Saturday, September 16, 2017

Saturday Adventure! Blackwell, Oklahoma

Woo Hoo its Saturday!! And I get to play!!
First Jeff saw this Rattlesnake its a Prairie Rattle Snake

We heard that there was a County Fair for Kay County so we ventured to the Kay County Fairgrounds!  It is in the town of Blackwell, Oklahoma!

Kay County Fairgrounds and the Kay County Fair

Carousel
they had a lot of carnival rides!

And the 4-H exhibit's

Metal art work

Grand old Flag

Giant Sweet Potato

Cockscomb flower
looks like a brain flower.

So thats the end of the county fair, very tiny but still fun to see the 4-H winners!
We visited main street to see the old buildings.



Armory

Mural

Silo's








Mural

Equity Plaza Apartments


Mural


Old street lights

Masonic Lodge

Old mural

Pigeons 


West Dyer's




We stopped in a Antique Mall it was huge
two floors full of stuff
but the old handrail was way cool!

Coca Cola Ad



Larkin Hotel




Police Station


Post Office







Old photo's
Main street

1955 F-5 Tornado
1893

tornado pathway


High School
1908
1905

Oklahoma Baptist College

1903
Santa Fe Depot

Its fun to see the history of these towns, they have fought a brave fight, 
I love when the town rally's around its history to try to save it.
It is a hard time to run a business but when you are in a small
town it is even harder!













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