Amarillo, Texas

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many cars are driving in the snow on a road with power lines and telephone poles

After the storm in Amarillo; February 2013 ((Photo by Andrea Marmaduke Finney)

a large mushroom like structure with a pig in it's mouth

Kiddie Parks | RoadsideArchitecture.com

I used to have to go fix Porky all the time. His record would get stuck. I know, what's a record?

a man laying on top of a car in the middle of nowhere

'Cadillac Ranch' creator Stanley Marsh dies

Cadillac Ranch creator Stanley Marsh 3

ant farm - cadillac ranch (1974)via arkinet commissioned by stanley marsh 3, ant farm members lord, michels, and marquez partially buried ten cadillacs nose down in a wheat field on marsh’s ranch in amarillo, tx. the work is both a celebration of the evolution of the tailfin (1949-1963) and a critique of detroit’s practice of planned obsolescence.

a large building with lightning in the sky above it

Photo Galleries - Amarillo Globe-News - Amarillo, TX

Lightning illuminates flash flooding in downtown streets Tuesday as a storm moves through Amarillo.

an aerial view of the stadium and surrounding buildings in this old photo, taken from above

Amarillo Graffiti Part 2

Construction of the Civic Center in 1967.

an upside down car sitting in the middle of a dirt field with its door open

a row of abandoned cars sitting on top of a dirt field under a cloudy sky

Cadillac Ranch 1984

Amarillo Graffiti

Western Plaza Cinema opened March 29, 1968. The building was demolished along with the rest of Western Plaza in 2004

an old newspaper advertisement for the k - pur - ood guys, featuring four men

Amarillo Graffiti Part 2

KFDA 1440 AM Radio was renamed on September 1, 1966 and George Taylor signed on the station with the new call letters KPUR ("The Big Caper"). If you weren't listening to KPUR you were probably listening to KIXZ 940 AM.

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