The Hotel Wooten is located in downtown Abilene, Texas, United States at 1102 North 3rd Street.This graceful 16-story tower was built at the corner of North 3rd and Cypress Street in 1930 by local business man H.O.With its massive blue and red neon sign atop its roof, the hotel was visible for miles on the flat Texas plains, particularly at night.In response to the growing indecency of the Wooten corner (variously nicknamed "Ankle Acre," "Bloomers Block," and "Wooten's Whoopsy-Daisy"), the Abilene city council resurrected an antique city ordinance which forbade the ogling of unescorted ladies, but which failed to settle the legal status of wind.It became notorious for the chunks of masonry and debris that would often rain down on unsuspecting pedestrians below as it crumbled beneath the west Texas sun.
