Doug Houser, Wanda Kennedy Kuntz and Bill Hart will host Maplewood History Evening at The Book House (7352 Manchester Road) at 7 p.m. on Feb. 26.
Doug Houser writes on Maplewood history in 40 South News. Kuntz wrote a historical novel of Maplewood, Kennedy Music — An Historical Novel based on the Kennedy Family, Maplewood, MO.
Bill Hart is a field representative for Preservation Research Office, in St. Louis. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Historic Preservation from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia with a Master of Arts Degree in Architectural History, according to Preservation Research Office.
See also (for a big clue to question 1, below): Maplewood History: Let’s Bring Back the Great Old Signs of Maplewood!
To occupy Maplewood history buffs until the evening, Kuntz asks these questions:
- What huge animal image used to loom large over the Manchester / Sutton intersection?
- Lunch counters were popular throughout Maplewood well into the 1960s. Can you name four of them?
- Where in Maplewood might you have chosen a chair, bed or television back in the 1940s?
- What was the name of Maplewood’s charitable organization, begun in 1906 and serving area children into the middle of the last century, which hosted annual games at the Lyndover School ball field?
- Long before Strange Donuts, at the intersection of Lyndover and Yale just north of the 7100 block of Manchester, Maplewoodians made breakfast stops for milk and donuts. What was the name of this cafe?
- What was the name of the soda fountain located on the 7100 block of Manchester in the early 1950s?