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 dwtaylor999
  
Location: Unassigned Lands, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
 |  | Slick, Oklahoma
< on 5/22/2011 6:45 PM >
|  | | | The town of Slick, Oklahoma was named for Tom B. Slick, known among the oil men as "Mad Tom Slick," "Dry Hole Slick", and "King of the Wildcatters."
He was the discoverer of the Cushing Oil Field in 1919 and initially kept the discovery secret, but within a short time, tents and hastily constructed shacks became stores, cafes, pool halls and various kinds of businesses. A post office was established on April 28th of 1920 and Slick was born. Within a short time the railroad was extended to Slick and a large depot was built. Within three months of the discovery, the town had gone from zero to a population of over five thousand, many seeking to get rich quick. The oil fields where extremely dangerous places, and the boom towns themselves weren't much better. The roads where typical for the era, dust or mud, depending on the weather.
The boom was short lived and by 1930 the railroad was abandoned and the population had fallen to less than 500 people. A fire in the business district destroyed several stores and with the depression and oil production dropping off, more closed due to lack of business. By 1940 much of the town was abandoned. Today little remains of the original slick, other than a few abandoned buildings and homes. A convenience store serves travelers passing through the remains of the town. Some photos of Slick taken in 1940 after the bust and the remains today.
The Slick consolidated high school was built shortly after the boom. A large brick structure, it was located on the western side of town. Just to the north of the town lie the remains of the L'Overture school. This was a segregated black school built in the 1930s.
The L'Overture colored school was named after the militant Haitian general Toussaint Louverture and was part of the so-called “Slick Separate Schools” of the late 1930s and 1940s. Oklahoma had a "separate but equal" policy on schools during this time frame in a failed attempt to stave off integration. The L'Overture school was closed and it's students integrated into the Slick high school when segregation was ended with the "Brown vs the Board of Education" ruling. It appears the school was abandoned and also suffered a fire.
I couldn't find any evidence to support it, but the school very well could have been WPA construction, with its sandstone and brick construction. Today it is a shell in the brush, though even in ruin, it looks to have been a stately structure.
The Slick High School was built of red brick with decorative concrete accents. The layout was the typical, a central auditorium with two separate wings for the grade and high schools. This school also had a partial second story, though I wasn't able to explore it much due to the stability of the stairs and ceiling. The left wing of the school was missing and had been cleared away some time in the past. While I'm sure there was a gymnasium, it appears to have been torn down. The high school was closed in the 1960's, though the grade school continued until at least 1979. Once the school was finally closed, the town used it for their city offices and as a senior citizen center until roof leaks forced it final abandonment.
The main entrance. The auditorium is through either door.
The entrance to the missing wing.
The existing wing which was the grade school.
The auditorium.
The old administrative offices, later used by the city.
Ditto machine.
The grade school wing.
Upstairs. I stopped when the groaning of rotten wood told me to go no further.
Back outside.
To bad the one wing was gone ,and I couldn't find a gym, though I sure there once was one. An old baseball field was nearby.
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Twisted Orchid
Gender: Female
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| | Re: Slick, Oklahoma
<Reply # 2 on 5/24/2011 5:50 PM >
| | | | Amazing shit dude
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Raticus
     
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Location: Tyler
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Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: Slick, Oklahoma
<Reply # 3 on 5/25/2011 1:21 AM >
| | | | Great stuff. As always.
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Bizz
 
Location: BC, Canada
Gender: Female
| |  | Re: Slick, Oklahoma
<Reply # 4 on 5/25/2011 5:10 AM >
| | | | Wow. I love your detailed history and thorough pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: Slick, Oklahoma
<Reply # 5 on 5/26/2011 3:33 PM >
| | | | Awesome. I want to see an auditorium like that some day.
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