Holiday shopping can include a lot of headaches, like supply shortages, questionable “kids” games, online mix-ups, maybe even porch pirates. And don’t forget the endless “customer service” phone wait times and constant in-your-face media blitzes.
Well, it’s time to drift back to an easier shopping season, when Lenexa merchants only had two ways to communicate: their stores’ decorative signs and ads posted in the newspaper. Remember newspapers? They were words printed on paper and they were hand delivered to homes and businesses!
The illustrations in this article are remembrances of simpler times with simpler messages; they should not be dismissed as “quaint.” They are reminders of lives lived more slowly.
So open up your copy of the 1907 Lenexa News, relax in a comfy chair near the fireplace, sip your hot chocolate (or hot toddy), and peruse these messages from Lenexa merchants of yesteryear.
Lenexa Historical Society 