Bonnie & Clyde & Duane

On April 16, 1934, Bonnie & Clyde robbed The First National Bank in Stuart, Iowa.
According to Stuart ("Home of 1700 Good Eggs and a Few Stinkers"), it was one of the more exciting things to happen in the town.
The old robbed bank is now a police station.
But today it was closed.
I didn't know they could do that.


A guy down the street waved and yelled "HI!"
I looked around to see if he was waving at someone else.
There was nobody else.
Then he disappeared.
I walked to where the man had been standing, in front of a brown box called Duanes Pastime.
A sleeping neon sign hinted at billiards.
Duane's sole pastime.
Maybe that man had been Duane, inviting me into his cool lounge to wait out the heat over a few rounds of pool.
Nope.
Duanes was closed.


I think I found Stuart's stinkers.

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 8, 2011 at 1:30 PM

    Great shot of the old bank building, however, it no longer is the police station- its a cutesy little store called Unique (look closely at your pic)

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  2. UnknownMarch 1, 2019 at 6:09 PM

    My grandfather was the owner of Duane's pastime, he passed away in 2016 but the building is still there

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