Entertainment

After I started dating my then to be husband I had a new world open up. In Topeka there was not much entertainment except bowling or going to the movie so Ray had a good friend and with his date we would go to Kansas City. Gas rationing was on and Ray did not have a car anyway so my mother would take the four of us to the Santa Fe depot and we would take the train to Kansas City, the big town east of us. We would arrive in the Union Station, take a cab downtown or ride the streetcar to one of the big hotels generally the Muehlbach for dinner. I know the first time I was nervous as I was out of my element and ordered chicken. When it came it was a whole chicken and when I cut it it sailed into Ray's lap. Later we would go to the Music Hall and see a play that had many Hollywood stars as well as Broadway. We like to go to the Folly Theater because you could buy chocolate, which was hard to find during the war. After the play was over we would go back to Union Station and take a Union Pacific train home. My mother would come at 2:00 in the morning and pick us up. I think she was glad when we found Topeka entertainment where we could take the bus or trolley.