You can't be in Austin very long without hearing someone wax lyrical about the Armadillo World Headquarters. If you're not familiar with that legendary venue, just know that the grandiose name was another bit of River City irreverence, gussying up an abandoned National Guard armory and bestowing global significance on the luckless varmint too blind to see a pickup bearing down on him as he crossed some farm to market…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:23PM on April 19, 2013