Folks looking for work flocked to town and got stuck in an unprepared city's unpaved main street. And w allowing on muddy main became the stuff of legend. There are lots of stories about the boom years before the paved Main Street. But after 50 years, the oil boom fizzled into a bust. As you drive into Seminole these days you see hundreds of oil derricks, most not functioning.
Locals say there's still a lot of untapped oil but low prices are discouraging new wells.
Many descendants of the boomers are still here carrying on the tradition and hoping to survive tough times in a crude business.