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From the Publisher Like, dude, 1985 was totally gnarly. ›
You are holding a classic: a genuine look at the business landscape as it existed in Columbia 30 years ago. We are happy to present the Columbia Business Times’ first ever retro issue, circa 1985. As our staff started to discuss the content of this issue, it prompted me to drag out my high school yearbooks from the mid-’80s. Wow, that was a big mistake. In addition to reminding me that the fashion of the era was embarrassing, I was also reminded that I carried a pretty bad mullet for a few of those years. We chose to focus on the mid-’80s for many reasons. Not only was there a lot of business news and development in our city for those few years, but also according to our circulation audit, many of our readers are business owners and decision-makers in the 45-55 age demographic who will remember clearly the significant things that happened during this time. We can see the legacy of development and business leadership from the mid-1980s in many areas of Columbia to this day. In addition, the Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year finalists were gracious (or confident) enough to throw it back to 1985 for the profile photos that start on page 57. Be sure not to miss the Small Business Week award luncheon on May 9 to see which one of these finalists is honored with the chamber’s Small Business of the Year award. More details are available at columbiamochamber.com. Grab a wine cooler, pull on your leg warmers, throw in your favorite ’80s cassette tape and reminisce on how good things were back in 1985. As always, we hope you enjoy this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you. We love feedback, good and bad, so don’t hesitate to email my any time at chrish@businesstimescompany.com.
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Who's Who of the ’80s PAGE 40
The Blue Note owner Richard King recalls all that was happenin’ in 1985, from shredded jeans to MTV to the sweet sounds of George Michael. Story on page 80. Photo by Anthony Jinson. Clothes provided by Maude Vintage.
Columbia then. Columbia now. PAGE 61
Final Five PAGE 52
Hello,
1985
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Around the office: With many trips to Maude Vintage, lots of time spent wearing wigs and even more time coaxing local business leaders into the aforementioned wigs, we had so much fun (maybe too much fun) putting together this 1985-themed issue. We hope you enjoy it!
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Corrections from April CBT 2014: ✔ The oral cleansing gel shown on page 60 of our April issue is a product of Addison Biological Labs.
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✔ In the “Permits and Inspections” graph on page 42 of our March issue, the numbers listed above the chart are incorrect. Tacoma had 6,008 permits and 19,800 inspections; Coral Springs, 7,819 and 27,157; Columbia, 1,110 and 17,615; O’Fallon, 3,670 and 7,238; Manhattan, 1,074 and 5,875; and State College, 532 and 2,180. Read more about the city’s inspection process in our June issue.
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Hello, 1985
Gabrielle and Sabri na of Maude Vintage help us cha nnel the ’80s.
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Five local businesses have found their footing in Columbia, and their peers are taking notice. Meet the 2014 finalists for the Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Year.
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Columbia: Then and Now
The big names of the day might have changed, but 1985 had its rock stars, too. Learn about the power players who left a lasting impression on the community.
Boy, how things have changed! From news headlines to city finances to the biggest businesses and more, see how our city stacks up against its 1985 roots. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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County Sheriff’s Department
Ted Boehm took over for Charlie Foster as Boone County sheriff, effective Jan. 1, 1985. With the hire came several replacements and promotions within the department. Robert Benad took over as the new process server and Tom Glisson as Boone County warrant officer. The sheriff’s detective position had not been filled at the time, and at least four new deputies were hired.
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pugh
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DYE
Bookstore
On May 8, 1985, the Columbia Missourian reported that the Missouri Store Co., a family business that was started in 1909 by brothers R.E. and Boyd Lucas, was sold. Investors Bob Pugh, Dan Schuppan and Leonard Riggio acquired the bookstore. Pugh took over as CEO, and Schuppan became the new president and chief operating officer.
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O’Shaughnessy
Third Ward Councilman Smith took over as mayor on April 12, 1985, replacing John Westlund. It was revealed on Jan. 1 that Westlund had overcharged the city, including a side trip to Hong Kong. At first, he refused to resign and reimbursed the city, but the City Council decided in April it was “in the best interest of the city” for him to resign. Westlund resigned on April 12.
O’Shaughnessy was named the new president of Boone Hospital Center on Feb. 5, 1985, the Columbia Missourian reported. He assumed his duties March 11. O’Shaughnessy was previously the administrator of Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. O’Shaughnessy made $95,000 annually, an $18,000 increase over former President Warren Rutherford, who resigned on Jan. 14.
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Beck
Beck accepted an offer on Aug. 6, 1985, to become Columbia’s new city manager, effective Aug. 19. Beck had been serving as acting manager since May 13. He replaced Dick Gray. After more than a month of negotiations, Beck agreed to a salary and benefits package of nearly $80,000. Previously, he spent 25 years as Public Works director. The City Council would not allow him to hold both positions. He served as city manager for five years.
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Peter Magrath
University of Missouri President Magrath completed his first day in office on Jan. 3. On his first day, Magrath held a press conference suggesting that MU should utilize high technology. He was inaugurated in late April.
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Horner
Horner received 20 out of 29 votes to win the nomination to become the new Boone County commissioner for the Southern District of the Boone County Republic Central Committee, the Columbia Missourian reported on Jan. 22, 1985. Horner, a retired National Weather Service meteorologist, replaced Kay Roberts, who left to become legislative liaison for Gov. Ashcroft.
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Hart
MU Athletic Director Hart left the school to become commissioner of the Southern Conference, the Columbia Missourian reported on Nov. 26, 1985. Hart signed a five-year contract with a series of five oneyear options. Effective June 1, 1985, Hart replaced Ken Germann as the conference’s commissioner. Jack Lengyel replaced Hart as MU’s athletic director.
Police
Columbia Police Chief Bill Dye won support to hire five patrol officers and one officer to work undercover operations in August of 1985. Council members told him they would support the hires only if the five additional officers were put on street duty. Dye was also directed to seek state grants to help finance the salaries of the new officers.
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Ashcroft
Gov. Ashcroft was inaugurated in January of 1985 to serve as the 50th governor of Missouri. His opponent in the 1984 election was democratic Lt. Gov. Ken Rothman. Ashcroft won 57 percent of the vote and 106 counties, which was the largest Republican victory for a governor in Missouri history.
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Cupp
Cupp became the owner of Glenn’s Café in February of 1985. Glenn’s Café has been open since 1943, when Glenn and Tilly Purdy started it as Glenn’s Drive-In. The café had various owners between its opening and 1985.
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Tritschler
On April 31, 1985, Tritschler was recommended by a Boone County republican selection committee to become the presiding county commissioner of the Boone County Commission in a two-year term. Tritschler was recommended because her broad base would be appealing to both political parties. She replaced Norma Robb, who died on March 30, 1985. CBT columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Briefly in the News ›› A rundown of 1985's top headlines
Columbia College proposes new gym Columbia College made an offer to Howard Bennett, who owns Howard’s Garage at 700 Rangeline St., for his auto shop and six lots. If Bennett accepts the offer, the college will build a new $1.25 million multipurpose space. It could be completed by fall 1986.
Sam Walton
MU’s winter 1985 in-state tuition increases from $644 to $689.50.
Sam Walton, the second-richest man in the country and owner of the Walmart chain, made it to Columbia for his 50th high school reunion. Walton was a 1936 graduate of Hickman High School. After visiting with his classmates and attending the reunion luncheon, he stopped by Columbia’s three Walmart stores.
Marijuana An ordinance that would lower penalties for pot possession failed by 828 votes in a June election with larger-than-expected turnout. The ordinance would have allowed prosecution for possession of 35 grams or less of marijuana to occur under city ordinances rather than the more severe state statute. Under state law, possession is considered a misdemeanor, but violators of the city ordinance would not be left with a criminal record. Supporters of the ordinance say results might have been different had the election occurred when students from the University of Missouri, Stephens College and Columbia College were still in town. In 2004, voters passed a marijuana decriminalization proposition 61-39 percent. 24
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100-acre landfill The city purchased the 100-acre Hinkson Creek Landfill site Aug. 8, 1985. The site was purchased for $264,550 from Carroll and Carol McDannold, following City Council approval, according to Columbia Missourian archives. As the landfill off Highway 63 North began to run out of space, this site was planned to last 25 to 30 years at what was the current disposal volume. The city needed to start dumping its daily 200-ton hauls of garbage at the new landfill site by late fall or early winter. Each month the city waited for the permit, it lost $3,000. This location, at 5700 Peabody Road, remains Columbia’s sanitary landfill and compost facility and is now called Columbia Landfill.
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Driver killed by police
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Columbia Police shot and killed a 19-year-old woman who was apparently trying to run over a police officer. Kimberly Ann Linzie, a 1984 graduate of Hickman High School, was killed after police officers surrounded and shot at a car that was reported stolen. At least three police cars chased Linzie as she drove nonstop across north-central Columbia. After being boxed in by police cars, Linzie hit the car in front of her and then backed up in an attempt to run over Officer Patricia Mills. All officers involved in the shooting were taken off duty pending an investigation.
Dozens of Boone County bridges are slated to be repaired or replaced in the coming years. JOMAC Construction is under contract to replace 15 county bridges as part of a larger bridge improvement program that has repaired or replaced 205 of the county’s 324 bridges. The program began in 1979 as part of a $7.5 million bond. About threefourths of county bridges were found to be deficient.
Airport Columbia received a $702,000 federal grant to build a second taxiway, a windfall that Robert Selig, airport superintendent, says will cut down on crowded runways and make Columbia Regional Airport a more attractive spot for the aviation industry. The grant from the Federal Aviation Administration will fund 90 percent of the project. The city has pledged to cover the remaining 10 percent. Sen. John Danforth lobbied the FAA for the grant. The project is expected to be completed by early 1986.
KOMU
After a three-year stint with ABC, KOMU-TV, a commercial television station licensed to the Curators of MU, will return to NBC. The station, which operates on Channel 8, was affiliated with NBC for 30 years but switched to ABC in August of 1982. Declining ratings under the ABC affiliation led KOMU to return to NBC.
Library renovation Ellis Library’s $8.1 million renovation project is about halfway done, new university documents say. The two-story expansion will gave the library and the State Historical Society 50,000 square feet of space. The addition will also increase library seating by one-third and provide book collection space for the next eight years.
Three-fifths of faculty rate Chancellor Barbara Uehling’s performance as fair to poor. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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The Boone County Commission hopes to finance a new government center through a quartercent sales tax increase lasting five years. If approved by voters, the tax would cover about $9 million of an $11 million construction project that would combine jail and courthouse offices into one building. Offices in the county-city building would also move to the new center.
5% Columbia grew about 5 percent between 1980 and 1984, making it the fastestgrowing metropolitan area in Missouri. Columbia added about 5,000 to its population since 1980.
county museum
Missouri is barreling toward implementing a statewide lottery, with Gov. John Ashcroft signing the legislation just a day after the General Assembly gave its final approval to the plan. The new lottery will allow winnings to go tax free until July 1, 1988. After that, earnings above $599 will be subject to state income tax. Legislators hope the three-year tax-free policy will allow the lottery to become popular with residents. \\\ May 2014
Developers seek bonds for three new apartment projects.
