1. What’s it like seeing the State Fair of Texas from that height?
Viewing the State Fair from this height is a wonderful sight because you see people having fun.
2. What is your favorite part of your job?
My favorite part of my job is when the fair opens every year.
3. Where do you go after the State Fair is over?
After the fair is over, I go into stroage for the next year’s fair.
4. Do you ever miss being Santa Claus? 
I wouldn’t mind being Santa Claus again.  It’s just that people are used to seeing me as who I am right now.
5. Do you ever want to stroll around and change your location at the Fair?
I would love to stroll around Fair Park in order to explore the sights and sounds of this wonderful annual event.
6. How often do you visit your hometown of Corsicana?
Well I try to go every opportunity I get. In order to remember where I came from.
7. Why do so many fairgoers adore you?
I think the reason is because I have been a part of the State Fair for quite a while and am part of a tradition.
8. What is your secret?
My looks, [laughs]
9. Would you say that people look up to you? Literally.
Yes, on the physical point of view. I think it depends on how the person views me, if I inspired them well I’m glad that I did and wish the best to them.
10. What is the thing that keeps you going?
The fairgoers play a huge role in this because without them the fair would be empty. Therefore, that keeps me motivated.

Big Tex

Believe it or not, Dallas icon Big Tex was constructed as a Santa Claus in Corsicana, TX to encourage pre-Christmas shopping sprees. The promotion was a huge success when it started in 1949, but the novelty wore off the following year, and community support waned. In 1951, State Fair president R. L. Thornton purchased the Santa for $750, and hired Dallas artist Jack Bridges to create a giant cowboy wearing size 70 boots and a 75-gallon hat and Big Tex came to life.  He towered 52' above wide-eyed visitors to the State Fair. His denim jeans and plaid shirt were donated by the H. D. Lee Company of Shawnee Mission, Kansas. And, he made his debut as “Big Tex” in 1952 at the State Fair of Texas, an annual fair held in Dallas, Texas. Devastation occured on October 19, 2012 when he was destroyed by an electrical fire.