The Kansas City Star comes to us with some bad news: rich and cranky Skip Sleyster unexpectedly died Thursday at age 85. Sleyster was known for his Super Flea Swap & Shop flea market and his Sunday ad in the Sunday Kansas City Star, "One Moment of Your Time, Please!!"
We've poked a bit of fun at Sleyster's columns -- here, here and here -- but even we admit that the guy was a fascinating Kansas City character, and Joyce Smith has a really great story about Sleyster's life in today's paper. Didn't know that Sleyster once dubbed himself the "Donald Trump of Blue Valley."
Our condolences go to Sleyster's family ... and would someone finally do something about those stoplights on the freeway!
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Skip Sleyster, was a character in his own right. For many years, I read his article "One Moment of Your Time Please!" He wrote from the heart and I agreed with the same principles that he believed in. "There'll never be another Skip Sleyster.
"I was fortunate to meet him on the phone."
Greg Cochran, Holden, MO
I did not know Skip well, but his daughter Sherry married my brother, Richard (Tiny) Hunt. Subsequently I came to know members of Skip's extended family.
Skip was legendary and I heard stories....he was like a super hero that I heard great things about, yet I hardly ever saw him.
Within the past couple of years I gave him a ride one night from Darren's to his 'loft'. It was great talking with him on the way....wish I had spent more time with the cranky hero.
I'm sure many feel that way about the Super Hero of Blue Valley.
R. I. P. Hero.
Robert Alan Hunt
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