The Boone County Historical Society is about halfway to its $400,000 fundraising goal to build the Walters-Boone County Historical Museum and Visitors Center. The museum will be named in memory of B.D. Walters and in honor of Lala Summers Walters. They are the parents of Raul Walters, a Columbia businessman who donated $100,000 to the Boone County Historical Society. The museum’s proposed site is Nifong Park, adjacent to “Maplewood,” the home of the Lenoir-Nifong family. Their house is listed on the National Register of Historical Landmarks.
Governor signs lottery compromise
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More than 70 percent of Columbia residents say they now wear seat belts. A new mandatory seat belt law for front-seat passengers went into effect in September of 1985. Although the law is already in effect, police will begin fining violators $10 in 1987. More than half of Columbia residents say the fines would encourage them to buckle up. Thirty percent say they would still choose to forgo the belts.
World Series win
The American League champion Kansas City Royals bested the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series four games to three. The Royals won their first World Series title in what many dubbed the “Show-Me Series” or “I-70 Series.” The Cardinals sought a 10th title.
Voters approve enhanced 911 service
Boone County voters approved expanding 911 services at a cost of about $308,000. Users will finance the new 911 system by paying $10 to $15 more in annual phone bills. The new 911 service computerizes the system and immediately gives a 911 dispatcher a caller’s name and address. The expansion would also add 911 service to areas of Boone County that do not currently have it. Sturgeon, Centralia, Rocheport and Ashland have no 911 service.
Lowry Mall A new campus beautification project has transformed Lowry Street and covered it in red brick to make it a meeting place for students. The new mall is now closed to vehicles.
$4.6 million bond issue for street repairs passes, second bond issue rejected Summer Welcome begins at MU Thirty upperclassmen led 3,000 of MU’s 3,750 on a new Summer Welcome orientation program designed to give incoming freshmen a taste of the MU experience. The leaders offered 16 one- and two-day sessions over four weeks. Bill Seymour, Summer Welcome’s administrator, says parent and student evaluations of the program have been overwhelmingly positive.
Tigers struggle
11% Teachers at Columbia Public Schools will see their wages increase by an average of 11 percent. The increase is the largest since a similar one four years ago. Base teacher salary will rise from $14,700 to $16,000. The raises could cost the school district almost $200,000. To fund the increases, the board might have to reduce the number of new teachers it wanted to hire.
Boone County Commission adopts building construction codes.
The Missouri Tigers finished an abysmal 1-10 (1-6 Big Eight) during its football season. It was Head Coach Woody Widenhofer’s first year with the program.
Middlebush Hall renovation
A St. Louis-based asbestos removal company set to work on releasing thousands of asbestos fibers from more than a dozen rooms on all three floors of Middlebush Hall. The removal is part of an ongoing renovation of the hall. The air inside the hall will be deadly for approximately the next month. The asbestos, which can cause cancer if inhaled and was originally installed for fireproofing, will be replaced with fiberglass. About $2 million from MU’s general operations fund will finance asbestos removal in 1985-86. The rooms with asbestos will eventually become classrooms and administrative offices. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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chemical storage plan
Citing safety concerns, the Columbia City Council denied a rezoning request from Atkins Chemical and Service Inc. that would have allowed Atkins to store chemicals in a building the company owns on Wilkes Boulevard and Fay Street. The building is currently zoned for apartment use.
Stewart Road residents oppose widening.
KBIA general manager to resign Ted Eldredge, the general manager of the university-owned KBIA-FM, agreed to resign after 13 years in the position. University Provost Ronald Bunn asked Eldredge to resign following a university review of the station’s purpose. Eldredge’s resignation will allow “fresh blood” in the station, Eldredge says.
University enrollment down by 400
Channel 17
Topeka, Kan.-based media chain Stauffer Communications received final approval to take over KCBJ-Channel 17 in December 1984. The channel was established in 1971 by two Columbia brothers.
Faurot Field
embezzler gets five years Daniel Ovshak, former general manager of the now-closed Harvest Moon Restaurant, was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing $13,401 from the restaurant. Ovshak wrote himself checks and then falsely recorded them into the restaurant’s cash register. He was arrested after an internal audit found discrepancies in the restaurant’s finances. Food, liquor and payroll expenses were found to be higher than they should have been. Bob Randolph, who owned Harvest Moon, fired Ovshak a week before closing the restaurant. Randolph closed the restaurant in part due to the finance discrepancies. 28
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Fire Station No. 7 dedicated
MU’s 58-year-old football field got a facelift over the summer as the MU Athletic Department installed Omniturf, a new synthetic surface. The department decided to donate the field’s leftover sod to MU, which will use it to re-sod tees at the AL Gustin Golf Course and re-sod as needed around campus.
Highlands
A proposition to annex 477 acres of land between Southampton Drive and Lake Valley Lane, also known as the Highlands, for a residential housing development passed easily among voters, 3,461-1,840. The Highlands developers say the annexation will make the development better, as the subdivision must now meet city standards. The annex will cost the developers more, but taxpayers will not be forced to upgrade the area to meet city standards, as was the case in the Cedar Lake subdivision in south Columbia. CBT
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A Closer Look
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›› A quick look at past emerging companies 1. Chinese Delicacies Chinese Delicacies, which was opened in 1980 by David Chou, moved to 47 E. Broadway. The restaurant started as a simple takeout-style Chinese restaurant but later turned into a dine-in location called Chou’s Buffet in June of 1985. It featured more than 30 daily luncheon specials and 80 varieties of dinner entrées. Its full menu was available for carryout. Chou’s restaurant is no longer operational. Following his retirement, his son, Sam Chou, changed the restaurant into Grindstone Brew Pub in 2003. David Chou died in 2005.
2. Oscar Mayer An Oscar Mayer plant opened at 4600 Waco Road in Columbia in 1985.When the hot-dog plant first opened, it was the smallest of Oscar Mayer’s 18 plants and employed about 150 people. But this plant was the first Oscar Mayer plant to operate 24/7 and focus solely on the production of hot dogs. It made hot dogs to be sold under the Oscar Mayer and Louis Rich labels, the Columbia Missourian reported in 1985. The plant is still open today, and it is owned and operated by Kraft Foods.
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Norfolk and Western, a division of Norfolk Southern, said in September of 1984 that it planned to abandon the MKT Railroad because it wasn’t profitable, possibly by the end of 1985. By September of 1985, the city was the only remaining option to buy the railroad, as private investors were not interested. On Sept. 31, 1985, the Columbia City Council announced its support for the purchase of the railroad line. The railroad was converted to a trail in a rail-to-trail transition. The MKT Trail is currently the longest developed rail trail in the country.
A new pharmacy took over for Skaggs Thrifty City at the 111 S. Providence Road location in Columbia. Osco Drug Inc., a line of in-store pharmacies, opened its doors in Columbia in September of 1985. Osco Drug filled prescriptions for shoppers and offered vitamins and medicines, among other items. It was known for its inexpensive vitamins. The drugstore went out of business in 2004 and remained vacant for nearly 10 years. It is now a Lucky’s Farmers Market.
4. Midway Arena After months of negotiations, the Boone County Commission approved plans to open Midway Arena. In June, a proposal to build the 29-acre arena was opposed by neighbors. The plan was to build an arena and building for exhibitions, animal shows and a flea market. In July, the Boone County Planning and Zoning Commission voted in approval of the arena, and the owner agreed not to have car and motorcycle racing. The Midway Travel Center is still in business. It owns an antique mall, an exposition center, a restaurant, a lounge, a store and a Budget Inn. It also has a sandbar, hayrides and storage rentals. 3
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6. Fire Station No. 7 The Columbia Fire Department’s Station No. 7 was made official on May 19, 1985. The station had been operational since December of 1983, but the dedication was delayed until landscaping was complete, the Columbia Missourian reported. Located at 3601 S. Providence Road, the station housed a company of three men who responded to about 300 emergencies per year. Due to Fire Station No. 7’s aging condition, voters approved a plan to open a new one at 400 Green Meadows Circle. Construction for this new fire station began in 2008. CBT
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Business Update
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Mall’s arrival changes city shopping habits.
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Changing landscape The Biscayne Mall, which opened in 1972, and Parkade Plaza, which opened in 1965, also faltered in the mall’s wake. Neither had
advertising budgets to compete with the mall, and both saw tenants pack up and move. Parkade Plaza in particular was hit hard. Before the mall opened, three of its tenants signed leases with the mall and a fourth closed, citing the uncertain future of the plaza. The plaza eventually lost J.C. Penney, a 20-year tenant and its largest business, to the mall in the summer of 1987. J.C. Penney became the mall’s final anchor after Target joined in summer 1986. By fall 1987, the plaza was up for sale with fewer than 10 of its 25 store spaces leased. With a $6 million asking price, the space had no takers. Its owners transformed the plaza to a mixed-use development, drawing government institutions and other employers with promises of office space. Now called the Parkade Center, the plaza has changed ownership several times since 1987 but still
houses a mix of offices and retail shops and is now owned by the Burnam family. For the city, the mall was more than just a new place to shop. City planners had to prepare previously seldom-traveled roads for high levels of traffic congestion, and the Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission revised an old sign ordinance banning animation to give the mall its flashing neon front sign. Initially, it looked like the mall could have some benefits for downtown businesses. Residents in Boone County and other nearby counties said they viewed all of Columbia, not just the mall, as a place to shop. A poll the Columbia Missourian and KOMU-TV conducted after the mall opened suggested 80 percent of Boone County residents had seen the new mall, as had sizeable percentages of residents in nearby counties. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Holding out hope Retailers downtown were quick to call their sales declines only temporary. Some said their sales slump spanned only the mall’s first two weeks of operation. But by 1987, it was clear the situation wasn’t short lived. When three stores shuttered in a two-week period in October 1987, two of the three cited the mall as the reason for their exit. Some merchants hoping to sell their stores instead of close them completely had problems finding buyers, most of whom were wary of mall competition. Eighty-one downtown businesses closed between late 1986 and late 1987. Although new businesses replaced many old ones, vacancies crept higher. Offices also began to replace some former retail space, a development that some considered less than ideal. To combat their woes, downtown retailers considered adding free parking and evening hours to boost business. In December 1987, the Special Business District hired a development expert to help capture more shoppers. The expert, who also managed malls, advocated for creating a more unified management among downtown businesses. Instead of handling their individual leases and sales, the expert advocated that the business owners collaborate to present a united front, almost 34
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as if they leased from a mall company and answered to mall managers. Although other Columbia businesses suffered, the new mall was a success. About a year after opening, the mall’s sales ranked fourth among its parent company’s similarly sized malls. Its anchors remain unchanged after nearly three decades.
