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23 unusual facts about Amarillo.


30th century

The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument in Amarillo, Texas, contains four separate time capsules, the last of which is intended to be opened 1000 years after the Time Columns Monument was locked in 1968.

Chris Youngblood

In 2005 Chris began booking shows and wrestling part-time for Panhandle Wrestling Federation, later renamed West Texas Wrestling Legends, an independent promotion exclusive to Amarillo, Texas.

Cumulative voting

Among them are Peoria, Illinois for half of its city council, Chilton County, Alabama for its county council and school board, and Amarillo, Texas, for its school board and College Board of Regents.

Dustin Fitzsimons

Fitzsimons grew up in Albuquerque, but prior to moving to Los Angeles, California he resided in Amarillo, Texas where he graduated from Highland Park High School in 2005.

Elk City, Oklahoma

Today, Interstate 40 serves the city, with 60,000 consumers traveling through Elk City each day, and connects the city with Oklahoma City to the east and Amarillo, Texas to the west.

Fly Over States

It even shows different scenes that refer to the lyrics including the Badlands and a woman from Amarillo. At the end of the video, the camera looks up into the night sky after one last look at the graveyard.

Frank Post

One most notable instance was during the 1981 ABA Summernationals in Amarillo, Texas in which Post thought Kevin McNeal had collided deliberately with him in the first turn.

Hot in the City

Although the released version of the song has Idol shouting "New York!", other versions of the song were recorded for various radio stations, including ones for such cities as "Boston", "Amarillo", "Minneapolis" and "New Haven".

John Yanta

John Yanta (born October 2, 1931, in Runge, Texas), is a former Roman Catholic bishop who served the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo in Amarillo, Texas.

Jonathan Islas

He started his acting career in theatrical shows in Colegio Anglo Americano, after graduating from Palo Duro High School in Amarillo, Texas in 1998.

KAMC

KFDW-TV, channel 12 in Clovis, New Mexico, had been a satellite station of KFDA-TV in Amarillo for many years, under the same ownership (once the Bass Brothers) from 1966 to 1976 and under Mel Wheeler from 1976 to 1979.

From 1979 to 1986, KAMC applied the former KMCC call sign to a satellite station on Channel 12 in Clovis, New Mexico that is currently operating as KVIH-TV, now a satellite of Amarillo, Texas ABC affiliate KVII-TV.

KBEX

KBEX-LP, a low-power television station (channel 6) licensed to serve Amarillo, Texas

Kendall Webb

Kendall Myles Webb (born September 24, 1984 in Amarillo, Texas) was an All-American point guard for Wayland Baptist University who went on to play professionally for the Bergheim Bandits of Germany.

KEYU

KEYU, known locally as Univisión Amarillo or Univisión 41, is a Spanish-language television station in Borger, Texas, serving the Amarillo market on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision, and on analog low-power station KEYU-LP channel 41.

Univisión Amarillo can also be seen in Amarillo, Texas on KEAT-LP channel 22, and locally on Suddenlink Cable channel 2 where actual TV station KACV-TV on channel 3.

KPTF-DT

It is carried on Suddenlink cable television systems in Clovis, New Mexico and Amarillo, Texas.

Leading Edge Aviation Services

In 2010, Leading Edge was contracted to repaint 631 planes in the United and Continental Airlines merger, expanding the company's Amarillo, Texas location.

Michael Pearlman

Michael Pearlman (born November 15, 1972 in Amarillo, Texas), is a former actor who appeared in Charles in Charge with Scott Baio.

Party Doll

After pressing copies of the record, a DJ in Amarillo began playing "Party Doll" in 1956 and it soon became a regional hit.

Richard Chen

In May 2011, Richard Chen left Wing Lei to start Kushi Yama in Amarillo, Texas.

Suzanne Williams

In December 2010, Williams was involved in a fatal car crash in Amarillo, Texas.

Toby Henderson

The ABA Summernationals in Amarillo, Texas was very likely his first race for Raleigh since it was for Jeff Bottema.


A Song

Later in the 2000s, "Amarillo" would enjoy newfound popularity thanks to comedian Peter Kay using the Tony Christie version in a number for Comic Relief.

Amarillo Museum of Art

Designed by architect Edward Durell Stone, the Amarillo Museum of Art opened in 1972 on the grounds of Amarillo College.

