and Hall Street, adjoining Wilson Historic District, near Baylor Hospital) - Bonnie reportedly worked here from January 1928 through spring 1929, when she was in her late teens. Hargraves' Cafe (now Evans Grinding Co.), 3308 Swiss Circle (southeast corner of Swiss Ave. The actual address has not been included here because it is possible the house is still in use as a private residence. It was from this address that Bonnie departed to begin her two-year-long life of crime with Clyde Barrow. Emma Parker, Bonnie's mother, resided in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas at an address near the present-day Dallas North Tollway. Remarkably, few (if any) modern writers have included this information in their books, continuing to perpetuate the original, and possibly inaccurate, version of the ambush, in which Methvin is portrayed as a willing participant (as also in the 1967 movie).Īround 1932, Mrs. Although all writers agree that Methvin made a deal with Texas law enforcement officers in order to obtain a pardon for his son, Hinton says it was not made in advance, as commonly believed, but rather after the fact, to keep Methvin from telling the FBI what really happened. In his book Ambush, published two years after his death in 1977, Hinton claimed that he and the other five officers broke the law themselves in order to stop Bonnie and Clyde, by kidnapping Henry Methvin's father and forcing him to participate in the ambush. 75-Central Expressway - Ted Hinton was a Dallas County deputy sheriff and one of the six lawmen who killed Bonnie and Clyde in a hail of gunfire in Louisiana on May 23, 1934.
Sparkman-Hillcrest Cemetery, on north side of Northwest Highway, west of Northpark Shopping Center and Hwy. Ironically, the inscription on it reads: As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you. Bonnie's mother Emma Parker was also buried here, following her death in 1946. Darby and Sophie Stone at Ruston, Louisiana - an incident that was dramatized in the Warren Beatty-Faye Dunaway movie, with the names of the kidnapped couple, portrayed by Gene Wilder and Evans Evans, changed to Eugene Grizzard and Velma Davis.Ĭrown Hill Cemetery, northeast corner of Lombardy Lane and Webb Chapel Road - Bonnie, along with the remains of sister Billie's two children, was moved here from Fishtrap Cemetery, in West Dallas, in 1945. Jones here on June 9, 1933, after "losing" him for six weeks following the brief kidnapping of H. If you want or need more information about the ill-starred couple, you would probably be better off reading one or more of these books about Bonnie and Clydeĭenton Road, between Bachman Dam and "Five Point Dancehall" (exact location unknown, probably north of Northwest Highway) - Bonnie and Clyde picked up W. Any email questions about the infamous lovers are unlikely to be answered. Please note: The author of this web site does not purport to be a Bonnie and Clyde expert. Be aware: Some of the sites listed below are still being used as private residences or businesses and may not be entered without the owner's permission.
Not surprisingly, there are a number of places in or near Dallas with which they are associated and some can still be seen.
Occasionally, they also ran afoul of the law while in town.
#WHERE WAS BONNIE AND CLYDE AMBUSHED MOVIE#
SEE ALSO: IN SEARCH OF THE BONNIE AND CLYDE MOVIE and IN SEARCH OF BONNIE AND CLYDE IN LOUISIANAĬlyde and "Buck" Barrow Wanted Poster (1933)Īlthough they covered a lot of territory during their two-year-long crime spree (1932-1934), Dallas, Texas was Bonnie and Clyde's hometown and they returned often, usually to visit relatives. Places in or near Dallas, Texas associated with the Barrow Gang A Guide to Dallas History: In Search of Bonnie and Clyde
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