In the present The mall underwent a renovation in 2004 and has room for 140 retail stores. Its four-screen movie theater was replaced with a Barnes & Noble. An H&M is set to open in fall 2014, and a sit-down restaurant, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill, is also slated to open soon. Mall General Manager Rusty Strodtman says mall sales have remained strong throughout the years, and the mall holds its own among his company’s other malls in mid-sized markets. “We fall on a very similar trend to Columbia in that we don’t have a lot of ups and downs,” Strodtman says. The mall hit its highest sales volume per foot in 2011 and also did well in 2012 and 2013. By the end of 2014, Strodtman says he expects mall occupancy to be between 97 and 98 percent. “That’s not unheard of, but it’s much higher than the national average,” Strodt-
man says. “We as a company are very happy with Columbia.” About a dozen of the mall’s stores are original to the 1985 opening, but most storefronts have changed three or four times, Strodtman says. Downtown managed to recover after its onslaught of store closings. Its vacancy rate was 3 percent in 2013. Office space replaced some vacant storefronts, and as of 2013, offices still made up more than half of The District’s retail balance. Twenty-six percent of the balance is retail stores, and 18 percent is restaurants. The District has no trouble attracting gourmet restaurants and independent retailers, says Carrie Gartner, executive director of the Downtown Community Improvement District. In its retail stores, The District’s niche is often smaller businesses that may still carry well-known brands. Gartner says that today, The District is more than a place to shop. “It’s clearly about a different type of experience, not necessarily just running errands,” Gartner says, pointing out that The District also boasts space for production facilities such as studios and breweries. “It’s really changing what people think of when they think of shopping. It’s a much richer experience.” CBT
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Meet Jim Robertson, owner of Show-Me Clippers, Inc. Jim recently obtained an SBA loan from The Bank of Missouri to expand his Great Clips Franchises and has now opened his third location in Columbia. An SBA loan from The Bank of Missouri is one of the best financing options for small and growing businesses. An SBA loan can help you finance an entire business, equipment and fixtures, business real estate and much more.
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Dave R. Griggs
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›› Education: Graduate of Hickman High School, attended the University of Missouri ›› Community involvement: Boone County Fire District, chair; Columbia Chamber of Commerce, member and past chair; REDI, member and past chair (two terms); National Federation of Independent Businesses, member; Missouri Leadership Council; Flagship Council, member and past chair; Landmark Bank, Columbia board member; Jefferson Club, member; Mizzou Athletics Faurot Fellow ›› Professional background: Founded DGFA in 1975, past member of Porter Paint Co. Dealer Advisory Board, member of Flooring America Advisory Council, member of Flooring America Board of Directors, former member of the CCA Global Product Steering Committee, former Boone County commissioner ›› If I weren’t doing this for a living, I would: Be working on our farm, volunteering for REDI to bring jobs to or create good jobs in our community or consulting other flooring companies.
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See Dave Griggs get roasted at the Alzheimer’s Association annual roast May 29 at the Holiday Inn Executive Center. ➜
›› Why I’m passionate about my job: It is very rewarding to drive around our community and central Missouri and be able to say, “There’s another building with floors by Griggs.” I am even more proud to have mentored several flooring professionals through the industry, from distributor sales representatives around the country to the national merchandising and marketing director of Mohawk Industries. Lastly, I am honored every day to have clients who we served many years ago either come in for flooring for their new homes or who keep sending their friends and family to us for their flooring needs. ›› Family: I’ve been married to my girlfriend, Nancy, for 44 years. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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›› A favorite recent project: Designing and installing the custom MU Tiger logo carpeting for the Mizzou Tigers game-day locker room and football offices to help the Tigers transition to the SEC. ›› A Columbia businessperson I admire and why: Tom Atkins. Tom represents Mr. Business Leader in our community. He has served on innumerable boards and commissions and is always ready to assist in virtually any task that betters Columbia’s business climate and/or Mizzou, the economic driver in our community. He bravely is willing to take a stand for what he believes in and makes things happen. ›› What people should know about this profession: The flooring industry can be very rewarding but is in constant change as manufacturing and installation techniques are continually evolving. It seems that after you’ve been in this business a year or so, you’ll never leave it. ›› What I do for fun: My wife, Nancy, and I love our cabin at the lake and often entertain our friends there on the weekends. We are avid Mizzou Tiger fans and love to tailgate at football games in the fall and attend virtually every home basketball game. ›› Favorite place in Columbia: Our home on the corner of the family farm where I’ve lived for more than 60 years. ›› Accomplishment I’m most proud of: Surrounding myself with great people and flooring industry experts while doing my very best to make Columbia and Boone County a fabulous place to live, work and play. ›› Most people don’t know that I: Am the only Republican in the history of Boone County to be elected to the office of Northern Boone County commissioner and am therefore the only Republican in history to be unelected from that office. CBT 38
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The definition of influence is short enough: the capacity to have an effect. The act, though, is a tall order. It takes a whole lot of hard work, strong character and the power to effect change. The CBT took a look at some of Columbia’s local leaders from 1985 who, for better or worse (and mostly better), left a lasting impression on our community. Here’s to Columbia’s most influential people of 1985! By Madison Alcedo, Claire Boston and Torie Ross
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Russell Thompson By Torie Ross
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ussell V. Thompson was the superintendent of the Columbia Public Schools system for 18 years, the longest tenure as superintendent in the district’s history. Thompson, who began his career in education as a teacher at Hickman High School and later as the school’s principal, became superintendent in 1976. During his 18 years serving the school system, Columbia was recognized as one of the nation’s top 16 model school districts by the National Governor’s Conference on Education. Thompson also played an essential role in growing and maintaining several of Columbia’s nationally recognized educational programs, including Parents as Teachers and Partners in Education. Thompson moved on to serve on the State Board of Education in 1994. He served two terms on the board and an additional two terms as the president of the board, from which he retired in 2010. Thompson has received several awards for his accomplishments, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from his alma mater Northwest Missouri State University and the National Education Administrator of the Year award by the National Association of Educational Office Professionals.
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s the city’s first black police chief, Bill Dye came to Columbia in 1982 after a nationwide search. Prior to moving to Columbia, Dye worked as the chief of police in Champaign, Ill., where he focused on recruiting minorities and instituting a neighborhood watch system. In 1985, Dye was named as one of seven defendants in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit relating to the death of Kimberly Linzie, who was shot to death by Columbia Police officers in 1985. Linzie’s death caused controversy in the city, as some residents believed the shooting to be racially motivated. The suit claimed that Dye had not adequately trained his officers in use of force and failed to follow up on complaints of police misconduct. Dye suspended the officer involved in the shooting. A U.S. Justice Departmentordered FBI investigation later concluded the officer was justified in shooting because he believed Linzie was about to run over another officer. The suit was settled in 1987. Dye left the Columbia Police Department in 1987 and took a position as director of security at Texas Southern University. He died in Texas in 1994. He was 60.
Patsy Sampson By Claire Boston
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atsy Sampson, president of Stephens College from 1983 to 1994, was the first female president at the women’s college. Stephens’ enrollment tumbled by nearly half during Sampson’s tenure. Enrollment was below 590 when Sampson announced her resignation in 1993, down from 1,063 in 1983. The enrollment woes forced Sampson to trim the college’s budget and eliminate administrative and faculty positions. During her time, Sampson fought to save the college’s historic Senior Hall, the oldest building on campus. She helped the school fundraise $3.5 million for renovations and worked on cultivating relationships with wealthy alumnae capable of giving major gifts to the college. Sampson came to Stephens from Drake University in Iowa, where she was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and a psychology professor. She had also served as a dean at Pitzer College in California and worked at Binghamton University and Wellesley College. In her retirement, Sampson devoted much of her time to traveling around the world. She died in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2009 at 77. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Ray Beck
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ormer City Manager Ray Beck, who held that position from 1985 until his retirement in 2005, served with 14 different mayors in Columbia. Beck began his career with the city in 1960 and held a variety of positions, including Water and Light director. During his tenure as city manager, Beck oversaw the implementation of a city-operated waste removal system, a municipally operated public transit system and an expansion of the local parks and recreation services. Throughout his career with the city and even post-retirement, Beck held close ties with a variety of organizations, including the National Recreation and Parks Association, University of Missouri Dean’s Engineering Advisory Council and the Missouri Highways Engineers Association.
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Jerry McAhren By Torie Ross
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erry L. McAhren served as the regional vice president of State Farm’s Missouri-Kansas office from 1985 until 1989. McAhren started his career with State Farm in 1961 as a management development trainee in data processing at the Missouri-Kansas office located in Columbia. Before becoming regional vice president of that same office, McAhren served as superintendent of regional data processing operations and director of stat processing at State Farm’s corporate headquarters in Bloomington, Ill. McAhren then returned to the Columbia office as regional vice president, the company’s top corporate leader in Missouri. When State Farm opened its Oklahoma-Kansas office in Tulsa in 1989, McAhren was named to the same position in that office and transferred.
ohn O’Shaughnessy served as president of Boone Hospital Center from 1985 to 1992. During his tenure, he oversaw the 1988 transition of hospital administration from Boone County to Christian Health Services. A decline in profits in the mid-1980s led O’Shaughnessy to seek out an administrative leaser. Boone County retained ownership of the hospital, though Christian Health Services took over day-to-day administration. The agreement eliminated a county tax on Boone County residents. Christian Health Services became BJC HealthCare following a merger. BJC HealthCare still administers the hospital in accordance with a lease agreement that extends through 2015. O’Shaughnessy arrived at the hospital center after running Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Earlier in his career, he was the administrator of the Medical Center of Independence and worked with the St. Louis hospital system. Although he called the health center strong when he first took the president job, O’Shaughnessy strove to make the hospital more participatory for staff. O’Shaughnessy left the hospital in 1992 to become president of Christian Hospital in St. Louis. Later in his career, he returned to Columbia to be an administrator with MU Health Care. O’Shaughnessy retired in 2010 after five years as the administrator for the St. Louis Shriners Hospital for Children. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Bo Fraser By Claire Boston
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n his more than 20 years as CEO and chairman of Boone County National Bank, Bo Fraser maintained close ties to his community during a period of banking upheaval. Fraser joined the bank as president in 1983. After 18 years as president, he turned over presidential duties to Steve Erdel in 2002 but stayed on as CEO and chairman until he retired in 2006. As many banks deregulated in the 1980s and shifted their attention to offering new kinds of financial products, Fraser kept BCNB community focused. Over the years, he acquired a number of smaller community banks to expand BCNB’s branches and sprinkled more ATMs throughout the city. At the time of his retirement, BCNB’s assets topped $1 billion, up from less than $300 million when Fraser began. Even in his retirement, Fraser remained active on the BCNB board and served as board chairman. He also spent two years on the UM System Board of Curators, though he left his post early to spend more time at his retirement house in Florida.
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Ted Boehm By Madison Alcedo
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fter 14 years as a trooper with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Ted Boehm couldn’t get law enforcement out of his system and decided to run for the Boone Country sheriff position. Boehm began as a trooper in 1967 and retired for financial reasons in 1981 after retaining the rank of corporal. With 1,500 hours of training at the Highway Patrol Academy, Missouri’s 120-hour police course and experience working closely with the Sheriff’s Department, Boehm was an ideal choice for sheriff. With the exception of a homicide, he had investigated every type of crime a sheriff might be expected to encounter prior to being elected. Boehm won the 1985 election with a 3-1 victory over republican Tom Watson, and within the first three weeks of becoming sheriff, he had already begun reorganizing the department by implementing new policies for patrol, conducting employee evaluations and pushing for a state law requiring jail employees to be certified. Over the course of his term until its end in 2004, Boehm modernized the Sheriff’s Department; he improved its morale and image by purchasing new uniforms, squad cars and revolvers and redesigned the county jail. Once he addressed the department’s uniformity: “If one of us wears a hat, we’ll all wear a hat.”
