Editing Riverside, Missouri (section)

==History==
Riverside lies on the edge of the [[Missouri River]] and was formally incorporated in 1951.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcxWsmxRzVEC&pg=PA101 | title=Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Earngey, Bill | year=1995 | pages=101| isbn=9780826210210 }}</ref>

For many years, the town was known for its Riverside Race Track. The Riverside Park Jockey Club operated from 1928 to 1937 and was popularly called Pendergast Track after its patron, the city boss of Kansas City, [[Tom Pendergast]], although he was not officially on its organization papers. The horse racing track was on the site of a former dog racing track.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=105659 |title=Local History - Kansas City Public Library |website=www.kclibrary.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050503231816/http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=105659 |archive-date=2005-05-03}}</ref> The track operated under a questionable legal basis. The site was supplanted by an automobile race track, which closed in the 1990s.

The [[Argosy Gaming Company]] has a casino along the river.

The Riverside Red X store was founded as a gas station in 1948 by Edward Young. He and local business owners Ferd Filger and Dr. Thomas M. Eagle led the incorporation of Riverside in 1951, after both [[Parkville, Missouri|Parkville]] and [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] expressed interest in annexing the area. {{As of|2015}}, the store was still owned by the Young family.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://kcur.org/post/smokes-and-booze-teeth-and-eyeballs-riversides-red-x-stays-unique|title=From Smokes And Booze To Teeth And Eyeballs, Riverside's Red-X Stays Unique|last=Burmesch|first=Leigh|date=2015-08-15|work=kcur.org|access-date=2017-12-20|language=en}}</ref>

The [[Renner Village Archeological Site]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1969.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>