| Downtown Fort Worth is still a bastion, or perhaps a
memorial, for the Old West. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid walked
these streets. Although the old, rotten Hell’s Half Acre of the 1800s
long gone, it seems only appropriate for Fort Worth’s entertainment
center to be Sundance Square, in honor of the famous bank robber.
Mind, rough Sundance Square certainly isn’t, despite its name. It’s a
beautifully landscaped and brick-paved 16 blocks of movie theaters,
live theaters, galleries, museums, and nightclubs. Downtown comprises
the northeast section of Fort Worth and you can learn more about it
here. Fort Worth Stockyards
Historic DistrictWhere
downtown may be modern and modernly classy, the Stockyards are all
“cowtown” and Western heritage is the theme. The Fort Worth Herd,
the “Only Daily Longhorn Cattle Drive in the U.S,” hooves through the
streets twice a day. The Stockyards Champion Rodeo is held every
weekend at Cowtown Coliseum and it’s
a real rodeo, bull-riding, roping
and all. The museums hold to that same western theme, the most famous
being the Texas Cowboy Hall of
Fame. The Stockyards are also home to
the largest honky-tonk in the United States, Billy Bob’s. These
Stockyards are in the northwest section of Fort
Worth. Cultural District Fort Worth holds the title
“the museum capital of the Southwest” and the Cultural District (in
western Fort Worth) is why, home to five very notable museums. The Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth, oldest museum in Texas, is one, as are
newer but prestigious Kimball Art
Museum and Amon Carter
Museum. The National
Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is the only pure “cowgirl” museum
in the world. Lastly, the Fort
Worth Museum of Science and History is one of the largest of its
kind in the United States. The Cultural District isn’t all artsy,
though. Will Rogers
Memorial Center hosts the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock
Show, Fort Worth’s big rodeo. |