C. Peter McGrath By Torie Ross
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. Peter Magrath, who has made a career of being a university president, presided over the University of Missouri System from 1985 until 1991. Magrath previously served as the president of Binghamton University from 1972 until 1974 and as president of the University of Minnesota from 1974 until 1984. During his six years at the helm of the UM System, Magrath implemented improvement strategies for eight programs across the system that were aimed at raising those particular programs to levels of national and international eminence. The three programs on Columbia’s campus that were part of the “eminence program” were journalism, molecular biology and Food for the 21st Century. After leaving the university in 1991, Magrath became president at West Virginia University from 2008 until 2010 and then returned to Binghamton University, where he has served as president since 2010. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Don Rutherberg By Madison Alcedo
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hen Donald Ruthenberg became the 15th Columbia College president in July 1984, the college was $1.6 million in debt. In September 1984, the college was completely free of federal indebtedness thanks to its former board of trustees and 70 other individuals who helped raise the $586,247 needed to get the college out of its debt. Ruthenberg received a doctorate in education from the University of Denver. From 1980 to 1984, he supervised about 25 Iowa colleges as the Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities president. In 1972 to 1980, he was also the president of Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan. During his term at Columbia College, Ruthenberg not only regained financial stability for the college, but he also oversaw the Southwell Complex project that housed a new gym for the basketball and volleyball teams in 1988, completed the J.W. and Lois Stafford Library in 1989 from more than $280,000 in donations, finished continuous renovations on campus and created international ties and sister-college relationships with three Taiwanese colleges. After heading Columbia College for 11 years, Ruthenberg retired in 1985. His last duty as Columbia College president was awarding a Bachelor of Arts degree to his daughter. Upon retirement Ruthenberg moved with his wife, Dee, to the Lake of the Ozarks.
Jack Pettit By Madison Alcedo
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Jack Nowell By Torie Ross
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ack Nowell, co-founder and owner of the Nowell’s Grocery Store chain in Columbia, came from a family of grocers and shop owners. Nowell’s grandfather owned a sandwich shop in downtown Columbia for decades, and his father and uncle owned a wholesale grocery company that supplied local supermarkets with produce. When Nowell left the Army in 1944, he immediately joined the family business. He opened the first Nowell’s Grocery Store in 1957, and at the time of his death in January 2000, Nowell owned three stores in Columbia, one store in Hollister, Mo., and one in Branson, Mo. Nowell and his company are best remembered for innovation in a changing business landscape. In 1977 Nowell’s Grocery Store provided Columbia with its first computerized checkout scanners, speeding up the checkout process and forever changing the way grocery shopping was conducted in Columbia. Throughout his career, Nowell served as president of the Downtown Rotary Club and the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. He also served on the board of directors for First National Bank.
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Robert Smith By Madison Alcedo
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n 1979 Robert Smith was appointed MU Medical Center hospital director after four years as hospital director at the University of California Medical Center at Davis. A Downey, Calif., native, Smith received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from California State University in 1963, a master’s degree in business administration from California State at Long Beach in 1970 and completed Ohio State’s graduate certificate program in hospital and health services in 1978. Less than two weeks after taking his position at MU’s hospital, Smith implemented a restructuring plan for the institution’s administration. As MU’s hospital director for 13 years until 1992, he revitalized a hospital that was once perceived as an “out-ofdate hospital with some serious problems” by revamping the hospital’s structure, recruiting nurses to alleviate the nursing shortage and hiring a new financial officer. Also during his tenure, Smith oversaw the merger of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center with the hospital. In 1992 Smith took MU’s early retirement plan to accept the job of president and CEO of the Zale Lipshy University Hospital at Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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ayor Rodney Smith, a tree-surgeon known for his casual talk, boot-wearing and sympathy for his fellow working class, took over the mayoral position in May 1985 when Mayor John Westlund resigned after facing criminal investigation for his $12,000 worth of dubious travel expenses. Former Columbia City Council members praised Smith’s honesty and integrity, which was especially important for the city after his predecessor’s scandal. Smith was born in Freeman, Mo., and was a graduate of the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery in Kent, Ohio, which led to the opening of his own business, Rodney D. Smith Tree Service, in 1959. Smith won his first City Council seat in 1971 and was later elected as the 3rd Ward councilman in 1979, a position he held for eight years. For years Smith would meet people at five or 10 homes every day through his tree-trimming business, which contributed to his popular appeal. Former 4th Ward Councilman Pat Barnes once said: “Rodney is kind of a people’s mayor. He may not be the most articulate, he may not be the most shined politician, but he’s the people’s mayor.” Until the end of his term in 1988, Smith ushered in a new era in Columbia’s city government. CBT
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➜ Don’t miss this issue’s online extras, including additional ’80s-themed photos of our Small Business of the Year finalists and more.
Meet the 2014 finalists for the Chamber
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HoneyBaked Ham in Columbia John and Marianne Beverstein, owners honeybaked.com 212 E. Green Meadows Road, No. 9 Columbia, MO 65203 573-256-4267
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eorgia natives John and Marianne Beverstein were searching for a location to open a small business when they visited some friends in Columbia. “We were looking for a college town to open our store in, and Columbia fit the bill perfectly,” says John, a former director of the alumni foundation for Young Harris College. In the fall of 1999, they moved to Columbia, and they opened a Heavenly Ham franchise in 2000. With a B.A. in banking and finance, John once owned a photography company with a small staff and about 30 parttime photographers, so he had some small-business background. But Marianne says for the most part they were starting from scratch. “Neither one of us had any training or background in food service,” she says, though she adds that the corporation helped them immensely. Three and a half years ago, they became a HoneyBaked Ham franchise following a company buyout of Heavenly Ham. John and Marianne have worked together in the store since they opened, and today they have seven employees. “We kind of have our jobs divided up,” John says. “Marianne takes care of the in-store, operational part. Mine is more the marketing, getting out in the community. My job is getting them to come in the first time, and her job is to keep them coming back.” The couple says they couldn’t be happier to be included on the short list of Small Business of the Year finalists. “It’s exciting, and it makes me feel that people recognize that we’ve worked hard,” Marianne says. For John, who served as the co-chair of the Small Business Committee for the Chamber of Commerce the past two years and has seen the process from the other side, it’s been exceptionally gratifying. “I’ve gotten to communicate with the finalists and help them along, so it’s really kind of special to now be on this side of the process,” he says. As far as future plans for the business, the couple feels they are at a crossroads. One option is an expansion in the capital city. “We had our first holiday store in Jefferson City this last Thanksgiving and
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They had been married for two years in 1985, and were living in Stone Mountain, Ga.
Christmas when we partnered with Cold Stone Creamery and sold our hams and turkeys through their store,” John says. At the same time, they are outgrowing their current space and considering moving to another Columbia location. “Depending upon what the extra costs are, it might be time to move to a new spot instead of putting significant funds into remodeling,” John says. Eventually the Beversteins might move back to Georgia to be closer to their families. “We now get together once or twice a year since we are 12 hours away,” Marianne says. They especially miss their two daughters, who are currently attending college in Atlanta. But for now, John says they enjoy living and working in their adopted college town that has become their home. “We love Columbia,” he says. “Columbia has been very, very good to us.”
Focus on Health Curt and Krista Kippenberger, owners focusonhealthchiro.com 4200 Merchant St., Suite 105 Columbia, MO 65203 573-777-5900
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r. Curt Kippenberger and his wife, Krista, grew up in Rolla, Mo., and started dating when they were sophomores in high school. They attended the University of Missouri, where Curt, who was an athletic trainer for the MU Tigers football team, graduated with a degree in exercise physiology, and Krista earned a degree in general studies. The couple was married in 2005, and they have a 2-year-old daughter. The Kippenbergers say it was a visit to Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis that led to their decision to start their own business. “When we learned that chiropractors are trained as portal-of-entry physicians, that if you come to me, and I can physically diagnose and begin treating you right there, and I could also do some athletic training and the sports medicine as well as the manipulation that chiropractors are known for, it just seemed to match my personality very well,” Curt says. He graduated from Logan in 2010, and he and his wife opened their chiropractic practice in the Village of Cherry Hill that same year. “A lot of people don’t know what chiropractors do, or maybe they are even scared to try this type of care,” says Krista, who focuses on the business’s community outreach, events, social media and charity drives. “I try to make it friendlier, more approachable. If you have a question, I’m going to answer it.” With five staff members, including a massage therapist and a physical therapist, Focus on Health provides a multifaceted approach, offering chiropractic care, acupuncture, massage therapy and functional rehabilitation. “Across the board chiropractors are extremely effective,” says Curt, who believes in a twofold approach to treating a patient. “We are not just trying to get patients out of pain but determine what that pain pattern is, such as sitting for long periods of time during the day, which can cause hip muscles to tighten, and then come up with strategies in the office and at home of how to manage these muscular imbalances.” Krista says they also carry supplements. “We might, for instance, recommend fish oil and vitamin D, what we would consider foundational nutrition.”
Curt and Krista were preschool age in 1985.
Additionally, they partner with several professionals in the community, such as sports medicine and orthopedic specialists. “Our larger goals are to have a freestanding building that we could share space with some of our referring professionals,” says Curt, adding that if this model goes well, they would like to repeat it in other communities. “It doesn’t make sense for somebody to drive an hour and a half to get an adjustment and then get back in the car, which is commonplace in our practice.” Both Curt and Krista say they are excited and extremely honored their business has been chosen as a Small Business finalist. “It’s really humbling to be honest,” Krista says. “We have such an amazing patient base, and they speak highly of us all the time, but this is more of a community recognition, which we greatly appreciate.” Curt agrees. “It’s such a compliment that just in the four years we have been here that we have been recognized,” he says. “But this contest also speaks volumes for Columbia that they really support small business, especially those in their infancy.” columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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The Lawn Co. “Better Lawns Naturally” Jeff Zimmerschied, owner betterlawnsnaturally.com 573-442-LAWN (5296) or email Jeff@BetterLawnsNaturally.com
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orn in Sedalia, Mo., Jeff Zimmerschied, owner of The Lawn Co., graduated with a B.S. in agronomy from MU in 1977. After farming for a year, he was hired by Monsanto to run a fertilizer plant in Tennessee. Promoted several times over the course of the next few years, he moved to Texas and finally settled in California, where in 1983, while living in Chico, he started a computer store called Start with Software. Soon after, he quit Monsanto and ran the store for the next 10 years. During this time he also gained custody of his son, Jeffrey. In 1993, Zimmerschied sold his computer business, and he and his son returned to Columbia to help take care of his father, who was battling prostate cancer. Zimmerschied’s father, a farmer who had worked with a variety of fertilizers and chemicals, died a few months later. “After my dad died of cancer in 1993, I became increasingly concerned about the unnecessary use of chemicals,” says Zimmerschied, whose mother died of breast cancer in 2005. Just two years later, Zimmerschied launched his lawn care company. “What I had in mind when I started the company was going out and learning as much as possible so I could help others do more organic lawn care,” he says. Today, using his own formulated soil-improving lawn care products, his company provides customers personalized attention, environmentally friendly practices and quality results. “My story is almost a complete circle,” Zimmerschied says. “Now I’m doing quite the opposite of what Monsanto does.” Zimmerschied says he feels his eco-friendly approach is also better for his employees, which include his son and sister, and appreciated by his customers. “I want my employees to be happy and like what they are doing and enjoy good health benefits so when they are out in the community, they are making customers happy,” he says. “We also don’t want to pollute the lakes and streams or have our clients walk fertilizer through their homes.”
In 1985, he was in Chico, Calif., running the computer store.
