If you love beautiful older homes with a unique frame setting as much as I do,  you will spend hours just cruising up and down the streets to discover treasure after treasure.  Today's Purcell is a delightful mesh of homes and businesses stamped with a thousand different personalities.  Everything was "Blend it in" or "Leave it like it is" antique until the 1950s. 

Then there was a mistaken surge of "TEAR IT DOWN AND MODERNIZE IT!" mood that swept the area. 

Some streets that had lasted fifty years were torn up or paved over just so Purcell streets could look like replicas of what you could see in New Yorik CD. 

Not every building here is an antique of course.  Over towards the freeway there is a neighborhood known as The Cliffs.  Homes there begin at about $150,000 and some will easily exceed $400,000.   On past that are farms and ranches where the same kind of money does its talking. 

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The City of Purcell owns and maintains all the power lines in town.  It used to be, way back in the 1920s somewhere, Purcell manufactured its own electricity from a four cylinder generator.  Today Purcell buys electricity in bulk and then distributes to its citizens.  But just in case there ever is a power outage that four cylinder generator is kept ready to kick in.  Each cylinder of that generator is eight feet in diameter, enough for a husky foot ball player to stretch out on.

Purcell sits right on the bank of the South Canadian River
Usually only a trickle where small children frolic in the sand
Here it is during the second flood of 07

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Dining

Bravo's has easy access from the freeway.  It's on the right hand side, past the first stoplight and half way before the second.  The physical address is 1526 S. Green Avenue and the phone number is 405 527-7705. 

The parking is inadequate at present but is being worked on.  This is a Mexican Restaurant with a staff of one dozen.  The food here is not Tex-Mex, but the cuisine is from northern Mexico.  All of the staff can speak Spanish, and all of the staff speaks English.  If you begin ordering in Spanish they will do their best to use only those words you already know.

When you walk in there are smiles everywhere.  That is their chief form of decoration. Their biggest draw is food, lots of food.  Their juevos rancheros tastes just like it does a few miles south of the border.  El Vaquero is a thick, tender, grilled steak with melted cheese on top and served with pico de gallo, guacamole, rice and beans served on a plate that is HOT to the touch and keeps the food warm until you are hot. 

Besides Mexican dishes by the dozen, Bravo's offers seafood, salads, appetizers, and strictly American Dinners.  The highest priced item I saw on the menu was $12.95 for Bistek Ranchero.  This is definitely a DO IT AGAIN restaurant and you'll bring your best friends with you when you come.

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Mazzio's is way on the other end of town, out past the high school.  This is an Italian eatery.  It provides a distinctive cuisine of discovery.  Parking is great, decorations inside meld right in with the Italian atmosphere.

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Right in the middle of town is Carl's Jr.  It looks the same as any other Carl's Jr. in the state, but from the moment you walk in you realize it is just a tad better than the "THIS IS GREAT" that you expected.  I think what makes them stand out is the extra effort to make sure you do enjoy what you ordered.

There are other dining opportunities scattered throughout town.  Some of them are virtually hidden treasures and the only way to find them is to ask someone that grew up in Purcell.

Oh, there's a McDonald's down there close to the southernmost freeway ramp.

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