Listings of nearly all Golden City businesses
History -
A brief history of Golden City, Missouri
Entertainment -
Yes, there are things to do in southwest Missouri! Information about entertainment and things to see in the Golden City area, including Golden Harvest Days, Cook Meadow, and Golden Prairie.
Agriculture -
This is what makes the world go round in Golden City.
Golden City BUSINESS listings, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY and PHOTOS to be added soon. Come visit us, and don't forget to try some pie!
(Please note that this is an ongoing effort to find and list as accurately as possible, information about the history of Golden City. Mistakes are sure to be found. Some will be corrected, some may get missed. If you are sure you see an inaccuracy, feel free to contact me about it.)
Golden City, my home town. A small rural community in southwest Missouri, with a population that's usually around 800 people, we're well outnumbered by cows, horses, chickens and hogs.
Being a farming and cattle community, things can get pretty dull around Golden City until it's time to farm. Slow time (which is basically the winter months) brings a more laid back lifestyle. Slow drivers and time spent at the local cafe drinking coffee and trying to outguess the markets. But when harvest time hits, which is June and July for wheat, then starting again in late September and October for corn, soybeans and milo, it's a whole different story. I didn't use to notice it so much because I was a part of it. When busy time hit, you didn't often have time to watch TV, mow the yard or take a relaxing bath. Everything gets put on hold. Due to the unpredictability of Mother Nature, there's often only a limited amount of time to gather that which has been sown, cultivated and worried about. Every hour counted.
Now I have the opportunity to drive around and watch it all unfold. I can drive slow all the time now, and only have to be careful to stay out of everybody's way, 'cause they're coming through. All those trucks, tractors, combines and trailers that were in the sheds last week, suddenly converge to the roads and fields. They're everywhere. It's amazing to watch just how fast some of these boys can get a crop harvested, sold (or stored), and resown to another crop. The roads are kept pretty hot, dust clouds are everywhere, engines to various pieces of equipment can be heard till the wee hours of the morning, and sometimes all night long. Equipment dealers are swamped, as are resturants, fuel suppliers, tire dealers, fertilizer plants and grain elevators. It can be a mad house until harvest is complete, or the weather turns bad. When the latter is the case, things still don't slow down that much. That's the time to make needed repairs, maybe a quick check of the cattle and make a phone call or two.. Then as soon as the weather will possibly permit, it's time to hit it again.
Before you begin your journey through Golden City, I would like to take a minute to give gratitude where it is deserved. (More names will be listed as I continue my quest for Golden City history.)
Thanks goes to our newspaper of the past, the Golden City Herald. Much of the information contained herein came from the Herald. I also want to express my gratitude to some of the current residents of Golden City that helped me fill in a lot of the blanks. People like John & Beverly B, who have (and still do) compile a LOT of information on Golden City. Check out their book on Golden City at our libray, and check out their site "Muddy Crick Stuff", at: http://users2.ipa.net/~muddycr/. Thanks also to Lowell & Betty P., who also have compiled information, and worked for years in the Chamber of Commerce. To the Golden City Library, for providing reference material, computers, assistance and suggestions. To citizens in the past like Nellie Hunt, that have taken the time to write things down, take a picture or tell a story. Without the endless hours of work from all of these people, researching archives, taking pictures, compiling information, and all the other work that goes along with it, very little of this would have been possible.
