One newspaper story has the Peanut selling beer in August 1933, during Prohibition, maybe giving it its speakeasy reputation. There were also spots at 9120 E 35th St. in Independence, Missouri, and Metcalf and 76th, Overland Park, Kansas, Rainbow Boulevard and 39th Street, and 50th and State Ave. in Kansas City, Kansas. With about one million square feet of indoor retail, this mall opened in 1997 but closed in the fall of 2015. The original location closed in 1972, but Fred and his wife, Mary, purchased the 18th Street location in 1987. 1,489 reviews. Wed pick up some of our vegetarian favorites, like the Meatless Masterpiece. While the calamari, muscles, pastas, and . Dodd: I never shopped at Emery Bird Thayer, but I remember it in the late 60s as a really grand place in those days of locally-owned department stores. The pork chops, chicken strips and catfish were exceptional. From the Pizza Hut International (PHI) Annual Reports, 1970-1973. Three years later, they more than doubled the size of the restaurant in a new site nearby on U.S. 40 highway. The last one closed in 2009. George Gates purchased Ol Kentuck Bar-B-Q when it was more of an after-hours jazz joint in 1946. Peoples restaurant, it was a bar and grill, longbrach salon took their location in mid 80s Los Corrals started in one room in the circa 1889 building and has since expanded to several rooms decorated with art from local Hispanic artists, Mexican artifacts, vintage neon signs, and a wall of brightly covered redeemed Los Corrals margarita cards Buy nine margaritas and get a complimentary 10th margarita. A lone patron sipping a screwdriver at the bar of Poor Freddie's feels the solitude inside to be . Best of all, Anthony's is just a couple blocks off of the streetcar line for easy access to and from Union Station. Sep 13, 2019 - Restaurants that I ate at as a child..most no longer exist. He had his own ideas. Charred, crunchy, tender and sweet all at once, burnt ends were once given away for free by area barbecue restaurants, who thought them to be useless. It was an instant success. The Bannister Mall was the location I remember visiting. Posting id: 817261872. Locations: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd. Even as social pressures push women toward homemaking, 40% work outside the home. When a new owner took over in 1960, he said the restaurant had old world charm. It expanded with more dining rooms and tried to keep all the menu items under $5, then $10, then $20. The Mirabile family still operate a Jaspers in South Kansas City, which is a popular destination for gourmet Italian dining. He would be behind the counter cooking, and hamburgers were a nickel, Fred said. 3936 W. 69th Terr., Prairie Village, KS, 66208. Dim lighting, gently tinged with a warm red glow, combines with comfortably cushioned bar stools, call-backs to a time when people weren't . EBT was really the last relic of a truly fancy restaurant in Kansas City. The original location was forced to close in 2006 to make way for a new bridge and wider road. If you were looking for cheap hamburgers, fries and shakes during the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s, local burger chain Smaks was a popular choice. Cancel anytime Thats why we are not open for lunch, Hamilton said. (Another family member owns the Johnny Cascones Italian Restaurant in Overland Park.). I think thats how a lot of restaurants here got to be iconic.". It had those clunky wooden benches, communal tables, and there were old classic movies and shorts being shown. "At one time back in the 70s and 80s there were Baby Doe's Matchless Mine restaurants in Columbus, Kansas City, Birmingham, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas and Los Angeles. Some of our favorites include their Key Lime Pie and the Blackberry Pie. It was like the last relic of a very important chapter in Kansas Citys life. Founded in 1949 at 520 W. 14th St., its name was inspired by the historic Kansas City stockyards just down the hill in the West Bottoms. Now its a pleasure, he once said. Its just always been a destination. Another key to its longevity is its location just south of the popular Plaza and the strong support from neighbors, neighboring residents, she said. 6. 19.6 km. Best known for: It used to be the BLTs but the huge chicken wings have become equally popular. Find Related Places. Secret to success: Its getting to know your guests on a personal level and catering to that always. George Cascone first opened Cascones in Columbus Park in 1932, using longtime family recipes. You can come in, eat on china, and be out in 20 minutes, said Steffes, who is purchasing the restaurant from his mother, Terri Smith, great-niece of Vergne. The Ibarras divorced in the mid-1960s and split up the restaurant operations. The Waldo location lasted 44 years until 1997, when the family sold the property to Walgreens. 21c Museum Hotel closed it for a major remodeling in 2018. Heres whats on the menu at the new KCI terminal, Pizzas. Now that its not open, people are realizing that if you love a restaurant, you have to support a restaurant. I thought that would be fun to do, but we created our own recipe, she said. Dont recall hanging out there myself, but it had a big bar, cheap margaritas, and all the delicious food. See a problem? These amazing photos will take you back to the 1960s Kansas City. David operates their sister restaurant, RCs Restaurant & Lounge, a fried chicken place nearby, founded in 1973. Sometimes it's just good nostalgia. Rare Historical Photos Of old Mobile, Alabama From Early 20th Century. His son, Steve, started washing dishes and busing tables as a 12-year-old. It also has a large patio with a stage and party deck. Perry put him on the payroll. She appreciates news tips. My mother remembers that they had good spinach enchiladas, which are so hard to find in Kansas City.. Thats when Guy and Helen Stroud opened a barbecue restaurant near 85th Street and Troost Avenue. As for his dream of a construction career, he was able to pursue that when building the five area Gates restaurants. After Stone died in 1966, his brother-in-law took over. The Savoy Grill