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Nostalgia & History > Remember when you had to dress up...Date: 11/30/21 12:53 Remember when you had to dress up... Author: santafe199 ...just to go downtown?
Can you still get a 15-cent milkshake at that Rexall drug store? How’s the Chow Mein at the King Joy Lo? Is that babe in the black skirt single? Why is that older lady looking right at Bill’s camera. How many of these folks are still alive, 65 years later... 1. KCPS 785 is eastbound on 12th St, stopped at Main St in Kansas City, MO on April 21, 1956. 65 year old Kodachrome slide by William A. Gibson (WAG) Sr. Thanks for looking back! Lance Garrels (santafe199) Art Gibson (wag216)  Date: 11/30/21 12:58 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: refarkas A historic gem - He captured so much of the now almost-forgotten past in just that one shot.
Bob Date: 11/30/21 13:22 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: Frisco1522 Take me back to then. I was sixteen, driving and a holy terror in 1956. 1957 I met my wife to be and in 62 married her. The memories.
I lost her this April and this is an awesome scene of life back then. Date: 11/30/21 13:28 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: dwatry Wow - great urbanity!
Date: 11/30/21 13:31 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: coach A great scene, and it almost looks like SF with those street lamps.
The best part is the PCC car and the folks who have opened the windows, with arms hanging out. Now that's the way to ride--open windows on a PCC car in downtown, hearing, seeing and even smelling all of the big city--like when you pass by a good diner and smell the steaks on the grill... Date: 11/30/21 14:30 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: tomstp Downtown was a whole lot more interesting back then.
Date: 11/30/21 14:59 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: SeaboardMan Well Lance, to answer your question about the babe; sha does have a diamond on the ring finger.
john Date: 11/30/21 15:06 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: RJM29 Remarkable picture of one of my favorite cities in my birth year. We were certainly a different country back then; almost naive in our world view yet amazing none the less. Practically everyone smoked back then; one habit I'm glad is almost gone.
Rick Morgan Date: 11/30/21 16:20 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: wjpyper I was 16 in 1956, a Junior in high school and riding the Long Island Railroad to see Brooklyn Dodger baseball games. The clothes that we wore back in those days were horrible. I am so glad that things have changed. I hope I live to see the day when there are NO neck ties or high-heeled shoes.
Bill Pyper Lacey, WA Date: 11/30/21 18:25 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: agentatascadero wjpyper Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I was 16 in 1956, a Junior in high school and > riding the Long Island Railroad to see Brooklyn > Dodger baseball games. The clothes that we wore > back in those days were horrible. I am so glad > that things have changed. I hope I live to see the > day when there are NO neck ties or high-heeled > shoes. > Bill Pyper > Lacey, WA > Myself? I'm ambevilent......I do prefer the choices available to be as casual as one wants.....while deploring the freedom to choose that so many display in their wardrobes. I think back then people, and society as a whole, had a LOT more class. It is us slobs that make well dressed people so stand out these days, whereas it once was SOP. AA Stanford White Carmel Valley, CA Date: 11/30/21 18:47 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: RuleG Very nice photo!
People may not dress up as much, but once again, one can ride a streetcar on both Main and 12th Streets in Downtown Kansas City. Date: 11/30/21 18:59 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: krm152 Great Photo!
ALLEN Date: 11/30/21 23:03 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: cabsignaldrop So much in the photo...what a great image!
Posted from Android Date: 12/01/21 05:41 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: atsfer What a great shot of a moment in time...would be interesting to see a shot from the same location today.
Date: 12/01/21 05:59 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: texchief1 Neat shot! Thanks for posting.
RC Lundgren Date: 12/01/21 06:00 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: Topfuel atsfer Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What a great shot of a moment in time...would be > interesting to see a shot from the same location > today. Yes, a good idea for a "before and after" shot. Bet there wouldn't be anywhere near as much foot traffic, except maybe from office workers. Today everyone is out at the malls in the suburbs. There were few suburbs back then. Date: 12/01/21 06:50 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: TTownTrains cabsignaldrop Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > So much in the photo...what a great image! And there's not one person talking on their cell phone! Bill G. Tulsa, OK Date: 12/01/21 08:00 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: rbenko atsfer Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What a great shot of a moment in time...would be > interesting to see a shot from the same location > today. Here's it is from Google Maps - the building in the background is the only recognizable landmark. Lance - thanks for posting this gem of a shot!  Date: 12/01/21 08:25 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: OSWishram The date of Bill's photograph, April 21, 1956, was a Saturday. This explains why folks in the photo are dressed casually, for the mid-50's. Not many suits and neck ties to be seen that day.
My home town, when I loved to ride the street car downtown, either to buy Stride Rite shoes at Robinson's on Main Street, eat lunch at Myron Green's, or visit my dad's office on Tenth Street, where he was often to be found working on Saturday mornings. Thank you, Bill, Art, and Lance. Bob Willer Date: 12/01/21 09:07 Re: Remember when you had to dress up... Author: santafe199 SeaboardMan Wrote: > ... she does have a diamond on the ring finger ...
Didn't see it. I was looking at her other talents... ;^) |