jan 1, 1930 - Pan-American Club Youth Center

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Late 1930s Pan-American Club Youth Center opens: Located in the heart of Armourdale's Mexican-American barrio east of 7th Street Trafficway, the Pan-American Club opened in the early 1930s in the basement of a former Protestant church. Mexican-Americans in Armourdale resided in and were generally consigned to the east side of 7th Street Trafficway. Chicano youth were forbidden to use the Armourdale Pool on Osage Avenue and were discouraged from participating in social or recreational activities hosted there.

The basement of the Pan-American Club became the first site used by Joe E. Amayo, a returning World War II veteran, to develop a boxing program designed to provide recreation and an alternative to membership in local youth gangs for young men. Amayo moved his program to the Argentine Parish House following the 1951 Flood. The Pan-American Club was within walking distance of several hundred Mexican-American families who worked in the nearby Swift and Cudahy meatpacking plants and Kansas City Southern transfer yard. The Pan-American Club also was within a few blocks of the neighborhood elementary school, John J. Ingalls, and the Mexican-Catholic parish, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Shawnee Avenue and St. Paul St., Parcel address is 721 PACKARD ST Source: https://khri.kansasgis.org/

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