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The West Bottoms was founded as a livestock and meatpacking district in 1871. [2] It was home to the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, Kansas City Stockyards, and the city's first Union railway depot. [3] The stockyards occupied more than two hundred acres and were surrounded by hotels, offices, shops, and banks for cattle buyers and cowboys. [4]
Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the West Bottoms below. Located on the west side of downtown, it is bounded by Broadway to the east, I-35 to the west, 7th Street to the north, and 14th Street to the south.
In 1858, Peter Ridenour and Harlow Baker established the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company in Lawrence, Kansas, but the development of the railroad system and the conjunction of several key railway lines along the Missouri River drew them to the West Bottoms neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, where they relocated and built their first company building in 1878. [4]
The Edge of Hell in Kansas City West Bottoms district is the nation’s oldest continuously operating haunted attraction. It features a signature 5-story spiral slide and an encounter with the devil.
You can get crab rangoon fries, mushroom fondue, seafood pasta, paprika chicken and more at the new spot.
Art, food and maybe a little sweat are on the agenda for Kansas City’s First Friday. It’s almost August’s First Friday. What to look for in the Crossroads and West Bottoms
In the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the owners opened locations in Denver, Colorado, Washington, D.C., and Nashville, Tennessee. [8]In 2003, while the Golden Ox was owned by Jerry Rauschelbach, a short-lived second location was opened at 95th Street and Metcalf Ave in Overland Park, Kansas, that had formerly housed Houston's restaurant.
The restaurant, located on the first floor of the 6,000-square-foot, ivy-covered brick building, has seating for about 70 in three small, art-splashed dining rooms (everything on the walls is for ...