As part of our Uncovering History Project, the Midtown KC Post is examining each block in Midtown. A set of 1940 tax assessment photos is available for many blocks.
Today, we look at residences and businesses in Westport, in today’s Heart of Westport neighborhood and the Westport entertainment district. It is a small block, but you may well recognize a few businesses that have not changed that much over the years.
The photos below show the rest of the homes and businesses on the block as they looked in 1940.
Photos courtesy Kansas City Public Library, Missouri Valley Special Collections.
I moved into the house where my grandparents lived at 3952 Central in the spring of 1956. I lived there until I graduated high school in 1969 and my parents sold the house in 10970. I stared my first bank account at Westport bank, my father and brother got their hair cut at the barber shop behind our house on Broadway. We bought groceries at the Safeway on Westport road and at the Milgram at Westport road and Main. I spent hours at the library on Westport road. IBEW was in the building where Pryds is now. They used to set up a manger scene on the grassy area across the street from the library. I could go on for hours.
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