from the 1870s until the 1960s the Live Stock Exchange in Fort Worth was a major cattle market in America. The stock yards are almost completely gone now, there is only the Exchange building left.
The stock yards originally had hundreds of cattle pens, today there are only a few left and the cattle there are only long horns that are on display.
Now the stock yards are home to tourist shops.
The Swift and Armour packing plants that used to process most of that cattle burned and now there are only a few ruined buildings left.
The neighborhood around the stockyards was never a very nice place, it was filled with shops, and resturants and it also had bars, hotels and brothels all of which were for the cowboys, ranchers and packing house workers.
Some of the hotels and bars still exist but the brothels are gone along with the packing houses and the cowboys. I love the only buildings and the cowboy heritage of the stockyards but I usually avoid the place because it is a tourist trap.
