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The Western Auto Building, first known as the Coca-Cola Building or the Candler Building, after owner Asa Griggs Candler, is located at 2107 Grand Boulevard, in the Crossroads neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. Built in 1914, it later served as the headquarters of the Western Auto Supply Company and became known by that association ...
Western Auto Supply Company—known more widely as Western Auto—was a specialty retail chain of stores that supplied automobile parts and accessories operating approximately 1,200 stores across the United States. Started in 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri, by George Pepperdine and Don Abnor Davis, Pepperdine would later found Pepperdine ...
One collaboration offered a representation of part of the Kansas City skyline, featuring the Western Auto sign, as well as streets decorated with local businesses.
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“It’ll be a feast for the eyes,” says the mastermind of the Lumi Neon Museum, coming as early as this spring.
The line was sold in March 1905, and was renamed as the Kansas City Western Railway. [1] While a projected spur to Topeka never happened, the line in the 1910s was busy enough to average 1.2 million passengers a year. [1] Further, freight-hauling services were added to the mix, the principal cargo being milk carried to creameries in Kansas City ...
A neon sign for Dixie Lan Bar-B-Que is stored at Element Ten, a neon studio on Troost Avenue. The sign was brought to the studio about five years ago by the city after hanging in the Historic 18th ...
The Sweeney School was a trade school in Kansas City, Missouri, founded by Emory J. Sweeney in 1908 to use the "Sweeney System" (hands on training) [2] [3] and eventually taught more than a dozen trades, e.g., "Autos, Tractors, and Aviation": [4] Sweeney Automobile School and Sweeney School of Aviation c. 1921.