Clyde Barrow (movie) Colt

The movie's interiors of homes, clothing, almost everything else were too colorful & glitzy for the 1930s. Only those with steady incomes lived and looked as nice as shown. Clyde & Bonnie were just desperate dirt-poor that got going in the wrong direction. There were a lot more like them that never made the headlines, got caught or shot early in their chosen careers. It was a time people took a bath once a week if possible.

I was a kid in So. Oklahoma in the 1930s. My Dad was 'Filling Station Manager' for Okla City area for an oil company who lost his job went it went belly up in 1931. We moved back down South, in with my G-parents. I remember cold water, ice box & Mom & G-mother washing clothes by hand in the back yard. My G-father had a one-man insurance business & some income. Dad ran a filling station ( gas station) went to work 6 days a week, 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. to make $10-15 a week at a time policemen & teachers made $80 a month. We soon got a water heater installed, refrigerator, a washing machine & a radio. Gas then was 12-15 cents a gallon -- about the same as today in comparison to incomes.

We were rich compared to most of the population, in that we had some income, ate regular & had cars. Dad a 1930 beat up Model A Ford and G-father his 1925 Model T he kept looking new. My G-father had a 40 acre farm he let to a share-cropper. I don't think he ever got a dime in payment other than driving the 6 miles out to get veggies, melons, a chicken or turkey - hardly worth the trip. The renter was typical dirt-poor, overalls held together by hand sewn patches & nothing in the house but bare essentials. No plumbing, no electricity, no heat. I kept thinking of that house & those people when I sat thru Bonnie & Clyde.

Actually used at the ambush:

1. One M1918 BAR (NOT used by Hamer). Also not a Colt Monitor, as shown.
2. Two Remington Model 8 rifles. Neither was modified by POE to use a hi-cap magazine. Hamer had one, but that came well after the ambush.
3. Three Remington Model 11 semi-auto shotguns (no Winchester Model 12 pump guns as shown).

There is considerable disagreement over exactly who used what gun. Hamer is usually presumed to have used either a Model 8 or one of the Model 11 shotguns.

There probably wasn't a Thompson SMG in the whole county.

Not a great deal of the recent attempt at re-telling the B&C story was factual, more like a dramatized version of history. I don't think Clyde was telepathic, and I don't think the ambush was really an act of "Suicide by Cop," as portrayed. The 1967 movie was better, but no more factual. Overall, a big disappointment. I was expecting better.