Beloved Kansas City Dive Bar Kaput: Dave’s Stagecoach Inn Shuts Down

The end of an era for Kansas City Drinkers arrives . . .

"One of Kansas City’s quintessential dive bars, Dave’s opened early — 2 p.m. on weekdays in recent years, but in the mornings for decades prior to that — and closed late, at 3 a.m. It had a railroad layout with a 35-foot bar and one pool table in the back. Out front, a loud neon sign loomed over the sidewalk between Bradford pear trees.

"The crowd was diverse: postal carriers and punk rockers, fixed-income retirees and art-school undergrads . . .

"Dave Golad, opened the bar in 1952. It was originally called 423 Club, named after its address at 423 Westport Road. Golad moved the bar across Broadway Boulevard to 316 Westport Road in 1972 following the construction of Westport Square. He renamed it Dave’s Stagecoach Inn as a nod to the area’s heritage as a starting point for 19th century traders and trappers headed west. A large painting of a stagecoach by a former Dave’s bartender, Carl Martin Jr., still hangs on the west wall to this day."

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The crowd was diverse at this Kansas City bar: postal carriers and punk rockers, fixed-income retirees and art-school undergrads.