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The Blue Whale of Catoosa on old route 66
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The Blue Whale of Catoosa on old route 66

  • The abandoned church at Picher, a modern Oklahoma ghost town. Because of the contamination from leftover mine chat from the lead and zinc mines as well as the undermining the EPA put Picher on the Tar Creek Superfund list which prompted a mandatory buyout by the government in 1996.<br />
In 2008 an F4 tornado hit the town causing considerable damage and in 2009 it was decided to shut down the school.<br />
There's not much left of Picher now but few die hards who refuse to move and abandoned buildings.
  • A couple of old buzzards roost near a broken windmill on hwy 22 east of Kenefic.
  • The Chickasaw White House, located on the north edge of Emet, Oklahoma, built in 1895. Was  the home to Chickasaw Governor Douglas Hancock Johnston and his family from 1898 to 1971.
  • An old speed limit sign in Picher
  • Sunset on Atoka Lake
  • An eagle at the Tishomingo NWR and the remnants of the Washita farm.
  • A thunderstorm begins west of the Tulsa airport.
  • This old building is located on the north side of Atoka, next to the railroad tracks. It was the Atoka Ice and Power Company building. The first part of the building was built in 1903 then in 1906 this 50’ x 70’ two story building was added on to the existing building. The company operated two coal fired dynamos and a 12 ton ice machine. Before this time ice had to be shipped from Denison TX by rail. The company also operated a bottling company that manufactured carbonated beverages. As a very young boy I have gone here with my grandpa and get ice.
  • Inside the Atoka ice house.
  • Commerce, old route 66
  • Abandoned church Pooleville
  • Just about every town in Oklahoma has an old bank building on a corner. I don't remember for sure where this one is.
  • The Crystal Theater at Okemah.<br />
"Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns." Woody Guthrie
  • Tally's cafe on old route 66, Tulsa
  • The Blue Whale of Catoosa on old route 66
  • The Calvin river bridge over the South Canadian River. Built in 1919 on Highway 75
  • Inside the old cotton gin at Kenefic.
  • An old outhouse. Its been so long since anyone used it that the tree has grown up so that you can't open the door.
  • Old Farmhouse north of Coalgate.
  • Jim;s Coney Island at Tulsa
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