His green approach to lawn care has caught the attention of others, such as MU plant sciences professor Dr. Brad Fresenburg, who asked Zimmerschied to consult on a natural lawn care guide published by MU Extension. For the past six years, Zimmerschied has applied his organic principals to his own farm. In the future, he hopes to help area farmers embrace more organic practices in the same way he has helped people with their lawn care. “I think there is more awareness today,” he says. “The general marketing trend for Columbia seems to be moving toward more organic living. The market for more food and organic health seems to be greater.” A member of the Chamber of Commerce since 1997, Zimmerschied says he’s pleased to be selected as a finalist and honored to be associated with a group that not only supports small business but also does so much for the community. columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Monarch Title Co. Inc. Maureen Dalton, CEO/owner monarchtitle.com 111 E. Broadway, No. 100 Columbia, MO 573-441-0725
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clients have land outside of Boone County, the company does searches and closings anywhere in the state as a convenience to their clients. Maureen enjoys working in the title industry. “I love working with all the different people,” she says. On a day that she has several closings, she might interact with upward of a couple of hundred people. “You also create friendships in the real estate industry, and in this area, it’s more like a family.” Maureen says she’s thrilled to be selected as a finalist by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. “It’s an incredible honor, especially when last year was a really difficult one for me,” she says. “My husband came down with cancer in March and passed away in November. You have to continue going whether you feel like you can or not. My employees, I can’t say enough about them.” CBT
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Then and Now By Sarah Redohl
Boy, how things have changed!
Boone County’s population has increased by 68 percent since 1985. “Thrift Shop” topped music charts in 2013, and 1985’s top song, “Careless Whisper,” is little more than a whisper from the past. Join the CBT as we bring the ’80s back to the future with Columbia: then and now. All material sourced from 1988 and 2013 Columbia REDI Community Profiles unless otherwise noted.
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City/county Commercial property tax rate (per $100 assessed valuation) Now: Columbia: 41 cents Boone County: 28 cents Missouri: 3 cents School district: $5.40 Boone County library district: 30 cents Surtax: 61 cents Total: $7.04 Then: Columbia: $1.64 Boone County: 31 cents Missouri: 3 cents School district: $3.92 Total: $5.90 Sales tax (state and local) Now: 7.35 percent (Boone County) Then: 6.23 percent
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Top city/county headlines: ★ Mayor Westlund forced out of office ★ City Manager Gray forced to resign ★ S. District Commissioner joins Gov. Ashcroft ★ David Horner to County Commission ★ City debates status of southeast corner Broadway and Providence ★ Public Works Director Beck named city manager ★ County adopts building codes ★ City considers, rejects pot law leniency ★ City to regulate massage parlors ★ City to build landfill ★ New mayor is Rodney Smith ★ City begins curbside recycling ★ Columbia ranked as state’s fastest-growing metro area
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Transportation Bus services Now: Columbia Transit, Greyhound, Megabus, airport shuttle and charter services Then: Columbia Transit, Flextran, Greyhound, Kincaid, Ryder (charter service) Airways Now: 1 carrier, 4 daily flights* Then: 7 carriers, 20 daily flights *Source: flymidmo.com
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Top transportation headlines: ★ Gas selling for less than a dollar ★ FAA opens new flight service center at airport ★ N&W Railway to abandon Columbia branch, city considers purchase ★ City discusses extending Forum Boulevard south ★ Widening Stewart Road discussed ★ County begins replacing old bridges ★ Parking lot to open at 10th and Broadway ★ City building Walnut Street garage ★ State passes mandatory seat belt law
Education Columbia Public Schools Now: 16,923 students Then: Approximately 12,500 students Now: 4 high schools, 6 middle schools, 20 elementary schools Then: 2 high schools, 3 middle schools, 17 elementary schools Private schools Now: 20 Then: 5 University of Missouri Now: 34,748 Then: 23,434 Stephens College Now: 899 Then: 1,016 Columbia College Now: 17,852 Then: 1,287 Columbia Career Center Now: N/A Then: approximately 12,000 Top education headlines: ★ Peter Magrath assumes presidency of MU ★ MU begins computer registration ★ MU buys MFA building at 207 S. Seventh ★ MU tuition is $689.50/semester ★ MU enrollment declines ★ Brady Commons addition under construction ★ MU Curators vote divestment in S. Africa stocks ★ MU student fees to pay for new Conley Avenue garage ★ Stephens College to sell Hillcrest Hall ★ Stephens College enrollment low, cuts budget, staff laid off ★ Columbia College out of debt ★ Columbia College to get new gym
Industry Now: University of Missouri-Columbia: 8,581 University Hospital & Clinics: 4,438 Columbia Public Schools: 2,141 Boone Hospital: 1,623 Veterans Hospital: 1,374 City of Columbia: 1,354 State Farm: 1,168 Veterans United: 1,100 Shelter Insurance: 1,076 Joe Machens Dealerships: 1,015 MBS: 919 Hubbell Power Systems Inc.: 706 Columbia College: 686 State of Missouri (not MU): 542 Kraft Foods/Oscar Mayer: 516 ABC Labs: 398 Boone Government: 376 MidwayUSA: 325 Boyce & Bynum: 306 USPS: 303 Schneider Electric/Square D: 272 Boone County National Bank: 264 U.S. Department of Agriculture: 258 Century Link: 255 3M: 258 Pepsico: 240 OTSCON: 240 Woodhaven: 232 Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance: 218 MFA Inc.: 203 Then: MU (total): 10,820 Boone Hospital Center: 1,450 A B Chance Co.: 1,060 Shelter Insurance: 1,000 State Farm: 735 3M: 560 Square D Co.: 350 ABC Labs: 225 Parker Hannifin: 170 Columbia Foods (Oscar Mayer): 155 Top industry headlines: ★ Food Barn grocery opens ★ Missouri Store sold ★ Columbia Mall opens in stages, first Sears, later Dillard’s + 50 stores ★ Arena to be built at Midway truck stop ★ Hilton plans convention center, room additions ★ Oscar Mayer building hot-dog plant ★ Discwasher closes, 60 jobs gone ★ Broadway Village apartments approved ★ Machens buys Riddick (VW) Motors ★ Roth’s Department Store closes, cites mall competition
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Leisure/EntertainmenT Now: 3 bowling alleys* 3 country clubs* 3 movie theaters** 85 public parks*** 9 public aquatic facilities**** 19 public tennis courts**** 3 public golf courses* 1 mall* Then: 4 bowling alleys 3 country clubs 11 movie theaters 44 public parks 5 public pools 30 public tennis courts 4 public golf courses 1 mall Now: 34+ hotels***** 3,500 total rooms***** 23 with meeting facilities***** Then: 23 hotels 2,300 total rooms 8 with meeting facilities *Source: YellowPages.com **Source: August 2013 CBT ***Source: September 2013 CBT ****Source: GoColumbiaMo.com *****Source: Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau
Top recreation and entertainment headlines: ★ Tanning beds are the rage ★ Troubled year for Athletic Director Dave Hart, eventually quits ★ Show-Me Games celebrates first year ★ Omniturf installed at Faurot field ★ Tiger Hotel parking garage demolished ★ Local video arcades closing ★ Planning for county historical museum continues
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Financial *Now: Bank Midwest 1201 Grindstone Parkway Bank of Missouri 3610 Buttonwood Drive Boone County National Bank 17 branches in Columbia Callaway Bank 3 locations and mortgage group Central Bank & Trust 1401 Forum Blvd. Columbia Credit Union 310 E. Walnut St. Commerce Bank 8 branches in Columbia First State Community Bank 3 branches in Columbia Flat Branch Home Loans 101 S. Fifth St. Hawthorn Bank 1110 Club Village Drive Landmark Bank 10 area branches Merchants & Farmers Bank 4000 Rangeline Road Missouri Credit Union 4 branches in Columbia Providence Bank 3855 Forum Blvd. State Farm Bank 5 branches in Columbia UMB Bank 1516 Chapel Hill U.S. Bank 4 branches in Columbia United Credit Union 2909 Falling Leaf Court TOTAL: 64 *Source: CenturyLink Yellow Pages, July 2012 64
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Then: Boone County Bank, 5 locations, President Bo Fraser 720 E. Broadway 15 S. Eighth St. Providence Road and Walnut 1916 Paris Road Nowell’s Store at Providence and Nifong Centerre Bank 4 locations, President Perk Hoecker 800 E. Cherry East Broadway and Business Loop West Broadway and Nifong South Providence and Nifong Century State Bank 2 locations, President Don Singleton 2103 White Gate Drive 1205 E. Broadway Commerce Bank 4 locations, President Daniel Scotten 500 Business Loop 70 W. Missouri Bookstore Sixth and Broadway Biscayne Mall 1st National Bank & Trust 4 locations, President Jeff MacLellan Eighth and Broadway Green Meadows Road Crossroads Center 10 N. Garth TOTAL: 19 Top financial headlines: ★ Boone County National Bank buys Parks building for expansion ★ Bonds for some city projects approved in November ★ Postage up to 22 cents
7 hospitals 1,065 beds 780+ medical doctors** 78 dentists* 54 doctors of osteopathic medicine* 234 doctors of veterinary medicine* 45 chiropractic doctors* 3,163 registered nurses* 728 licensed practical nurses* Then: 7 hospitals 1,739 beds 560 medical doctors 51 dentists 12 doctors of osteopathic medicine 85 doctors of veterinary medicine 13 chiropractic doctors 1,525 registered nurses 507 licensed practical nurses *Source: Missouri Division of Professional Registration, Boone County **Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Columbia Metropolitan Statistical Area, May 2012 Top medical headlines: ★ BHC president quits, succeeded by O’Shaunessey ★ County mulls county hospital woes, to sell or not to sell Boone Hospital?
Emergency Services Now: Columbia Police Department officers: 160* Boone County Sheriff’s Department officers: 75* Columbia Fire Department emergency services personnel: 136** Then: Columbia Police Department officers: 121 Boone County Sheriff’s Department officers: 75 Columbia Fire Department emergency services personnel: 108 (county: 165) *Source: November 2013 CBT **Source: Columbia Fire Department Public Information Officer Lisa Todd Top emergency headlines: ★ County wrestles with jail expansion, overcrowding ★ Law enforcement-joint communications beefed up with more computers ★ City hires six new police officers ★ County approves enhanced 911 service
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* 96 Christian churches * 2 synagogues * 1 mosque * Also: 1 each Hindu, Buddhist and Baha’i Then: 74 Christian churches 1 Synagogue 1 Mosque *Source: Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau Sources: REDI 1988 Community Profile, REDI 2013 Community Profile (unless otherwise noted)
Radio stations KTXY Now: 26* KBBM KWIX KBXR KWJK KCLR KWRT KCMQ KWWR KCOU KXEO KFRU KZZT KIRK Then: 11** KKCA KTGR KLTI KWWR KMCQ KARO KMFC KCMQ KOOL KCOU KOQL KFMZ KOPN KFRU KPLA KOPN KRES WWC-FM KSDK KBIA-FM KSSZ KTGR KMFC-FM Internet Now: There are multiple broadband providers throughout Boone County. Then: Ha!
