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UPDATED: 2:15 pm CST March 5,
2009
Share Plaza Lights memories.
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Viewer Memories:
Patrcia
Independence, Mo.
Every year the Kenyon family have made it a tradition to watch the Lighting ceremony on TV. We get together drink eggnog have snack food and decorate our tree. We turn on our outdoor lights the same time as the plaza lights turn on.
Debbie
Kansas City, Kan.
Twenty-plus years ago, my Dad was working security at what was the Alameda while it was being built. He brought us down to stand at the edge of the rooftop to watch the lights come on.
Mary
Topeka, Kan.
This was the first time I have seen the lights turned on live. It was awesome.
Lynda C
Kansas City, Mo
My husband and I got married on November 25, 2004. That day just happened to be Thanksgiving. We got married at 4 and then straight to the plaza to watch the lights. So we can truely say that our honeymoon was spent at the plaza. We have done it every year since and can't wait to be in the front row on Thursday, look for us we will be right in the front. Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Anniversary Camara's
Diane
Independence,Mo
Hi. This is Jackson Family. My Mom passed away and we always wanted to go see the light being turned on but we never got to do that before she past away. But we all witched it on T.V. I would like to take my Family to see the lights on Thanksgiving night. My son Noah love to see christmas light. He's only 4Yr young. Have a Happy Thanksgiving To All.
Julia
Overland Park, Kan.
I grew up at 49th & Baltimore in the early 60s, before the Board of Trade Building and The Sulgrave were built. We had a view of some of the Plaza lights from our front porch, and also of Twin Oaks. My dad loved The Plaza, heck he thought Miller Nichols was the best for continuing the tradition started in 1930. As a kid he would walk down to the Plaza from 44th Terrace by St. Luke's to see the official lighting. So we would always have our Thanksgiving dinner a little earlier than our neighbors. My dad would open the drapes in our livingroom and we could see the lights at Twin Oaks come on, signaling that it was time for anyone who was going with Daddy to get their coats and hats and gloves if they wanted to be in the middle of it all. We would walk down to Main Street and past the little supermarket, around the corner to 48th, and then down J. C. Nichols Pkwy and into the thick of it. As a little girl I was absolutely awestruck. After the Plaza library was built, there were at least two years when we walked the block and a half and sat on their heated sidewalks to watch the lights.But my most favorite memory dates to when I was dating my husband. He came by late one evening, and wanted to go see the lights and wanted Ms. Jens to go too. So we took her in her pajamas and bundled her up, and drove through the Plaza. OHMYGOSH. That bautiful little face just lit up as we drove up and down the streets of the Plaza. Then we stopped in Houlihan's for hot chocolate. The next day she told me she wanted me to light up our apartment like the Plaza. And I was crazy enough to do it - I strung lights on the ceiling in every room, and strung them back and forth in the living room making it look like hundreds of twinkling stars. For years she used to tell me that I made everything sparkle.
Kelley
Overland Park, Kan.
After spending the entire day with cousins aunts and uncles. the moms would load is all up in the "way' back of the station wagon and we'd head off to see the lights. We always went past twin oaks, then straight through the plaza, hoards of people and all. we would sit in the back of that station wagon singing christmas carols out the rolled down back window for all to hear while the moms sat in the front and endured the traffic, I don't think they minded. it seemed like we were there for hours, but it made for some really fond memories. I wonder if anyone remembers hearing our car full of singing kids creeping along on Thanksgiving night.
Jeffrey
Kansas City, Mo.
My step-dad worked for J.C.Nichols and when I was in high school he took the family up on top of the solgrave. Being 22 floors up you could'nt have had a better seat than that. You got to see all the lights come on at once.
They may be posted on KCTV5.com, and KCTV5 may want to feature stories on the air.
Viewer Memories:
Patrcia
Independence, Mo.
Every year the Kenyon family have made it a tradition to watch the Lighting ceremony on TV. We get together drink eggnog have snack food and decorate our tree. We turn on our outdoor lights the same time as the plaza lights turn on.
Debbie
Kansas City, Kan.
Twenty-plus years ago, my Dad was working security at what was the Alameda while it was being built. He brought us down to stand at the edge of the rooftop to watch the lights come on.
Mary
Topeka, Kan.
This was the first time I have seen the lights turned on live. It was awesome.
Lynda C
Kansas City, Mo
My husband and I got married on November 25, 2004. That day just happened to be Thanksgiving. We got married at 4 and then straight to the plaza to watch the lights. So we can truely say that our honeymoon was spent at the plaza. We have done it every year since and can't wait to be in the front row on Thursday, look for us we will be right in the front. Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Anniversary Camara's
Diane
Independence,Mo
Hi. This is Jackson Family. My Mom passed away and we always wanted to go see the light being turned on but we never got to do that before she past away. But we all witched it on T.V. I would like to take my Family to see the lights on Thanksgiving night. My son Noah love to see christmas light. He's only 4Yr young. Have a Happy Thanksgiving To All.
Julia
Overland Park, Kan.
I grew up at 49th & Baltimore in the early 60s, before the Board of Trade Building and The Sulgrave were built. We had a view of some of the Plaza lights from our front porch, and also of Twin Oaks. My dad loved The Plaza, heck he thought Miller Nichols was the best for continuing the tradition started in 1930. As a kid he would walk down to the Plaza from 44th Terrace by St. Luke's to see the official lighting. So we would always have our Thanksgiving dinner a little earlier than our neighbors. My dad would open the drapes in our livingroom and we could see the lights at Twin Oaks come on, signaling that it was time for anyone who was going with Daddy to get their coats and hats and gloves if they wanted to be in the middle of it all. We would walk down to Main Street and past the little supermarket, around the corner to 48th, and then down J. C. Nichols Pkwy and into the thick of it. As a little girl I was absolutely awestruck. After the Plaza library was built, there were at least two years when we walked the block and a half and sat on their heated sidewalks to watch the lights.But my most favorite memory dates to when I was dating my husband. He came by late one evening, and wanted to go see the lights and wanted Ms. Jens to go too. So we took her in her pajamas and bundled her up, and drove through the Plaza. OHMYGOSH. That bautiful little face just lit up as we drove up and down the streets of the Plaza. Then we stopped in Houlihan's for hot chocolate. The next day she told me she wanted me to light up our apartment like the Plaza. And I was crazy enough to do it - I strung lights on the ceiling in every room, and strung them back and forth in the living room making it look like hundreds of twinkling stars. For years she used to tell me that I made everything sparkle.
Kelley
Overland Park, Kan.
After spending the entire day with cousins aunts and uncles. the moms would load is all up in the "way' back of the station wagon and we'd head off to see the lights. We always went past twin oaks, then straight through the plaza, hoards of people and all. we would sit in the back of that station wagon singing christmas carols out the rolled down back window for all to hear while the moms sat in the front and endured the traffic, I don't think they minded. it seemed like we were there for hours, but it made for some really fond memories. I wonder if anyone remembers hearing our car full of singing kids creeping along on Thanksgiving night.
Jeffrey
Kansas City, Mo.
My step-dad worked for J.C.Nichols and when I was in high school he took the family up on top of the solgrave. Being 22 floors up you could'nt have had a better seat than that. You got to see all the lights come on at once.
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