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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]
The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former stockyards of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill. In 1974 the City of Kansas City and the American Royal livestock show tried to reclaim the area by building Kemper Arena on the former stockyards land. The closing of ...
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.
John Sherman "JuJu" Smith-Schuster (né Smith; born November 22, 1996) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans , earning second-team All-American honors in 2015.
Hundreds of the fuzzy, South American mammals can be found March 22-24 at Hale Arena at the American Royal Center in Kansas City’s historic West Bottoms neighborhood.
This coffee shop will serve its “Hella Good” lattes from another location, but only on certain days. Kansas City Vietnamese coffee shop opening a second spot, a ‘mini’ version, next week ...
Jacob Rieger immigrated to America from Goritz, Austria in 1877. In 1887 Jacob founded the J. Rieger & Co. distillery in Kansas City's West Bottoms neighborhood, [2] directly across from the Livestock Exchange Building. In 1898, [3] the first official listing of J. Rieger & Co. appears at 1527 Gennessee Street. [4]
A movie set designer traveling through the Midwest wanted to shop at Bella Patina, an antique store in Kansas City’s West Bottoms. Nick Allen, who owns the store with his wife Megan, told the ...