Roadside Attractions in Burnet County
Texas·3 places
Sports
Charley Taylor Arena
The rodeo arena on US 281 on the south side of Marble Falls is the home of the Marble Falls Rodeo, held on the third weekend of July, and it carries the name of Charley Taylor, who helped found the rodeo association in 1957. Charley Taylor was its first president, with Jack Rogers and Bobby Burnam, and by the association's own account more than two thousand people came to the first show.
Film History
Uptown Theatre
The Uptown Theatre on Main Street in Marble Falls opened in 1942 and became a single screen movie house in the Streamline Moderne style, and it has closed and reopened so many times since that its history reads like a list of rescues. A fire shut it for a period.
Entertainment
Walkway of Lights
Lakeside Park, on Lake Marble Falls, is the home of the Walkway of Lights, a Christmas display that began in 1990 with some lit persimmon trees and grew into more than two million lights. It was the idea of Ron Mitchell, a Horseshoe Bay resident who had seen Austin's Trail of Lights and wanted a display in Marble Falls that would make the water glow, and he worked with Pat Burton, who brought in…
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