The World’s Largest: A Tape About Texas

Is everything larger in Texas? Everyone knows that Texans like to show off "big-ly" and they like to perpetuate the myth in a big way, too. The World's Largest features larger-than-life-size monuments built primarily in small Texas towns, the monuments in commemoration of a local resource. The tape features: the World's Largest Jackrabbit, Peanut, Shrimp, Big Tex at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, Strawberry, and Beer Cans, among others. The old-timers who were instrumental in realizing the monuments appear in the video, helping illuminate the era in which the monuments were built, post-World War II to the mid-sixties. Today the remaining monuments are an important record, and a symbol of, the pride of people in their ​local resources and an expression of their distinctly Texan sense of humor.