My buddy Laren Mahoney at the Kansas City Convention and Visitors Association sent me this list today of significant anniversaries being celebrated this year by various events and organizations in our area:
150th_____City Market (1857)
150th_____Grinter Place State Historic Site (1857)
150th_____City of Olathe (1857)
125th_____Jesse James’ assassination (1882)
100th_____City of Lenexa (1907)
80th_____St. Joseph Museum (1927)
60th_____Kelly’s Westport Inn (1947)
50th_____Truman Presidential Museum & Library (July 1957)
50th_____The Lyric Opera of Kansas City (July 1957)
30th_____Theatre League of Kansas City (spring 1977)
25th_____Kansas City Symphony (1982)
25th_____Toy & Miniature Museum of Kansas City (October 1982)
20th_____Paul Mesner Puppets (July 1987)
20th_____American Heartland Theatre (April 2007)
10th_____American Jazz Museum (September 1997)
5th_____Kansas City Irish Fest (Labor Day Weekend 2003)
5th_____Kansas City T-Bones Baseball Club (2003)
Happy anniversary to us! If you're sending us a gift, and I think you should, the traditional 5th anniversary gift should be something made of wood. Like, say a wooden box with beer in it.
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This calls for a celebration. One Boulevard Beer for every year the City Market has been around! Fine... I'll have that many but celebrate KC Irish Fest. :-)
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