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MORE than a decade ago, a bridge over a ravine carried heavy traffic outbound from Kansas City to Leawood and points west. Then the bridge collapsed under the weight of a truck. Though insurance money was available, the bridge was never rebuilt. The street now stops at one edge of the ravine, then starts again on the other: it takes a two-mile detour to get across...
That is the way they like things in Leawood. A local editor and publisher, Tom Leathers, says that he has been trying for years to get West 95th Street, one of the main thoroughfares, widened. "It's inconvenient and dangerous even for our own people," he says, "but I haven't made any headway. It's as though they think improvements would bring in a lot of riffraff from Kansas City." "It's a bodacious street," allows Mayor V.M. ("Doc") Dostal. After their day's work in K.C., the people of Leawood obviously want nothing...
Some of the houses in Leawood are more than 40 years old, but the town only began to blossom in the late 1930s when the Kroh Bros, real estate company undertook a major development. Now there are nearly 11,000 residents in just over 3,000 houses-ranch-styles and split-levels with a good sprinkling of two-stories. The lawns are spacious, and there is often a paddock with two or three horses gamboling about. Some of the original houses that once sold for less than $25,000 would probably be worth twice that today; newer houses range from...
About 90% of Leawood's working population, including a growing number of restive housewives, commute by car to Kansas City. They are heavily Republican, many of them professional people, lawyers and doctors. A majority of the newer, more transient residents are often-transferred executives of major U.S. corporations. In many cases, their company helps foot the homeowner's bill just for the prestige of having a Leawood address for its man in Kansas City. As soon as a family settles, the wife is recruited into the Leawood Welcomers Club: for the next two years she meets other newcomers...