The Fort Worth Star Telegram lists five sites for Texans vacationing close to home to visit, to promote their knowledge of local history.
Of course, out-of-towners might want to see the sights, too:
- A Prohibition-era, underground casino to the stars – Top O’ the Hill Terrace, in Arlington (now a Baptist college)
- A sign in Mineral Wells reputed to be the inspiration for the Hollywood sign in California — though it’s probably not
- The graves of the infamous outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde, made famous by the 1967 movie of the bandits starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, directed by Arthur Penn
- A photography studio in Fort Worth where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had their picture taken, with the Hole in the Wall Gang — made famous in George Roy Hill’s movie, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford (with the brilliant script by William Goldman)
World’s 2nd longest burning light bulb, Fort Worth, Texas, Stockyards Museum
- The world’s second-longest burning light bulb, still going after more than a century, at the Stockyards Museum (take that you CFLs!)
Texas history teachers might want to note these sites — field trips! Extra credit! (The entire article is preserved below the fold, in the event of the folding of McClatchy Newspapers, or the paper’s deleting the story from their archives.)
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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