The Amarillo Museum of Art is located at 2200 S. Van Buren Street on the grounds of Amarillo College in the city of Amarillo, in the county of Potter, in the U.S. state of Texas.

Amarillo Slim

In May 2003, Preston published his autobiography Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, where he wrote of playing poker with Larry Flynt, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon among others.

American Quarter Horse Association

AQHA absorbed both organizations and moved their records to AQHA's recently established headquarters off Interstate 40 in Amarillo.

Bill Sarpalius

In 1961, when he was thirteen, he and his brothers were placed at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch near Amarillo.

Bishop Lucey

Robert Emmet Lucey (1891–1977) Bishop of Amarillo and Archbishop of San Antonio

Boys Ranch High School

Boys Ranch High School is public high school located in the Texas Panhandle, 36 miles northwest of Amarillo, Texas and classified as a 1A school by the UIL.

Bronte, Texas

Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood, who served from the Amarillo-based District 31 from 1941-1971, was born in 1902 in Coke County near Bronte.

Carl Isett

Isett serves on the House Appropriations Committee and chairs Budget Oversight for the Insurance Committee, headed by his Republican colleague John T. Smithee of Amarillo.

Dana Cunningham

Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1961, Dana eventually moved with her family to Texas where she grew up in Amarillo, Dallas, and Paris, Texas.

Eddy Waller

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Rawhide Geraghty in "The Truth About Rawhide Geraghty" (1959); Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp rides shotgun for the retiring 69-year-old Wells Fargo stagecoach driver Rawhide Geraghty on his last run from Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory, to Amarillo, Texas.

Herbert Mayfield

In the late 1940s, the Mayfield Brothers were warmup musicians in Lubbock and Amarillo for Tennessee Ernie Ford, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Hank Snow, and other Country groups.

KAMT

KAMT-LP, a defunct television station (channel 50) formerly licensed to serve Amarillo, Texas

Kay Noble

She died on April 27, 2006 in Amarillo, Texas due to an inoperable cancer of the stomach, having been diagnosed the previous October.

Kel Seliger

Born in Amarillo and reared in the Panhandle city of Borger in Hutchinson County, Seliger is a graduate of Borger public schools and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

KGNC

Weekday programs include Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, America in the Morning, The Golden Spread Agribusiness Hour, NewsDay Amarillo, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Dave Ramsey Show, The Top 5 at Five, Roger Hedgecock, and Sports Byline USA.

KTMO

KTMO-LP, a low-power television station (channel 36) licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States

KXSS

KXSS-FM, a radio station (96.9 FM) licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States

Larry Dippel

Though Amarillo had been a true dynasty under Blair Cherry in 1930s, the Sandies had not make the playoffs since 1959.

Magicland

Williams was a magician in his spare time and had started a magic show under the title Magicland for his previous station KGNC in Amarillo, Texas.

Manzanita Sol

The drink is known to be available at Walmart, Albertsons, H-E-B, Ralphs, Kmart, Food 4 Less, Jewel-Osco, Dominick's, Target, Vons, Stater Bros., United Supermarkets in the Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas area, and other smaller chains and smaller family run stores.

Palo Duro

Palo Duro High School, a high school in the Amarillo Independent School District

Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway

In 1931, the Panhandle and Santa Fe leased two separate companies: the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad Company and the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, which together serviced the track from Clinton, Oklahoma, west to Hemphill County, Texas, and southwest to Pampa, located northeast of the headquarters city of Amarillo in Gray County, Texas.

Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport

On September 20, the Space Shuttle Discovery was transported from Edwards Air Force Base to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with stops in Amarillo, Carswell AFB in Ft.Worth, and Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.

In 2003 the airport terminal building was rededicated to NASA astronaut Rick Husband, the commander of mission STS-107 of the Space Shuttle Columbia and an Amarillo native.

Robert Emmet Lucey

Archbishop Robert Emmet Lucey (16 March 1891 – 1 August 1977) was the second Bishop of Amarillo and the second Archbishop of San Antonio.

Stanley Marsh

Stanley Marsh 3, the supporter of the Cadillac Ranch roadside attraction in Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.

W. Winfred Moore

Other receiving the same accolade were former State Representative Malouf Abraham, Sr., of Canadian, Texas, former State Senators Grady Hazlewood, Max Sherman and Teel Bivins, and former Amarillo Mayor and Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson.