MidWesterners...what do you know about...

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Kansas City Missouri? Or Kansas City Kansas?

Anyhoo! Kansas City was home of the Fred Harvey Company.
Fred Harvey pretty much invented the hospitality industry and in 1883 came up with the idea to have an all-female serving staff company wide that came to be known a Harvey Girls.
Before passenger trains had dining cars the train stopped and everyone piled out and ate at a Harvey House restaurant built right next to the railroad tracks.
Harvey Girl starting pay was $17.50 a month plus room, board, and gratuity, a quite good income for the times.
The most common reason Harvey Girls quit was because they got married.
In many of the towns that had a Harvey House the Harvey Girls were the most sought after brides.

It's pretty much the same thing, just depends on which side of the river your on

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A lot depends on which part of which side of the river you are on. KCK has some serious parts of the older city that can compete with any major city for ghetto. Johnson County and the southern areas on the Missouri Side next to Johnson County are the places to live today. The city has lots of room to expand south and in Johnson County to the West as well. In 20 years I wouldn't be surprised if Lawrence isn't considered a suburb of the KC area.

 

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Pictures of some of the more interesting places to see.
Kansas City

 

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I try to eat at the Hereford House whenever I'm there. I've been there for work a lot and always needed to be on the far east side so it was always the one in Independence but there are a few.

The airport is so far north it feels like its in Iowa.

Don't think it will help the OP since I believe she is a vegetarian unless they are still giving you all the salad you can eat. The Hereford house is good, but not what it was when the original building was right by the stockyards. I had a couple of steaks moo at me, they were so fresh. Actually they were known for their dry aged beef.

The Hereford house and Top of the Tower were THE two places to eat back in the day. Sadly both of them as well as the Buttonwood Tree are all gone now.

 

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I would love to go check out the renovations to the theater. For years it was either a burley-q house and then an x rated theater.

That is probably one of the reason the Crown Center went in where it did. Land was cheep. For a long time that portion of South Main from the Union Station was an "Entertainment Center" Cheap dives, strip clubs, Transvestite show club, porno movie houses and porn shops. The surrounding neighborhoods had gone down as well.

Welcome to Kansas!

 

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I try to eat at the Hereford House whenever I'm there. I've been there for work a lot and always needed to be on the far east side so it was always the one in Independence but there are a few.

The airport is so far north it feels like its in Iowa.

It's a steakhouse Oh well. (I'm a vegetarian.) But thanks for the thought!

 

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It's a steakhouse Oh well. (I'm a vegetarian.) But thanks for the thought!

This is for us vegans!
VegKC.com - Kansas City Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurants Guide
I want to check out Mud Pie's coffee house .

 

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I think that's what we did, drove over the river, turned around and came back over the river, just to have actually gone into Kansas.

Sounds like there's more there now, but going to a convention you don't always get to much beyond the conferences, at least I didn't that time. I seriously don't remember going to one thing in Kansas City but the gift shop in the hotel. lol

 

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Me sister complains when she goes out to eat with friends (My sister a is vegan) , that they will go to steakhouse. Once she ordered the salad, when it came they had just cut in half a head of lettuce set it on a plate whole and dumped some ranch dressing on it. That cost her $14!!!

 

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I try to eat at the Hereford House whenever I'm there. I've been there for work a lot and always needed to be on the far east side so it was always the one in Independence but there are a few.

The airport is so far north it feels like its in Iowa.

It's a steakhouse Oh well. (I'm a vegetarian.) But thanks for the thought!

There are a couple of Vegetarian restaurants within walking distance of where you are staying.

 

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Me sister complains when she goes out to eat with friends (My sister a is vegan) , that they will go to steakhouse. Once she ordered the salad, when it came they had just cut in half a head of lettuce set it on a plate whole and dumped some ranch dressing on it. That cost her $14!!!

She needs to tell them to go to Olive Garden. All the salad and bread sticks you can eat.

Sorry but tell her $14 is chicken feed. I was at a convention in Hollywood Fl. a few years ago and my plane got in late. The only place to eat wanted $35 for a salad and $40 for a hamburger, and they were the cheap sports bar on the property.

 

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Me sister complains when she goes out to eat with friends (My sister a is vegan) , that they will go to steakhouse. Once she ordered the salad, when it came they had just cut in half a head of lettuce set it on a plate whole and dumped some ranch dressing on it. That cost her $14!!!

She needs to tell them to go to Olive Garden. All the salad and bread sticks you can eat.

Sorry but tell her $14 is chicken feed. I was at a convention in Hollywood Fl. a few years ago and my plane got in late. The only place to eat wanted $35 for a salad and $40 for a hamburger, and they were the cheap sports bar on the property.

She also hates it when she orders a steak salad tells them to hold the steak and the charge her the same price. Kansas isn't a good place to be vegan! LOL

 

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Me sister complains when she goes out to eat with friends (My sister a is vegan) , that they will go to steakhouse. Once she ordered the salad, when it came they had just cut in half a head of lettuce set it on a plate whole and dumped some ranch dressing on it. That cost her $14!!!

She needs to tell them to go to Olive Garden. All the salad and bread sticks you can eat.

Sorry but tell her $14 is chicken feed. I was at a convention in Hollywood Fl. a few years ago and my plane got in late. The only place to eat wanted $35 for a salad and $40 for a hamburger, and they were the cheap sports bar on the property.

She also hates it when she orders a steak salad tells them to hold the steak and the charge her the same price. Kansas isn't a good place to be vegan! LOL

As a card carrying member of P.E.T.A. (People Eating Tasty Animals) there are no good places to be a vegan or vegetarian for me. But that is just my take on the subject.

 

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Thanks for the tips, everyone!

This isn't a convention but actually a job. It's a grading session for AP English Comp exams that high school students all around the country just took. I'll be scoring essays from 8-5 every day for seven days. Well, Saturday morning will be norming (understanding the rubric and reading a bunch of sample essays to get an idea of what standards they have for each grade.) but then it will be a lot of reading. They feed us three squares and some snacks, and two nights I will have vouchers to go eat somewhere on my own. So there won't be time to drive into Kansas - maybe next time! It would be nice to check another state off the list

 

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Thanks for the tips, everyone!

This isn't a convention but actually a job. It's a grading session for AP English Comp exams that high school students all around the country just took. I'll be scoring essays from 8-5 every day for seven days. Well, Saturday morning will be norming (understanding the rubric and reading a bunch of sample essays to get an idea of what standards they have for each grade.) but then it will be a lot of reading. They feed us three squares and some snacks, and two nights I will have vouchers to go eat somewhere on my own. So there won't be time to drive into Kansas - maybe next time! It would be nice to check another state off the list

I live there, you're not missing anything!

 

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Thanks for the tips, everyone!

This isn't a convention but actually a job. It's a grading session for AP English Comp exams that high school students all around the country just took. I'll be scoring essays from 8-5 every day for seven days. Well, Saturday morning will be norming (understanding the rubric and reading a bunch of sample essays to get an idea of what standards they have for each grade.) but then it will be a lot of reading. They feed us three squares and some snacks, and two nights I will have vouchers to go eat somewhere on my own. So there won't be time to drive into Kansas - maybe next time! It would be nice to check another state off the list

If you have ever seen a flat kitchen tile and seen grass grow you have seen Kansas.