After Dallas was selected to be the site of the official Texas Centennial Celebration in 1936, Amon G. Carter began making plans for a celebration in Fort Worth that would rival it. Several acres of farmland were to become a midway of exhibits, sideshows, a Wild West show and a musical circus. At the center of the complex was to be a large, outdoor amphitheater and restaurant called Casa Mañana, “The House of Tomorrow.”