Archive for June 2023
Good OL’ . . .
. . . Thirsty Thursday again,
BUT this time
it ties in with a marketing event —
Cheeseburger In Paradise.
So enjoy the food, booze and entertainment.
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There’s an inmate here
who obviously is
the sap in the family tree.
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Kansas City Links
Memories of Two States
By Sandy Katz
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —- Famous mice, presidents, cartoonists, jazz artists, and shopping-mall entrepreneurs mix and mingle through the history of this border-straddling metropolis that sprouted out of a trading post just east of the Kansas border on a bend of the Missouri River.
The first bridge to span the mighty Missouri was built here shortly after the Civic War, boosting business in the cattle industry as the railroad spread west.
Then, J. C. Nichols imported millions of dollars worth of century-old statuary to Kansas City and created the Spanish-style Country Club Plaza in 1922 amidst pig farms on the city’s outskirts. It was the first shopping center in the world designed to accommodate shoppers arriving by automobile. The 1914 Union Station, the nation’s second-largest train station, retrieved its elegance with a $250 million restoration begun a couple of dozen years ago.
Kansas City’s allure is best described by Rogers and Hammerstein in their song from the musical “Oklahoma:” “Everything is up to date in Kansas City.”
Getting up to date with Kansas City can be an enlightening tour.
For example, Walt Disney, who graduated from Kansas City Art Institute, fed a small mouse while at work in his Laugh-O-Gram studio. The little critter was the inspiration for the renowned Mickey Mouse.
A couple of museums in the 18th and Vine Historic District house memorials to and memorabilia from jazz and baseball “Who’s Who” who gathered there, including Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Lester Young, Satchel Paige, James “Cool Papa” Bell, and Josh Gibson.
From the Roaring ’20s to early ’40s, it was an entertainment center with no equal as more than 100 nightclubs, dance halls and vaudeville houses featured jazz.
A trip to neighboring Independence, M0, is a must to visit The Truman Presidential Museum and Library, which follows the history of the 33rd U.S. President, Harry S. Truman, who grew up and retired here.
Among the exhibits in a scale model of the Oval Office is his famous sign, “The Buck Stops Here.” Written on the other side is “I’m From Missouri.”
Just up the road a piece on the Kansas side of the border in Leavenworth, more widely known for its “Big House,” the first U.S. federal penitentiary
Ladies’ Tea Time . . .
. . . today at 3 p.m. in the Sun Room.
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Have you ever stopped
to think about this:
the average person is really mean.
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Big Meetings Today
If you want to know what’s going on,
get to the 2nd floor theater at 3 p.m. for
the first-Tuesday-of-the-every-month
Food Service Meeting
followed by the first-Tuesday-of-every-month
Town Hall gathering at 4 o’clock.
Welcome To June . . .
. . . and your new monthly calendar. Read it and then check it every morning. Then check the mailroom fliers for any changes, additions or deletions. More people and more activities add up to more things that can go wrong, so keep checking.
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And, I just was awakened by the sniffling-scratchy-throat-dry-cough that everyone else has been battling around here so I’ll be in and out of service for the next little while.
Mature Life Features 