The Kansas City Livestock Exchange Was Once Nerve Center of City's Stockyards

Kansas Citians haven’t always enjoyed being called a “cow town.” But the Livestock Exchange Building at 1600 Genesee Street in the West Bottoms illustrates the economic impact of the stockyards on the young city’s growth.
The nine story building, just west of the state line, was completed in 1911. It contained 475 offices for firms engaged in buying and selling the cattle, sheep and hogs that occupied (at least temporarily) the stockyards’ 200 acres along the Kansas River.
That wasn’t all. The Livestock Exchange also housed a telegraph office, a bank, a post office, barber shop and numerous places to eat and drink.
Stockyards activity peaked in the 1940s, the same decade that the venerable Golden Ox Restaurant opened in the building. Later, it expanded into a small addition on the south side.
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My Dad worked there on the 8th floor in the 1970’s and 1980 for the department of agriculture. He just pasted away last year at the age of 90 but she had great stories of that building and remember going to work him a few times as a kid. Thanks for sharing.

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