LCG II

[s4son]

After a great big breakfast at Gary and Trudy's site Sylvia and I took off east on I-20 to Gibland LA. This is the site of the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush museum.


The museum has the car used in the movie that starred Warren Beaty and Fay Dunaway. The gentleman in this picture is the son of one of the lawmen that ambushed Bonnie and Clyde.


Eight miles south of town is where lawmen ambushed Bonnie and Clyde in May, 1934. All that is there now is a heavily vandalized stone monument.


Back at camp we found that prohibition had been lifted and Tony was hard at work mixing his magic elixir.


People flocked from miles around to experience it's rejuvenating effects.



Everyone enjoyed the beautiful setting and perfect weather.


That evening the drive in opened featuring The Creature From the Black Lagoon. From the screams it was judged to be a very scary movie.


Sunday morning came much too fast. The beautiful weather continued as we packed up and headed for home. We can't wait until next year and we're already planning our Halloween decorations.


Scott and Sylvia

[Miriam C.]

Scott, you are about too tall for that car, ya know Thanks

[Pdbeta]

Say how many daze drive is it from Metro NYC to youse guys?
I'm thinking, youse my kinda peeples?

Waycool post and love the pictures!

Somebodys gunna show me how to do that?

[Rickxr2]

Great photos, super captions.

xr2

[CPASPARKS]

My daughter, Jade, and I went to the Bonnie and Clyde museum last year on the way home from LCG I.

My father met Bonnie and Clyde when he was a young boy in Shannon, Texas (north of Fort Worth).

Despite their criminal ways, they were very popular with poor country folk. He said that they were very getting fuel for their car and were showing their pistols. rifles and shotguns to him and the station owner.

North Texas was a favorite hangout for them and their sometime gang.

[Mike C.]

Bonnie and Clyde and their gang stayed in Joplin,MO in the 1930's. They rented a garage apartment from my great-great aunt ( my grandfather's sister ) while they were here. My second or third cousin delivered eggs to them when she was 7 or 8 and said they were very nice and polite. When they shot their way out of the garage, they killed a detective that had walked up to the door and wounded several policemen. My dad took me by to see it when I was a kid and since it was a stone and wood garage, you could still see where the bullet holes were. Pretty neat history lesson for a kid. The garage is still there and I think it is registered as a historical landmark.

When I was a teenager, a circus brought the car that Bonnie & Clyde were killed in and set it up by the garage and for a dime or a quarter, you could basically crawl all over it. Several years later, the movie came out with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, and we all laughed at the garage they had in the movie. It didn't look anything like the original. Oh well, Hollywood.

[s4son]

Bonnie and Clyde and their gang stayed in Joplin,MO in the 1930's. They rented a garage apartment from my great-great aunt ( my grandfather's sister ) while they were here. My second or third cousin delivered eggs to them when she was 7 or 8 and said they were very nice and polite. When they shot their way out of the garage, they killed a detective that had walked up to the door and wounded several policemen. My dad took me by to see it when I was a kid and since it was a stone and wood garage, you could still see where the bullet holes were. Pretty neat history lesson for a kid. The garage is still there and I think it is registered as a historical landmark.

When I was a teenager, a circus brought the car that Bonnie & Clyde were killed in and set it up by the garage and for a dime or a quarter, you could basically crawl all over it. Several years later, the movie came out with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, and we all laughed at the garage they had in the movie. It didn't look anything like the original. Oh well, Hollywood.

That's pretty cool. I have become a little obsessed with these two since attending a symposium about their shoot out in Platte City Mo. The current owner of the apartment in Joplin has restored it and you can rent it. That would be kinda cool.
http://texashideout.tripod.com/joplinapartment.html

The Bonnie And Clyde car was purchased by Terrible Casinos for something like $250,000. It is currently on display at the Terribles in St. Joe MO. I plan on going up to get some pictures in the next week or so. It is hard to believe some people thought of these people as some sort of heros. They were cold blooded.

Scott F.

[Mike C.]

Well Scott,

It is true that they were not heroes in the true sense of the word, but you also have to take into account the times they lived in and the way they treated the common ( poor ) people. In the early 30's, especially down in this area, times were very hard, and the banks foreclosed on a lot of good people that were just trying to survive. Well B & C took the battle to the banks and they, at least in this area, became kind of a Robin Hood like duo. I've heard stories of people down here that would help them hide out and supplied them with food. Now I don't condone what they did, but I can also look at it from the other side. They gave money away to people that needed it to make it one more week. And so they developed a cult like following. Plus people in this area used to hate the police and the Feds, because they were running stills and bootlegging whiskey. So, even if you were a bank or a policeman, your chances of surviving a meet with B & C were not good, if you were a common person and did not threaten them, they were very helpful. Just my humble opinion from talking to some older people when I was a kid.

BTW, Joplin was a known hideout for a lot of the east coast gangsters and the old hotels downtown, which are now gone used to have escape tunnels between them for the criminals to escape the law.

[s4son]

From what I've read the northern area of Arkansas was also a favorite place for gangsters to hide out. It certainly was a different time back then.

Scott F.