Remembering Things Past
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herodotus
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Reminds me of Wichita's Koch Arena and a bit of the Astrodome in Houston, do you know if they had the same designer?What about Melody Fair? The Who, Alice Cooper, and many famous names played “in the round”.
It’s a Walmart now….
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herodotus
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looks like some of the malls of my childhood and teen years.
Bannister until about 1996 was amazing. Then the crime and gang violence got way the hell out of hand
There was Indian Springs Mall in KCK, they had a place called Italian Delights that made the best calzones and strombolies and sausage and meatball wraps I have ever had. The pizza was New York style, big floppy thinnish crust, oh man
Only Ward Parkway remains and that is only a couple miles from my home and it lingers on as a hybrid strip mall
Blue Ridge Mall is long gone too. My dad had his practice right across the street. from that one now. Then after he died his partners hung on for a few years, it became a dental clinic and by 2010 it was gone and now a super wal-mart sits on the site. I remember Christmas in the mid 1980s, Santa landing in helicopter was awesome.
But yeah all that remains is Ward Parkway, still doing okay actually but poor parenting and stupid teenagers are killing that one and Independence Center.
JC-3122
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Buckminster Fuller?
Yea, they were king for quite awhile until WGRQ came along. Sandy Beach is still around too, has his own radio program.
Hehe, we are around the same age. You were Alden, I was Lancaster back then. Here is his show:
https://sandybeachradio.com/