The Big Texan Steak Ranch est un restaurant à viande et un motel situé à Amarillo au Texas, aux États-Unis. Il est célèbre pour son défi où si l'on finit en moins d'une heure un steak de près de 2 kg surnommé The Texas King, celui-ci est offert. Il a ouvert sur l'U.S.
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The Big Texan Steak Ranch is a large steakhouse restaurant and motel located in Amarillo, Texas. It is a roadside attraction known for competitive eating.
The restaurant opened in 1960 and was originally located on Route 66. It relocated to its present location on an Interstate 40 frontage road in 1970. The building is painted a bright yellow, with blue trim. A large bull statue advertises their "free" 72 ounce steak eating challenge.
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Splash Amarillo Waterpark was a waterpark located in Amarillo, Texas. It was originally built as FireWater Waterpark in May 2000. It sat on a 13-acre site just half a mile down Interstate 40 from the Big Texan Steak Ranch. Attractions consisted of a 14,000-square-foot wave pool, 845-foot long lazy river, a tower housing six separate slides, kids pool, and kids play tower. It also features a gift shop, concession stand, volleyball courts, and an arcade. It closed in 2016, and all the slides were relocated to a new park in Plainview called Royal Splash Texas, which opened in 2017.
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The Amarillo National Center is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Amarillo, Texas. It was built in 2000. Along with the Amarillo Civic Center, it hosts local concerts and sporting events for the Amarillo area.
The arena contains 5,000 permanent seats and its 45,000-square-foot arena floor can hold an additional 5,000 floor seats.
The center is named for locally owned Amarillo National Bank.
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N34 is a Douglas DC-3 airplane currently based at the Texas Air & Space Museum in Amarillo, Texas. The airplane was built in May 1945 at Douglas' Tinker Air Force Base facility for use by the U.S. Navy. The Navy used the plane for transport flights in the post-World War II era; its missions included flights into Germany during the Berlin Airlift. After the Navy retired the aircraft in the 1950s, the Civil Aeronautics Administration purchased it along with several other Navy DC-3s for use in flight inspections. The fleet of DC-3s helped the CAA standardize its flight inspection process; historically, its flight inspection fleet had been small and used whatever planes were available due to the agency's limited budget. The FAA used its DC-3s to inspect and calibrate navigation aids until 1981, when they were replaced by more modern jet aircraft; N34 was the last of the DC-3s to be retired. In 1985, the FAA repurposed N34 as a public education aircraft used at airshows; it was based at Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City.
The airplane was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1997. In 2014, the FAA relocated the plane to its current home at the Texas Air & Space Museum.
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The Texas Air & Space Museum is an aviation museum located near Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport in Amarillo, Texas. The museum displays civilian and military aircraft, as well as a wide range of air and space artifacts.
Route 66 en 1960 , rebaptisée l'Interstate 40 en 1970.