Billy Bob's
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Billy Bob's Texas is a popular country & western nightclub on the outskirts of the Fort Worth Stockyards. It promotes itself as "The World's Largest Honky Tonk." Billy Bob's opened April 1, 1981 to national attention with Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers as the first performers. Other artists who appeared that first week were Waylon Jennings, Janie Fricke & Willie Nelson. Comparisons to Gilley's, located in Houston where the movie Urban Cowboy was filmed (starring John Travolta), are frequent. However, Gilley's measures only 44,000 square feet (4100 m²), about a third the size of Billy Bob's 127,000 square feet (12,000 m²).
Billy Bob's is still a popular venue for a wide variety of C&W artists, with Willie Nelson making frequent appearances and serving as the host of their Fourth of July celebrations.
The nightclub quickly entered the public consciousness in the early 1980's with frequent references by the Ewing Clan on the TV drama Dallas.
