Driving to Kilgore - Home of the Rangerettes

 

Kilgore was an oil boom town starting in 1930.

It's now an oil bust town.

 

 Kilgore is in a dry county so at the county line are lots of

liquor stores and dance halls  I don't know if those
two things go together or if dancing is outlawed, as well.

 

 There are derricks every place you look in Kilgore

 

 

 

 Old train station

Lunch at Napolis

 

 Inside restaurant looking out

 Baked Ziti for me

 Stan and Margaret

 

 Lasagne for Margaret

 

 See what I mean?  Oil derricks are everywhere

  Not quite as many churches as derricks

 Methodist

 Episcopal

 Baptist

 Presbyterian

 

 Oil pumps in city park

 Working chili pump

 

Leaving town - back to the taverns and liquor stores

 Tyler, TX skyline.  I liked the sign

Ladies Times Beauty

 

 This is the most incredible display of wisteria I've ever seen

It is in back of the  now defunct Borden's plant

 

  

 

 

 Goodbye Elsie

 

 

 

 Great outdoor kitchen

to go with this spread