Posted on 03/06/2018 2:33:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
An Oklahoma murder mystery has brought tourists to the town of Arcadia for decades.
An old gas station has sat along Route 66 for about a century. If you stop by, Sam Gillaspy, who goes by “Mr. Sam,” is happy to share his story about the station's checkered past.
Sam says that back in the 1930s, when two brothers owned the station, a salesman stopped by to ask if they wanted to make counterfeit bills.
The illegal business took off.
"The counterfeiters, they built a little room back there," Mr. Sam explained. "Then they had a table right here and a chair. They just walked right in there and had a curtain over it and nobody ever knew that that room was there."
Sam said the brothers were eventually caught and sent to jail, ending the counterfeit money scam. After they served their sentences, a body was allegedly found in the empty filling station.
Sam has a few theories about what happened.
"Well, I wonder if those two old boys looked that salesman up and brought him back to that station. And, well, got rid of him," he said.
Sam loves sharing the murder mystery with visitors from around the world.
"We, as Oklahomans, we need to save our old pieces of history. We really do. And I'm trying to do my best that I can do," he added.
Get your stiffs on Route Sixty-six.
I was a walk-on on Rt. 66!
Been by the old building many times on my motorcycle and stopped and look around a few times.
I have a Daughter in Claremore which is also on Route 66.
And I walked on Route 66, in Cushing.
Funny.
My sister use to live there, then those damned Amish from Inola moved in..../S(Well, she did live there)
My daughter used to cook at one of the little cafes in Claymore. I’ve been there many times.
Lemme guess.....you were an extra in a street scene?...............
Eggs Ackley. Cleveland train station. But I was in the scene in my prep school jacket. It was fun!
Route 66 doesn’t go thru Cleveland......................
You’re right of course. But the tv show did an episode there.
And people didn’t notice?..................
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