Broadway · Midtown Kansas City
It’s A Beautiful Day
Records, tapes and stereo gear at the front. Tie dye, tapestries, incense and wind chimes through the back. We’ve been a Broadway fixture for a long while, and we’re still here.
Before you drive over
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12 to 6.
Closed Monday and Tuesday. Six hours a day, five days a week, so it’s worth checking the clock before you set off.
4.8
787 Google reviews
Records, tapes and gear
Vinyl at the front, cassettes on the wall, and the machines to play them on.
Bins of records, racks of CDs, a wall of cassettes, and shelves of vintage receivers, tape decks and speakers above them. If you find a record you don’t know, there’s a player on hand for the open ones, so you can hear it first.
“Turntables come ready, complete with new stylus cartridges, needles and belts.”
Hand-lettered on the shelf, in the shop
- Records and vinyl
- CDs and cassettes
- Turntables, receivers and speakers
- Posters
And everything else
Keep walking. It goes back further than you think.
Past the records there’s tie dye, tapestries, incense, beads, wind chimes, jewelry, lamps and a lot of things that are hard to put a category on. People have been buying beads here to make hemp necklaces for over twenty years.
- Tie dye
- Tapestries
- Incense
- Wind chimes
- Beads
- Jewelry and necklaces
- Friendship bracelets
- Candles and mugs
- Singing bowls
- Sunglasses and bucket hats
- Purses and bags
- Baggy pants
- Stickers, patches and pins
- Buttons
- Hacky sacks
- Lanterns and lamps
- Carved wood and ceramics
- Clothes for every age and size
Consignment
A lot of what’s on these shelves was made by somebody who lives here.
We’re a consignment shop. Local artists and makers sell through us, some of them for years at a stretch, and we try to pay them properly for it. One of them sews caftans and bags out of the Indian cotton tapestries she buys here, which is about as full-circle as it gets.
“They are a consignment shop that offers fair prices, and pays the artists that sell there extremely fairly, with an even better percentage than I’ve seen anywhere else!”
Bug Arnold, Google review
Make something? We’d like to see it.
The building
Look up, and then look at the window.
The ceiling is papered end to end in old posters and album flats. The front window is a wall of compact discs that catches the light all afternoon. Painted above the glass, there’s a line worth stopping for.
“A weed is simply a plant whose virtues we haven’t yet discovered.”
Painted across the storefront, above the window
4.8 from 787 reviews
What people say
★★★★★
It's a Beautiful Day is a Hippie Store! Peace and Love! I've been coming to this shop since I was a kid for all things hippie! My family would come buy beads from here to make hemp necklaces. They still have beads for sale! 22yrs later.
★★★★★
I will forever love this shop. They have been one of my favorites since I was a kid. The staff are a very kind and inviting family, that always make you feel welcome and accepted in their store.
★★★★★
Fun and groovy store located freaky close to Westport... My most recent purchase were wind chimes, they bring me joy to hear. See what is waiting for you on your beautiful day.
Come see us
3918 Broadway Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64111. Close to Westport.
- Monday & Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday to Sunday
- 12:00 – 6:00
- Free street parking
- Wheelchair accessible entrance and parking
- Credit and debit cards accepted
