The Brookside Story

by Morton, Ladene

• ISBN13: 9781596293007
• ISBN10: 1596293004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-22
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Brookside's burgundy-and-blue-striped awnings represent both a quaint corner of Kansas City where you can tread the creaky wooden floors of the Dime Store and a pragmatic philosophy that changed the way America planned its cities. Renowned developer J.C. Nichols's "plan for permanence" was built on his conviction that if a community could offer its residents everything they would want and need, build to high standards and plan for future growth, the community would last. The Brookside shopping district has been giving the community everything it could want and need since 1919, helping it weather economic turbulence, natural disasters and dramatic changes. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Sources and Acknowledgements	p. 9
Before 1920: Planning for Permanence	p. 13
Jesse Clyde Nichols: A Brief Biography	p. 16
The Station Building	p. 19
Catalogue: The Nichols Principles	p. 21
The 1920s: "Shops of Every Necessary Character"	p. 23
The Country Club District Neighborhoods	p. 28
Cowherd-Built Homes	p. 30
Catalogue: A Retail Menu	p. 32
The 1930s: An Investment Pays Off	p. 35
Harry Jacobs, Brookside's Southside Developer	p. 37
Minding the Stores: The Brookside Business Association	p. 40
Catalogue: The Brookside Doctors	p. 44
The 1940s: Brookside Comes of Age	p. 47
Fashionable Brookside	p. 48
Brookside's Roads and Rails	p. 51
Catalogue: Architectural Styles and Influences	p. 55
The 1950s: Boomer Days in Brookside	p. 59
One Family's Enterprise: The Country Club Shoe Store	p. 61
The Dwellers Upstairs	p. 65
Catalogue: Childhood Haunts	p. 67
The 1960s: "The Courteous Shopping Center"	p. 69
The Road to Nowhere: The Country Club Freeway	p. 72
Rags, Brookside's Favorite Resident	p. 75
Catalogue: Brookside Grocers Through the Years	p. 77
The 1970s: Uneasy Times	p. 81
The Curtain Comes Down on the Brookside Theatre	p. 83
The Dime Stores	p. 87
Catalogue: Best Brookside Business Names	p. 91
The 1980s: The Main Events	p. 93
The St. Patrick's Day Warm-up Parade	p. 94
The Brookside Art Annual	p. 97
Catalogue: The Gaslights, Symbols of Brookside	p. 100
The 1990s: The End of the Nichols Era	p. 105
The Wednesday Magazine, Brookside's Hometown Paper	p. 107
Home-Based Brookside: The House Conversions	p. 109
Catalogue: Brookside Gas Stations Then and Now	p. 111
The 2000s: Home Rule	p. 115
Locally Owned: BKS Real Estate	p. 116
Public Policy at Work: The Overlay District and the CID	p. 118
Catalogue: Brookside's Oldest Businesses	p. 122
Bibliography	p. 125
About the Author	p. 127
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