This is the last-standing railroad hotel on the Llano River It began operation in 1907, and was a home-away-from-home for railroad crewmen, who stayed there overnight and returned to Austin the next day. |
Clyde Barrow, (reputedly obscured) standing behind new Ford V8, in front of one of their favorite hideaways - Dabb's Railroad Hotel. |
Dabbs Railroad Hotel 112 E. Burnet St. Llano, Texas 78643
In the heart of the historic Stockyard District, originally constructed in 1907, as The Stockyard Club, where wealthy cattlemen stayed when in Fort Worth. Reputedly another favorite haunt of Bonnie and Clyde. It was in 1933, while hiding out from the laws, that Bonnie and Clyde had checked into Room 305. Here, they had a perfect view of E. Exchange and N. Main, an excellent lookout for approaching lawmen. A gun belonging to Bonnie was left there. This hotel, with it's 52 rooms, has been restored and furnished in Old West decor. It's bar, with saddles for barstools, is an attraction in itself. |
109 E. Exchange Avenue Fort Worth, Texas 76106
A geologist who had contacted the Hideout believes that the various photos showing Bonnie and Clyde and company posing by a rocky outcropping were likely taken in Southwest Oklahoma, in the Arbuckle Mountains there. He stated that a geologist can always tell you where those Bonnie and Clyde roadside photos were taken - there aren't any roadcut rock formations in the country that look like the Arbuckle Mountains of southwest OK. After the oil companies - the biggest employer of geologists in the country is the FBI. Specialists in mineralogy - scrape the soil off your shoe and tell you where you been. |

Opelousas, the third oldest city in Louisiana is the parish seat of St. Landry Parish. It is located at the juncture of Interstate 49 and U.S. Highway 190. It was in the now defunct Star Barber Shop,located in Shute’s Drug Store on the corner of Court and Landry Streets, that barber Otis Welch gave Clyde Barrow his last haircut & shave. Two days later Clyde was killed. Otis Welch is the same barber seen in the foreground in the above photo. |