Dorothea Lange – August 1939. "Great Plains and highway north of Amarillo, Texas."
[Photo: Shorpy/Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration]
Not far from Wichita, but I imagine Jimmy Webb's lineman was up taller poles than these.
Of course Amarillo has its own place in pop history with the Neil Sedaka song, made into a hit by Tony Christie. Altogether now…
Is this the way to Amarillo?
Every night I've been huggin' my pillow…
No, not one of pop music's greatest rhymes.
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