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Gary Wood has been a barber in Aggieville since 1963. You can cut a lot of hair in 50 years! Here is a little bit of his story mixed in with some Aggieville history. Hope you enjoy it.
Forrest E. Mansfield ran a barber shop at 706 N. Manhattan. He was listed at this location, just north of The Palace Drug Store, in the Manhattan Polk Directories in 1946 and 1951.
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Here is a collection of images from the College Symposium of the Kansas State Agricultural College, published in 1891. If you enjoy local history, I think you’ll find it to be worth your time to scroll through this set of … Continue reading
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The “core” of Aggieville Archives is a collection of over 11,000 images of Aggieville, K-State, and Manhattan history from a variety of sources. My goal is to assign at least basic information to each image. I should be done by … Continue reading
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Early on Saturday, February 14, 1998 a fire broke out in the Aggieville shopping area of Manhattan, Kansas which destroyed—in a matter of hours—83 years of Kansas history. The huge building which had most recently housed Club Karrington and Adventure … Continue reading
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Published in 1951, here are the stories and pictures of the worst disaster in the history of Manhattan as recorded by the writers of The Manhattan Tribune-News and the photographers of The Studio Royal. There was a full six feet … Continue reading
