Ashmore Valero (Errol Flynn's Boat)

A small wooden boat once owned by Errol Flynn, parked inside a working gas station

The Ashmore Valero on the east side of town is, on paper, a perfectly ordinary convenience store with pumps out front and rolling racks of motor oil inside. The reason to stop is the small wooden runabout displayed in the middle of the floor, which once belonged to Errol Flynn.

There is no admission charge, no ticket booth, no plaque trumpeting it as a tourist attraction. You walk in, fill up, and there is the boat. It is exactly the kind of small American oddity that makes a drive across Oklahoma worthwhile.

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The boat is a small wooden runabout that once belonged to the swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn. After Flynn's death in 1959 it passed through several owners before ending up in the showroom of a McAlester gas station, where it sits under fluorescent lights between the coolers and the chip rack.

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