Grand Emporium Collection

George Myers and Roger Naber, co-owners of the Grand Emporium, stand together and smile at the camera during the National Blues Contest in Memphis, Tennessee. They each wears a different version of a...

George Myers and Roger Naber, partners in ownership of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri, holding a "Promotion of the Year" award between them from the Blues Foundation for their work...

George Myers and Roger Naber, partners in ownership of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri, holding a "Promotion of the Year" award between them from the Blues Foundation for their work...

George Myers stands behind Roger Naber, who is dancing on a cruise ship during one of the Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise I or II. George and Roger are co-owners of the Grand Emporium. Other cruise...

George Myers, part bar owner, is flanked by two unidentified, smiling, white women whom he puts his arms around and looks slyly up at the camera with a smile at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City...

George Myers, part bar owner, is flanked by two unidentified white women at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri for the Tiny Tim show.

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign, leans against the wall in the hall of the Board of Trade Building in Kansas City, Missouri.

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign in the hall of the Board of Trade Building in Kansas City, Missouri.

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign outdoors in the dark in Kansas City, Missouri. Car wheels are visible in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign outdoors in the dark in Kansas City, Missouri. Car wheels are visible in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.

Bar owner George Myers holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign, leans against the wall possibly in a parking garage and gives a smile in Kansas City, Missouri. The back window of a vehicle...

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign in the hall of the Board of Trade Building in Kansas City, Missouri. A person is walking the other way down the hall behind...

George Myers, bar owner, holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign, leans against the wall in the hall of the Board of Trade Building in Kansas City, Missouri.

George Myers, part owner of the Grand Emporium, posing with his shirt off and sunglasses, with others dressed as Looney Tunes characters to promote the Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise I. The Looney...

George Myers, bar owner, smiles while holding a handmade "D.U.I. Checkpoint Ahead" sign outdoors by a rock wall and a parking lot in Kansas City, Missouri. A car wheel is visible in the bottom left...

George Myers, part owner of the Grand Emporium, points up as he speaks with an unidentified African American woman on the Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise I. Other cruise passengers are visible in...

George Myers, part owner of the Grand Emporium, wears a blue toga made of Grand Emporium clothing, motions toward Speedy Huggins who siting in a chair wearing a toga and a headband. Next to Speedy an...

Ghostwriter, possibly Steve Schecter, blues guitarist, stands on stage singing into a microphone and playing an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Ghostwriter. Booking...

GitGone, a rockabilly band comprised of one white woman and two white men, stand together holding their instruments. Printed in the margin above the photograph, "The Music Room 7301 Burnet #102-525...

Groovy Eyes, a Finnish blues band comprised of four white men, stand in front of a lavender backdrop holding their instruments. A printed label in the margin below the photograph, "MX Blues...

Hadacol, a country band from Kansas City, Missouri comprised of four white men, stand with two in the front and two in the back all wearing short-sleeved shirts. All look serious but only one looks...

Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, a funk, blues, and rhythm and blues vocal group of four African American men, who stand and sing at microphones at the edge of the stage at the Grand Emporium in...

Hank Williams III, country rock guitar player and singer, turns his head slightly right to look at the camera from under the brim of a black cowboy hat with a red and black braided hatband in a close...

Hank Williams III, a country rock American male guitar player and singer, smiles and he leans forward to rest his elbows on his knees as he sits on cement stairs outside closed businesses. He wears a...

Heather Myles, country singer and guitarist, leans on a porch post with her right arm and her right hand above her head resting on the post and hooks the thumb of her left hand in her belt as she...