Comparing fantasy to reality will only equal depression.

Faye was so hot back then.

That's Nancy Drew in the bottom photo, with her beau encrypting code via an invisible ink tattoo gun.

I find the reality version a lot "hotter".

@3,

Exactly!

I think you just infinitely looped yourself there, Josh.

Who took the second photo?

Umm...maybe one of the other gang members took the photo?

Murder is so sexy, huh?

You sayin' it ain't nigga?

Putting quarters up your nose is sexy?

No, and nobody said it was. Putting quarters up your nose is FUNNY. Murder is neither. But at least if it ever happens to me I will be able to go to that hot place secure in the knowledge that someone once called me "nigga".

In the second photo -- if you ignore the guns -- they look like hungry North Koreans who've stumbled across an ant colony.

@6,

I don't know who took the photo. It's in a book that came out a in 2004 by Clyde's sister-in-law, Blanche Barrow (the character married to Gene Hackman in the movie version). Blanche Barrow died in 1988. The book was heavily edited and annotated by John Neal Phillips, a serious B & C historian.

The frustrating/tantalizing thing about the photo is that it shows up in the book when Blanche is talking about the famous Dexfield Park shoot out (this is where Buck Barrow is mortally wounded and Blanche is captured and B & C and W.D. Jones barely escape alive). So, the impression from the book is that the photo was taken during the gang's brief and infamous stint hiding out in the abandoned Dexfield Park field. (The photo is only credited as being from Phillips's Collection.)

And the caption seems intentionally deceptive. It simply says: "Bonnie and Clyde camped outdoors." And it's accompanied by a quote from Blanche: "We had wanted to leave the park that night."

So, was the photo taken at Dexfield? Well, if Blanche took it, it's not likely it was taken at Dexfield. She was seriously wounded (glass in her eye from a previous shoot out) during the gang's Dexfield Park reprieve.

I can only guess that Phillips got the photo from Blanche or perhaps from Ralph Fults (an early associate of B & C, and one of Phillips's most prominent sources).

And so, I imagine the photo was taken by Blanche Barrow or Ralph Fults during one of the hundreds of times the gang was just parked off-the-road somewhere hiding out. I'd guess it's more likely Blanche took the photo than Fults because B&C look ragged and about 24-years-old. Fults had been with them earlier when things weren't quite as desperate.

Hey Josh -- can I borrow that book?

There's a family legend that we're related to Bonnie Parker on my mother's side.

MM @ 14,

Yes. call me. I don't have your number.

Josh, Bonnie's legs look drawn up under her. Do you think that picture is after she got burned?

#14 my girlfriends related on the Barrows side. She's from Rochelle and Clyde i think is buried there.

My bad he's not Clive, his name is Clyde and he's a relative of Clive Barrows buried outside of Rochelle , Illinois. We went to visit her family last summer and visited the grave and they all swear its true, albeit it's interesting that the rest of the family have their own unique histories and stories of surviving the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era. Not B$C
family resorted to Bank Robbery and murder. Prohibiton wasn't a favorite time for them neither, and some used to run the White Lightnin. Thanks for sharing some facts with us Josh. I love the 30s, except for some of the Racism and hard times for minorities, and that fool Hitler.
Whatever happened to that comedy routine I love the 30s? They were funny.