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Kerry Browne does, though. She and her husband, John McClain, have ownedx at 3300 Pennsylvania Ave. since July 1, 1981, when they boughft it from her mother, Margi e Blake Browne. Their age 4 and 6, sometimes serve up soft drinkes inthe deli, she Her nieces and nephews work too. Kerry Browne’s mother died in 2004, but she had been at the store every day until near the end ofher Browne’s great-grandparents, Ed and Mary Flavin, had startedf the store in the front of theier house at 27th and Jefferson streetsx in 1887. They moved it to its current locatiojn in 1901 in what was thenthe city’s The Flavins’ daughter, and her husband, James R.
Browne, took over the storre from themin 1917, and Kerry Browne’s mother and James R. “Bob” Browne Jr., took it over in 1956. Browne’s Irishn Market & Deli — dubbed North America’s oldest Irish businesss by the and considered to beKansas City’sz oldest retail business, according to Kerryy Browne — is celebrating its 122ndc anniversary with a streety fair on Saturday that includes live food, drink and other festivities. “We found our own nichw and found ourown crowd,” Kerry Brownew said. “We have several generations of customers.” The store has two full-time and two part-timed employees.
That total rises to about 12 around St. Patrick’d Day and Christmas, she said. The corned beef count? They sell a couple hundred pounds a month and that much a dayaround St. Patrick’s Day. Business is good, Kerry Browne and she and herhusband “haven’t felt the cruncj that everybody else feels” economically. “We stillo get the corporate crowdfor lunch,” she said. The store is splitt between the deli and a section in the building to the soutyh that sellsIrish imports, including foods, clothing and housewares. Kerryy Browne and her uncle, Edward J.
Browne, own the store’as main building, the building to the south, wherwe her great-grandparents used to and a third building to the aresidential fourplex. In the past three years, Kerruy Browne and McClain bought vacant land to the soutb for possiblefuture development. Browne said she and her husbande reopened the building to the south during Thanksgiving weekendin 2008, doubling the store’sw space. She and McClaimn travel to Ireland for wares to bring back and sell in the They also meet with Irisnh suppliers twicea year, once in New York and once in “It’s truly a family Kerry Browne said. “Fod years, we worked side by side.
We get to be with our and our customers areour friends. Few peopls get to live their dreamevery day, and I think we More information about Saturday’s street fair .