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Amarillo staple The Big Texan Steak Ranch has been recently celebrating two milestones: being open for business for more than 60 years and the accomplishment of having 10,000 people complete the ...
The Big Texan Route 66 Bug Ranch had its christening ceremony as part of the Route 66 Festival last Friday. Over 100 people attended to check out the newest attraction in east Amarillo. With the ...
The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, is home to the famous 72-ounce steak dinner, ... The Big Texan also brews more than 10 beers on-site in a refrigerated semi-truck, ...
The Big Texan Steak Ranch, located along the legendary Route 66 in Amarillo, has become an icon in Texas because it is Texas to generations of cross-country travelers. “We’ve been very ...
¦ 1981: Cincinnati Reds pitcher Frank Pastore eats a 72-ounce steak in 13 minutes. ¦ 1982: Big Texan Inn opens. ¦ 1990: Robert J. "Bob" Lee Sr. dies at the age of 60 in Hawaii. He is ...
With its towering 84-foot cowboy sign welcoming the curious and the hungry, Amarillo’s Big Texan Steak Ranch attracts half-a-million visitors each year.
The Amarillo Globe-News reports Bobby Lee and Danny Lee face a choice much like their father, Big Texan founder Robert J. "Bob" Lee, did in the late 1960s -- to stay in place or move.
The Big Texan At the Berryhill ... After all, Austinite Levi Oliver, the defending tamale champion, got his competitive eating start at an Amarillo institution: the Big Texan Steakhouse.
The Big Texan in Amarillo is famous for offering free 72-ounce steaks — but only if you can finish the meal in 60 minutes. Many have tried. Most fail.
Each year, Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo will serve and sell 1 million bread rolls, 300 tons of beef and 250,000 logo shirts.
AMARILLO -- I wasn't even allowed to try. I had come to the Big Texan Steak Ranch, "home of the free 72-ounce steak," with hopes of joining the 6,200 others who have successfully eaten this slab ...
The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo might be the most famous steak house in the world, or at least in Texas By Gerald E. McLeod, Fri., Dec. 3, 2004. Tweet. print.