opened in 1903, making it one of the oldest Kansas City restaurants still in its original location. Dodd: It had a dish called Maciel's Chicken. This spot, on a quiet block just off bustling Burlington Street in North Kansas City, was founded by brothers Paul and Jack Dunbar in 1948. First opened in the early 1970s, Patrikio's with its nondescript building was a south Kansas City Mexican restaurant at 99 th and Holmes. Customers are met with the loud and iconic Hi, may I help you greeting as they walk in the door with some describing it as aggressive hospitality. But Gates said that the well-run ordering system comes from his military training. Asado Urban Grill-BBQ, Sandwich. (multiple locations). Johns oldest son, George, was at college, and his 17-year-old son, Frank, was headed there. The birthplace of the Kansas City strip steak, a collab between a Turkish restaurateur and local pizza chef, one of Anthony Bourdain's favorite spots . One is Maybe a block or two Truman Hospital just south of the hospital and the other one is in Raytown called Los Compos off 350 highway next door to a radio shack. 2022. Harry Starkers (Plaza), Hotel Muehlebach (Downtown), Skies (Downtown, in the former Hyatt Regency at 23rd and McGee), Bentons (Crown Center). It had the window where you could watch the staff prep and bake pizzas. A gong would ring or some sort of bell when they brought it out. The 1970s were a changing time in the world; the Vietnam War came to a long-awaited end, the gay rights movement was gaining traction and punk was rocking radio stations across the country. One is open 24/7. Town Topic was the first customer for L&C Meat company in Independence in 1946, and L&C still grinds the meat and delivers it daily. "It could be food, it could be place they got engaged it could be anything," he said. The Riekes daughter, Janelle Brown, and her husband, Phil, are the current owners. 6. Those restaurants are long gone. Brandi Smithmier worked for the previous two owners before buying the restaurant and bar in 2019 with her husband, Bill Arrington. Even though the quality of the food was really inconsistent at the end there was something about eating in that time capsule. Best known for: Reubens with cold pints of Guinness. You could tell it by the way people frowned. Ferruzza: People liked the fact that it was there, even though many of them stopped going there. We can travel back in time to visit restaurants in the Kansas City area. Customers put their heaping plates of meat on Formica-topped tables with plastic squeeze bottles of sauce at the ready. The Kansas City area can boast more than 30 restaurants that have been around for at least five decades. But need a car to get to one of them. $30 for two. When they needed to expand again, Jay, an architect, designed and built the current restaurant. flatbread, salad and garden risotto.". Ill fess up that the main reason that this tween at the time went to church during that era was for the lunch afterwards. The first menu offered a 79-cent, three-course meal, and they soon changed the name to Jaspers. People know the food has been checked, theyre going to have a nice atmosphere and a nice dinner. Jenkins was part of the team that helped stake out and wiretap the restaurant. Taste of a decade: 1950s restaurants. The image of the old Emery Bird Thayer store as the best of all the department stores in town had a lot to do with propelling that restaurant. These 17 Photos Of Kansas In The 1970s Are Mesmerizing. We didnt have fryers, just electric skillets, and we didnt put them on the menu, it was just word-of-mouth. Secret to success: Weve always been a neighborhood bar, Kenny said. If you look closely, you can see that the main difference in this photo are the vehicles parked in the lot. When you can get it, Hawley accuses Biden nominee of lying under oath about her political social media posts, Extremely drunk man orders fries in Arbys drive-thru, then falls asleep, MN cops say, Another Andys Frozen Custard coming to Kansas City, and one in JoCo opens this week, These boards are really beautiful: Charcuterie franchise opens in Kansas City, BBQ. Everyone went there. Ferruzza: I think the most talked-about restaurant in my 30 years in Kansas City -- which was closed well before I moved here -- is The Westport Room. Burger King. Does anybody know of the old 1970's restaurant in Kansas City called "Baby Doe's Matchless Mine". The chain had around a dozen restaurants around Kansas and Missouri. Joe Heyen and Anthony Ladesich spent the last two years interviewing hundreds of people and pulling together mountains of decades-old film reels, posters and photos to piece together their 85-minute love letter to the Kansas City of the early '70s. What you can count on is Chef Annie. Housewares Gourmet Housewares Cookware Gourmet Foods Bakery Candy Art Gallery Cellar Restaurant. Caf Provence. Bryants - my father would bring home brisket. Cafe Trio Restaurant. They used family recipes from Vitas parents, natives of Sicily, and Vita made a point of greeting each customer personally. The main dining area and bar at the entrance still has that original old world charm with its glossy green brick walls, pioneer murals near the ceiling, stained glass windows and a plaque that identifies Harry S. Trumans favorite booth, No. By 1968, servers donned tuxedos and put on tableside shows preparing Caesar salad and cherries jubilee. Best friends Jess Kincaid and Jim Wright opened a bar and grill at 135th Street and Holmes Road in April 1938. But when people tell Jerry Rauschelbach, 60, how great it must be to own the legendary spot, he says: Oh, you dont own Arthur Bryants. Todays menu includes the pan-fried chicken, gizzards, livers, hot wings, shrimp, salmon, steak, pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and cinnamon rolls. Customers would bring in their whiskey bottles and it would provide the set-ups glasses, ice and mixers. Best known for: Capelli dAngelo alla Nanni (angel hair pasta tossed in a tomato and basil cream sauce with prosciutto, mushrooms and peas). I have a great nostalgia for it. 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