"Wyncote Lane in Fairway was pretty much out in the country. Shawnee Mission Parkway was there, although it was called 50 Highway then. From our house to The Plaza was nothing but cornfields and pasture. Across from where the Fairway Shops are now was a riding stable. I remember going riding there a few times.

As you went south on Mission Road around the curve, there were three houses owned by the Reinhardts. They owned all the property that's now Reinhardt Estates, and it, too, was mostly fields. I remember lots and lots of daisies in those fields. The Reinhardts ran a nursery and a florist shop there on the curve.

Wyncote Lane had seven houses on it, and the lots were a nice, big size. We kids had the whole run of the neighborhood, and there were no fences. We'd gather around the circle after school or after supper in the summer and play kick-the-can and hide-and-seek. There was one vacant lot on the street where we always thought we could see the ruts of the Santa Fe Trail, but it was never marked or documented."

—Hope Wooldridge, 86, Prairie Village

Hope Woolridge