About the diary writer
- Barbara McDowell Whitt
- Kansas City, Missouri, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- ~ About: A 1961-65 Park College Diary ~ As a high school girl and then a college coed in the first half of the 1960s, I wrote nightly entries on the pages of one-year diaries. In January 2010 I began transcribing the entries into a blog and gave each one a title. I grew up on three farms within 30 miles of Iowa City and the University of Iowa with its Iowa Writers' Workshop. As the oldest of four daughters, in my diaries I sometimes referred to my sisters as "the kids" or "the girls." We helped our parents, but we also had good, wholesome fun - a characteristic I took with me to Park. Park is 300 miles southwest of West Chester, Iowa, in Parkville, Missouri, on the Missouri River 10 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and across the river from Kansas City, Kansas. In 2000 Park College became Park University. Today Park's flagship campus is in Parkville and there are an additional 41 campus centers across the nation. Park was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer online learning. My last post was on May 22, 2018. I may be followed on Twitter @BarbaraMcDWhitt.
Campus is Covered With Snow - Saturday, November 18, 1961
I imagine that I'll soon have the feeling that I've had it. I've got to go to bed and I have about a million pages of art to read. Hip, hip, hurrah - it's been snowing all day and the ground was pretty well covered when Vivien and I got back from Kansas City tonight. In Kansas City I got a turquoise cardigan, this pen, vitamin pills and some incidental items. We spent an hour and a half shopping by ourselves. It works better that way. We didn't have speech class this morning because the Meetin' House was too cold. I'm not going to like having to give my speech the same morning as the art test.
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I'm curious about where the shopping in KC was then. Do you remember where you went?
Macy's, the Jones Store, Pecks, Harzfelds and Emery, Bird, Thayer were the main department stores we went to. We also usually made a stop in the Katz drug store. Main Street in downtown Kansas City, where most of the department stores were located, was known as Petticoat Lane.
I really miss those old great city downtowns. It seems like so many are not there any more. I don't know about KC but certainly smaller city downtowns are not places to shop.
I miss the old downtowns and the department stores, too. In Kansas City we have an arena, small art galleries and specialty shops, restaurants and pubs where some of the department stores used to be. They are nice, but we live in a different time now. The area is called the Power and Light District since some of the funding for the re-development of the area came from Kansas City Power and Light company.
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