scoot FTW!

i'd like to know more about bars/restos that were open in the recent past, but are long gone and replaced by something entirely different (or gone completely).

This would make for a great new thread, but the until that gets split off, first one that popped into my head was one of my old hangouts from towards the end of my college days.

http://livingarchivekc.tumblr.com/post/ ... legacy#top

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZn6dlLXd0


Unfortunately it was destroyed in the Flood of 93. Today it's that night club that gets a lot of stabbings... Oasis I think is the name of it?

Still dealing with fairly recent history......

Mid 90's, where Snow & Co., etc are located.. in the 1900 block of Wyandotte.

There was a brief period as a music venue, Club Graffiti(?), prior to the fire in the building, before Butch Rigby reno'd the property to its current configuration.

wow that place looks pretty awesome!

Java Gaia was pretty cool. All the Paseo kids hung out there back in the day.

While I was trying to remember the name of the rail car restaurant that used to be at 3rd & Delaware (Victoria Street Station -- the caboose of which is now at Knuckleheads), I found this pair of adjacent newspaper articles from 1977 about the bombings that pretty much killed the original River Quay re-development (and gave us some of those lovely surface lots).

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CL ... %2C4116349

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CL ... %2C4117993


The accompanying photo just makes me sad. It's fuzzy enough that I can't figure out what block that is, anyone have any idea?

ScooterJ, the photo was taken from the east side of Delaware, at Independence Avenue, looking north.

All of the buildings are still there, but a single story building in about the middle, which was a ramshackle place that housed Aron Pallet and Antiques.

Ah! Thanks! It seems so obvious now. Delaware looked unrecognizable to me with two-way traffic.

Not sure how far back you want to go, but I remember actually accompanying my parents when I was three or four years old and they visited Sike's, a drinking establishment at 59th and Prospect in the late 40s.

Little about this stuff on the internet. Soakies was the bar I was the most familiar with which was at 13th and main and owned by friends of our family.

Of course, my father owned two restaurant/bars in NE KC that were in the family for a long time with one closing (the most successful) as a result of the appearance of I-70 and the other as the neighborhood moved towards lower income and the Winner Road industrial area evaporated. My great grandfather had a restaurant in what is now the Cashew in downtown KC.

Soakies

I really regret having missed out on Soakies. By the time I finally achieved a level of courage that would have allowed me to check it out, it had already been gone for a couple of years.

Recently I've taken notice of a tiny little nondescript building on 8th Street, between Walnut and Grand:

http://goo.gl/maps/CBwFl

What caught my attention is that it looks like the kind of building that, in a much smaller town, would be the town's tavern.

I did some research on it, and discovered that long before it was an (abandoned?) title loan office, it actually was originally a saloon. One of the oldest in what is now the Loop. It was owned by a lawyer who also served for a time as the city treasurer. I haven't been able to find any photos of what it looked like back then, but I did find a photo of a promotional shot glass from around 1910:

This is a total shot in the dark, but about 15 years ago I read a novel (maybe a series of short stories) about living downtown in the 60's and 70's. A fair amount of it took places in bars in that area, and I got the impression that those locations weren't fictionalized. Unfortunately I have no idea what the title of the book is/was. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

It appears that the Baehr Saloon at least existed between the years 1907-12.

I found mention of W. J. Baehr as a sponsor of the Priests of Pallas parade.

http://kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Local&CISOPTR=40511&CISOBOX=1&REC=1

That building on 8th St was the site of Sanderson's diner for a number of years--rassler Bulldog Bob Brown often ate there.

I loved Sanderson's. No better place to be at 3 am.

bbq, can you imagine the reaction by todays hipster cadre, to the post-bar experience that was so uniquely Sanderson's?

There is a book about Sanderson's, written by the last owner, who also lived in Walnut Tower. I think it makes mention of the bar next door on 8th street.

http://www.amazon.com/Sandersons-Lunch-Arthur-W-Lamb/dp/1890622303

I have a copy of it. A good read.

That might actually be the book I was looking for. Thanks.