From ‘Yellowstone’ to ‘The Chosen,’ boom times for small Texas towns
Venus doesn’t get a whole lot of visitors – just the occasional bank robber and Hollywood movie star.
The bank that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow robbed a century ago is in this small town south of Fort Worth, and so, Venus residents insist, are the bullet holes. Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, and Tom Cruise have passed through, but that heist might have been the most exciting day in the town’s otherwise sleepy history.
That is until “Yellowstone” filmed here last November, flooding downtown with cast, crew, and hundreds of fans of the hit television show. The town is still talking about it – and feeling the bump in tourism…
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