The Finest Collection in Town, Bar-Nun!

By Eavin Moore

 

We’ve been busy with retail the last several issues and have drifted away from our true passion; examining unusual private collections. Frankly, the phone has quit ringing. Do you think your Uncle Ted’s fishing lures are not interesting enough? Are you afraid your grandma’s attic filled with cartoon jelly glasses wouldn’t make the cut? Well think again!

 

As an example of what we are looking for, I have decided to give you a little peek at one of my own private collections, my nun memorabilia. (Full story)

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Belt Sports Complex Continues to Grow with St. Joe.

 

By Eavin Moore.

 

The Belt Bowl was just three years old when Norman and Helen Tucker bought the original 18 lane facility in 1960. Back then, what we now know as the Belt Highway was just a rutted old road, out on the edge of town. The miniature golf course was up the way, but that was it. They claim their business to be the second oldest on the Belt, after Cool Crest.

 

My own first visit to the old Belt Bowl was in the daycare center, back in the early 60s. My mom bowled one afternoon a week in a ladies league, and I spent the time in the nursery. You couldn’t see the bowling from in there, but I remember the sound of strikes and spares coming right through the walls.

 

A few years later it was my turn. Saturday morning league, matching t-shirt colors for each team. There were lessons from Mr. Tucker, with his flat top haircut, and Mrs. Tucker was behind the counter. (Full story)

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Local Bagpipers Liven Up St. Paddy’s Day

by Eavin Moore

If you’ve ever been to a wedding or a funeral where bagpipes were
involved, I don’t have to tell you how emotional it is. There is just
something so ancient and elemental about the sounds that come out of this
strange contraption. With the approaching St. Patrick’s Day celebration
upon us, I thought it a good opportunity to take a closer look at some of
the local practitioners and pass along a bit of their schedule, so you
can check them out in person. (Full story)

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Why Go to Kansas to Visit Some Furniture Mart? Sav-on is Right Here!

by Eavin Moore

 

As our little column goes on from issue to issue, it is developing momentum. The last several establishments we have featured have all reported a major uptick in new visitors quick to mention this publication as the impetus to their journey. We are pleased to be able to shed some light on area craftspeople and unique retailers who might otherwise escape your notice.

 

For this issue we are making a bit of a departure and featuring a larger local retailer. The inspiration came, as it so often does, through the foibles of my beautiful yet somewhat daffy bride. You see, when we relocated from the huge house to the much smaller house a couple of years ago, we made great strides in eliminating much of the worthless clutter she had accumulated over the years. There was still to my dismay a good bit of unnecessary stuff (I say), that she wouldn’t part with yet. She rented a storage unit, and filled it to the brim with broken Christmas ornaments and other worthless treasures. (Full story)

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Don’t Be An Artful Dodger, Visit An Artful Life

by Eavin Moore

This story starts as so many do, with instructions from my beautiful bride.

“You have to find a flask for the daughter’s boyfriend,” she tells me.

Apparently he has been hanging around a sufficient amount of time to merit a Christmas gift. I’m not sure what to make of the fact that a flask is on his list for Santa, but he’s over 21, so who am I to judge? As I recall, I occasionally used to smuggle a wine skin into Missouri Western games back in the day. (For medicinal purposes of course). (Full story)

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Mod-Podge Boutique Helping Make Downtown Cool!

by Eavin Moore

So I was looking in my wife’s car for a CD she stole from my car. (She does that; and inevitably when I get them back they are in the wrong cases.)  Anyway, while I was looking I found a garbage bag full of old vintage neck-ties, like from the 30’s and 40’s. I figured either she’s got some craft project in mind, or she’s fooling around with some old guy in a nursing home on the side.

I confronted her with the evidence, and she said she is taking her deceased father’s old neckties Downtown to Casey Wallerstedt so she can turn them into a skirt. (Full story)

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The Legend of the Cookie Jar Nurse

by Eavin Moore, Source Publications

 

The last few issues had us visiting several commercial public establishments in our never ending search for the interesting and unusual. While that was wonderful fun, this issue gives us the opportunity to return to our roots, so to speak, as we visit a local residence and snoop around.

 

I had heard about the “Cookie Jar Nurse” for some time. Supposedly there is an elderly nurse still working somewhere at

Heartland Hospital who lives in a big old house filled with Cookie Jars. My lovely bride has a modest cookie jar collection herself and is coincidentally also a nurse. Whenever I comment on a new addition she always says, “Hey, at least I’m not the Cookie Jar Nurse. She has 10,000 cookie jars and counting!” (Full story)

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American Hippy Museum ?

by Eavin Moore

The call came in a couple of month’s ago to The Regular Joe offices. The note in my box just said “Hippy Museum,” with a local phone number and a question mark. I returned the call and was met with a voice mail greeting consisting of the first couple minutes of The Strawberry Alarmclock’s “Incense and Peppermints” followed by a confusing series of instructions. I left a message and hoped for the best. I didn’t hear back and had pretty much written it off, when this guy showed up at my office. (Full story)

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Grace House Extends Season of Giving All Year Long

by Eavin Moore

I just love Ruth Costello. I met this diminutive dynamo through a project involving her employer, Triumph Foods. After learning of my involvement with The Regular Joe, she asked about advertising rates for a charity project. I asked a few questions, and found out about Grace House, a program that distributes clothing and other items to the less fortunate, that literally started in her garage. Our fledgling publication can’t afford to turn away ad dollars, but after hearing her story, I thought a CLAMS piece would be more appropriate. (Full story)

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Military Memories and More at Local Museum

by Eavin Moore, CLAMS

It really doesn’t matter whether you are a hawk or a dove; war has touched your life in some way. Maybe it’s through your own military background, or that of a loved one. Depending on your age, you may have lived through World Wars, Police Actions, and various other conflicts. (Full story)

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