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A few from Penwell, TX. The below is from the Texas Historical Society. Not much left of the town now.
PENWELL, TEXAS. Penwell, sixteen miles southwest of Odessa in southwestern Ector County, was named for J. H. Penn, a veteran West Texas oil operator, who drilled the discovery well of the Penwell-Jordan oilfield. When Penn's well, the R. R. Penn Kloh-Rumsey No. 1, came in on October 7, 1929, the area began to develop rapidly. The townsite was officially laid out on November 8, 1929, and a post office was established there in 1930. The first residents lived in tents or hastily constructed shacks, but eventually better housing was built. Because many of the early settlers were only temporary residents, accurate population statistics are difficult to ascertain. For example, Penwell's 1930–31 population was given as 230 in one source, but as 3,000 in another. According to one source, during the early 1930s Penwell had six lumberyards, several rooming houses, several filling stations, two or three clothing stores, two hotels, a doctor's office, a drugstore, a barbershop, a pool hall, a dance hall, and a paper, the Penwell News. For a while there was also a school, but later local students were transferred to the Odessa schools. After the 1930s Penwell's population decreased because of a decline in local oil drilling and the movement of workers to larger cities. In 1980 its population was estimated at seventy-five, and the town included a post office, a service station, a welding shop, and a beer store. Some ranches were in the vicinity. In the 1980s the nearby Odessa Raceway Park was operating from May through October. Monahans State Park is just outside of town. In 1990 and again in 2000 the population of Penwell was reported as seventy-four.
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...A few? Damn you get around. Nice set, I especially like the wires coming out of the gas pump.
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Thanks! The uploader here really screws up my pics. All of the B & W's are grainy and a lot of the "smoothness" of the color photos is lost.
I also hit a small refinery today but havent processed them yet.
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Posted by Peptic Ulcer
I also hit a small refinery today but havent processed them yet.
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how many times a day do you go exploring?
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I have over 100 sites in Texas that I've plotted on Google Earth and try to plan my sales calls so I'm close. I usually try to knock one out before I go to work, one at lunch and sometimes if I'm not exhausted, at the end of the day. Its getting to the point however that I'm having to go further afield so not sure how much longer I can keep up that schedule.
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Just drove by the "country kitchen". Vandals have been busy; 5 years ago it was boarded up solid and all the plate glass intact not to mention the interior. Wonder when it closed?
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Are you out in West Texas?
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Posted by Peptic Ulcer
Are you out in West Texas?
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Was in Louisiana. Damn. Just got back today... great to be in Texas!
Yeah, I'm a desert rat.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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