The Forum reported a March 1935 Dust Storm deposited 146 tons of dust on Maryville’s then area of 2.28 square miles (based on a sampling of how much had fallen in a 2×3 square foot area). Numerous dust storms hit Maryville during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. The March storm was particularly bad. I can’t find photos from Maryville but the image above is of Union Station in the same storm.
In 1935 Northwest’s Cheerleaders were all men (Louis Groh, Virgil Yates, Verne Campbell). From Northwest Tower.
The Missouri Theater on the west side of Main between First and 2nd was destroyed in a fire on April 28, 1944. The theater palace was designed in 1926 by the Boller Brothers, who also designed the Missouri theatre palaces in St. Joseph and Columbia. The Cooks had the Boller Brothers design a new Missouri Theater same location, which was torn down in May 2010 Mentioned in the article is Della Behm who had a hair salon in the building and would go on to build the Mary Mary Shopping Center. The image is from the 1935 Northwest Missouri Tower depicting a crowd during Walk Out Day.
Townsend’s Faustiana Farm Nickel Plate was also the name of wholesalers’ coffee and tea products and of the sports teams it sponsored, per the Maryville Daily Forum, December 12, 1922.
The Maryville Business College was organized in 1906 by E. S. Cook and George H. Meek. It was incorporated as the Western School Company when a sister campus started at the Creston Business College in Creston, Iowa, in 1908. The college owned a building on the east side of the square in Maryville. President, E. Sumner Cook; vice president, George H. Meek; secretary, M.V. Ringgold, according to the Forum-July 9, 1908
Maryville Sanitary Swimming Pool – Part RPPC Postcard Collection (colorized version)
Photos from Northwest Missouri homecoming parade before Dec 30, 1960, fire at the Townsend Wholesale Grocery Store on Fourth Street
Billboard for the Corwin-Murrin Clothing (Maryville’s oldest at the time) at the Maryville Sanitary Swimming Pool (which is diagonally across from the old Washington School at First and Vine at what today is Autumn House). The pool was privately owned.
Note for 1980: will Nodaway County boys attending the Maryville Teachers College ever be the same after the strenuous event of Leap Week, which climaxed Friday night with a dance where styles were reversed? The figure on the left isn’t really a woman, but Werner Herz, Maryville, and on the right, with the long trousers, is really coed Lois Wessling, Bethany. College girls made the dates and footed the bills Leap Week. (New Tribune Photo.) Nodaway County Tribune, April 10, 1941
“They staged a Leap Year parade and everyone marched in heels. The marching instructor still called it ‘improved cadence.’”
“After the dance the campus motto changed for a week: ‘Leap first, explain later.’
From about 1900 to 1945, the section of what today is South Walnut between Lincoln and South Street was known as Lover’s Lane. There were poems about the Lane, a stories about being one of the “beauty spots of Maryville…with lovers seeking to discuss matters of interest and great moment.” It appeared on police reports about accidents in which the car lights had been turned off. The image above is a 1910 Real Photo Postcard (RPPC), an authentic photograph developed directly onto postcard paper, introduced by Kodak in 1903 and popular through the 1930s. Unlike printed postcards, RPPCs offer smooth, continuous-tone images frequently documenting local scenes, businesses, and portraits.
