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On the edge of a thriving downtown dotted with luxury hotels and trendy restaurants is a more than 100-year-old relic of Oklahoma City's western heritage: One of the world's largest cattle stockyards.
A stockyard company managed the work of unloading the livestock, which was faster and more efficient than using railway staff. [1] Terminal stockyards received, handled, fed, watered, weighed, held, and forward-shipped commercial livestock. [2] The Chicago Union Stock Yards were the most famous and enduring example of this type of commercial ...
Kawi Cafe offers drinks, breakfast and lunch, including a section of the menu the restaurant calls "Cherokee fusion," with options like "NDN Taco Sliders," a bison burger, turkey and tepary chili ...
Three weeks later on July 16, he murdered six employees at a Sirloin Stockade restaurant in Oklahoma City during a robbery. [4] The victims were 17-year-old David Lindsey, 16-year-old David Salsman, 17-year-old Anthony Tew, 15-year-old Terri Horst, 43-year-old Louis Zacarias and 56-year-old Isaac Freeman, all of whom were shot to death.
The neo-gothic Union Stock Yard Gate (1877) on Exchange Avenue was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 24, 1972, [7] and a National Historic Landmark on May 29, 1981, and is the only remnant of the old stockyards, which largely became business and industrial parks after the closure.
The Oklahoma National Stockyards — the last big-city stockyard in the U.S. — is for sale. The $27 million price tag includes 100 acres (40 hectares) of prime property along the Oklahoma River in a growing city of roughly 700,000 residents, where a state-of-the-art NBA arena is set to break ground and a developer is pushing plans for the ...
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The restaurant was established as Cattlemen's Cafe in 1910. [1] [4] [5] At that time, it fed cowboys and ranchers in the Stockyards City area. [4] [5] Stockyards City was a major meat processing area and that location exported meat to the Eastern United States. [4] In 1926, H.V. “Homer” Paul took ownership of the restaurant.