Section A·Page 6
Entertainment
Thursday, April 29, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Weekend shopping mission tackles Mass Street stores
Christy Zimmer, Tecumseh, Kan., sophomore, tries on a dress at Maurice's, 739 Massachusetts St. Zimmer found the new outfit she was looking for during her shopping spree downtown. Photo by Rachel Marta Orr/Kansan.
By Kate Williams Special to the Kansan
It's 3 o'clock on a cloudy and humid Friday afternoon when Carolyn Richardson, Hutchinson freshman, and Mary Jo Johnstone, Winfield freshman, head toward downtown Lawrence.
They're on a shopping mission to find CDs, clothes and other items they cannot live without.
The trip gets off to a bad start when, for several blocks, they are stuck behind a car that is emitting large, billowing clouds of black smoke.
After cursing the driver of the pollution-mobile and stopping at an ATM so that Richardson could get cash, they finally head for their ultimate destination: Massachusetts Street.
The two girls bypass the first store they come to.
"That's where my grandma would go to buy me something." Richardson said.
They dodge traffic crossing the street to Love Garden, 9361/2 Massachusetts St.
"I can always find something here that I want," Johnstone said. "It's my favorite store in the whole world."
A cat lounges in a box inside the store and ignores the girls as Richardson goes for the Trip-Hop Electronic section and Johnstone digs through the new arrivals.
Richardson picked up *Progression Sessions* by L.T.J. Bukem and takes it to the counter where she listens to a few songs.
"If they have Bob Marley's Natural Mystic, I have to have it." Johnstone said.
Richardson also decides to buv her CD.
The girls progress down Mass Street toward another music store, 7th Heaven at 1000 Massachusetts St.
At 7th Heaven, Johnstone found a three CD collection of - what else — bluegrass. She has forgotten her discount card, and has to run to the car to get it before she buys the CD.
They stopped in Penny Annie's Sweet Shoppe at 845 Massachusetts St. to buy Gummi Bears and ice cream and then stand outside the window of the Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., looking at the merchandise inside.
Inside Arizona Trading Co., 734 Massachusetts St., Johnstone tried on a pair of black sunglasses and a sequined red dress
hanging form the ceiling. She was supposed to attend a friend's fraternity formal at Kansas State that night and was in search of an extremely obnoxious dress to wear.
"I want to be able to say 'I'm sorry but I had to wear this because you gave me such short notice.'" she said but decides against buying the hideous dress.
As s.p.m. approaches and most of the shops begin to close, Richardson and Johnstone leave Mass Street.
And they have new CDs to listen to on their way home.
- Edited by Matt Gardner
By Dan Curry
dcurry@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Bv Dan Currv
He took three days to move a century-old dogwood three feet. He was a horticulturist then, for a big-time Cape Cod garden, and he had to be exact—a historic view was at stake.
Now, it takes him about six minutes to make a cheesestead that won't last 30 seconds before it's eaten and gone. He is a cheesestead specialist now, for his own downtown restaurant, and he must be exact—a big time cheesestead is at stake.
"This isn't fast food," said Roy Crawford, owner of Wylind's.
Ceesessteaks,
1025-A Massa-
chussetts St., as
he methodi-
dally ladles
marinara sauce
into the split
bread loaf. "Nope,
it's not fast food at all."
Though the wait quickly becomes agonizing, the payoff is—in its most humble manifestation—about seven inches of Italian bread, cheese, marinated beef, onions and sweet red peppers. Crawford also sells sandwiches in larger sizes.
With tongs, Crawford places a wagonload of the peppers onto the sandwich. He wraps it in foil and hands it to an antsy customer.
It has about the heft of medium-sized torpedo.
It costs a mere $3.50, tax included.
"It's awesome," said Ryan Horton, Lea
donb sonhombre, "It's huge."
Lugging the sandwich to the table, Horion finds himself lost in a forest of antique tables, cupboards and armories.
That's because Wylind's Cheesesteaks is located inside of Strong's Antiques, 1025 Massachusetts St.
"I'm happy to work with a nice business and a nice family," said Gary Strong, who
frequently dines on Wylind's soup or a vegetable sandwich.
The cheesesteaks are in the Sicilian style, Crawford says, made with marinated beef or chicken, and with barbecue or without.
Is it all homemade?
Crawford also offers his mother's coleslaw, a variety of doughnuts, soups three-bean salad, potato salad, coffee and choose-your-own-adventure submarine sandwiches.
"Absolutely," Crawford said adding that he buys the bread fresh from a local baker.
The widely-recognized Philadelphia cheesesteak, in which the sandwich is buttered and grilled and the peppers are green, isn't what Crawford's about.
"Where we lived, they had these Mom- and-Pop places that sold the Sicilian-style sandwich," he said. "We fell in love with them."
So far, he's been smitted with the task.
work as a horticulturalist around town, he turned to selling cheesesteaks.
So what, he's been hard with the task.
"Business has been great," he said.
"We've always wanted to be in a small town with a nice downtown."
Open every day except Monday, Crawford makes sandwiches until he runs out of steak.
— Edited by Kelli Raybem
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