Located on Main Street, this French restaurant has come a long way since its beginning as a private club for French airmen at Amarillo Air Force Base.

Bell served in the U. S. Air Force as a medic during the Vietnam War and in his free time operated a pirate radio station at Amarillo Air Force Base.

It shared this status temporarily with Amarillo Air Force Base during the Vietnam War until Amarillo AFB's closure in 1968.

To control the issue further, a cadre of personnel was assigned to activate the 3330th Basic Military Training School at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo, Texas, in February 1966.

His legacies include the development of federal farm programs, the establishment of the former Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock and Webb Air Force Base in Big Spring, leadership in the development of Interstate 27, a short connection between Amarillo and Lubbock, and disaster relief during droughts and tornadoes common to West Texas.

Norman Wright had started a group with Lawrence " Prince " Lloyd called The Valverteens from Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas before joining The Del-Vikings.

The government of the United States set up the National Helium Reserve in 1925 at Amarillo, Texas, with the goal of supplying military airships in time of war and commercial airships in peacetime.

For this helium conservation program, the Bureau built a pipeline from Bushton, Kansas, to connect those plants with the government's partially depleted Cliffside gas field, near Amarillo, Texas.

On 23 March 1992, near Amarillo, Texas, Steven Douglas photographed the " donuts on a rope " contrail and linked this sighting to distinctive sounds.

* 2007: On Saturday afternoon February 24, a large dust storm originating in the West Texas area of Amarillo covered much of the North Texas area.

The Amarillo Dillas were a professional baseball team based in Amarillo, Texas, in the United States.

After the game spread throughout Texas, hold ' em was introduced to Las Vegas in 1967 by a group of Texan gamblers and card players, including Crandell Addington, Doyle Brunson, and Amarillo Slim.

The only major city in Texas that is directly served by I-40 is Amarillo, which connects with Interstate 27 that runs south toward Lubbock.

Due to the small amount of territory covered by I-40, only one Texas welcome center is located along this stretch of road, in Amarillo at the exit for Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport, serving both sides of the interstate.

Roberts County is also the scene of a recent battle for water rights, where the City of Amarillo, Texas, the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, and T. Boone Pickens have sought to purchase the water rights within the county.

During the latter 1880s, the Texas surveyor and civil engineer W. D. Twichell lived in Tascosa, now a ghost town in Oldham County, prior to his relocating in 1890 to Amarillo

In 1908 the Southern Kansas of Texas extended its line from Panhandle City to Amarillo, thus making the Kansas-Texas-New Mexico line a major transcontinental route.

Operations ceased August 1945, and in 1949 the site was sold to Texas Tech University at Amarillo for agricultural experimentation.

Until recently, Morton County was the only Kansas county in the media market of Amarillo, Texas.

There are about 50 nuns in these communities, which are located in: Denver and Pueblo in Colorado, Alamo and Amarillo ( the first, founded 1981 ) in Texas and Wilmington, Delaware.

* Amarillo Slim-Professional poker player was born here, but lived in Amarillo, Texas.

Today, Interstate 40 serves the city, with 60, 000 consumers traveling through Elk City each day, and connects the city with Oklahoma City to the east and Amarillo, Texas to the west.

It is half-way between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Amarillo, Texas on Interstate 40 and the former U. S. Route 66.

It was platted by the surveyor W. D. Twichell, then of Amarillo, Texas.

It is believed that he was headed for the Amarillo, Texas area, but he camped one night at Wolf Hollow Creek in Indian Territory and remained there until his death a few years later.

Terry Funk once defeated Lance Storm for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship in Funk's hometown of Amarillo, Texas ; this title change remained unrecognized until the World Wrestling Federation bought out WCW in 2001.

This tie however was once again short lived as the Barnstormers knocked off Amarillo the next week 55-54 and the Blizzard missed many opportunities to beat the Tulsa Talons falling 66-54.

Marsh also appears in documentaries which featured Cadillac Ranch or the city of Amarillo such as The Plutonium Circus and Road Does Not End, a short documentary by a Dallas-based filmmaker about Marsh and the art projects he funded.

#" Amarillo by Morning " ( Terry Stafford, Paul Fraser ) – 2: 52

#" Amarillo by Morning " ( Paul Fraser, Terry Stafford ) – 2: 52

Pastore held the official record for completing the 72-ounce steak meal challenge at The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, having eaten the entire meal in 9½ minutes in May 1987 ( this was his 7th successful completion of the feat ) until March 24, 2008, when competitive eating champion, Joey Chestnut, finished the meal challenge in 8 minutes & 52 seconds.

He is best known for his track, " Is This The Way To Amarillo ", a double UK chart success.

Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson, who also served as a mayor of Amarillo and became an expert on petroleum issues, was born in Alvord in 1892.

The painter Georgia O ' Keeffe, who lived in nearby Amarillo and Canyon early in the 20th century, wrote of the Palo Duro: " It is a burning, seething cauldron, filled with dramatic light and color.

In the last part of his life, Bean met the legendary land surveyor W. D. Twichell, who platted the majority of Texas counties and based in Amarillo by 1890.

In 1958, Ralph Yarborough easily defeated conservative William A. Blakley of Dallas, who was backed by Yarborough's long-time party rival, Governor Daniel, in the Democratic primary and then cruised to victory in the general election against Republican publisher Roy Whittenburg of Amarillo.

He also developed an acquaintanceship with W. D. Twichell, who lived in Amarillo from 1890 to 1918 and surveyed 165 of the 254 Texas counties.

Charisse was born as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela ( née Norwood ) and Ernest Enos Finklea, Sr., who was a jeweler.

Layne Roland ( born February 6, 1974, in Vernon, British Columbia ), is a veteran hockey player from the WHL, ECHL, WPHL, and CHL who has played for such teams such as the Portland Winter Hawks, the Dayton Bombers, the Amarillo Rattlers and the Corpus Christi Rayz.

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U. S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were ( when originally installed during 1974 ) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line ( most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of mid twentieth century Cadillacs ; the tailfin ) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

Michael Pearlman ( born November 15, 1972 in Amarillo, Texas ), was an actor who appeared in Charles in Charge with Scott Baio.

Jermaine Russell Van Buren ( born July 2, 1980 in Laurel, Mississippi ) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who now plays for Amarillo Dillas, an Independent Professional Baseball club in the United League.