Comments on: Coffeyville Kansas, Small Town, Big History

By: Bob Bales

Bob Bales — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:03:41 +0000

In reply to Luz Carrodani. It is a really interesting little town with a lot of history. Glad you enjoyed it.

By: Luz Carrodani

Luz Carrodani — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:38:19 +0000

Hi Bob, thanks a lot for this interesting information! I was looking at the analytics of my company’s web site from Argentina, and I spotted a visitor from Coffeyville. I couldn’t be more curious about where this place was and how it looked like. So, amazing having found your article. It’s a really nice place! So, thank you very much!

By: Jerry A. Wilcox

Jerry A. Wilcox — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:31:17 +0000

The photographer who snapped the dead guys was John Tackett, a young sort of go getter guy who later opened a vaudeville theater in Coffeyville and during the teens and twenties booked a lot of famous performers to appear in his theater. By the late 1940s the theater had been converted to a movie house, still called “the Tackett”. Mr. Tackett leased the movie house to a theater chain and became a landlord instead of an operator. I was a student at the local juco and worked at the Tackett on a part-time basis. Mr. Tackett used to drop by the theater late at night. Mr. Tackett told me he took the famous picture, rushed the copyright process, and over a relatively short made about $2500.00 in usage fees. Crime didn’t pay for the Daltons, but Mr. Tackett did ok for himself.

By: Linda Burns

Linda Burns — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:50:52 +0000

In reply to thetravellingfool.

Bonnie and Clyde were another couple they portrayed shot up in their car…
Since you love history try coming to the east. I’m from NY tons of history, revolutionary forts, Gettysburg’s in Pa a must to see and of course Virginia, Philly Pa, and of course Washington DC..Linda Burns
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By: Bob Bales

Bob Bales — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:52:29 +0000

In reply to Peter. Glad you enjoyed it. Coffeyville is a great town to visit.