Grand Avenue in 1870, looking south from Fourteenth, is shown on a black and white post card. The card was issued especially for the Kansas City Centennial celebration in 1950, and the picture was taken from an old photograph in the Montgomery collection. Only one horse and wagon can be seen on the muddy street. Store signs on the left, or east side of the street, include the City Bakery of Anton Engerman at 1317 Grand. Queensware (fine glazed English earthenware) reads the next door. Old directories of 1870 show the grocery of P.J. Henn at 1311 Grand. James M. Ward, Beef and Pork Packer, reads the rooftop sign at 1329 Grand. A false front store building in the middle of the block gives a one-story building the appearance of a three-story structure. Across the street on the west side of Grand J.W. Merrill’s lumber yard bears his sign. Next door the overhead street sign of Tills & May, cabinet makers, reads “Furniture Repaired.” Kansas City Times, June 19, 1981.
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