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UER Forum > Archived US: South > Baptist, bootleggers, bars, and bordellos (Viewed 497 times) dwtaylor999  Location: Unassigned Lands, Oklahoma Gender: Male  |  Baptist, bootleggers, bars, and bordellos < on 5/23/2011 12:03 AM >   The remnants of the town of Pershing lies southeast of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Yet another oil boom town, it sprang up almost overnight. Named for Gen. John J. Pershing, head of U.S. forces in Europe in World War I, the town was born and died with the oil field. An old high school, the ruins of a church, and a few homes sit close to the highway. Within a block of the old church were the four Bs of the oilfield: Baptists, bootleggers, bars and bordellos. The regions most notorious bootlegger lived in the house next to the church. Their most famous saloon, the "Swinging Door" was on the same block The Phillips compressor station circa 1923 located at Pershing during the boom. Pershing had two banks, the Pershing State Bank, which failed on August 8th, 1921, and the Security State Bank, which consolidated with the First National Bank of Pawhuska on October 28th, 1922. The existing school building was built in 1933 but it appears the old church was also used as a school prior to the schools construction, based on this old photo. This was taken in front of the church. The plumbing. The bootleggers house. The old school was, and maybe still is, being used as a church, though the grass in the parking lot shows it doesn't get a large crowd. The building is in good shape though, and should stand for many more years. The old church was used as a school and now the school is used as a church. Irony. A little story I found while researching that was interesting. About 10:45 in the morning on March 30, 1921, four men robbed the U.S. Mail of $3,500 in cash and jewelry at the Missouri-Kansas & Texas Railroad depot at Pawhuska, Oklahoma. William Douglas, a local mail carrier, was shot and killed during the holdup. The cash, which was consigned to the Osage Indian Agency in Pawhuska, had just arrived by train several minutes before the holdup. A quickly formed posse of local residents chased the bandits south to the town of Pershing, Oklahoma, where the outlaws were forced to hastily bury their loot. The train robbers then split up and went their separate ways to avoid capture. The loot was never recovered. ...and buried treasure too... Ruins, the fate of all cities. Price  Location: Houston,TX Gender: Male Urbex: Keeping record of things most people have forgotten.  |  Re: Baptist, bootleggers, bars, and bordellos <Reply # 1 on 5/23/2011 3:58 AM >   whatever happened to marked corner stones. i always love finding the marked corner stone “It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath our feet.” -Martin Dansky (1952) Happiedaze  Location: Galveston Area, TX Gender: Female  |  |  |  Re: Baptist, bootleggers, bars, and bordellos <Reply # 2 on 5/23/2011 4:46 AM >   Awesome! I love reading history to go along with the pictures... and the old photos are always awesome, too! Thanks for sharing. I love old schools. 'Our plans are all laid out, take all these unmarked roads, we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against Twisted Orchid  Gender: Female My inner child is a mean little fuck  |  Re: Baptist, bootleggers, bars, and bordellos <Reply # 3 on 5/26/2011 3:50 PM >   Man, how do you find all these cool locations? *Jealous! dwtaylor999  Location: Unassigned Lands, Oklahoma Gender: Male  |  Re: Baptist, bootleggers, bars, and bordellos <Reply # 4 on 5/27/2011 7:54 PM >   Posted by Twisted Orchid Man, how do you find all these cool locations? *Jealous! They're everywhere in Oklahoma. I have a list of places to check out I'll probably never get through. Somehow, it seems I keep adding more than I check off. Ruins, the fate of all cities. Raticus  Moderator Location: Tyler Gender: Male Ratus exploricus abandonae  |  Re: Baptist, bootleggers, bars, and bordellos <Reply # 5 on 5/27/2011 11:19 PM >   Great job. We've all said it before, but like Happiedaze pointed out, the research, history, and old photos all combine to make these galleries very interesting. Great job! Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something. UER Forum > Archived US: South > Baptist, bootleggers, bars, and bordellos (Viewed 497 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 93 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 738562530 pages have been generated.