Sunday, July 28, 2019

Jimmy's and Mary's

I found a really fun old matchbook today for a KC steakhouse called Jimmy's and Mary's-- specializing in "steaks fit for a king" plus pizza pie and other really fine foods and cocktails. Deliciously steamy illustrated food decorate both sides of the full color matchbook, but when you open it up to get to the matches (unused), well, that's when things really get hot! I've seen matches shaped like stripper legs and booze bottles, and now I have myself 21 teeny tiny chefs with exploding chef hats ready to set fire to my world of collectibles too! Phone VA.9397 for more info!







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10 comments:

  1. JMR777July 28, 2019

    Great find. I had heard some chefs are hotheads but this is ridiculous.

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  2. Craftypants CarolJuly 28, 2019

    Awww that’s neat! I love the steamy foods and the awesome matches!

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  3. Mr. CavinJuly 29, 2019

    Sweet. I don't think I've ever seen the match heads be so integral to the kitsch design. These are very specialized blobs of potassium chlorate and sulfur!

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  4. DarciAugust 07, 2019

    Do you remember their number as VAlley-9397 or VAndyke-9397 (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names )?

    I can't quite make out what's now at https://www.google.com/maps/place/3400+Main+St,+Kansas+City,+MO+64111/@39.065409,-94.5858474,20z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x87c0f0208eaf2a13:0x69b3ad8354b8ec4a (Davey's Uptown Ramblers is next door at 3402).

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  5. NickJuly 23, 2020

    Thanks for this post on Jimmy & Mary's Steakhouse. Love the matches! I'm Nick Vedros with thelumineonmuseum.org and we rescued the PARK IN REAR sign from the building. It was donated by Davey's owner Michele. If you know the year Jimmy & Mary's opened please e-mail me with that. info@thelumineonmuseum.org.
    My intention is to restore the sign to light up again and would love more history and evenutally put it in a Kansas City neon museum for our community. We now have 47 signs.
    Thanks

    Nick

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  6. Mr. KarswellJuly 23, 2020

    Thanks for writing Nick, Unfortunately you probably have more info than I do about this place. Good luck with the sign museum, sounds super cool!

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  7. HeatherJanuary 19, 2021

    This was my family's restaurant! Those matches are amazing.

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  8. Mr. KarswellJanuary 19, 2021

    Hey thanks for writing, Heather! That’s very cool :)

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  9. UnknownAugust 10, 2021

    I ate there in the early 80s. The steak was delicious. Fit for a king lol.

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  10. klukasMarch 14, 2022

    Looking up information on Jim and Mary's and ran across this post. My father ran the 39th Club Bar back around 1960. I heard stories how he would take the entire staff at like 2 in the morning to eat there. I ate there later in the 80's with him and it was very nostalgic for him. What great memories.

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