We said everything is bigger in Texas and here’s your proof – a 35-foot-high pair of cowboy boots beside busy Interstate 410 in San Antonio. The boots have been marking the entrance of the North Star Mall for over 40 years now and were the brainchild of artist Bob 'Daddy-O' Wade. He fashioned the boots from tubular steel sprayed with polyurethane foam and claimed they could hold 286,000 gallons each.

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