The Barrow filling station THE BARROW FILLING STATION

ClydeBarrow lived with his family in a shotgun house in West Dallas. AfterClyde moved out on his own, his dad, Henry, received an insurance settlement and decided to open a filling station with the money.

He put some mules to work and moved the little house to what was thenEagle Ford Road, now Singleton Boulevard, a few blocks away.

MarieBarrow, Clyde’s younger sister, was sitting in her room as it went down the road, says Bonnie &Clyde expert Ken Holmes.

TheBarrows lived and worked there for many years.

In October 1938, someone threw a Molotov cocktail on the roof of the building. It was the second time the home had been bombed. Police accused S.J. “Baldy” Whatley, whom a newspaper reporter described as a “23-yearold Dallas hoodlum.”

Whatley and the Barrows, especially

Clyde’s younger brother L.C. Barrow, had been feuding for some time.

On Sept. 4, 1938, someone fired shotgun blasts into the filling station late at night and injured Clyde’s 65-year-old mother, Cumie. And a week before the second bombing, Clyde’s dad, Henry, had found an unexploded stick of dynamite outside his window.

Even after all those attacks, the Barrow filling station still stands. On a visit there recently, the front door swung open in the wind, burn marks still visible.

Holmes doesn’t like to talk about ghosts ever since a TV program tried to get him to muse on the ghosts ofBonnie & Clyde several years ago. He thinks it’s a lot of hooey.

But the Barrow family filling station still seems creepy.

“I guess it must be. You keep saying that,” he says. “There’s nothing spooky about it, I don’t guess.”