TV stations Now: 10 Then: 2*** Local telephone Now: CenturyLink, Mediacom Phone, Socket Telecom Then: GTE-NORTH *Source: Yellow Pages, 1985 **Source: CenturyLink Yellow Pages ***CBS affiliate KRCG, which covers Columbia despite being licensed in Jefferson City, and PBS affiliate KMOS out of Sedalia were not included in the 1988 REDI Community Profile. Top communications headlines: ★ KOMU rejoins NBC ★ KMIZ back to ABC ★ KBIA manager agrees to quit ★ GTE phone company has competition following industry deregulation Group W Cable buys cable company CBT columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Roundtable › Al Germond
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any things we take for granted today simply weren’t around in 1985. Cellphones and Dick Tracy-like miniature devices, the Internet, flat-screen TVs, inexpensive computers, the social media explosion and so forth, though widely anticipated, were still the stuff of dreams in the mid-1980s. Cellular telephones arrived first a few years later, initially in your car, the bag Al Germond is the phone and the incredible miniaturization host of the Columbia that followed. The term “Internet” didn’t Business Times enter the lexicon until the early ’90s with Sunday Morning Roundtable at 8:15 Netscape, an early enabling technology, a.m. Sundays on and flat-screen monitors and social media KFRU. He can weren’t ubiquitous until recently. be reached at al@ In 1985, Columbia had the two daily columbia business newspapers it has today. Three television times.com. stations served the area, a fourth or fifth on occasion, and the cable TV company was only 8 years old. Television choices were measured in the dozens, far from the infinite number of options today. Many of us had home video tape recorders. If you didn’t mind having a 10-foot dish outside, satellite TV, though somewhat pricy, offered more choices. There were two AM radio stations and four noncommercial FM stations. In addition to three commercial FM stations licensed to Columbia, other AM and FM choices were available from nearby cities. For some reason, we don’t do a very good job remembering names of the people whose bylines we read or the people we watched and listened to. The firmest memories are probably of Paul Pepper, who guided viewers through the weather for years on KOMU-TV, and Tribune editorialist H.J. Waters III, who began signing his daily commentaries in 1966. Other names we recall include Dan Corkery, Don Shinkle, Tom Bradley, The Breakfast Flakes (Chris Kellogg and Sally Chase) and Andy Tutin. Largely forgotten are the legions who wrote, reported and appeared in and on various media outlets, many of them students on their way to distinguished media careers elsewhere. For me, 1985 was a year of considerable challenge guiding 2-year-old KARO-FM through a number of ambitious projects. The limited-coverage FM station was profitable after only a few months on the air, and a year later it was free of debt. Confident of success, I bought the studiooffice building and the corner lot it stood on at 503 Old 63 N., only to discover that zoning prohibited construction of a new building. This led to the Planning and Zoning Commission, which flat out and with some acrimony denied the necessary zoning change. Then it was on to the City
Council, which overruled the lower commission approving the necessary change 6-0. From there it was on to work with architects, contractors, bankers, attorneys, the city staff and a whole retinue of others. While the building was going up as 1985 progressed, the fortunes of the easy-listening FM station were starting to go down, leading to worries about how to pay for and support the new premises. This meant a format change to build audience and broaden advertiser support. In March 1986, the station, now called K102, moved into the new building, and the more “upfront” adult contemporary format initiated at the same time restored the station’s growth trajectory.
KARO-FM’s production room in 1985
Behind the scenes, moves on the federal regulatory level began in 1984 to repatriate the 101.5 FM frequency that had been set aside for Columbia in 1947 but was later abandoned. Sliding over from 101.7 to 101.5 would allow the station to power up and broaden its coverage regionally. The obstacles were numerous, but with considerable tenacity, K102 held on, and regional coverage began in February 1992. Thirty-one years after the station opened, what is now KPLA serves a large area of central Missouri from a 1,049-foot tower in northeast Columbia. Fifty years ago, only two TV stations served Columbia. Columbia’s two AM stations were supplemented by an assortment of scratchy signals more tolerated than a pleasure to listen to. The FM dial was completely open; the closest stations were simply out of range and unavailable. The Internet and the host of fixed and mobile devices that render the Web and all that resides there accessible have profoundly altered the availability and breadth of choices in the media landscape. There will be both victims and survivors across the media landscape in the years to come. While balking at predicting the future, it has been and continues to be an exciting ride. CBT columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Nonprofit Spotlight ›› Heart of Missouri United Way
Pinning Down Results Heart of Missouri United Way narrows focus to at-risk youth
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n 1985, Tim Rich was a commanding officer in the Salvation Army and polishing off his funding proposal to send to Heart of Missouri United Way. Nearly 30 years later, he’s running the organization from which he once sought funds. Rich has been Heart of Missouri United Way’s executive director since December 2009 and has seen the organization through a major overhaul in the way it serves its community. For more than 65 years, Heart of Missouri United Way operated primarily as one of United Way’s 1,200 fundraising organizations that sought to treat the symptoms of poverty. It focused on the needs of agencies it funded and measured accountability in number of people served. When Rich took over in 2009, however, the agency began to move to a model of service it calls Community Impact. In Community Impact, United Way looks to iden-
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tify mid-Missouri’s biggest needs and treat the root causes of its problems. It still funds agencies to help address problems, but the focus has shifted from the agencies to the populations those agencies serve. After studying the community and identifying goals for education, income levels, health and safety net services, Community Impact volunteers realized their goals all started with youth. Twenty-seven percent of children in Boone County live in poverty, compared to just 4 percent of seniors. “Everyone agreed that in any of this we wanted to do, you have to focus on youth and specifically poor and at-risk youth,” Rich says.
Breaking the status quo Education, heath, income and social safety net emerged as Heart of Missouri United Way’s primary goals.
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"My proudest moment was when we made the decision to go all in on community action."
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The Community Impact targets for education include increasing the number of youth who enter school ready to succeed, read proficiently by third grade and successfully transition in and out of middle school. For 2013, the organization allocated $771,127, or 24 percent of its total dollars, to agencies with concrete education strategies. Other impact targets received similar amounts of money. The agency financed $617,796 to heath agencies, $681,000 in safety net agencies and $278,305 in income agencies. To find agencies to receive the Community Impact funding, Heart of Missouri United Way went public with its Community Impact goals in early 2012. It received 109 proposals requesting a total of more than $6 million. In December 2012, 29 agencies received the green light for funding.
Karla DeSpain
“I appreciate the way you can give to United Way, and the dollar is expanded through the ability to give to a lot of different agencies.”
Greg Grupe
“United Way unites the business, professional, educational and philanthropic communities in central Missouri in a very beneficial way.”
➜ 1700 E. Point Drive, Suite 201 Columbia, MO 65201 573-443-4523 • uwheartmo.org
Community Impact threatened the status quo. Some legacy agencies that had been funded for years, such as the Boy Scouts, did not receive the Community Impact funding. Several new agencies received funding as well. The new funding strategy didn’t please everyone. Donors used to be able to designate that their funds go to a specific agency, but that option is now gone. Rich says that under the old funding model, about 12 percent of Heart of Missouri United Way’s donations had designations. Although the organization has lost about $250,000 after removing the designations, Rich says he thinks removing designations helps the agencies work better together. “[Designations] became more of a popularity contest internally so agencies could prove to United Way how important they were,” Rich says. The new funding methods focus on the needs of the whole community. Priority went to agencies that could measure improvements in the populations they serve. The agency’s 40 board members backed the shift.
Pieter Van Waarde
“I’m convinced that a community is only as good as its care for the least of these. I’m honored by the caliber of the people who have upheld that battle.”
“My proudest moment was deciding to go all in on Community Impact…and doing everything we needed to do to see results,” board member Erik Morse says.
Going all in Many United Ways around the nation, including the one in Kansas City, use the Community Impact service model, but Heart of Missouri United Way is unique in its approach. “We’ve talked to at least six other United Ways in communities about the size of ours,” Rich says. “None of them have gone 100 percent into Community Impact like we have. I think we’re the only one in the country that has done it.” The move has lost the agency some donors. The capital campaign has come up short for the past two years, a result that Rich attributes in part to the weak economy. Heart of Missouri United Way dipped into its reserves for its 2013 budget crunch but was forced to cut internal staff by 16 percent when its 2014 campaign was $400,000 short of its $3.4 million internal goal. This year, funded agen-
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cies will receive about 10 percent less funding than they did in 2013. “I think we’re at a new normal,” Rich says of the $3 million the 2014 campaign raised. “We’ve narrowed our focus to at-risk youth and their families. That’s not the way United Way has always been, and so our funds have dropped.” Rich says the agency’s new focus on measurable returns is winning over some donors who were used to the agency’s old ways. “While we’re disappointed about campaign results, we’re not discouraged about what we’re doing,” Rich says. “The more we have this conversation, and the more we help people understand what we’re trying to get to, the more we have people who didn’t like it and were mad at us say, ‘Oh, this makes total sense.’” CBT Columbia businesses are encouraged to support Heart of Missouri United Way through its Live United 365 Small Business Circle. Contact Cathy Atkins at catkins@ uwheartmo.org or 573-443-4523 for more information. Photos by Kendra Johnson.
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“I think United Way is unique. It serves the entire community and aims to make Columbia the best place possible.”
Steven A. Smith
“It’s a vital function in the community. It assists in coordination and collaboration, so it’s a more efficient use of resources.”
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Technology ›› Monica Pitts reviews past trends in tech
A Cellular Journey
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’m the daughter of an early adopter and technology enthusiast, though I’m not a gadget person and have always been more of a book-toter myself. Dad, known to most people as Leon Schumacher or Doc Schu, used mobile phones as early as the mid1970s. These first phones transmitted on regular copper phone lines. Due to pricy installation and bulky equipment, the option was not widely used, and the public favored CB radios for communication instead. Playing on the CB radio was a favorite pastime of my friends and me, pretending to be grownups. Using a CB radio, you could talk to others up to 20 miles away in good conditions, depending on the terrain. Unfortunately, oversaturation of the airwaves shrunk coverage areas dramatically, and there was no such thing as a private conversation using such a device — which is what made them so much fun for us kids. Next up in my life came the era of the bag phone, “a luggable but not quite portable device,” according to Dad. My uncle, Nick Schumacher, and Dad both used these phones frequently because they traveled for work. Bag phones needed 12-volt power to operate, usually derived via cigarette power converter or in some cases a rechargeable battery for those on the go. For optimum reception, antennas were attached to vehicle exteriors, and cables ran through the window attaching to the bag phone. While Mom and many high school friends jumped on the cellular bandwagon and installed phones in their cars, the affluent few utilized the brick phone. Brick phones were a bit more mobile but super bulky weighing 2.5 pounds. Bag and brick phones operated on a cellular network that founded what we still use today. Dad explains, “We called them cellphones because your coverage was only good in that cell.” Small cell coverage companies would pair up and establish roaming agree-
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ments allowing for a larger cell of coverage for their customers. The heavy roaming fees, Dad recalls upward of $1 per minute, applied when you used your phone in another company’s cell. Although many of my peers had been toting phones for years, I didn’t get my first phone until 1998. It was what Dad calls a “calculator phone,” also known as a Nokia 5110. My snap-on front cover was green. “You were all over the place doing things,” Dad reminisces. “There was a chance we could get a hold of you with that cellphone. But without it, no chance.” Plus with the promotion of the family plan, rates were much more affordable for multiple lines. My next phone, a Sprint Sanyo flip phone, came complete with a camera and bleeping noises accompanied by words that I ignored. After a few months my friends explained, “These disturbances are called texts, the new way to communicate.” I still ignored them. I started texting back when I purchased my new red Palm Centro in 2008. It had a keyboard, as did many other phones at that time, so it seemed a shame to let it go to waste. As other people around me upgraded to the new iPhone, I accepted my little brother’s hand-me-down phones. My phone was dead or lost most of the time anyway, so carrying a nice new device seemed more like a liability than a convenience. In 2011 I upgraded to the iPhone 4S, my first smartphone, which I still carry. I do actually keep it charged and occasionally check the messages and texts. You’ll find it on my person at all times though probably not for the reason you’d expect. With my new iPhone purchase, I discovered I could download audiobooks and ebooks from Daniel Boone Public Library right onto my phone! Now I don’t have to hang my head as I return overdue books, and my phone fits in my purse a lot better than a book does. CBT
Cellphone Evolution 1982: Nokia’s first mobile phone Mobira Senator weighs 21 pounds. 1983: Ameritech launches the first 1G network in the United States with the first handheld phone (nicknamed “the brick”), the Motorola DynaTac 8000X. The phone has a talk time of about half an hour and takes 10 hours to charge, holds up to 30 phone numbers, weighs 2.5 pounds and costs $3,995. 1989: The first flip phone is introduced, the Motorola MicroTAC, at a cost of $2,495 and weight of 0.67 pounds. 1990:
Motorola introduces the bag phone for more durability and higher power output. A 12-volt battery provides up to 2.5 hours of talk time and 48 hours of standby time.
