Comments on: Meridian, OK – Ghost Town

By: nitajo

nitajo — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:38:29 +0000

omg I thought I was the only one who remembered the halloween partys at the church and playin on the propane tank.;.I love meridian and I've been here for my whole life!

By: Frances

Frances — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:42:56 +0000

I just went to the pot luck dinner tonight! It was alot of fun watching my daughters run around the old school like me and my brother used to do when we were that young. In that building, there were also the most amazing halloween parties, that my parents and I would help set up and fundraise for, it was such a big part of my childhood, yet I know nothing really about the town. We also used to have monthly country western dances in the gym, with a live band, I remember being really really young and going and dancing with all the grandpa types, and going outside and playing on the old propane tank every chance my brother and I could get. The month before the halloween party, I would dress up like a witch and sell those fabric scented roses as a fundraiser to buy prizes and new decorations for the party. great times!

By: Wayne Jones

Wayne Jones — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:11:12 +0000

My, Mom is one of the few Meridian School Graduates left around, someone should do interviews with some of our elders before its to late?

By: Gail

Gail — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:27:48 +0000

I shimmied up the tree and into the window of the house in the last few pictures this past weekend. It was definitely the neatest abandoned house i've been in because there were so many things still left lying around. I looked in the box on the dresser and there was tons of old jewelry and buttons and even some letters from 1966 written to a young girl named Jackie Bishop and I found her picture in an old yearbook in the house. I just thought you might be interested in knowing what i found inside.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 22 May 2010 07:49:55 +0000

Yeah I would like to know what happened? Why is it Abandoned?

By: Jo Dowdy

Jo Dowdy — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:14:56 +0000

Loved the pictures. I grew up in Guthrie and would often travel the back roads with my mother on our way somewhere. My grandparents lived in Coyle and we would often go on the dirt roads just to see old buildings. One day I did notice 2 Oklahoma Furniture trucks in the trees. I ask a old man (the only one I saw in the town) who owned the trucks and he said that he did. I paid him $10 to take one of the doors or air horn off so I would have a reminder of the truck that my daddy drove.(I have a picture of the truck with the same number on it, as one of the trucks that has almost rusted away) I would guess that the trucks are still there but I think that the old man maybe not.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:34:07 +0000

me and my dad wenht there and we did our investegaten wich I think the image on page 96 there is a image of a calender with a year on it wich was 1926. I think thatwas when most of the town was abandon are greatest find was a 1950 7 up soda bottle under a stiar case

By: J

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:02:27 +0000

I spent a good portion of my childhood around this town. My grandparents were both postmasters in Meridian and so were part of this nice little community. Why no pics of the stone school? It is a beautiful example of WPA work. I remember community pot-luck suppers there. It is by far the neatest building in town. If anyone wants to know anything about this town, I know some and my family knows a lot.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:58:19 +0000

hahahah Sara you're hilarious. Love ya!! Sure wish we would have known about this website back in the day!

By: Ninja

Ninja — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:31:15 +0000

I think they should do downtown Coyle as well. Alot of old abandon buildings and houses here.
Oh and the outskirts of Langston

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:23:04 +0000

Wow I live in Coyle which is a few miles east of Meridian but I've never explored there. I love old buildings and homes and have found some really neat ones around here. I will have to explore Meridian now. How do you find these places? Do you get permission to go inside? If so, how do you know who to contact? There's an awesome old farmhouse out here that I've gotten permission to explore but I'm waiting until fall when some of the vegetation and ticks die off!