W S Kelly General Merchandise is a photograph by Paul Quinn which was uploaded on March 4th, 2017.
W S Kelly General Merchandise
I traveled 2 hours to the middle of nowhere to find this place. Even with modern GPS and Google maps, I still had a difficult time finding this... more
by Paul Quinn
Title
W S Kelly General Merchandise
Artist
Paul Quinn
Medium
Photograph
Description
I traveled 2 hours to the middle of nowhere to find this place. Even with modern GPS and Google maps, I still had a difficult time finding this place. To say this is in the middle of nowhere is an understatement. The small town of Cogar Oklahoma was established in 1902 and sits in an unincorporated area in Caddo County. Cogar lost it's post office in 1954 and has been dead ever since.
In 1988, the town made a huge, but short, resurgence in relevance when a scene from the movie Rain Man starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, was filmed here.
Since then, not much has changed. The pumps of the old W.S. Kelly gas station and general store, are still abandoned and waiting for their next customer. Today, Cogar sits pretty much as it has for many years, unused and just a small blip on the radar. It's a 2-way stop sign, one building, no-where-man's land, type of place.
I felt processing the image in this "grungy" or "zombie-like" manner only accentuated the beauty of this desolate and dead old gas station and general store.
As featured in the following FAA groups:
Rural Decay and Deterioration March 5, 2017
HDR Photography March 5, 2017
Life After Humans March 5, 2017
ABC Group July 14, 2017
Out of the Ordinary August 12, 2018
Abandoned February 4, 2019
Uploaded
March 4th, 2017
