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—Betty and Ted Meyer were Kansas City Public School teachers looking to increase their income when they opened Meyer Music off of 40 Highway in Blue Springs 60 years ago.
Meyer Music marks 60 years serving Kansas City’s musicians
The odds were not in their favor at the start.
“I got a document from a small business administration, and it said you need to have 12,000 people to support a music store, and at that time, we had about 5,000 in Blue Springs. So we knew we need to keep our jobs and then just see how it went, build it up, if we could,” Ted Meyer said.
They did — opening more stores across the metro over time. Meyer Music currently has three locations, with its reach stretching east to west from Lawrence, Kansas to Marshall, Missouri, and north to south from Richmond, Missouri down to Pittsburgh, Kansas…