isuredid Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 Great work- I had concluded that it was all folklore, since no one could come up with newpaper articles about their being in houston. Now we know that in Dec 33 to Apr 34 there was enough interest in bonnie and clyde being in houston that the papers did stories about them. What paper(s) were these articles from?]The articles were from the old Houston Press. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 The articles were from the old Houston Press.Good stuff. I'm impressed with your collection! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nm5k Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 Have you all been to this site?http://texashideout.tripod.com/bc.htm That website has A LOT of information in it, and maybe something about Houston? John That's a great website on B & C.. Best I've seen so far.. Has so much stuff I couldn't see it all last night.. And yes, some of the pages do mention them/him being in Houston, and even being part of a gang at one point.. I forgot the name of the gang though.. Also has a link to Blanche Barrows website, which was good too. She was actually kind of a hottie in some pix when she was young... Ditto for Bonnie in some older pix, before she hooked up with Clyde.. :/ MK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isuredid Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 I did a bit more research on Clyde Barrow living in Houston and being part of the Root Square gang. There was another Clyde Barrow living in Houston during that time and it appears he was a bit older than the more famous Clyde...like 8 years older. It also appears that he also got into some trouble with the law and I think some of the folks writing about Clyde living in Houston were confusing the two. It may well be that there is no evidence at all that the infamous Clyde Barrow was ever in Houston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbaseball Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 I just came upon this today and found it interesting. Bonnie and Clyde are on Tv now. I live near San Diego, CA now. Anyway, my dad, born in 1921 in Lavaca County, TX, told me when he was young that his family lived In Houston when he was Seven years old (1929). He said my grandfather, W H Lampley, ran a gas station and was left alone and Bonnie and Clyde gang stopped and borrowed a car jack for their flat tire a few blocks away. The brought the jack back to him. I thought I would share since there wasps discussion about the gang in Houston. Dad passed on in 1989 so I can not ask him for details.David Lampley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Dufresne Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 (edited) https://goo.gl/images/AoX1zS My Grandfather owned the gas station across from the "Bonnie & Clyde" house on the corner of 14th & Oxford. He'd told me when I was a kid that he'd actually given Clyde a ride to Heights Bank a few days before it was robbed as he didn't realize who Clyde was.  Said he was very nice and they had visited a few times during their occupation of the house.  Above is a link  to the house they were supposed to have stayed.  Glad I stumbled upon this thread to bring back a great memory of my grandfather.   Edited December 31, 2016 by Andy Dufresne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Runner Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 There's a family rumor that my Great Grandfather patched up the radiator on a car of B & C's, not realizing who they really were... Sadly, My G-Grandfather passed shortly after I was born, and as a jackwagon youngster, I never spoke to my Great Grandmother about it before she passed on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyV11 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Since I was a kid I heard that B&C did come to Houston actually near downtown to Harrisburg (called them) and robbed a bank at the corner of broadway and cypress street ( the building is still there and is a restaurant.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 On 11/1/2006 at 3:47 PM, Mark F. Barnes said: Jesse Keathley is Floyd Hamilton's cousin/brother-in-law, and is from the 5th Ward section of Houston." That, in itself, sounds a bit fishy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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