John Simonson: 2 books
Paris of the Plains
Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The title did more than nod to the perfumed ladies who shopped at Harzfeld's Parisian or the one-thousand-foot television antenna nicknamed the "Eye-full Tower."...
Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri
Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well...