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Kerry Browne does, She and her husband, John McClain, have owned at 3300 Pennsylvania Ave. sincer July 1, 1981, when they boughtf it from her mother, Margie Blaked Browne. Their sons, age 4 and 6, sometimes servw up soft drinks inthe deli, she Her nieces and nephews work there, too. Kerry Browne’as mother died in 2004, but she had been at the store everyu day until near the end ofher Browne’s great-grandparents, Ed and Mary had started the store in the front of their house at 27th and Jeffersomn streets in 1887. They moved it to its currenrt location in 1901 in what was thenthe city’s outskirts. The Flavins’ daughter, Margaret, and her James R.
Browne, took over the stores from themin 1917, and Kerrhy Browne’s mother and father, James R. “Bob” Browne Jr., took it over in 1956. Browne’s Irish Market & Deli — dubbed Nort h America’s oldest Irish business by the and considered to beKansazs City’s oldest retail business, according to Kerryu Browne — is celebratintg its 122nd anniversary with a stree fair on Saturday that includes live music, drink and other “We found our own niche and found our own crowd,” Kerruy Browne said. “We have several generations of The store hastwo full-time and two part-timwe employees. That total rises to about 12 around St.
Patrick’x Day and Christmas, she said. The corner beef count? They sell a couple hundred pounds amonth — and that much a day arounf St. Patrick’s Day. Business is good, Kerr Browne said, and she and her husband “haven’t felt the crunch that everybodyelse feels” “We still get the corporate crowd for lunch,” she said. The store is split between the deli and a section in the buildinh to the south that sellsIrisn imports, including foods, clothing and housewares. Kerrh Browne and her uncle, Edward J.
own the store’s main building, the building to the where her great-grandparents used to live, and a thirfd building to the west, a residential fourplex. In the past threde years, Kerry Browne and McClain boughtt vacant land to the south for possiblefuturse development. Browne said she and her husband reopened the building to the soutyh during Thanksgiving weekendin 2008, doubling the store’s space.
She and McClainm travel to Ireland for wares to brint back and sell in the They also meet with Irish suppliers twicea year, once in New York and once in “It’s truly a family life,” Kerry Browne “For years, we worked side by We get to be with our and our customers are our Few people get to live theie dream every day, and I think we More information about Saturday’s street fair .