KANSAS CITY AT NOON TIME 1960s...
A draught beer at the Cozy Inn was ten cents, fifteen cents if you wanted the frosty mug. The Barrel Buffet was across the street on the corner of Broadway and 12th Street and the Follys Theater still had live burlesque.
Some buddies from Van Horn High School went down to the Follys in 1959 and took a look at Tempest Storm. There was a ticket man who was 106 years old. I followed him as he left the Follys one evening and we talked about the old days in Kansas City. I was 17 and he was 106, so the old days were really old.
He walked fast and I almost had to run to keep up with him. He was a short little guy with lots of thick gray hair and talked fast, like he was from someplace back east. When we got down around Main, he turned and I turned. He went to his place wherever it was and I headed on to the Roaring Twenties, or was it the Jet Lounge with the real plane seats. Or maybe I went back up the street and headed into another bar I cannot remember.