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North Side Bank robbed on Frisco

Gilbert Adler Real Estate Walter S Mills, Atty. G R Caldwell Real Estate Southern Expressions Shaklee Products Sweetbriar Shop Kerrs Shoe Store Smith-Wren Jewelers Wren Jewelry Store Sweetbriar Dress Shop Wren Jewelry Store Lucilles Nutrition Shop Boyd Jewelers Ross Drug Straub Drug Co. L G Dean, Optometrist Mitchell Attys. Custer County Public Welfare Jimmy Johnson Real Estate Hair and Nails Unlimited The Collection Emma Lous Merle Norman Downtown Beauty Salon

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Quitas Womens Clothing Kerrs Shoes Stacys Shoe Shop McLellans 5 & 10 Cent Store Sun Loan Associates Financial Services ITT Financial Services Sears, Roebuck & Co. All State Insurance McAbees Piggly Wiggly Grocery Dr. E H Hart, Dentist F T Frizzell, MD Lonis The Booterie Northups Jewelry Store Wrens Jewelry & Gift Shop Deans Jewelry Story Southwest Interiors Southwest Paint & Interiors Whites Auto The Dixie Guardian Interlock of OK

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At almost three oclock on July 3, 1933, four men rushed through the front doors of the First National Bank at 400 Frisco. They rounded up all the employees and started gathering all the money from the tellers cages and putting it into white canvas sacks. While the robbery was in progress, Thelma Selle, a young female employee for the Stewart Lumber Co., came into the bank with her

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I remember . . .
They had good limeades at Ross Drug! Peggy worked there . . . Barbara Woods Preston I remember going to Ross Drug after school for a frosted coke. Thats a dip of ice cream with pop poured We bought furniture at over it. And S&D Drug had Whites when Roy and I got the best grilled cheese sand- married. We got a bedroom wiches. And limeades too. suite and a refrigerator. Gay Carol Tilley Jack I still have a little table that we got then. That salesI worked for Bob and man was tall, thin, a real nice Sibyl Boyd for a few years looking guy. He could sell before we had children. you the paper off the wall. Boyd Jewelers was at 513 Billie Jo Robbins Morrison Frisco then. Erma Baker, Eva Reimers and Donna Harold Linderer told of takPoeling also worked there at ing live turkeys up to the that time. roof of the Dixie Store at Brenda Gubitz Ruyle 521 Frisco. They would tie the birds legs together so Pauline Edmonds and they couldnt fly and throw Mrs. Nemo ran the water of- them off. It was part of a fice there in the city hall, and Thanksgiving promotion in our young son Buzzy would downtown Clinton. go up and see them every CDN 2003 Centennial Ed. day. Theyd walk down to Ross Drug for coffee, and Piggly Wiggly always theyd take Buzzy with had barrels out front full of them. things like sacks of licorice. Every once in a while, Carlos Newcomb Buzzy would come over to the station and say, Dad, I need three nickels. Id say, What for, Son? and hed say, Were going for coffee, and its my time to buy! Harold Hyman

deposit. She went over to Georgie Loving, who was there making a deposit for the Clinton Ice Co., and asked what was going on. Loving replied, I suppose they are robbing the bank. The robbers made their escape going south on 4th Street. They took both Selle and Loving as hostages, and they threw roofing nails out along the road to stop anyone who tried to follow them. They released the

two young women when they got to the underpass on South 10th. At least one of the robbers was later apprehended on a farm near Paradise, Texas, which was Machine Gun Kellys hideout. For more details, please read Bank Robbery Hostage--I Had to Crawl over Rows of Ammunition and Sawed-off Guns in the 1986 edition of the RED CLAY REVIEW.

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My sister Ginger worked at Quitas all through high school. I dont think she ever brought home a pay check; she always spent it all on clothes. Kathy Allison I liked to go to Boyd Jewelers. Bob and Sybil were our neighbors, so I liked to go in their store. I remember I got my St. Christopher there, the drop I gave to my girlfriend, and an initial ring. Kenny Stringer I remember Whites Auto and Western Auto up the street. That is where you could buy linoleum for the floor. If they had 5 different patterns to pick from, you were lucky back then. It wasnt like today for sure! Barbara Woods Preston Whites had furniture for sale. So did Snider furniture and KC Interiors and Tautfest. Cheri Lou McGee Gastineau

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