A lot of people in Kansas City knew Rick Brehm from polo. And Polo.
In his younger years, Brehm played the sport enthusiastically, was a regular at the polo grounds and later partnered in an operation that raised polo ponies.
But for more than two decades, he was also the man behind the Polo Ralph Lauren store on the Country Club Plaza. Open from 1982 to 2004, it was one of the last independently owned Polo stores in America…