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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1978
Page
75
In Midkiff the Hadacol Corner cafe gave way to Bob Whisnam’s Exxon service station as oil patch prosperity surged then faded. Veteran cafe owner Bob Calcote recalls moving from 1934 into a bustling enterprise that fed and housed oil workers, while the Longhorn Cafe nearby housed gamblers and bootleggers before the boom collapsed and urban decay set in.
Donald John Dardis known as Hadacol built a famed Midland oil patch outpost selling sandwiches at Hadacol Corner. A welder by trade he moved there in 1951, leasing property, hiring welders, and turning out hundreds of sandwiches daily before the cafe and gas station era faded. He reflects on a life in oil fields, politics, and civic work with Ola, his wife of decades.
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