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[Photograph 2012.201.B0356.0009]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tom Lemmons founded an Oklahoma town that later became known as Slapout. His first choice for the name was Nye, after a friend in the Kansas Legislature."
Date: June 6, 1982
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1105.0507]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It was plenty hot when cousins Linvell and C.J. Rose of Beaver pulledover for a breather in Slapout and the shadiest siesta spot handy was right under their rig."
Date: July 2, 1979
Creator: Thompson, Michal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1180.0728]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Oklahoma Panhandle town of Slapout supposedly got its name from early day highway workers who joked about the store being 'slap out' of things. Frank Lemmons, son of the town's founder, and his two boys, David and Thomas."
Date: 1979
Creator: Thompson, Michal
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0356.0008]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The guest of honor will be the founder of the community and its unofficial mayor, 82-year-old Tom Lemmons, who once operated Slapout's first business where the service station now stands."
Date: August 26, 1977
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0356.0006]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "T. L. Lemmons is servicing a car at the station where he started a general store in a tar paper shack 21 years ago. He has, in recent years, accepted the name Slapout for the village he originally hoped would be called Nye. (Located on U. S. 270 in Panhandle)"
Date: May 10, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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