Kansas City Celebrates St. Paddy's Day 2025

We're a few moments to the start of the parade . . . And so much traditional day drinking.

Here's the not-so-sacred backstory . . . 

"In 1973 a group of friends meeting for a quick (or otherwise) drink and a bit of conversation at Hogerty’s Cocktail Lounge in downtown Kansas City decided a Parade downtown was just what the City needed; and so it began again.  Radio talk show host Mike Murphy, P.R. person Pat O’Neill, SR. and local saloon keeper Dan Hogerty’s brainstorm came alive in Kansas City.

"On Friday, March 15, 1974 Daniel Thomas Hogerty led a St. Patrick’s Day parade of secretaries, businessmen and shoppers on what would again become a Kansas City Tradition.  The block and one half parade route led from the Continental Hotel back to Hogerty’s lounge, of course.  Billed as “the world’s shortest and worst parade” it drew hundreds of people to what became a downtown street party in the 1200 block of Baltimore."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

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