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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 19, 2000
Freshmen value aspects of both Kansas City, Lawrence
By Lauren Brandenburg Special to the Kansan
Kansas City is a comfort zone for those freshmen who grew up in the area. It also provides another opportunity for students looking for entertainment outside of Lawrence.
However, for some freshmen, especially those from other cities, Lawrence is comfortable and convenient.
When it's time to go out to a bar or club with friends, many freshmen opt to stay in Lawrence.
"I stay in Lawrence because I don't have a car and have to walk or find others to give me a ride," said Amanda Titel, fola freshman.
She is not the only one who stays nearby.
Rachel Adams, Shawnee freshman, also said she stayed in Lawrence for its bars and clubs.
"I go to The Hawk because it's pretty much the freshmen bar, and all my friends go there, and it's one of the few 18-and-over bars," she said.
When she wants to see a movie, theaters in Lawrence suit her fine. But for shopping, Kansas City's the place to go for Adams and other freshmen who grew up in the Kansas City area.
"I stay in Lawrence because I don't have a car and have to walk or find others to give me a ride."
Amanda Titel
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"I always go home to go shopping because there aren't very many good stores here," Adams said. "Mass. Street has great specialty stores but not stores where I would buy my clothes."
Carrie Boyer, Lenexa freshman, agreed. "A lot of the time, my friend Kristen and I go to Oak Park Mall to go shopping because most of the time we can't find the kind of stuff we want on Mass." she said. Boyer also likes the familiarity of her hometown.
"I feel more comfortable there, and I know the streets," she said. "I'm always really happy to go back and show people who didn't go there where I went to high school and where I grew up. I'm still not really comfortable in Lawrence. I don't know where everything is yet. I know a lot of it, but not that well."
For out-of-state freshmen, shopping in
Lawrence meets students' needs.
Jimmy Lightfoot, Schaumburg, Ill., freshman, said he had been able to get all of his shopping done here so far. But he said he might go to Kansas City if he had to go shopping for dress clothes or if he had visitors in town.
Margaret Beedles, Lawrence freshman, prefers to go to Kansas City because she grew out of what Lawrence had to offer.
"I see a lot of theater and a lot of movies," Beedles said. "I go to Kansas City for bigger shows. Higher quality productions of live theater shows that travel go to Kansas City, but Lawrence has high quality local stuff."
Westport buildings represent town's past
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"It was the last chance to buy trade goods at any reasonable price," Perruca said.
He said prices for supplies rose as wagon trains traveled westward.
According to the Web site, Westport continued to prosper until the Civil War. Following the war's end, Kansas City, which McCoy helped found in 1839, surpassed the booming little town of Westport. In 1897, Westport was annexed to Kansas City.
Several areas of Westport remain historically intact. One well-known example is Kelly's Westport Inn, 500 Westport Road, which is located in the Ewing Boone Building. Albert Gallatin Boone, the grandson of frontiersman Daniel Boone, operated a store in the building for about six years.
The Quarterage Hotel, 500 Westport Rd., also has roots that reach back to Westport's beginning.
"It was built on the site of the first hotel."
"It was built on the site of the first hotel," said Laurie Mullan, sales manager of the Quarterage.
The hotel, called Yoacham Tavern, was built by Daniel Yoacham in the mid-1800s. Mullan said.
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Perruca said his store was built on the site of the First Baptist Church of Westport.
Stanford & Sons, 504 Westport Road, is in Westport's oldest original building, which was constructed in 1850. according to the Web site.
Unlike many frontier towns that died after the gold rush, Westport still retains its vitality and draws character from its history.
Perruca said it was a good community and was unique because of its history. He also said Westport was built with the same philosophy that drove the fortune-seeking pioneers.
"Nothing ventured; nothing gained," he said. Although Westport has undergone radical transitions, a few things remain unchanged.
Perruca said during the 1800s, Westport had more bars than anything else.
Museum tells story of league
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In 1920, Andrew "Rube" Foster, owner of a Black Chicago team, met with other owners in a Kansas City YMCA to form the Negro National League, the first of six leagues that sprang up around the nation.
The museum tells the story of the rise and fall of these leagues in the form of a timeline. It also showcases baseball legends who started out in the Negro league ranks, such as Buck O'Neil and Jackie Robinson, who both played for the Kansas City Monarchs, and Hank Aaron, who got his start playing on a "clown" team that was baseball's version of the Harlem Globetrotters.
Lee said Black communities were vital to the survival of the teams, which relied on community support while traveling.
"Back then, if someone had an uncle with a big enough place, that was their Holiday Inn," he said. "But in Black areas, they got the top-of-the-line treatment. They had the best when they came through here because they were celebrities." Lee said it was important to discovering the contributions, such as night baseball games and shin guards, that the Negro league and its players made to baseball.
"The museum transcends the color barrier." Lee said. "You can come here and learn about the innovations and contributions made that you can't really get if you don't get away from the textbooks. People now like to talk about Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, but most people don't realize that Josh Gibson was hitting 60 to 70 home runs a year in the '30s."
Adjacent to the baseball
museum is the American Jazz Museum, 1601 E. 18th St., which explores Kansas City's jazz heritage. Its exhibits feature legends such as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Kansas City-native Charlie Parker. All of those musicians frequented the 18th and Vine streets district and performed in their clubs during the '20s, '30s and '40s.
Besides displaying items such as Parker's saxophone and one of Fitzgerald's glittering dresses, visitors at the art-deco museum can listen to the music at sound stations, experiment in the melody-making process at Studio 18th and Vine streets and view a film that explores jazz as a culture and way of life.
The museum also features its own club, the Blue Room, which serves as an exhibit by day and live music club by night.
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