<p>If you’ve ever been to the State Fair of Texas, you know Big Tex. He caught fire!!! The video of Big Tex in flames is totally surreal.</p>
<p>[Big</a> Tex Catches Fire | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth](<a href=“Big Tex Destroyed by Flames – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth”>Big Tex Destroyed by Flames – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)</p>
<p>Wow. I’ll never forget Big Tex! He was my favorite part of the fair.</p>
<p>They say he was still talking when he burst into flames. That’s got to be a metaphor for something.</p>
<p>Wow! Big Tex greeted us from the time I first went to the Fair as a very young child. So sad to hear of his untimely demise :(</p>
<p>Now, what will we meet next to??? My D is coming back from DC for the weekend and the one thing that she wanted to do was go to the fair!! At least the Fletcher’s Corny Dog stand is OK.</p>
<p>Anyone remember when there was a—yankee – voice for Big Tex one year? I recall it caused a big ruckus.</p>
<p>Oh, no! I loved seeing Tex. When I was in high school, I visited the fair with the Future Homemakers of America club, lol (pretty funny, since I’m about as UNdomestic as you can get). We saw Debbie Reynolds in “Annie, Get Your Gun.” I remember thinking how OLD Debbie was. 46!</p>
<p>I just saw the pictures on FB. Awful! Poor Tex.</p>
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<p>Big Tex started out as a Santa in Kerens, Tx. I know I went to the State Fair at least starting in 1955 from family (black and white) photos.</p>
<p>Unthinkable to have the State Fair without Big Tex!</p>
<p>And MaineLonghorn, lol, my husband was an usher at that Debbie Reynolds performance. He brought flowers to her onstage and she planted a huge kiss on him! Think he was 16 or 17 at the time and was pretty embarrassed!</p>
<p>Wow, fireflyscout, it’s a small world! That’s really cool.</p>
<p>Photos of tragedy: WARNING-photos are graphic and may not be appropriate for young children. ;)</p>
<p>[Photos:</a> Big Tex catches fire at State Fair | khou.com Houston](<a href=“http://www.khou.com/home/Photos-Big-Tex-catches-fire-at-State-Fair-174952181.html]Photos:”>http://www.khou.com/home/Photos-Big-Tex-catches-fire-at-State-Fair-174952181.html)</p>
<p>Maybe all the fried foods did him in! jk<br>
Lots of memories and an icon for the fair.</p>
<p>Perhaps a result of how hot those Sooners were last Saturday. </p>
<p>After the Longhorns being torched for 63 points, now we lose Big Tex. Hard times for DFW. :)</p>
<p>I live close to the fair but have only been a few times. Big tex was always kind of creepy to me, but its still sad. I heard that they are rebuilding it for bext year. I wonder if it will still look the same…</p>
<p>That’s what is so funny, in a sick way. Lots of kids were afraid of him as it is…think of those poor tots who witnessed the 52" Big Tex in flames!!!</p>
<p>(Not funny but one year at the Dallas Galleria, a guy jumped to his death from the 3rd floor and landed not to far from where Santa was seeing kids…I always think that there is some kid who was on Santa’s lap and witnessed it and has to go into hiding every Christmas.)</p>
<p>^^ That’s awful. I didn’t know that.</p>
<p>I think my daughter might have been afraid of Big Tex for awhile. Remember those moving metal sculptures at NorthPark? She was terrified of them.</p>
<p>That’s sad about Big Tex. Growing up in Kentucky, I was used to Freddy Farm Bureau at our Kentucky State Fair. When I was especially small, I just remember thinking he was absolutely huge!</p>