Help Harold Remember Madelyn's Pavilion!!!

Hello Everyone!!! We got a letter today and I would like to share it with you and see if anyone has ever heard of the place in question. It's a great memory from Harold G. who is trying to write his memoirs and wants to make sure he gets it right... Please, help us help him???
"Dear JCHS,
I was stationed at Sedalia Army Air Force Base in 1944 and 1945 and was able to visit my wife often in a rented room in the home of the county attorney in Warrensburg. The bus, which I rode from the base, let me off in the middle of town. I would walk past a place called Madelyn's Pavilion to get to the county attorney's home.
Decades later my nephew was stationed at the base which became Whiteman AFB. He met and married a girl from Warrensburg named Paula S. She told me she never heard of "Madelyn's Pavilion." I don't think I just dreamed about it. It looked like it could have been a baseball park sometime in the past. On Saturday evenings, as I would pass, joyful sounds came from it. It was a place where Afro-Americans had great entertainment with music."

Does anyone have any recollection of this?
Peggy Nuckles, please ask Buddy for goodness sakes : ).
Hope we can help Harold.

They Looked a Lot Like Each Other

Sometimes when I look at these old pictures from Simmons Studio, I'm struck by how similar people are.  Here's a photograph taken over 60 years ago of two powerful men.

Surely they are a father and son who were once famous in their neighborhood for their feats of strength.  I imagine they could be intimidating characters when they were angry.  I'd hate to have them come to my door wanting to discuss what my dog did to their lawn.

These young ladies, on the other hand, look as sweet as can be.

They are probably sisters.  They may not have been twins but they sure looked a lot like each other.

If anyone recognizes either of these couples, please leave a comment telling us who they are.

Check Out These Low Prices

I did a quick search on the internet and you can still get men's cloth coats on Amazon.com for about the same price.  They even look kind of the same as these coats - only shorter and not as elegant.  I think this is a picture of a store window at Rosenthals taken in the late '40s or early '50s - which, in my opinion, was the peak period for cool clothes for both men and women.

Modern cloth coat for $24.99 (See, it just isn't as cool.)

Speaking of great clothes and low prices.  Here's another picture from the same period.  

See the woman in the background.  Actually, I hate the skirt with the tiny pompoms around the knees, but I wish I had her waistline.

7-Up for 95 cents a case.  She should stock up.