The Way to Amarillo

Dorothea Lange – August 1939. "Great Plains and highway north of Amarillo, Texas."

image from www.shorpy.com
[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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