Famous Texas Woofus -- Fair Park, Dallas TX - Epic Beings and Creatures on Waymarking.com

The Texas Woofus is one of the weirdest things on display at Fair Park -- even weirder than the animal oddities on display on the Midway.

The original Woofus was installed in Fair Park for the 1936 Texas Centennnial Exposition. It disappeared shortly thereafter -- none of the Expo buildings or statuary was supposed to be permanent, except for the Hall of State.

The Woofus had been forgotten about for 60 years until the late 1990s, when Craig Holcomb, executive director of Friends of Fair Park, discovered some old photographs of it. He fell under the spell of the Woofus, and decided it must be restored to its rightful place.

But first, Holcomb needed some serious cash. To raise it, he created a silly event: The Woofus Dinner. Well-heeled Dallasites attended, woofing hello to each other and belting out a rousing version of "The Woofus Song." So very un-Dallas, which is usually a stuffy, serious, and self-conscious place. Eventually, these dinners raised $50,000, enough to re-create and re-install the Woofus.

The Woofus made its triumphant return to the State Fair in 2002.

Come, fall under the spell of the Woofus, the most mythical Texas creature of all! The Woofus can be found outside the Swine Building, near the Pan Am Gate.

Time Period: Modern Approximate Date of Epic Period: 1936; 2002--present Epic Type: Mythical Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art

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