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My Life with Bonnie & Clyde
by Blanche Caldwell Barrow  In
1932-33
Blanche, widow of Clyde Barrow's older
brother, Buck, worked as a beautician at the
Cinderella Beauty Shoppe at
430 W. Sears (on the corner at Fannin Ave) for
about a year, early 1932 - early 1933. The
shop was owned by Blanche's sister-in-law,
Artie Winkler, oldest sister of the Barrow
brothers. Google shows it to be a vacant lot now, with
only a set of concrete "steps to nowhere" to
indicate that a house was once there.
 The Cinderella Beauty Shoppe 430 West Sears Street December 1932 from Barrow, Blanche Caldwell. My Life with Bonnie & Clyde (University of Oklahoma Press, 2004) Blanche recounts the spring day in 1933 when she walked from the shop to the post office and, along the way, passed a Western Union boy on his bicycle. She learned a short time later that he was delivering a telegram from the just-pardoned Buck, who wrote, "Baby, I'll be home to you as soon as I can get there." True to his word, he and a third Barrow brother arrived in Denison early the following morning to take Blanche back to Dallas. On May 23, 1934, Bonnie & Clyde met their destiny at the hands of the FBI and Texas Rangers. Clyde's sister, Artie toured Texas theaters with the sister of Bonnie Parker, beginning less than a month after Bonnie & Clyde were killed.  After working at her sister-in-law's beauty shop, Blanche had an adventure that ended with her serving six years in a Missouri state prison. Shortly after her release, she was rumored to have returned to Denison in search of a job. That rumor was the subject of at least one editorial comment in the local press.  Buck & Blanche   Grayson County Law Susan Hawkins ©2025 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |