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Kit Kat Klub demolished for road widening
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Demolition of the Kit Kat Klub, at 4842 W. Franklin Road in Meridian, began Tuesday. The Ada County Highway District obtained the land for a road widening project.
Neighbor who’s wanted the club shut down for years also finds her home in the path of construction
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he Kit Kat Klub, a strip club on the outskirts of Meridian, is being demolished this week to clear the way for a road widening project. Neighboring residents have worked over the years to get the club shut down. “(The club) put their signs on the road advertising for the girls,” said Birdie Whiting, who lived across the street. “And some of the families even commented to me, they’d drive by and tell the kids not to look.” Barry Tassler, an owner of the club, could not be reached for
by Holly Beech
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comment. Whiting didn’t know that what would ultimately close down the club was the very thing that would destroy her beloved home of 34 years. Whiting’s farm house also stood in the way of the road widening project. After settling with the Ada County Highway District — which purchased her house and part of her nine-acre property — Whiting moved into a new house
The farm house owned by Birdie Whiting was recently torn down to make way for the Franklin Road expansion project. She was reimbursed by the Ada County Highway District and moved to a new home across town.
across town. ACHD treated her fairly, Whiting said, and the new home is big and beautiful. “But it’s not my cozy, cozy home that had everything at my fingertips,” she said. One can hear the longing in the 82-year-old’s voice as she describes her old home — the stairs leading up to the library and the craft room where she painted, the sun room lined with windows, the canning kitchen in the basement. “It was absolutely just the perfect home,” she said.
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