Dorri Partain- chiefs memorabilia
- kansas city
- February 23, 2022
- 2 minutes Read
Remember this?
By 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 Partain
- african american history
- bhm
- February 16, 2022
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? Bruce R. Watkins
By 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 Partain
- african american history
- black heritage
- February 16, 2022
- 3 minutes Read
Watkins family remembered as early Civil Rights leaders
By Dorri Partain Numerous sites throughout Kansas City have been named in honor of business owners and civic leaders Theron B. Watkins (1877-1950) and his adopted step-son Bruce R. Watkins…
- Dorri Partain
- cable
- history of cable
- February 9, 2022
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This? “Rabbit Ears”
By 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 Partain
- antique
- Remember this
- February 2, 2022
- 2 minutes Read
Remember this? Shorthand
Much 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 Partain
- coke
- history
- January 26, 2022
- 2 minutes Read
Remember this? New Coke
Which 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.…
- Dorri Partain
- cats
- colony
- January 26, 2022
- 5 minutes Read
Caring for community cats
By Dorri Partain A colony of feral cats roaming the alleys of the Pendleton Heights neighborhood has brought a group of neighbors and cat lovers together to care for them…
- Dorri Partain
- animatronics
- band
- January 12, 2022
- 2 minutes Read
Remember this? ShowBiz Pizza tokens
Come for the pizza, stay for the fun! These ShowBiz Pizza Place 25 cents game tokens made going out for pizza an expanded experience. A new concept in family entertainment…
- Dorri Partain
- Art
- immigrant
- January 12, 2022
- 3 minutes Read
Eagle carving takes flight
As you drive along where Ewing Avenue intersects with East 17th Street, you may do a double take – is that an eagle battling with a cobra? As it took…
- Dorri Partain
- January 5, 2022
- 2 minutes Read
Remember This?
Dorri Partain Contributor As the first babies of 2022 enter the world, the method of keeping them clean and dry has changed greatly from the previous century. Both diapers and…
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