Here's glimpse at downtown Kansas City life that was once dominated by scumbags and the working class rather than hipster corporate drones and empty nester condo snobs . . .
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The street, once famed for its burlesque houses and ties to the Pendergast clan, was drab by the 1970s. But a curiousKC inquirer remembered enough about the drag’s last hurrah to ask us for a review of the “old 12th Street strip from the 1950s and 1960s.”
And that’s what led us to take this enlightening trip down memory lane, with a trove of historical material we sifted through at the Kansas City Public Library’s Missouri Valley Special Collections.
Take a look:
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Yeah...Right... A 12th Street "renaissance." That must mean, "park in the Jazz District near 12th Street and your car windows will get broken." The area of 12th Street in downtown is OK during the day, but head anywhere east, especially after dark, and your chances of being a victim of any number of crimes rise considerably. Describing the area as in a state of renaissance is like sprinkling sugar on a dog turd.
ReplyDelete^^Hey retard, the story is about 12th Street from the 50's and 60's. Nowhere did it mention a renaissance for today. Goddamn you idiot, maybe you read the whole thing before you post moronic drivel like this? Fucking retard!
ReplyDelete@ 9:13. Uhhh...If you watch the linked Youtube video, 12th Street is described as undergoing a Renaissance. Did you comment before reviewing the video, or do you always talk out of your ass? Probably a Chiefs fan. You are all fidiots.
ReplyDelete^^Oh! Sick burn! A moron who posts on a blog for geezers, call chiefs fans "fidiots." Hahahaha! No self awareness.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^I see the losers and jobless are up early this morning.
ReplyDelete^^^^Says the loser who's up early this morning.
ReplyDeleteOk I’m a geezer. 12th St used to be a good place to go to pick up a whore back in the day. Way better than now with all these millennials and hipsters just sucking each other off.
ReplyDeleteEwww....pedo! That fact that you have to pay a whore for sex tells us all we need to know about you!! Damn right you’re a geezer! Now go crawl off and die somewhere you fat bucket of shit!!!!
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ReplyDelete9:38 Geezer hater accuses someone of posting on a blog for geezers yet geezer hater posts too.
PRICELESS!
^^^^Don’t forget racists. TKC is also for racists. I’m not the geezer-hater, but I like the cut of his jib!
DeleteI'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come
ReplyDeleteI'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come
They got some crazy lil' women there
And I'm gonna get me one.
I'm gonna be standing on the corner
Of Twelfth Street and Vine
I'm gonna be standing on the corner
Of Twelfth Street and Vine
With my Kansas City baby
And a bottle of Kansas City wine.
Well I might take a train
I might take a plane, but if I have to walk
I'm going just the same
I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come
They got some crazy lil' women there
And I'm gonna get me one
Look how pleasant life was when restrictive covenants made life safe and fun for good, hard-working White people !
ReplyDeleteI'm still mad they tore down the block full of tittie bars and replaced it with the (?) Vista Hotel.
ReplyDeleteDrank a lot of beer down there, back in the day.
I remember 12th street today.....a black dude with flashers on sitting in his car eating ice cream in front of GNC blocking the right lane completely. Like the world had to stop so his fat wife could go buy some supplements. Then a block later between Walnut and Grand on 12th was a banged up shit car some one left parked in the far left lane abandoned. Essentially one lane of three open for traffic right before rush hour. Where the fuck are the traffic police?
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