Stockyards Station is in the Fort Worth Stockyards.
In Stockyards Station tourists find a collection of shops selling a variety of goods, mostly Western - Cowboy - Texas themed.
Along with several restaurants.
Plus the Tarantula Trail runs right through Stockyards Station.
This morning I learned, via the ad you see above, that, in Stockyards Station, tourists can also experience "Live Gun Fights."
The Fort Worth Stockyards is one of Fort Worth's few unique tourist attractions.
Actually the only other tourist attraction in Fort Worth I can think of that is remotely unique is the Water Gardens in downtown Forth Worth.
Soon, in Fort Worth, the world's first new drive-in movie theater of the 21st Century will open, giving Fort Worth one more unique tourist attraction, the likes of which exist in no big town any where else.
All these unique tourist attractions, plus having regularly scheduled Saturday night "Live Gun Fights" are likely just a few of the reasons Fort Worth is considered, by the citizens of planet Earth, to be One of the Greatest Cities in the World.
Seriously though.
Saturday night Gun Fights?
In your town's #1 Tourist Attraction?
Are tourists encouraged to bring their own guns and join in on the fight?
In an era where we are experiencing an awful lot of worried yammering about gun control, due to what almost seems to be an epidemic of tragic gun enabled mass murders, it really does not seem to me that having regularly scheduled "Live Gun Fights" is a good idea, even though this is the town which thinks it is Where the West Begins........
Take a chill pill there, Durango, and quit conflating fake wild west gunfights with real gun safety issues. Historical cities across the wild west stage gunfights to reenact famous shootouts of wild times past. It helps keep the tourists entertained.
ReplyDeleteFort Worth Gunfighter----The ad advertised "Live Gun Fights". The ad made no mention of fake wild west gunfights or staged gunfights.
ReplyDeleteWe'll still drive to Brazos drive-in. Less contaminants....
ReplyDeleteMaybe the gun fights will be held at the new drive-in
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