Fort Worth's Stockyards
#1
Posted 21 May 2008 - 08:32 PM
This is where I had the tasty burger. Too bad I didn't get a shot of her backside, she had an ass that wouldn't quit:
This lady was belting it out, and she was on an oxygen tank:
Don't mess with this vaquero:
Not too many people around, in fact it was basically empty:
Can't tell from the photo, but the lady on the right must have spent a fortune on plastic surgery:
There was a cattle drive while I was there. I wasn't the only foreigner enjoying the show:
Well, time to say adios Fort Worth:
Adios
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#2
Posted 22 May 2008 - 08:14 AM
Voice & Guitars in Big Heaven
Elementary Music Specialist, FWISD
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#3
Posted 22 May 2008 - 08:29 AM
#4
Posted 22 May 2008 - 10:45 AM
Bruce Burton
#5
Posted 22 May 2008 - 11:24 AM
Been there twice withing the last week myself, and had a Love Burger and my wife had a Dirty Love Burger ;-) Yum!
#6
Posted 22 May 2008 - 11:33 AM
I don't know - I think the Stockyards, as it sits today, is one of the *most* manufactured places in the area. If the insinuation above was about Sundance Square, I have to disagree - SS is a far more real place than the Stockyards are at this point in their life.
Don't get me wrong, I do think the Stockyards are cool in a lot of ways - but they're the closest thing to a theme park there is in Fort Worth. A lot of potential for really cool stuff there. We could start by ripping off those awful "rustic frontier fort" ground floor remodel jobs on a lot of those gorgeous buildings.
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Kara B.
#7
Posted 22 May 2008 - 11:46 AM
I don't know - I think the Stockyards, as it sits today, is one of the *most* manufactured places in the area. If the insinuation above was about Sundance Square, I have to disagree - SS is a far more real place than the Stockyards are at this point in their life.
Don't get me wrong, I do think the Stockyards are cool in a lot of ways - but they're the closest thing to a theme park there is in Fort Worth. A lot of potential for really cool stuff there. We could start by ripping off those awful "rustic frontier fort" ground floor remodel jobs on a lot of those gorgeous buildings.
Hmm, well I wasn't aware of rustic frontier fort remodel jobs, but I learn something new every day! Still have to disagree with you on Sundance though, but since you live there you'd know better than me. Maybe a topic for another thread.
Hey, I just read that again and I didn't mean to come off as a smarta$$. Really!
Voice & Guitars in Big Heaven
Elementary Music Specialist, FWISD
Texas Wesleyan 2015
Shaw-Clarke NA Alumna
#8
Posted 22 May 2008 - 12:34 PM
Hey, I just read that again and I didn't mean to come off as a smarta$$. Really!
No problem. I'm just saying - Sundance Square isn't artificial. A lot of historic buildings that have been restored in various ways, some unfortunate '70s and '80s modernist/post-modernist stuff, and some new construction of traditional architecture (and see, I'm one of those crazies who thinks building new traditional buildings is not "fake" or wrong in any way, and I actually prefer them over 99% of contemporary architecture). Beyond style, though, it is a place where people work in office jobs, work in service jobs, live in apartments and condos, come for recreation, gather for events, go to church, etc. There is no real theme or central focus, other than an ongoing urbanized infill of 30someodd blocks of downtown Fort Worth. It's not a theme park - it's a real, working, living downtown neighborhood.
The Stockyards, on the other hand, are pretty much a Cowboyland theme park. With a handful of exceptions, it's all cowboy/western themed in some way. There are people in costume. There's a staged cattle drive every day. Virtually every business is western-themed in some way. A large chunk - most, perhaps - of the buildings have gimcrackey rustic-ish wooden storefronts grafted onto them - many from the '50s and '60s during an attempt to make the Stockyards feel more "Old West" than the buildings really were (restored, the buildings there would really not look much different from the historic buildings in Sundance Square). Nobody, I'd wager, lives there - the upper floors of most of the buildings are likely junk storage. It's a tourist attraction. Sundance Square is, too, but it's also home to a lot more than just tourism-related activities.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it - I just think to call it more genuine than, really, any other part of Fort Worth is a little ways off. Sundance Square, SoDo, Magnolia Village/Fairmount, South Main Village (and the rest of the Near Southside), Six Points, the Cultural District, etc. all feel more "genuine" to me.
