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they couldn’t stay away for long. Quite a fewsay “if you wear out a pair of shoes inAmarillo, you’ll never leave.” Some recognizethat “Amarillo has come a long way fromwhere it started.” Other comments range from“very windy,” to “it’s the easiest city to getwhere you want to go,” and “the nicest peopleI’ve ever met live in Amarillo…hands down,no contest.” One former resident says“Amarillo is a great place to retire…slow andeasy is the pace.” The resident who offers upthe best quote says “Amarillo is a place thatwill slowly capture you and hold you forever.”The FACES of Amarillo reflect fortitudeagainst the elements, generosity, hard workand cooperation, friendliness, optimism,and hope for the future. The PLACES inAmarillo are reminiscent of western heritage,traditional, cosmopolitan, modern and stateof-the-art,imaginative, and Texan to the core.The OPEN SPACES provide room to grow, arewindswept, magnificently huge, and have astark beauty Amarilloans love with a passion.Opposite, top: Amarillo is known as an oiland gas town. Its fortunes have literallyebbed and flowed with the rise and fall ofthe oil and gas industry.Opposite, bottom: The Amarillo LivestockAuction serves the Texas Panhandleranching industry by handling more cattlethan any other commission auctioncompany in the United States.Above: The RickHusband AmarilloInternational Airport hadits beginnings in 1929,and annexed a portion ofthe deactivated AmarilloAirbase in 1968. The13,502–foot primaryrunway served as analternate landing site forNASA’s space shuttle.Left: The Globe News Centerfor the Performing Artsstarted with a vision and agift from Caroline “Carol”Bush Emeny. The speciallydesigned facility providesacoustical excellence and astate-of-the-art setting for theAmarillo Fine Arts community.Introduction9