The World’s Richest Acre

After leaving Austin Leslie and I drove out to East Texas where a friend of ours owns a few mom and pop movie theaters. The one we visited, Four Star Cinema, is located in Kilgore, Texas, home of the world’s richest acre. In the 1930’s a man discovered oil on a 1.2 acre piece of land in downtown Kilgore. That man is now richer than God. The acre had so much oil beneath it that the original oil derricks were built in a criss-cross pattern to squeeze a few extra derricks on the small piece of land. They have recreated the area with steel derricks because the old wooden ones rotted away.


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Unfortunately there isn’t much else going on in Kilgore because it was a boom town and there were a lot more booms that followed Kilgore. Some of the old theaters are just begging to be rejuvenated…

And the rest is history.