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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:29 pm    Post subject: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

There is a warehouse looking building wide open with a "No Trespassing" sign and like 6 over-grown cabin things next to it.

Anyone know what it is/was?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:56 am    Post subject: RE: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

Probably the old Cowboys 2000 building. It has like 6 or small overgrown cottages behind it.

Cowboys 2000 was a night club of extreme sin-committing and thus therefore the conservative government tried to do everything it could to shut the place down. Just like it did with most all other big night clubs in town. Sad

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:45 am    Post subject: Re: RE: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

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Probably the old Cowboys 2000 building. It has like 6 or small overgrown cottages behind it.

Cowboys 2000 was a night club of extreme sin-committing and thus therefore the conservative government tried to do everything it could to shut the place down. Just like it did with most all other big night clubs in town. Sad



looked to me those used to be a road side hotel sorta thing.

BAHAHAHAHA cowboys always had people stabbing each other out there even some shootings.. It got so bad the police had to say they couldnt be used as their security anymore ... that had nothing to do with the government lol

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:36 am    Post subject: Re: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

The cottages are left over from the Rt 66 days. There are a few of those "motor parks" or whatever still on that side of town.

I noticed the other day that someone has finally started demolition/renovation of the Cowboys building. Took long enough.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:03 am    Post subject: Re: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

I love those cottages. I always want to pull in there and take pics, but I'm never over there at a good time. And I'm not brave enough during the times I am over there.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:13 am    Post subject: Re: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

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And I'm not brave enough during the times I am over there.


Is it a bad part of town? Seems like the rest of Springfield.. just generic warehouse buildings up and down the street.

Which reminds me, it looked like there may be a decent little storm drain in front of United Rentals not far from the place I was first talking about.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:22 am    Post subject: Re: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

It's more of a commercial/industrial area. Lots of trucking businesses there. Back when Cowboys was open, I would say yes, it could be dangerous at times. Cops were almost always in the area during busy bar times, due to frequent fights and other violence at that place. It was pretty sketchy/ridiculous.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

I just meant I'm never over that way until after dark most of the time (friend works second shift at a business over there) and Im a girl, so I don't walk around in the dark much by myself.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:00 am    Post subject: Re: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

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I love those cottages. I always want to pull in there and take pics, but I'm never over there at a good time. And I'm not brave enough during the times I am over there.


You better take them as soon as you can. There were some neat little cottages outside Sapulpa, OK that I wanted to take pictures of, but just thought, they'll be around for a long time, so I'll wait. They tore them down within the last 2 years. Seems like they could have put them on some kind of historical list and keep them up. It was sad to see a warehouse type building in their place the last time I drove by.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:50 am    Post subject: Re: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

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slow_walker wrote:
I love those cottages. I always want to pull in there and take pics, but I'm never over there at a good time. And I'm not brave enough during the times I am over there.


You better take them as soon as you can. There were some neat little cottages outside Sapulpa, OK that I wanted to take pictures of, but just thought, they'll be around for a long time, so I'll wait. They tore them down within the last 2 years. Seems like they could have put them on some kind of historical list and keep them up. It was sad to see a warehouse type building in their place the last time I drove by.


They tore them down?! Well shit, I was planning on going to look at them too...

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:36 pm    Post subject: Re: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

I think we discussed this before, but Cowboys 2000 totally sounds like it should be a gay bar.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:07 pm    Post subject: RE: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

It's an old motel court, the name of which escapes me at the moment. To the west of Cowboys was the old Holiday Drive-In Theater. I don't know if the sign is still there or not, but I know a few years ago they finally tore down the snack bar, the ticket pavilion and the screen. It was sad.

As for motel courts around Springfield, you'll find several on Glenstone about half of what used to be there, you'll find several on Kerney, one is where Ryan's World Wide Gives is, another has a used care lot or something on half it's property. there's some out west of town on Chestnut Expy., College Street Between Kansas Expy and Chestnut Expy has a few left (the Rainbow used to be where Cody's is at Kansas and College), and there are some out on Sunshine out west before you get to the West by-pass and just after the West By-Pass also furthur out on that highway toward republic after the overpass are about three more.

I'm of the belief that Springfield had more motel courts than any other place in the country at one time.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:59 am    Post subject: Re: RE: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

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To the west of Cowboys was the old Holiday Drive-In Theater. I don't know if the sign is still there or not, but I know a few years ago they finally tore down the snack bar, the ticket pavilion and the screen. It was sad.



I noticed it on the google maps. It's pretty neat to see old drive-ins on google maps. There are a few around tulsa that you can still see. I'm suprised they haven't been turned into something. Though, some are in the part of town that no one wants to build.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:10 am    Post subject: Re: RE: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

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also furthur out on that highway toward republic after the overpass are about three more.


And these are all still in use.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:38 pm    Post subject: Re: RE: About a mile west of 65 on the north side of Kearney Reply with quote

slow_walker wrote:
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also furthur out on that highway toward republic after the overpass are about three more.


And these are all still in use.


Ah yes, I think I've been past some of these. It's nice to see that there's a few left.
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