or work anywhere in Jackson County outside of Kansas City for five years.


However, a verbal agreement specified that Childers, Childers, and Thomas could keep working for Brown at their old drug store for up to five years or beyond. They were to be paid $2 per hour [$19.78, today].


Subsequently, Bogart discharged Petey Childers after Petey left for an entire summer vacation in Colorado. The other two men worked for Brown for a very short time and then they were both discharged.


Damon Bogart was a partner of Brown but his name did not appear on the sales contract.

1951, Childers vs Brown
Petey Childers sued Brown for breach of contract for not letting him work after he returned from Colorado, but the court specified that the verbal contract was not enforceable and the written contract specified the three would work only at the behest of Brown.

1951, the Professional Pharmacy
Soon after Petey Childers lost the lawsuit in 1951, he opened the Professional Pharmacy at 8516 Winner Road just inside the eastern city limits of Kansas City, Mo. He paid the phone company $39 per month [$385.66, today] to have Independence phone number 4340 at his Kansas City location. At that time in history, it was a long distance toll call to Kansas City that could not be dialed. By calling the Independence number customers avoided any phone charges.


Petey also advertised in the Independence Examiner, the Independence Daily News, the Jackson County Democrat, the Pictorial News, and the Inter City News. Free delivery was granted to anyone in the Independence and Jackson County area. All they had to do was call IN 4340.

Brown v Childers, 1953
Brown sued Childers in 1953 for breach of contract and won his case forcing the new Childers Drug Store out of business.

1954
It is unclear when the First National Bank drugstore adopted the name Bogart and Brown but a 1954 yearbook shows it as Bogart and Brown.

After
After the five-year period was up, Petey Childers opened a pharmacy shop in 1956 at 10900 Winner Road in Englewood. Harry and Bess Truman followed him there. He retired in 1991. His name “Petey” was mentioned as a druggist on, I think, the Green Acres television show as the local pharmacist. Paul Henning the show’s creator was from Independence. Petey was 38 at the time of sale in 1950 and he died in 1997.


The new Bogart and Brown drug store at 10919 E Winner Road may have been the two partners sensing that the square location would soon go in the dumper. They located a few doors away from Childers.


If Google Earth is correct, the current 10919 Winner Road address has been seriously boxed in putting the storefront entirely along the sidewalk.


If Google Earth is correct, that Kansas City 8516 Winner Road address is a cruddy looking area today.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Although cable TV began in 1948, it did not come to our area until the 1970s, when Jackson County Cable TV began from a small office at 1600 S Noland.

What "Cable" business did we have in Independence in 1959?

Gene Cable Chevrolet

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Although cable TV began in 1948, it did not come to our area until the 1970s, when Jackson County Cable TV began from a small office at 1600 S Noland.

What "Cable" business did we have in Independence in 1959?

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

Gene Cable Chevrolet

That was the answer I expected would show up quickly. Now give me the other "Cable" business also around in 1959.