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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]
Paul and Jack’s Tavern in North Kansas City includes the Hornets Nest, a room paying tribute to North Kansas City High School. Paul & Jack’s Tavern Location : 1808 Clay St., North Kansas City
Paul Robinson met Joe Gilbert in 1961. At that time Robinson was manager of the Golden Ox restaurant in Kansas City's West Bottoms (and creator of Inn at the Landing, which opened in 1960 at the Landing shopping center at 63rd and Troost) and Gilbert was the creator of the Four Winds restaurant at the Kansas City downtown airport.
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.
Bella Patina antique store in Kansas City’s West Bottoms, is only open on First Friday weekends, It opens next April 5-7. As he helped the designer shop the store the guy spoke of someone named ...
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.