1992:
The first digital handheld phone, the Nokia 1011, is introduced. Three years later, in 1995, Nokia implements the first commercial usage of text messaging.
1998:
Introduction of Bluetooth technology and the Nokia 5110. With the fancy colorful snap-on covers, this phone offers three hours of talk time.
1999: BlackBerry brings together email, mobile phone, a pager, calendar and other wireless information services for $400, with a weight of 0.29 pounds. 2002: Sprint Sanyo becomes the first commercial camera cellphone in the United States. The phone has 2.7 hours of talk time, costs $70 to $100 and weighs 0.25 pounds. 2004: Motorola introduces the Razr V3.
Best remembered for being super thin, it offers a talk time of seven hours.
2007: Apple Inc. introduces the iPhone with touchscreen navigation, and Time names it the Invention of the Year. The phone offers eight hours of talk time, weighs 0.3 pounds and costs $500 to $600. 2013:
Apple Inc. releases the iPhone 5s, the latest model to date, on Sept. 10, 2013.
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Going Up
Photos by Whitney Buckner. Brady Commons photo courtesy of MU in Brick and Mortar
›› City structures by Madison Alcedo
1. Chamber of Commerce and CVC Where: 300 S. Providence Road When: Construction began mid-summer 1985 What: The building cost an estimated $816,600 to build and would house both the Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau. Who: The Chamber of Commerce was to pay $300,000 of the cost, and the Boone County Commission contributed $30,000 to the project. Sam Walton donated an undisclosed sum, and Columbia businesses and individuals agreed to help fund more than 50 percent of the project. Why: Bo Fraser, chairman of the fundraising committee for the project, “stressed the need for permanent and enlarged office space because the Chamber of Commerce has been bounced around from one location to another.” Now: Both the Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau are still housed in this building. Source: Columbia Missourian and Columbia Business Times archives 72
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2. Hilton Inn Convention Center Where: 2200 I-70 Drive SW When: Construction began Aug. 1, 1985 What: The $16 million project included a 30,000-square-foot convention center, a 9,000-square-foot ballroom, health club, saunas, tennis courts and an atrium-style lobby with an open lounge overlooking an indoor swimming pool. The new convention center included a banquet room to seat 1,000 people and a new Churchill’s restaurant. After renovations, the hotel capacity almost doubled from 123 rooms to 230 rooms. Who: The Executive Hotel Management Inc. hired Azzarelli Construction Co. of Illinois as the main contractor, but the contracting firm planned to use as many Columbia contractors as possible. Why: The hotel owners hoped the convention center would lure trade to mid-Missouri. Now: This location is now a Holiday Inn Executive Center. Source: Columbia Missourian archives
3. Conley Avenue and University Avenue Parking Structures Where: 512 Conley Ave. and 1115 University Ave. When: The University of Missouri Board of Curators approved the parking project on Dec. 5, 1985. Construction began the following year. What: The construction of two three-level parking structures with a joint capacity of 1,250 vehicles was estimated to cost $8.5 million. Who: The University Board of Curators funded the project through the purchase of revenue bonds funded by a $10.50-per-month parking fee at the university. An additional $2 million came from existing parking funds. Why: UMC officials said the new parking structures would ease the campus’s parking crunch. Now: Both parking structures are still in use today. Sources: Columbia Missourian archives, MU Campus Map
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5. Brady Commons
6. Kelly Plaza
Where: 602 Sanford St. When: The building was renovated in 1985 and dedicated Sept. 12, 1986. What: The Conley House was originally built in 1869 by Sanford Conley, the original owner and a local entrepreneur. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and purchased by MU in 1980. The building housed the Missouri Cultural Heritage Center and Honors College after its renovation. Who: Chancellor Barbara Uehling oversaw the restoration of the Conley House. University architects worked with local architect James Darrough on the project. Why: Plans to renovate the aging historic building began immediately after MU purchased the property. Much attention was paid to maintain the original Italianate Revival style. Now: The Conley House now houses the Campus Writing Program. Sources: MU in Brick and Mortar, Columbia Missourian archives
Where: 901 Rollins Road When: The renovations had an estimated completion date of October 1985. What: The Brady Commons addition and renovation cost $3.1 million, $200,000 more than expected. Both the bookstore and snack bar were expanded, and space for lease; a bowling alley; expanded game rooms; the MSA ticket window; and rooms for registration, student government organization and publication offices were also added. Who: The money for one floor of the new addition came from Union Reserves, a fund that includes profits from the University Bookstore and Memorial Union/Brady Commons services. The Memorial Union/ Brady Commons also borrowed $900,000 from the university to complete the addition. Why: The building was designed to bear the load of additional floors in the future. Now: Brady Commons is now the MU Student Center and Mizzou Store. Source: Columbia Missourian archives
Where: 1900 N. Providence Road When: 1985 What: The 68,000-square-foot commercial building housed offices, shops and businesses. Who: The building was developed by Pat Kelly and designed by local architect Nicholas Peckham. Why: The brick and stucco building was constructed to house offices on its upper level, private shops and businesses on its middle level and housed Kelly Furniture on its entire lower level. Kelly’s Furniture was one of a group of furniture stores in Missouri and Iowa owned by Pat Kelly’s father, Lawrence Kelly. Now: Although the property has since been sold, the name Kelly Plaza endures. The lower level has since held Martin House, JC Mattress and Showrooms and now, five separate businesses. Source: Columbia Magazine archives and Paul Land of Plaza Commercial Realty CBT columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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Deeds of Trust ›› Worth more than $650,000 Current day:
110,000,000 Rvr Enterprises Inc. Boone County National Bank Lt 103 Crosscreek Center Plat 1
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6,000,000 Bluff Creek Villas Llc Landmark Bank Lt 801 Bluff Creek Estates Plat 8
1,222,500 Sentinel Industries Inc. Boone County National Bank Str 11-46-12 /Sw/Sw Sur Bk/Pg: 379/173 Ac 9.59
3,400,000 3 Forums Llc Landmark Bank Lt 1A Pt North 63 Industrial Park
1,000,000 Como Ventures LlC Citizens Bank Lt 5C Liberty Square Block 3 Lot 5
2,000,000 Ohm Holdings Llc Boone County National Bank Lt 1 Centerstate Plat 12
997,773 Mm Iii Llc Providence Bank Lt Pt Watson Place
1,800,000 Nauser Investments Llc Landmark Bank Lt 1 Middle Market Sub
997,773 T H M Investments Llc Providence Bank Lt Pt Watson Place
1,800,000 Missouri Annual Conference Of The United Methodist Church Umb Bank Lt 1A Centerstate Plat 11A
980,967 Deline, Greg And Kelly C. Hawthorn Bank Str 25-49-13 //Se Sur Bk/Pg: 735/716 Ac 8.090
1,520,000 Innova 1001 Llc Landmark Bank Lt 286 Pt Columbia
881,350 Smarr, Merle N. Jr. And Charlotte G. Hawthorn Bank Str 18-48-13 //Se Ac 124
1,360,000 McCarty Property Investments Llc Bank Of Missouri The Str 22-48-13 //Sw Sur Bk/Pg: 289/210 Ff Tracts 1,2 And 3 1,347,500 Bright Properties Llc Bank Of Missouri The Lt 151 Pt East Highlands Quinn And Conley Ff Guitar's Sub And Park Add
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1,250,000 Midwest Columbia Properties Llc Hawthorn Bank Lt 5 Bl 1 Fairway Meadows
850,000 Delta Xi House Corp. Of Delta Delta Delta Boone County National Bank Lt 1 Delta Delta Delta Subdivision Plat 1 830,000 Tri-City Farms Inc. Callaway Bank The Str 11-51-12 N/Ne/Se Ac 20
1,347,500 Mid-Mo Oandp Llc Bank Of Missouri The Lt 19 Pt Ff McBaine's Add
780,420 Lucky Dog Rentals Llc Boone County National Bank Lt 301 Eastport Village Plat 3
1,347,500 Ell Properties Llc Bank Of Missouri The Lt 10 Pt E C More Sub
689,569 J B L Holdings Llc Smarr, Merle N. Jr. and Charlotte G. Lt 201 I-70 Trade Center Plat 2
1,275,000 J B L Holdings Llc Hawthorn Bank Lt 201 I-70 Trade Center Plat 2
662,000 Foreman, Allan L. And Margitta R. Bank Of Missouri The Lt 114 Westcliff Plat 1 Cbt
Econ Index ›› It’s all about the numbers Current day: Labor: Columbia labor force February 2014: 99,801 February 2013: 97,106 Columbia unemployment February 2014: 5,189 February 2013: 4,752 Columbia unemployment rate February 2014: 5.2 percent February 2013: 4.9 percent Missouri labor force February 2014: 3,012,731 February 2013: 2,988,378 Missouri unemployment February 2014: 229,269 February 2013: 221,083 Missouri unemployment rate February 2014: 7.6 percent February 2013: 7.4 percent
Construction: Residential building permits February 2014: 52 February 2013: 66 Value of residential building permits February 2014: $13,690,929 February 2013: $12,010,016 Detached single-family homes February 2014: 15 February 2013: 37 Value of detached single-family homes February 2014: $4,113,628 February 2013: $7,040,062 Commercial building permits February 2014: 19 February 2013: 17 Value of commercial building permits February 2014: $14,637,210 February 2013: $4,778,564
Commercial additions/alterations February 2014: 17 February 2013: 14
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Utilities: Water February 2014: 47,063 February 2013: 46,094 Change #: 969 Change %: 2.1 percent Electric February 214: 47,624 February 2013: 46,714 Change #: 910 Change %: 1.9 percent CBT columbiabusinesstimes.com ///
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New Business Licenses ›› Columbia residents and their upstarts Current day:
Alice Schawo LPC 3610 Buttonwood Drive Mental health counseling with individuals Aqueous Vapor LLC 21 Conley Road, Suite Q Retail sale of electronic cigarettes and accessories B.G. Mechanical 2513 Braemore Road HVAC installation, service and other home repairs Breathe Structure Massage & Yoga 1034 E. Walnut St. Massage and yoga therapy Burger King No. 3529 100 E. Business Loop 70 Fast-food restaurant Carlyle Cleaning Services 2100 E. Broadway, Suite 129 Janitorial business Como Gopo 123 E. Nifong Blvd., Suite A Gourmet popcorn cartkitchen B&B bagel Company MEA 4302 Royal Aberdeen St. Scanning of photographs and documents to discs Cover All Handyman Services 3406 Lost Tree Terrace Flooring, drywall repair, painting, electric, plumbing Pinnacle Graphics 10 W. Nifong Blvd., Suite A Graphic design services, small sign production, commercial photography Noni’s Custom Cuts LLC 3301 Broadway Business Park Court, Suite G Dog grooming, bathing and clipping dog hair 78
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Dirt Cheap – Columbia 3305 Clark Lane, Suite A Retail sales cigarettes, beer, wine, miscellaneous
Precision Silver LLC 1809 Emerald Court Computer engineering software and services
Ecoaquaria 2100 E. Broadway, Suite 129 Aquarium cleaning, install, maintenance, breed fish
Element Property Management 3200 Penn Terrace, Suite 108 Property management company
R & J Cleaning Service 2300 Primrose Drive, Apt. A Cleaning business Embroider More LLC 3406 Longford’s Mill Drive Embroidery and sewing service to businesses and general public File Fast 18 E. Business Loop 70, Suite B Tax preparation service Gilbane Motorsports 608 Nebraska Ave. Motorcycle service, repair and accessories Interstate All Battery Center 100 Brickton Road, Suite 104 Retail/commercial sales of all kinds of batteries
Rocket Behavioral Health Services 3000 Alsup Drive Licensed behavior analyst, therapy services Shelby’s Watch 2102 Chapel Hill Road House sitter and services, light cleaning Shortwave Coffee 915 A Aly, Suite 10 Coffee shop Show Me Fair Taxation 2100 Limerick Lane Raise money from events to be used for selling ads Stump Stomper 2604 McClure Drive Tree stump and shrub removal, stump grinding
Justin Hahn, agent, State Farm 1305 Grindstone Parkway, Suite 109 Insurance sales
Swank Avenue 4009 Kirkwood Court Sell costume, jewelry, purses, clothing, online
Logboat Brewing Co. 504 Fay St. Microbrewery production, manufacturing, retail
Tuller Painting LLC 4309 Vermont Court Painting contractor, residential and commercial
Crossroads Tile & Flooring 1319 London Drive Flooring installation
Walter Beasley Construction 1102 Willowcreek Lane New construction, commercial and residential
Pita Pit 1105 Grindstone Parkway, Suite 101 Food service and marketing pita sandwiches
We Only Mow 121 S. 10th St., Apt. 301 Mowing, trimming, edging grass, clean up grass CBT
By the Numbers ›› Boone County statistics in 1985 and now Cost of Living
Boone County population
Oh, how times have changed! Remember when you could get a candy bar for just a nickel? Well, we aren’t going that far back, but how about 40 cents? Here’s a look at 1985 and now, by the numbers.
