Buyers go bonkers at the Kansas City Auction Company
January 20, 2010
Do you think that pawing through a recently deceased person's worldly goods is a skeevy way to spend a Tuesday night? Good. That's just how the bargain hunters at the Kansas City Auction Company like it -- more for them. We snapped these shots at last Tuesday's auction from the estate of Diane Pell, the former owner of Middle Class Values, a kooky gift shop at 5010 Main. She was the daughter of Helen Virginia Whitten, a Kansas-City-born feminist who spent the '60s in New York City. The family's goods were a treasure trove of...well...you'll see.
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Nadia Pflaum
Right this way, folks. The Kansas City Auction Co. is in the West Bottoms at 1106 Santa Fe.
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