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==Culture== ===Arts and music=== Garden City Arts is a non-profit organization. Its gallery offers 10 to 12 exhibits per year along with internships and educational programming.<ref>{{cite web|title=Garden City Arts|website=[[Facebook]]|url=https://www.facebook.com/GardenCityArts}}</ref> In recent years, an annual music festival called the Hillside Sessions<ref>{{cite web|title=Hilliside Sessions|url=http://gctelegram.com/search/Hillside-Session-06-02-14|publisher=Garden City Telegram|access-date=June 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606234433/http://gctelegram.com/search/Hillside-Session-06-02-14|archive-date=June 6, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> has taken place at an historic structure which over the decades has been a barn, an industrial atelier and a dance hall. An annual music festival called the Tumbleweed Festival is held over a weekend in late August every year at Lee Richardson Zoo. Usually performers are a mix of local talent and acts brought in by the festival board. ===Points of interest=== [[File:Swimmers in Garden City, KS IMG 5879.JPG|thumb|Swimmers at "The Big Pool" on a {{convert|100|F|C}} afternoon (2010)]] Initially named by its developers "The Big Dipper", Garden City's "The Big Pool" is larger than a 100-yard football field, holds 2.2 million gallons of water and is large enough to accommodate water-skiing. Originally hand-dug in 1922, a bathhouse was added by the [[Works Progress Administration]] during the [[Great Depression]], and local farmers used horse-drawn soil-scrapers to later enlarge the pool. The pool hosts 50-meter Olympic swimming lanes, three water slides, and a children's pool with zero-entry depth. The pool employs a minimum of 14 lifeguards, two slide assistants, three admission clerks, two concession workers and a pool manager on duty each day. Advertised for years as "The World's Largest, Free, Outdoor, Municipal, Concrete Swimming Pool", the pool has been known to count up to 2,000 patrons during the summer months. In order to finance improvements made in recent years, an admission fee is now charged. In 2020 the Big Pool was renovated and re-branded as Garden City Rapids. Several large water slides and a lazy river were added. Located inside {{convert|110|acre|km2|adj=on}} Finnup Park, the pool is co-located with Finney County Historical Museum and Lee Richardson Zoo, the largest zoological facility in western Kansas, housing more than 300 animals representing 110 species. Walking tours are free to the public; there is a charge for driving into the zoo. A few miles from Finnup Park, the Big Pool and Lee Richardson Zoo is the Buffalo Game Preserve, with one of the largest herds of bison in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/21491|title=Garden City, KS - World's Largest Outdoor Municipal Concrete Swimming Pool|website=RoadsideAmerica.com|access-date=March 22, 2018}}</ref> [[File:Windsor Hotel (Garden City KS) from NE 1.JPG|thumb|Windsor Hotel (2015)]] The [[Windsor Hotel (Garden City, Kansas)|Windsor Hotel]], built downtown in 1887 by John A. Stevens, was known as the "Waldorf of the Prairies" because of its lavish quarters. Among its early guests were [[Eddie Foy]], [[Lillian Russell]], [[Jay Gould]] and [[Buffalo Bill Cody]], who stayed in the presidential suite on the third floor. The Windsor, which closed in 1977, is owned by the Finney County Preservation Alliance. The hotel is four stories high, or about {{convert|50|ft|m|abbr=on}} tall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gardencitychamber.net/convention-tourism-bureau/attractions/#windsor|title=Windsor Hotel|publisher=gardencitychamber.net|access-date=September 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911003341/http://www.gardencitychamber.net/convention-tourism-bureau/attractions/#windsor|archive-date=September 11, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Finney County Preservation Alliance is working with New Communities LLC of Denver, Colorado to renovate the hotel into a 65-room boutique hotel with restaurant and bar on the ground floor.<ref>{{cite news|title=Windsor Hotel, Garden City|url=http://www.kansassampler.org/8wonders/architectureresults.php?id=53|access-date=June 4, 2014|publisher=Kansas Sampler Foundation|archive-date=June 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606204751/http://www.kansassampler.org/8wonders/architectureresults.php?id=53|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Developers propose new plan for Windsor Hotel|url=http://www.gctelegram.com/news/Windsor-development-10-17-12|access-date=June 4, 2014|publisher=Garden City Telegram|date=October 17, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606214100/http://www.gctelegram.com/news/Windsor-development-10-17-12|archive-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref> ===In popular culture and the arts=== Garden City is depicted in [[Truman Capote]]'s ''[[In Cold Blood (book)|In Cold Blood]]''. Billie Jo Spears' 1969 ''Billboard'' country hit song "Mr. Walker, It's All Over" is about a young woman from Garden City who moves to New York City to become a big-city secretary and quickly becomes disenchanted. ===Sports=== Garden City is home to the [[Garden City Wind]] baseball team, which plays in the [[Pecos League]]. Garden City is also home to the [[Garden City High School (Kansas)|Garden City High School]] Buffaloes. The school offers football, basketball, soccer, wrestling, track and field, baseball, softball, tennis, and swimming. Garden City is a part of the 6A level of sports in the state of Kansas. The Buffaloes have had success in wrestling, winning eleven state titles. The school has had success in football as well, winning the state championship in 1999. The football team at [[Garden City Community College]] won the NJCAA National Championship in 2016. The college sponsors teams in 14 sports. The teams are known as the [[Garden City Broncbusters|Broncbusters]], often shortened to the Busters. The colors are seal brown and gold.
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