![]() ![]() Ask to see one, and if you are lucky, you may get to keep it.įrank's Lounge was not so lucky. The current owners found a bunch of postcards in perfect condition showing Wilder's in the 1930s. ![]() When he found that she was cheating on him, he had the painting redone to cut her out. The original owner had a painting of he and his wife hanging in the restaurant. Wilder's is a former speak easy, now a steak house, that survived the tornado. This house now is available for nightly rent, and if you want to try something historic and off beat you should check it out. This film turned out to have the now famous photos of Bonnie and Clyde brandishing weapons and the photo of Bonnie posing in front of a car smoking a cigar and holding a pistol. The gang escaped, but they left all their possessions, including a poem Bonnie had written called “Suicide Sal” and a camera with several rolls of film. Clyde and Buck Barrow were armed with Browning Automatic Rifles, and two of the policemen were killed. On April 13, a five-man squad armed with hand-guns went to the apartment expecting to confront some bootleggers.Ī gunfight ensued. Local residents informed the police about suspicious activity at the address. In March 1932, the Bonnie and Clyde Gang was hiding out in an apartment over a garage at 3347 ½ Oak Ridge Drive (at 34th Street), less than a mile off Route 66, in Joplin. ![]() In some neighborhoods, the locations of the streets could not be identified. Immediately after it happened, there were parts of Joplin in which everything was leveled for as far as the eye could see in every direction. The damage from the 2011 tornado was breathtaking. They are all over town all of the time, and they will pull folks over for any minor infraction (real or manufactured), including things like loud pipes. ![]()
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