Our iconic entertainment district has endured more than a hundred years despite so many bad intentions from a vast array of suburban sellouts, urban crime and low-rent rural haters . . . Accordingly . . . Here's a peek at the plan for this weekend and going forward . . . Check-it:
Special Collections Archivist of the KC Public Library, Sarah Biegelsen, explains that in the Plaza's early days, it hosted a variety of celebrations. For example, Halloween with witches and pumpkins, summer concerts in a drained Brush Creek, and a fiesta.
"Upwards of, like, 25,000 people went to that event," Biegelsen said. "They were just really trying to get people coming into the Plaza to shop during the Great Depression."
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