1951. Article of the planned Indian Hills
neighborhood, about 1951. It talks about the developer preserving the mounds---and did not happen. All prehistoric remains were destroyed. He was also the attorney for the City at the time. Vic Panus.
July 27, 1955 Crash at Riverside Speedway.
Brenner Ridge School, 1956Mrs. Clark's first grade class, posted by Ronnie Abner
Red X fire April 23, 1957After two major floods and a previous fire, then this happened.
Below: Same view in 2022 as above photo.
The Pride gas station is (in 2018) the home of Larry's Nursery.
1957March 31
Belgian Bottoms
1957. Big Top opens & McCalls. Dog n Sud
is out frame to the left. Big Top later become McCall's. It is now the Garney
Waterfall.
McCalls would later own the Big Top station.
A few months later it became a Champlin station and Bill Coen worked there a while and shared a photo of his shirt.
October 25, 1957
Skyline Inn
1957This was just before it opened. I would eventually be town down 50 years later in 2007.
More photos under the 60's and 93 to present tabs.
1957Gale Stockwell & St. Matthew's
Stockwell was a Nationally known watercolor artist who lived in Platte Woods. This is of St. Matthew's Church how it looked to him in that year where he took some artistic license in showing downtown KC. From this perspective, you actually can't see downtown. We see a parsonage which was later removed and another one built further back where that one was removed in the early 1990's.
Connie'sGale Fleming. This was my parents grocery store, named after me! My parents Sam and. Katie, built the store in 1958/9 and they owned it until about 196-7when My dad had his first heart problem, then the leased the the store to John and Mary Capps. They had a five year lease, then we sold it to Ed and. Kathy Rule, the rest is history!met wonderful people there who traded with my parents! People loved them also! Great memories!
Here's the same building in 2018.
Trails End MotelThe motel was located just north and east of the Line Creek bridge at Gateway. It it's later years, it became a strip mall of antique shops and a Gyro's restaurant. It was destroyed after the 93 flood.
1957September 12
Filger Oil
1957Air photo of downtown. The main intersection is now Vivion and Gateway. Northeast of the intersection was the Park A Nite motel. Southeast was the Filger Oil building which also had Reece's Cafe (future Corner Cafe). Behind all that was baseball fields and a miniature golf course.
1958Red X, east entrance view
1958. The White Superior Bus
and Equipment business. It was located at Woodland and Gateway. It began as Scott's Feed Store and was later torn down and rebuilt to be Harry's Factory Outlet. In later years, Harry's moved to Northmoor (2017) and is no longer in business.