Saturday, October 20, 2012

Big Tex

  • Big Tex shrine has it all, from corny dogs to Jesus

    When R.J. Haayden was born in September, his parents planned to use Big Tex to track his growth. The idea was this: Take their child to the State Fair of Texas every year and snap his picture in front of the 52-foot-tall cowboy.

    idmn.dallasnews.com

  • Crazy Fair: First Big Tex goes up in flames, then riders stuck on 'Stratosphere'

    Crazy Fair: First Big Tex goes up in flames, then riders stuck on 'Stratosphere'. 102012 Big Tex is a flamer OK, by now you're hear all about the flaming demise of Big Tex, the towering icon of the State Fair of Texas. But the flame-out of Big Tex was ...

    blogs.star-telegram.com

  • Big Tex, 52-foot-tall State Fair of Texas cowboy, goes up in flames

    Two scorched arms and a metal frame are all that remains of Big Tex, a 52-foot-tall cowboy statue that welcomed visitors to the State Fair of Texas, after the local icon burned like a towering torch Friday.

    www.latimes.com

  • State Fair Icon 'Big Tex' Burns

    DALLAS—Big Tex, a 52-foot-tall cowboy who greeted visitors to the State Fair of Texas for 60 years, went up in flames Friday, leaving throngs of distraught Texans across the state.

    online.wsj.com

  • Big Tex statue destroyed by fire at fairgrounds

    DALLAS • The man who provides the voice for Big Tex, the giant cowboy at the State Fair of Texas, was greeting people with his usual "Howdy, folks!

    www.stltoday.com

  • Big Tex, the Texas State Fair icon, destroyed by fire

    The burned remains of Big Tex stand at the State Fair of Texas on Oct. 19 in Dallas. Fire destroyed Big Tex on Friday, leaving behind little more than the metal frame of the 52-foot-tall metal-and-fabric cowboy that was an icon of the State Fair of ...

    www.usatoday.com

  • Mourning Big Tex and the religion of being a Texan

    Big Tex was the totem of state fair-goers, tied to memories of visiting the Dallas attraction as a child, a college student or ritually year after year.

    blog.chron.com

  • Fire destroys State Fair of Texas icon Big Tex

    DALLAS (AP) - Big Tex, the metal cowboy whose slow drawl of "Howdy, folks!" made him an icon of the State Fair of Texas for 60 years, was destroyed Friday when flames engulfed his 52-foot-tall frame.

    www.kpho.com

  • News: Iran, Ohio, Big Tex, Chris Kluwe

    News: Iran, Ohio, Big Tex, Chris Kluwe. 1NewsIcon Former Jersey Shore star Angelina Pivarnick now says that same-sex couples should be able to get married, even though she said precisely the opposite just last week.

    www.towleroad.com

  • WATCH: Metal State Fair of Texas statue 'Big Tex' destroyed by fire Friday

    Some material that made up Big Tex's hands and sleeves could still be seen as firefighters gathered around the scorched area.

    www.nydailynews.com

  • Big Tex Burns to Ground

    The state of Texas is mourning the loss of an important figure recognized statewide: Big Tex, the 52-foot-tall cowboy statue who had presided over the state fair since 1952, caught fire Friday morning.

    www.thedailybeast.com

  • Fire Fells a Really Big Cowboy in Dallas

    HOUSTON - In a big state proud of its big things, few were bigger than Big Tex, symbolically as well as physically. The 52-foot-tall mechanical cowboy towered over the State Fair of Texas in Dallas in bluejeans, size-70 boots and a 75-gallon hat, the ...

    www.nytimes.com

  • Oklahoma football: Who burned Big Tex?

    Big Tex himself. Perhaps this was a self-inflicted wound. I came up with a new nickname for Bob Stoops after the game. Big Tex Bob, a takeoff of other monikers, like Big Game Bob and Big 12 Bob. Maybe Big Tex decided if he couldn't have the name to ...

    blog.newsok.com

  • Iconic statue Big Tex goes up in flames

    By the time the fire was put out, Big Tex was almost completely burned, leaving behind little more than the metal frame of the 52-foot-tall cowboy that's an icon of the State Fair of Texas.

    www.cbsnews.com

  • Electrical fire destroys Big Tex, State Fair's folksy icon since 1952

    Hundreds gathered in Big Tex Circle to watch the big guy go up in flames. Many stood in tears. Others snapped pictures with their smartphones, spreading the news online as quickly as the fire spread up Big Tex. They reminisced about the good-lookin ...

    www.dallasnews.com

  • Fire destroys State Fair icon Big Tex

    Big Tex, the metal cowboy whose slow drawl of "Howdy, folks!" made him an icon of the State Fair of Texas for 60 years, was destroyed Friday when flames engulfed his 52-foot-tall frame.

    www.statesman.com

  • Big Tex once met the X-Men

    Big Tex, the icon of the Texas State Fair, burned down earlier today. I was reminded on Facebook by Chad Prater that Big Tex, a 52-foot-tall metal-and-fabric cowboy, once starred with the X-Men in the Dallas Times Herald supplement, "The Uncanny X-Men ...

    blog.newsok.com

  • Big Tex: Cultural icon destroyed by fire at Texas state fair

    "Got a rather tall cowboy with all his clothes burned off." The announcement came over Dallas Fire-Rescue dispatch, according to the Dallas Morning News.

    blog.zap2it.com

  • Big Tex: Goodbye old buddy, we've loved you through the years

    Looking deep in the eyes of Big Tex is Buddy Rash, 6. The well-known State Fair giant spent Sunday afternoon sprawled across pavement and grass as workers prepared the statue, grounds, booths and amusements for the opening of the fair's 24-day run on ...

    photographyblog.dallasnews.com

  • Big Tex, 60, greeted visitors to the Texas State Fair

    Workers remove the hand from the burned remains of Big Tex at the State Fair of Texas Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in Dallas. Big Tex, the metal cowboy whose slow drawl of "Howdy, folks!" made him an icon of the State Fair of Texas for 60 years, was ...

    www.mysanantonio.com

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