Welcome to the real Amarillo. Forget the cow heads, cowboys, horses, saddles, windmills, fence posts, and various other rural images which are erroneously associated with this city. Amarillo is a cosmopolitan urban center of a quarter million population in northwest Texas. It was founded by the coming of the railroads in 1887 and has remained a major transportation center throughout history. The immediate Amarillo area, The Metrilloplex*, is home to several major industries including aircraft manufacturing, refining, distribution, food processing, health care, and many more.

Welcome to the Metrilloplex

Big banks downtown

First Bank Southwest Tower is now the HERRING BANK Tower

 

Helium Monument at Harrington Medical Center

historic Santa Fe Building downtown

Mesa Tower downtown now The Maxor Building

Wells Fargo Bank downtown

mural of an historic transit system

                                                                                                                                                                      rainy freeway October 9, 2003               photo by Robert Mulherin GLOBE NEWS   

Texas Tornado at Wonderland Amusement Park

 

Tammy at The Cadillac Ranch

storm over the Wolflin area

ANB Plaza Two

(above) Soncy Road 1963 <> (below) Soncy Road 2008

(below) Westgate Mall and retail corridor

The Globe News Center for the Performing Arts (under construction) above and below

over a thousand new houses a year

Texas Tech School of Pharmacy

summer day

The Fisk Building (may become a hotel)

a new Drury Inn Hotel going up

the Rock Island Railroad right-of-way becomes a linear park

Statue in tribute to Astronaut Rick Husband

(Amarillo native lost in the Columbia Shuttle disaster)

the  airport has been renamed Amarillo Rick Husband International

an early '70's hit from England became the #1 song of the year there again in 2005

The V22 Osprey aircraft is built in Amarillo

Amarillo Museum of Art

Paramount Theater (sign) restored

                                                                             Paramount photo copyright Ralph Duke

The play "TEXAS" in the Palo Duro Canyon Amphitheater

Polk Street Downtown in 1960. . .alas, it no longer looks like this

More to come

*Metrilloplex is an AmaChron designation.

 

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