Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain The Old Maid rockets into space with this version of the popular card game aimed at the Baby Boomer generation. Originally played with a regular 52-card deck, with…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain If you’re putting away your snow boots and getting your sneakers ready for spring, a pair of novelty shoelaces will bring a pop of color to your…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain Kansas City motorists had to keep change handy to cross two bridges that spanned the Missouri River when both the Paseo Bridge and the Broadway Bridge first…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain It’s a popular prayer that won’t be found printed in any prayer book or Bible. “My Kitchen Prayer” has instead been copied many times in church cookbooks…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain Manners maketh man, and woman and child, in this hefty tome devoted to gracious behavior at home and in public. As penned by Mrs. Oliver Harriman, and…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain To the victor goes the bragging rights, and what better way to brag that your hometown team is No. 1 than with a novelty license plate for…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain In the 1979 Kansas City, Mo., mayoral election, Democratic candidate Bruce R. Watkins faced Republican candidate Richard Berkley. Born in 1924, Watkins was adopted by his step-father…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain Does your TV set still need rabbit ears? Prior to the direct television signal offered through cable providers, television viewers relied on either an outdoor or indoor…
Dorri PartainMuch like today’s text abbreviations, language users have looked for ways to write faster. Shorthand, also known as stenography from the Greek “stenos” (narrow) and “graphein” (to write), was first…
Dorri PartainWhich version of Coca-Cola do you prefer? That was the question everyone was asking when new Coke debuted on store shelves for a brief period of 79 days in 1985.…
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