North Hyde Park

Bitterman’s: 160 years of History in Hyde Park

Excerpted from the April 2013 Hyde Parker To survive after a quarter century in gumball machine vending, Alan Bitterman realized in 1980 that he needed a new business model, one focused outside Kansas City. Yet even as Bitterman Family Confections began to change, the company never left North Hyde Park. Today, with three buildings, 40,000 […]

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Midtown bookshelf: new book chronicles history of Hyde Park

Neighborhoods / By midtownkcposter

Review by Mark Dillon excerpted from the Hyde Parker newsletter One gets a sense of the passion that KCMO baby boomers had back in the early 1970s in the final chapter of Kansas City’s Historic Hyde Park. First time authors Pat Alley and Don Boley recount the birth of the modern Hyde Park Neighborhood Association,

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