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Can we take a little walk down memory lane? We’re here with all the looks that made Lamy’s so special and led to where we are now. We will start in the 1800s. After all, that is where the magic happened. Next week, we will walk you through the 1900s (spoiler alert–jeans for women are…

Have you ever wondered where the idea of trivia came from? According to Wikipedia, in the 1960s, nostalgic college students and others began to informally trade questions and answers about the popular culture of their youth. The first known documented labeling of this casual parlor game as “Trivia” was in a Columbia Daily Spectator column…

The eighteen eighties were years of important change in American business and industry. Twenty years after the Civil War, the United States had become one of the leading industrial nations in the world. As the number of factories increased, so did competition between businessmen. Some industrialists cooperated with their competitors to reduce competition. But this…

Our title may be a little misleading if you find yourself a fan of cooler temps. Not everyone loves to be outside in the sun, but we digress. History maybe loves heat because air conditioning and colder interiors weren’t widely available or affordable until the 1940s. Kind of hard to imagine that, isn’t it? As…

It felt appropriate to go through a timeline of America’s history being that it’s 4th of July week! July 8th, 1776–First effective celebration took place in Philadelphia. First pubic reading of the Declaration of Independence, after people were summoned by the ringing of the Liberty Bell. July 3rd, 1781–Massachusetts became the first state to recognize…

We spent some time at one of our favorite spots at Lamy’s this week…the bar! Hands down, the best cocktails in Pettis County, these libations are made with love and art–typically by the Head Bartender, Kimmi Finkiewicz. Kimmi has been at Lamy’s since almost the beginning. She has been in the food industry since she…

By now, everyone from around these parts knows that the Lamy’s building has been in the Swearingen family since 1912. We tried to do the math and figured that roughly 4 generations of our family have worked within these walls we call Lamy’s. Sweat, blood, and tears have spilled within these walls. Though, more often…

Everyone wants to be known for being the BEST at something, right? In our early days, and I’m talking, over 120 years ago, the world looked a lot different than it does now. Yet, being the best at something was still a goal for almost every human on the planet. In the late 1880s, East…

When our very first walls went up in the late 1800’s, the world our children live in looked a little differently than it does today. For fun, children mostly wandered the countryside and walked the streets. Lord only knows the kind of things they could get into back then. Often the boys whittled and played…

During the summer of 1896, a 10-day heatwave killed nearly 1,500 people, across the Northeastern United States. Thousands of people were left outside with no air conditioning, little circulating air, and no running water. Family and friends crowded together — with five to six people sharing a single room–if they could find it. Extra space…