Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Mayor Of The Avenue -- Part 5
He could not read or write. The alphabet was a mystery to him. He could count to ten, but he did not know it's significance. Once a promising student vying for Valedictorian of his large Class of '69, it had all been wiped away forever. Every Sunday morning when the carillon bells rang out from his...
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Mayor Of The Avenue -- Part 4
It was like "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Only in this case, the question was: "Which came first, Kendall Kohr or Kendall Care?" No one remembered for sure. With Kendall's advent as his own man, in his own old home by himself, on The Avenue he had known since childhood, things just...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Mayor Of The Avenue -- Part 3
Where The Boulevard and The Avenue intersected, Kentucky Fried Chicken sat on the NW corner facing The Avenue. The summer of 1977, at age 16, Son #1 had quickly learned the business and was made evening supervisor with two helpers. It was a busy place that kept him hopping, with it slowing down a...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
Mayor of the Avenue -- Part 2
The Boulevard winds past very old and very large houses, past the Kansas City Museum that once was the mansion of the Long Family, past the "castle" on the cliffs overlooking the Missouri River. It winds past Cliff Drive, Indian Point, a couple of parks, The Concourse where once upon a time an...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016
Mayor Of The Avenue
"... He was standing at the counter, scarfing it [Kentucky Fried Chicken] down, piece after piece, and I was bombarded with stories from the summer he worked there, stories I'd heard many times in the past." ~ From my last post Somehow I knew that bringing home a bucket of KFC would awaken a lot of...
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