Painting by Dorothy Geraldine Wilson
Dear Dolphin Talk,
I was so very disappointed when I heard a movie of the late Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow was shown on television. I didn’t get to see it.
Years ago, my dad, David Archie Williams, was a milk cow herder for the City of Seadrift.
He was riding down the main street on his horse when he did see Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker’s Ford car parked in front of a gas station. Clyde Barrow was putting gas in the Ford and Bonnie Parker was sitting in the front seat with a sawed off shotgun lying across her lap. She was never without her sawed off shotgun. They came to Seadrift to visit her mother who at that time was living on the Guadalupe River.
They did stay in the old Dierlam hotel named “Hotel Lafitte” on the banks of San Antonio Bay.
The Guadalupe River at that time did have “bootleggers” making moonshine whiskey on it.
When my dad was a young boy, he lived with his family in Cheyenne, Oklahoma, and he did go to school with Bonnie Parker and Billie Parker, her sister.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker did not rob any banks in Seadrift.
P.S. Am sending this painting I did of the Hotel Laffitte with Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker standing on the bluff and their Ford car.
Dorothy Geraldine (Williams) Wilson, Seadrift
turned 90 years old on November 29, 2018
