Talk:Texarkana, Texas

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User: 207.69.139.12 please don't combine the population of both Texarkanas in the Texarkana, Texas articles. IF your want to present a unfied population statistic please do so at Texarkana. -JCarriker 16:53, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

I think they should be unified. I live in Texarkana, Texas and there realy is no clear distinction bettwen the two cities. People in Texarkana, TX often work in Texarkana, AR and vise versa (I do). Looking back historicly its hard to say if (for example) Scott Joplin or Ross Pero were natives of that city because there is no distinction. Indeed natives of the city make no such distinction. MaxMahem

Is anyone here anymore? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.42.197.93 (talk) 02:20, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Laura Lalonde (anon user 24.27.67.65) needs to stop adding herself to the notable people list, unless being in a photo used in a local news story is considered noteworthy... and I'm pretty sure that isn't noteworthy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1003:B461:34F:3051:EC0D:E9F:E02 (talk) 09:18, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014 film) is playing there --212.122.206.18 (talk) 16:11, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

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==In popular culture== — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curley Wolf (talk • contribs) 01:28, January 12, 2016‎
 * Brenda Lee's 1959 song "Let's Jump the Broomstick" references the city with the lyric "Goin' to Alabama back from Texarkana, Goin' all around the world".
 * Texarkana is one of the places visited by the red car in The Brave Little Toaster during the song "Worthless"
 * Tesla's 1991 song "Call It What You Want" contains the lyric "All I am is all I'll ever be, and that's just a boy from Texarkana." As the lead singer of the band is actually from Texarkana, this lyric is notably autobiographical.
 * Other popular songs that name-check the city include "I've Been Everywhere" by Hank Snow, later covered by Johnny Cash; "Texas Swing" by Clay Walker from his 2001 album Say No More; "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" by Crazy Elephant; "24 Hours at a Time" by the Marshall Tucker Band; "Texarkana Baby" by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, covered by Tennessee Ernie Ford; and two songs by Joe Ely, "Fingernails" and "I'm Gonna Strangle You Shorty."
 * In the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit, The Bandit (Burt Reynolds and the Snowman Jerry Reed) are making a run from Atlanta to Texarkana to get a load of beer. Jerry Reed's 1977 hit song "East Bound and Down" from the soundtrack refers to the city in the lyric "The boys are thirsty in Atlanta and there's beer in Texarkana," regarding the lack of availability of Coors beer east of Texas at that time. (In fact, Texarkana, Texas, is dry and the alcohol distributor is actually in Texarkana, Arkansas.)
 * In Season 5, Episode 5 "Southbound and Down" of the FX TV show Archer, Archer and the crew from ISIS encounter a hostile biker gang in Texarkana while on their way to Austin, Texas.
 * In a 2013 episode of American Pickers on The History Channel, Frank and Mike visited several spots in Texarkana.
 * In the movie Zombieland, Woody Harrelson refers to the relationship with his new zombie-killing companion, Jesse Eisenberg, that he figures it will last "all the way to Texarkana".
 * Used as setting for the 1976 movie The Town That Dreaded Sundown
 * In the movie American Psycho, the main character enjoys a dinner at a Tex-Mex establishment called "Texarkana"

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In popular culture

 * Texarkana is referenced in the song "Cotton Fields" by the American folk and blues musician Lead Belly and later recorded by several notable country rock artists, including The Highwaymen, Buck Owens, The Beach Boys and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter), was born on a cotton plantation near Linden, Texas, about 40 miles southwest of Texarkana, and later worked on a plantation near De Kalb, Texas, about 35 miles west of Texarkana.
 * In the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit, Texarkana is the city Bandit and his buddy Snowman must reach to pick up 400 cases of Coors beer and bring back to Atlanta, Georgia in 28 hours.
 * "Texarkana" is a 1991 song by R.E.M.. The track appears on the band's seventh studio album, Out of Time.
 * In the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, centuries after a nuclear war that reduces world civilization to a second dark age, Texarkana rises as the capital of a burgeoning empire that expands across the former United States and becomes known as the Atlantic Confederacy.


 * , I agree that these mentions are mostly trivial, but they are of interest. I'm placing them on the Talk Page in case elaboration can be found. It may also be possible to insert some of these mentions within the article. Curley Wolf (talk) 02:08, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

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"A popular story"... can we get a source on that? Texarkana Metropolitan Area seems to have a source that I have not confirmed myself. We could also include the portion about Texarkana being a portmanteau of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.49.58.254 (talk) 20:16, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

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