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General Category => The Good Old Days => Topic started by: Janet Harrington on March 26, 2010, 07:30:42 PM

Title: Oklahoma "streamlined" Hoosegow
Post by: Janet Harrington on March 26, 2010, 07:30:42 PM
This is a black and white picture that I found on eBay several years ago when I was trying to collect pictures of different kinds of jails throughout the nation.  Here are a couple of newspaper links that will take you to The Pittsburgh Press and the Berkley Daily Gazette newspapers.  I thought the little invention was kind of neat.  This was published in the media in August, 1936.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K5coAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IgYGAAAAIBAJ&pg=925%2C3490587 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K5coAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IgYGAAAAIBAJ&pg=925%2C3490587)

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1SEbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_EsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4124%2C5530938 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1SEbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_EsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4124%2C5530938)
Title: Re: Oklahoma "streamlined" Hoosegow
Post by: Janet Harrington on March 26, 2010, 07:31:57 PM
Oh, my.  That turned out really well.  Hope you enjoy.
Title: Re: Oklahoma "streamlined" Hoosegow
Post by: sixdogsmom on March 26, 2010, 08:16:40 PM
Maybe 25 years ago, I visited a museum in Medicine Lodge that displayed a large outdoor cast iron cage, that had been used as a jail in Oklahoma. Sorry, I do not remember where in Ok. just that it seemed pretty extreme to me, it was about 103 degrees that day. I could not imagine anybody surviving in a contraption like that.  :P