A self-guided walking tour of the Fort Worth Stockyards’ Hollywood connections and cinema cameos debuted this past week.
The tour is called Stars of the Stockyards and features eight stops of famous film sites and details the celebrities who were once there. The tour is accessed via a QR code that leads attendees to a PDF map of the tour.
QR codes can be found posted around the district and are now, along with the tour, a permanent addition, according to Ethan Cartwright, the VP of marketing for Stockyards Heritage Development Co.
Cartwright told Culturemap that, though the Stockyards are famous for many reasons, “Its popularity as a filming location for some of our favorite movies and TV series” is lesser known.
Among the eight stops is the White Elephant Saloon, in which Chuck Norris performed for his show “Walker and Texas Ranger” several times. Billy Bob Thornton and Tim McGraw also performed in the “White Elephant,” as the Paramount Plus series “1883” was filmed there.
Additional scenes for “1883” was also filmed in the Hookers Grill, located on the west side of Exchange Ave. In the series, it becomes a gambling den whose facade has been kept since its filming.
Dennis Quaid appeared at the Cowtown Coliseum in the 1983 film “Tough Enough.” George Strait was also in a rodeo scene at the arena in the 1992 film “Pure Country.”
The Stockyards Hotel is known for housing the bank-robbing duo Bonnie and Clyde, who were known to stay there.
In Billy Bob’s Texas, a bar fight scene from 1991’s “Necessary Roughness” was filmed between Scott Bakula and Sinbad.
The tour stops include the Livestock Exchange Building, the Historic Cattle Pens, the Swift Armour Meat Packing Plant, and the Texas Trail of Fame.
Other movies and series featured in the tour are “Prison Break” and “Queen of the South.”