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 twisterintexas
 
Location: I explore mostly Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas!
Gender: Female
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< on 8/22/2006 2:36 AM >
|  | | | I haven't posted in a while, nor have I explored in a while. Life's been busy, but I have some new photos I'd like to share. Sorry that they aren't really urban, but the calabooses here are great historical (and neglected) relics, nonetheless.
The photos are of calabooses in Texas and Oklahoma. A calaboose is a small, stand-alone jail cell in small towns that would hold drunks overnight, or keep suspected wrong-doers until they could be hauled off to the county jail. Ergo, they only exist in small, non-county seat towns.
From what I've researched, many small towns had these, though most have been destroyed. Other towns incorporated their holding cells inside their city halls. Today, of course, the arrested are transported to the county jail right away, making the calaboose (from the Spanish: dungeon) obsolete. That's why it's hard to find them.
I'm trying to document and photograph calabooses all across the area. I have 4 locations so far: Grapevine, Frisco, Kemp (TX) and Leedey (OK). If you know of any others, please let me know!
The first photos are from Grapevine. If you've ever been there, you've probably seen it and been inside, so it's nothing great:
Following is the Frisco calaboose, sitting dejected in a weedy field, the last time I checked out Frisco. Knowing the rate that the town's destroying its history, it's probably gone, though destroying those cement walls might be hard.
This is the Leedey, Ok calaboose, my favorite. It has acommodations!
And finally, the Kemp (Kaufman County Texas) calaboose, where none other than Bonnie Parker spent an uncomfortable night after Clyde Barrow ditched her when a hardware store robbery went bad.
Again: if you know of any calabooses, please let me know! Thanks!
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Explorer Zero
    
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<Reply # 1 on 8/22/2006 2:53 AM >
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nobody
 
Location: VANCOUVER B.C.
Gender: Male
5:55 is a state of mind
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<Reply # 2 on 8/22/2006 2:37 PM >
| | | | Those are way to cool, thanks. N.
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Explorer Zero
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<Reply # 3 on 11/19/2006 1:32 PM >
| | | | Found another one. I bet it was hot in there during the summer months!
This ones in Desdemona. Made out of bricks manufactured before the Thurber Brickworks were unionized.
(its old but of course that brick dont mean the calaboose is that old these look like maybe salvaged bricks since some were layed already broken and not at a corner)
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Happiedaze
 
Location: Galveston Area, TX
Gender: Female
| |  | | Re: Calaboose collection
<Reply # 4 on 11/19/2006 8:24 PM >
| | | | Awesome pictures! Thanks for sharing =)
'Our plans are all laid out,
take all these unmarked roads,
we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against |
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Mellon_Collie
Location: Utah'ish
Gender: Male
Chingblot.
| |  |  | Re: Calaboose collection
<Reply # 5 on 11/20/2006 1:33 AM >
| | | | That's explains that one weird little building I found off White Settlement Rd. inbetween Fort Worth and Weatherford... Thanks, and cool.
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
Texploration
| | Re: Calaboose collection
<Reply # 6 on 11/20/2006 3:01 PM >
| | | | There's one in Clairmont just east of Post. Lots of graffiti but cool none the less.
I figured out what's wrong with life:
It's other people. |
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twisterintexas
Location: I explore mostly Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas!
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: Calaboose collection
<Reply # 7 on 12/11/2006 2:28 PM >
| | | | Thanks to everyone for the info! I wrote it all down and will check them out. Yeah, another roadtrip (and if anyone's interested in coming along, pm me!)
The trip will have to be on a Sunday because I work Saturdays.
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Duncantx
Location: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
| | Re: Calaboose collection
<Reply # 8 on 12/11/2006 3:24 PM >
| | | | if your goin to grapevine theres a spiffy old grain silo down the road, but dont climb it, it almost burned down and the frame is fragile. the skin was reaplied to make it look like it was.
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bke520
| | | Re: Calaboose collection
<Reply # 9 on 12/14/2006 11:19 PM >
| | | | Thats really cool, ive never heard that term before.
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Explorer Zero
| | | Re: Calaboose collection
<Reply # 10 on 12/19/2006 2:19 PM >
| | | | Posted by twisterintexas
Thanks to everyone for the info! I wrote it all down and will check them out. Yeah, another roadtrip (and if anyone's interested in coming along, pm me!)
The trip will have to be on a Sunday because I work Saturdays.
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I noticed youre doing ghost towns I would like to see more of those if you ever plan to hit some up Im ready
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shelka04
Location: Alamogordo, New Mexico
Gender: Male
| |  | | | Re: Calaboose collection
<Reply # 11 on 12/28/2006 7:17 AM >
| | | | Well I wouldn't call Utah the south, but one day when I was driving through I saw this and couldn't figure it out, Now i'm sure it was a Calaboose. It's right at the pass at Soldier Summit.
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Explorer Zero
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<Reply # 12 on 12/28/2006 10:31 PM >
| | | | well thats one high class calaboose with the windows and a chimeny and what not guess they think theyre perty special out there in Utah?
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