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State Fair of Texas

Late September through the beginning of October

Not surprisingly, the State Fair of Texas is one of the nation's biggest state fairs, claiming more than three million visitors to the 200-acre Fair Park in Dallas. The fair began in 1887, and in 1952 Big Tex, its symbol of bigness, arrived. Big Tex is a 52-foot-tall cowboy with a 30-foot chest and 7'8" biceps, wearing a five-foot-high, 75-gallon cowboy hat. The cowboy stands in the middle of the fairgrounds booming out welcomes and announcements. The skeleton of the cowboy was built in 1949 to be the world's tallest Santa Claus for a Christmas celebration in Kerens, Tex. It was sold to the State Fair, and Dallas artist Jack Bridges used baling wire and papier-mâchÉ to create the cowboy that debuted in 1952. The following year, a motor was installed to move the cowboy's jaw in sync with a voice mechanism, and Big Tex has been booming ever since. Among fair events are a college football game, concerts, and parades.

CONTACTS:
State Fair of Texas
3921 Martin Luther King Blvd.
P.O. Box 150009
Dallas, TX 75210
214-565-9931; fax: 214-421-8710
www.bigtex.com

SOURCES:
GdUSFest-1984, p. 181

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In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made through a gift in her name to the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, the State Fair of Texas Scholarship Fund or the animal shelter of your choice.

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

3 date, though: in organizing the game, it was hoped to be situated at the beginning of the State Fair of Texas, which opens then; Arkansas has a road game at Alabama and a home game at Auburn on either side of it, so don't expect anybody to talk Bobby Petrino into moving the game to a Thursday night.

Planning ahead for 2009 football by Arkansas Business

Monroe Martin Shipe developed the area, introducing a large artificial lake and building a home on the former horse track that had been used by the State Fair of Texas earlier in the century.

Austin Real Estate Neighborhood Profiles Hyde Park by Kinan Beck / Real estate industry community

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