11/21/2025
King George Just Got His Own Corner of Texas Forever
The corner of 4th & Congress in downtown Fort Worth officially stopped belonging to the city…
It belongs to George Strait now.
Under a perfect October sky, the King of Country walked up in his signature black Resistol, Wranglers pressed sharp enough to cut glass, and that quiet smile that’s broken a million hearts since 1981.
They unveiled the monument: a massive bronze-green wall, six feet tall, crowned with a lone Texas star, spelling out his name in letters you can read from three blocks away.
GEORGE STRAIT
Behind him, a couple hundred fans (some who’ve been tailgating since 6 a.m. with lawn chairs and Yetis full of Shiner) threw their hands in the air doing the “Strait wave” the second they saw him. Grown women cried. Grown men pretended they had something in their eye. A few old cowboys just tipped their hats and whispered, “That’s the King, boys.”
George took the mic for exactly 47 seconds (because of course he kept it shorter than a radio edit):
“I never set out to have my name on anything but a guitar pick and an album cover.
But if Fort Worth wants to waste perfectly good bronze on an old South Texas boy… I reckon I’ll let ’em.”
Then he grinned, gave that little two-finger salute he’s done at the end of every show for 40 years, and walked off while the crowd sang the first verse of “Amarillo By Morning” a ca****la.
The wall isn’t going anywhere.
Neither is the feeling in that photo.
Some legends play cowboy.
George Strait just is one, and now Texas made sure the whole world remembers it.
Forever the King.
Forever Texas.
Forever Strait.
