Walt on Malts

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

Walton Marshall Bodine will turn 88 years old next month – on August 27, to be exact. Although he’s still considered the elder statesman of Kansas City television journalists for his many years reporting news on the tube, the octogenarian broadcaster says he’s had the most fun of his career as the host of his namesake weekday radio show on KCUR 89.3 FM.

One of my favorite culinary quotes comes from Bodine, who told me, several years ago, “I prefer places where ordinary people eat. A gourmet is someone with too much money and not enough to do.”

After promising, for several weeks, that I’d take him to lunch at Fox’s Drug Store in Raytown (10004 E. 63rd Street), we finally set a date to sip a chocolate malt and eat a sandwich at one of the last pharmacies in the metro area to still offer a soda fountain.