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:
Developing . . .