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The company was founded in 1970 in Saugus, California by Peter Kim Brown and his wife Carol Brown, and named using their initials. [1] They were spurred to start the company when Peter began using landing lights from aircraft adapted to fit his truck, and realized that the way they were mounted would not stand up to the rigors of use of the off-road community of race buggies and pickups.
Katz Drug Store interior in Kansas City, Missouri Katz Drugstores followed local segregation practices, meaning non-whites were often denied service at lunch counters. In 1948, Edna Griffith and her family were denied service at a Katz Drugstore in Des Moines, Iowa , which led to sit-ins and protests.
The nearby Walmart Supercenter closed in January 2007, which was a day before a new Walmart opened on the site of the former Blue Ridge Mall now called Blue Ridge Crossing. [1] The Bannister Wal-Mart was one of the company's earliest Hypermart stores, [2] but it later changed to the Supercenter format. At the end of May 2007, Bannister Mall ...
More entertainment. The Thanksgiving Day 5K Run and Family Stroll will begin at 9 a.m. Nov. 24 at Aspiria in Overland Park ($25-$37). sportkc.org.. Clay Aiken will be host for “Wheel of Fortune ...
Several Kansas City area restaurants had critical violations this week, according to local health departments.
Club motorcycle racer, Don Becklin, started selling motorcycle gear from the attic of his grandfather's house in Grants Pass, Oregon in 1998. [1] By 2000, Becklin's motorcycle-related Internet retail enterprise moved out of the attic into a corporate office, a warehouse, and a retail outlet in Medford, Oregon under the Motorcycle Superstore ...
The art deco Kansas City Power and Light Building was the former headquarters of the company and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi until 1942, tallest in Missouri until 1976 and tallest in Kansas City until 1986 and is the namesake of the downtown Kansas City Power & Light District Barack Obama in front a KCP&L truck on July 8, 2010, at the Smith Electric Vehicles plant at ...
Antioch Crossing is a shopping center in Kansas City, Missouri on the site of the former Antioch Center, a mall which opened in 1956 and became nearly vacant by 2005. [1] The majority of the former dead mall was demolished in January 2012, with the exception of two anchor stores (Burlington Coat Factory and Sears), and redevelopment on the site began in 2014. [2]