Est. 1869. The company advertising claims an "Established " date of 1869 (some material cites 1868) and that they were the "Oldest Liquor House in Kansas City." Most likely the company began life as Spengler Bros., which stops listing at about the same time as this one begins.
The company used the brand names: "Bondhouse", "Clarke's Rye", "Guckenheimer Pennsylvania Rye", "Hermitage", "Honey Drop", "J. S. Monogram", "John Spengler's Straight Whiskey", "Old Crow", "Pride of Delaware", and "Schenley Pennsylvania Rye." | | Business name timeline: John E Spengler (1893-1915), John Spengler's Sons (1916-1917)
Address timeline: 400 Main (1893), 418 Delaware (1894-1904), 517 Delaware (1905-1915), 600 Delaware (1916-1917) | | Business category timeline (abbreviations decoded below): W
Years that company appeared in directories
Years directories were consulted
Kansas City directory notes
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c. 1905 | c. 1905 |
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Appearance in
directories: 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917
Directories
consulted: 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918
Kansas City directory
notes: W = Wine & Liquor Dealers, Wholesale, D = distilleries (1881), V-R = Wine & Liquor Dealers, Retail (1889). Directories for 1870-1874, 1878, 1880-1885, 1895, and 1901 came in the form of type-written transcriptions rather than photocopies.
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