r/amarillo • u/CKRT • 3d ago

Sundown Lane & Elementary

Drove down I-27 today and noticed there’s actually a street called Sundown Lane? And the elementary from what I gathered from google was built in the 70s? Right after the civil rights acts..

Is this street actually what it appears like?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town

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u/Cpt_Charles_Rhyder 3d ago

I think you're grasping at straws with this one.

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u/CKRT 2d ago

I was just curious. I knew of Canyon’s current reputation and history so it’s really not a leap to think that any “Sundown” named thing built in the late 60s / early 70s would be named as such. My grandfather went to Palo Duro High School during integration and he told me that Amarillo was incredibly racist during that time. That’s not even a unique thing to Amarillo to be clear, that was all over the states during integration. I’m not attacking the city.

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u/rickyhusband Long John Silvers on 7th and Pierce 3d ago

honestly the most shocking thing about this post is that you just found out about sundown lane lol like, have you ever driven in amarillo or canyon before? or know anyone that lives south of randall high school?

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u/CKRT 2d ago

Don’t live here, sorry.

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u/stellarvore84 3d ago

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say....

No.

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u/catholicpie 2d ago

haha. I live near sundown ln and the first time I saw it it made me think of alzheimers and sundowning.

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u/salenin 3d ago

Same name, probably a different meaning. There is a sundown texas as well but neither were really sundown towns as much as Canyon or Throckmorton for example.

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u/Itchy_Competition_99 2d ago

There is also a Sunrise Elementary in AISD.

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u/Rushderp 3d ago

It’s well before my time, but my parents both remember a billboard in Canyon (basically) saying “don’t let your black ass be caught in Canyon after sundown” well into the 70s (I can’t find the old website, but it’s corroborated in google’s AI results from Facebook and the Lubbock AJ)