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Shamrock
Attractions Shamrock
holds a St. Patrick's Day celebration each year.
Pioneer
West Museum: In the old Reynolds Hotel 204 N. Madden Street
A
fragment of the famous Irish Blarney Stone is in Elmore Park. |
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"The beautiful
Tower Conoco station in Shamrock, Texas. This station was used as the inspiration
for “Ramone’s Body Shop” in the Disney/Pixar movie 'Cars'”. - Noel
Kerns , January 2008 photo |
"The
other vintage filling station in Shamrock, this beautiful old Magnolia station
boasts 3 exquisitely preserved gravity feed gas pumps." - Noel
Kerns , January 2008 photo
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Stations |
History
in a Pecan Shell
An immigrant shepherd applied for a post office in 1890, requesting the name
Shamrock for his post office/ dugout home. Settlement began with the arrival of
The Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway in 1902. The town lost the name
for a brief period when a new post office was opened, but the railroad had named
the stop Shamrock and the old name went back into use. Maybe it was Irish luck.
The towns of Story and Benonine moved to Shamrock for the railroad
link - adding two more casualties to the long list of dissolved towns.
Shamrock was incorporated in 1911. The population had grown to 2,500 by 1925 and
when oil was discovered in 1926, the population nearly doubled by 1930. The Wheeler
County Texan, once published at Story, Texas evolved into the Shamrock
Texan in 1928.
A second boom was experienced with the completion
of "Route" 66 - but the town was bypassed by the improved
Interstate 40.
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parade in Shamrock
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| | Shamrock
street scene in the 1950s
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| | Another
view of Shamrock, Texas
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Shamrock
Texas ForumSubject:
"Caravan Stop"
...I've published a new series titled "Caravan Stop" that
features the Shamrock, Texas, landmark of the Tower
Conoco Station. The station was recently restored to its original 1935 condition
and I decided its Route 66 heritage would make a great setting for my painting
of all six generations of Corvettes. My wife and I host a number of Corvette caravans
and such caravans were the inspiration for "Caravan Stop". Thanks. - Dana
Forrester, A.W.S., N.W.S., November 08, 2006
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