Longhorn Silhouette - Big Texan - Amarillo, Texas, USA.
N 35° 11.628 W 101° 45.260
14S E 249223 N 3898010
A Western themed silhouette featuring a Cowboys being chased by a Longhorn Steer. Mounted atop a Wagon Wheel bench & swing, positioned in front of the Longhorn Motel at the Big Texan, located on Route 66, Amarillo, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMPRV8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/15/2015
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This Western looking, Wagon Wheel bench & swing is positioned in front of the 1st Hotel & Longhorn Motel of the Big Texan Steakhouse & Motel. The Big Texan is a Route 66 icon, located near Amarillo, Texas.
This artistic bench seat & swing is decorated by two Wagon Wheels.
The Seat is hung by chains, anchored by Horse-shoes to the frame. The seat features a comedy Wild West style silhouette, atop the bench frame, showing a cowboys being chased by a longhorn steer.
Big Texan history, taken from its Website:
"In 1960, R. J. “Bob” Lee opened The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo on Route 66, the “Mother Road. Its distinctive architecture soon became recognized across the Mother Road as a good stopping place for great steaks grilled over an open flame.
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The towering sign of a long-legged cowboy that Bob erected next to the building became a major landmark on Route 66. From the beginning, the Big Texan welcomed weary travelers and migrating families whose roots spread all across America.
The now World-famous FREE 72-oz. steak came to life not long after Bob opened the doors to the Big Texan Steak Ranch.
Beginning in the mid-1960s signs began cropping up along the Mother Road inviting travelers to come in for a 72-oz. steak dinner that was FREE if it could be eaten in one hour. Thousands of road-weary youngsters practiced their ciphering as they converted 72 ounces into four and one-half pounds. Those Big Texan signs became as much of the nation’s culture as the old Burma Shave signs. One company has long-since disappeared with the dust of the old road, but the other still flourishes. Big Texan Steak Ranch billboards can still be seen to the east and west of Amarillo along Interstate 40 and on major north-south routes that run through the Panhandle.
A NEW TRAIL…
In the early 1970s, Interstate Highway 40 muscled its way across the country replacing Route 66 as the major traffic lane. Bob Lee purchased land along the route for the new highway.
He and his family built an new, bigger and better Big Texan Steak Ranch from the ground up along I-40.
The giant cowboy, now an historical icon, was moved by helicopter from its original location on the Mother Road to its current home on Interstate 40." Text source. (
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