These two signs say it all. Pithole was truly a flash in the pan, albeit a bright flash. An instant, hugely populated city, borne from the many oil well successes in the general Oil Creek area - here and bustling, but then gone. Over-drilling and fires quickly brought the end to the fortune and fame in this boom town.
Bill stands in front of what we affectionately refer to as "oil animals" (they seem so alive when they are busily pumping out in the fields!). Unfortunately, the museum building here was also closed on that day - so, poor Bill, no Pithole T-shirt...!
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