= 5,000 people
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1985: 100,376 Source: U.S. Census Bureau data of Boone County, 1980
Average Wages
Source: Social Security Administration
$16,823
Now: 168,535 Source: U.S. Census Bureau data of Boone County, 2013
Tiger football record
1985: 1-6 (in conference games, Big 8)
(in conference, SEC) Source: mutigers.com, 2013
Average age of retirement (U.S.)
1985 63
Average life expectancy (U.S.)
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74.7
78.7
World population
U.S. federal debt
Source: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury
1985
Sources: Billboard Top 100, Recording Industry Association of America
now: “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis; more than 7 million copies sold, more than 500 million YouTube hits. Sources: Billboard Top 100, Recording Industry Association of America and YouTube
$9,005
NOW
4.85 billion 7.3 billion
1985
$2 trillion
NOW
$17 trillion
$31,252
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1985 NOW
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#1 song of the year 1985: “Careless Whisper” by Wham! and George Michael; more than 6 million copies sold.
New car
Source: costofliving.com and TrueCar.com, 2013
Source: sports-reference.com
Now: 7-1
$44,321
+ 163%
House
Source: U.S. Census Bureau and National Association of Home Builders
$84,300
+ 211%
$262,200
Loaf of bread
Source: DePaul University and Numbeo.com
$0.55
#1 movie of the year
$2.38
+ 332%
Gallon of milk
Source: IMDB, businessinsider.com
Source: 1980sFlashback.com and Numbeo.com
1985: Back to the Future $210,609,762 at U.S. box offices, production budget of $19 million
now: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $424,645,577 at U.S. box offices, production budget of $130 million
$2.62
$3.74
+ 43%
Gallon of gas
#1 tv show of the year 1985: The Cosby Show estimated audience of 28,948,300. Source: Nielsen Ratings
now: NCIS estimated audience of 21,600,000. Source: TV Guide
Source: Comprotex, 1985 average and Oil Price Information Service, 2013
$0.90
$3.49
+ 288%
Movie ticket
Source: National Association of Theatre Owners
$2.75
Sports Super Bowl XIX The San Francisco 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins 38-16. Super Bowl XLVIII The Seattle Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos 43-8.
1985 World Series The Kansas City Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3. 2013 World Series The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2.
Top five news stories of 2013
Source: Associated Press Top 10 Stories poll 1985
Source: Associated Press Top 10 Stories poll 2013
Middle East terrorism, from air hijackings to the Italian liner Achille Lauro
2 3 4 5
The Geneva summit meeting and change in leadership of the Soviet Union The Colombian volcano eruption that left 25,000 dead The Mexico City earthquake that killed 7,000 The AIDS epidemic
$8.13
Stamp
Source: priceofstamps.com
Top five news stories of 1985
1
+ 196%
1 2 3
Health care overhaul
4 5
Divided Congress, historically low approval ratings
Boston Marathon bombing Vatican changeover from Pope Benedict XVI to Pope Francis
NSA spying scandal
$0.22
+ 123%
$0.49
Yearly college tuition
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, average of all types and CollegeBoard.org, average of all types 2013-2014 academic year
$2,784
+ 633%
$20,396
Yearly college tuition at MU Source: Columbia Missourian archives and University of Missouri
$1,379
+ 584%
$9,430
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Questions Like It’s 1985 Richard King, owner, The Blue Note
2. Where was the best place to see a concert in Columbia in the ’80s? The Blue Note, of course! At that time, we frowned upon the “hair band” stuff that was going on. Honestly, my entire focus was music that never really received a whole bunch of radio attention. We tried our best to stay ahead of the musical trends. We would have bands like X, REM, John Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon playing at The Blue Note. On Wednesday nights, we had “Dance Party” with Phil Costello, my partner at the time. He’d spin music that wasn’t top 40 but was usually popular on British dance charts. Other places included The Stein Club, Gladstones and Fish N Friends. 3. When was The Blue Note founded? Aug. 1, 1980. It was converted from a popular biker bar called The Brief Encounter to a somewhat hipster college bar.
4. Did any rad bands come to Columbia in 1985 that you’ve never forgotten? That was the year that REM and the Red Hot Chili Peppers came to Columbia. Around that time, I also went to see Bruce Springsteen in St. Louis.
9. What was the most popular beer on tap? Mixed drink? At The Blue Note, the most popular drinks of the time were Long Island tea and shots of Jameson. Cheap pitchers of Old Style went over well with our “hipster audiences.”
5. What were some of the best bands of that time? Flock of Seagulls, Adam & the Ants, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. Some of the regional bands were Fools Face, The Morrells and The Secrets.
10. What were your mostplayed tracks from that year? Plimsouls, Violent Femmes, Stray Cats, B52’s. 11. Did you a) own a membersonly jacket, legwarmers, rolled jeans, a skinny tie, shredded jeans and/or stone washed jeans, and b) have a sweet ’do? I owned skinny ties and shredded jeans. For me, long hair was about it. Along with the hipster crowds at The Blue Note came very fashionable hipster kids; it wasn’t unusual at that time to see skinny ties, slicked back hair, pleated pants and sharkskin suits. Members-only jackets were around, along with polo shirts, but I felt more comfortable turning the racks upside down at Leo’s Old Clothes. In fact, digging up old bowling shirts became competition there for a while.
6. If I asked you in 1985, where did you think you’d be by 2014? Certainly not Columbia. My original destination was L.A. 7. Did you have any predictions for the next music craze back then? Our thought at the time was that alternative music would take over the world. Remember, at that time, MTV ruled. Rockability became pretty popular in the ’80s, and The Stray Cats were what put that genre over the top. 8. Where might we find you in 1985? In 1985, I spent most of my time at The Blue Note for several reasons, one being that it was a cheap place for me to drink and second, that I worked all the time. I’d also hang out at Booches, Ernie’s, Bobby Buford’s or The Stein Club.
Photo by Anthony Jinson
1. What were some of your favorite concerts in Columbia in 1985? My favorite was Nick Lowe and Paul Carrack. Other shows in that time period were groups like Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Pretenders, The Go Go’s and The Rockats.
12. George Michael or heavy metal? Then? Now? I was never a big fan of heavy metal, so I guess George Michael. I grew up on ’60s radio: the Beach Boys, The Beatles, etc. CBT
➜ Don’t miss this issue’s online extras, including additional ’80s-themed photos of our Small Business of the Year finalists, Dave Griggs, Richard King and more. ➜ Fxxxx 80
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Flash-forward ›› Then and now
➜ The Columbia business landscape is always evolving, but it’s important to remember our historical roots.
By Torie Ross Photo by Kendra Johnson
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riving down Broadway at night, it is hard to miss the illuminated sculpture outside City Hall. The sculpture, titled Keys to the City, was commissioned to act as a portal to city government and a reminder of the city’s rich history. Since its completion in 2010, it has become somewhat of a landmark. However, had you been driving down Broadway in 1985 and looking at that very same corner, you wouldn’t have seen the sculpture or City Hall. Instead, you would have seen the Columbia offices of Farm and Home Savings and Loan Association, or Farm and Home Savings, as it came to be called.
Incorporated in 1893 in Nevada, Mo., Farm and Home sat on the northwest corner of Eighth Street and Broadway for more than 30 years. The business jumped around from location to location after first opening offices in Columbia, including locations throughout downtown on Ninth Street and Walnut. However, in 1961 Farm and Home moved into its Broadway offices designed and constructed by Bank Building and Equipment Corp. At the time, Vice President Jack Brown ran the Columbia office of Farm and Home, which had offices across Missouri and Texas. He remained at the helm of the office until 1986.
In the 1980s, many savings and loan companies, or “thrifts” as they were often called, fell on hard times. A banking crisis that lasted almost a decade erupted, and by 1989 more than half of the savings and loans in the nation had failed or been shut down. Although Farm and Home’s business survived in to the early 1990s, the City of Columbia purchased the space in 1994. The office housed a portion of the city’s Finance Department until the building was demolished. The land became the reconstructed City Hall, and the corner where Farm and Home had stood for almost half a century became a tribute to the city’s culture and history. CBT
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