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2. Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia

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   Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...

3. Fort Worth Stockyards - Wikipedia

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   Stock yards, north Fort Worth, Texas (postcard, c.1900s) The arrival of railroads in 1876 made the area a very important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for business on January 19, 1890, covering 206 acres. On February 7, the Fort Worth Dressed Meat and Packing Company was founded. This facility was operated without profit ...

4. List of union stockyards in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Union Stock Yard Pens, Omaha, Nebraska (postcard image from 1930s or 1940s). Union stockyards in the United States were centralized urban livestock yards where multiple rail lines delivered animals from ranches and farms for slaughter and meat packing.

5. Best Buy - Wikipedia

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   Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.

6. Quit griping about the Stockyards. It’s the best thing that ...

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   Fifty years ago, the Stockyards was known for flophouse hotels, vacant storefronts and a powerful aroma like fertilizer. Now, it draws more tourists than the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal or the San ...

7. Best Buy’s holiday sales events: What to know

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   Best Buy just announced its upcoming sale events happening in the next few months. It includes an exclusive member sale, a 48-hour flash sale, an Apple trade-in event and much more.

8. Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha - Wikipedia

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   The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was a 90-year-old company first founded in South Omaha, Nebraska in 1878 by John A. Smiley. After being moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa and dissolved within a year, the company was reorganized and moved to South Omaha in 1883. [1] Six local businessmen responded to a request by Wyoming cattle baron Alexander ...

9. Livestock Exchange Building (Omaha, Nebraska) - Wikipedia

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   The Livestock Exchange Building in Omaha, Nebraska, was built in 1926 at 4920 South 30 Street in South Omaha. [ 3] It was designed as the centerpiece of the Union Stockyards by architect George Prinz and built by Peter Kiewit and Sons in the Romanesque revival and Northern Italian Renaissance Revival styles. In 1999 it was designated an Omaha ...