I worked on a cattle ranch east of Austin in the early 1980’s. When we rode near Hiway 50 we always wore our finest cowboy costumes...big hats, wild rags, all the silver we could hang on our rigs.
The tourists expected this and I imagine a bunch of us are stuck away in photo slides and prints in old shoe boxes.
We used to get a kick out of people stopping on the Hiway to take pics.