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Kara B.
#9
Posted 23 May 2008 - 10:27 AM
#10
Posted 23 May 2008 - 01:54 PM
That's hilarious.
that lady had fake boobs and a plastic face.
#11
Posted 23 May 2008 - 02:00 PM
#12
Posted 23 May 2008 - 03:20 PM
(For my part, I WOULD like to see the buildings fully restored, getting rid of that rustic log cabin wooden storefront crap.)
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Kara B.
#13
Posted 23 May 2008 - 03:36 PM
#14
Posted 23 May 2008 - 06:56 PM
I missed the cattle drive that AM, always thought they started plenty earlier. Now I see they have two drives posted 11am and 4:30pm. We went lookign for that Steve Zahn hat in 'SAHARA', but the good people at the General Store said that it is a popular request but no items have been made to sell so far, and that the "original" can bee seen in a glass enclosure at the FW Stockyards Exchange building.
One day I will finally ride a horse on that trail. It is exciting to see 'Prison Break' filmed out there from time to time.
I wouldn't want to live near the SY's, even if they boasted some luxury highrise doodat. Just needs to be a different world and that obviously works as a tourist trap. If they only knew better tasting Mexican eateries other than Joe T's.
Got a big kick out of the Teddy Roosevelt quote on the wall there, and that Hollywood Stars bit.
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#15
Posted 24 May 2008 - 11:07 AM
#16
Posted 24 May 2008 - 12:21 PM
I had to struggle hard to think up this statement, but it is the only nice thing I can say about the Stockyards:
I welcome any sales tax dollars that are brought into the city as a result of them... Period.
#17
Posted 25 May 2008 - 05:50 PM
I missed the cattle drive that AM, always thought they started plenty earlier. Now I see they have two drives posted 11am and 4:30pm. We went lookign for that Steve Zahn hat in 'SAHARA', but the good people at the General Store said that it is a popular request but no items have been made to sell so far, and that the "original" can bee seen in a glass enclosure at the FW Stockyards Exchange building.
One day I will finally ride a horse on that trail. It is exciting to see 'Prison Break' filmed out there from time to time.
I wouldn't want to live near the SY's, even if they boasted some luxury highrise doodat. Just needs to be a different world and that obviously works as a tourist trap. If they only knew better tasting Mexican eateries other than Joe T's.
Got a big kick out of the Teddy Roosevelt quote on the wall there, and that Hollywood Stars bit.
I was there Wednesday as well. Met a friend at the Love Shack for lunch.
I work near the Stockyards and often drink in a dive on the west side of Main after work. I recently moved back to town after a 10 year absence. It sure seems like the Stockyards and area are quieter than they were 10 years ago. I didn't go to that area very often for an evening out, mainly for an event like Chisolm Trail Days or something, but it looks like the night life over there dried up.
I like the area but agree it is like a Western Amusement Park. I take out of town guests by there to see the little rodeo if I am stuck on ideas for things to do.
#18
Posted 27 May 2008 - 03:50 PM
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#19
Posted 27 May 2008 - 10:23 PM
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#20
Posted 28 May 2008 - 10:15 AM
Also here http://360texas.com just click the Exchange Street picture. Yellow Stars are information. Red White Stars are Flash panoramas taken at that location.
Sorry, I should have been little bit clearer.
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#21
Posted 28 May 2008 - 01:27 PM
Is this when they also have the cowboy cookoff with their dutch oven style cookin?
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#22
Posted 28 May 2008 - 02:00 PM
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