Fort Worth was once known most commonly as Cowtown as this was where cattle were brought for slaughter, etc. The result was an unbelievable smell that saturated entire neighbourhoods but that's gone now. The Stockyards became instead quite the fashionable place with swanky restaurants and a cool place to go to watch the rodeo.
Fort Worth has also been one of the homes of Lockheed Martin and a large part of the city has been living off the defense contracts that it brings as it employs a tremendous number of people to produce jet fighters. Something I notice since the last time I was here is that the number of jet fighters flying about is quite a bit reduced. You can't miss them as they're unbelievably loud, vastly louder than civilian aircraft.
One thing that's immediately appreciated is that I'm now 1600 miles closer to the Equator than I was last week. The temperature on Sunday was about 95F or about 35C. In Scotland it wasn't even getting over 10C anymore. As Mark Twain said about San Francisco, the coldest Winter I ever spent was the Summer I spent in Scotland.
One objective here is to show you a place where part of the movie "Logan's Run" was shot. It was a sci-fi movie from 1976 in which no-one was permitted to live to be older than thirty years. (Wiki: Logan's Run)
So I'm still a tourist as you'll see the most of wherever you are if you act like one. Even if you have lived somewhere for a long time, there's still all kinds of potential for tourism and it reveals things you would otherwise miss because, hell, everybody does that. Well, oftentimes the locals don't and they miss out.
Fort Worth has also been one of the homes of Lockheed Martin and a large part of the city has been living off the defense contracts that it brings as it employs a tremendous number of people to produce jet fighters. Something I notice since the last time I was here is that the number of jet fighters flying about is quite a bit reduced. You can't miss them as they're unbelievably loud, vastly louder than civilian aircraft.
One thing that's immediately appreciated is that I'm now 1600 miles closer to the Equator than I was last week. The temperature on Sunday was about 95F or about 35C. In Scotland it wasn't even getting over 10C anymore. As Mark Twain said about San Francisco, the coldest Winter I ever spent was the Summer I spent in Scotland.
One objective here is to show you a place where part of the movie "Logan's Run" was shot. It was a sci-fi movie from 1976 in which no-one was permitted to live to be older than thirty years. (Wiki: Logan's Run)
So I'm still a tourist as you'll see the most of wherever you are if you act like one. Even if you have lived somewhere for a long time, there's still all kinds of potential for tourism and it reveals things you would otherwise miss because, hell, everybody does that. Well, oftentimes the locals don't and they miss out.
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