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There seems to be a second Nelson's location now open at about 45th & Memorial.

Say Whaaaat?

Which side of the road?

East. Just north of the car lot (Drivetime?)

Used to be Betty Anne's

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4500+S+memorial+tulsa&hl=en&ll=36.098523,-95.885979&spn=0.003482,0.004823&client=firefox-a&hnear=4500+S+Memorial+Dr,+Tulsa,+Oklahoma+74145&t=h&z=18&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=36.098791,-95.886596&panoid=DmVerIN67on8HGtOqGnnvw&cbp=12,86,,1,1.05

They have been looking for a spot for sometime....I would not be suprised to see a Brookside location added.....

I didn't realize they were doing that well already.  I thought from talking to Stephen and Barry that business was still a little hit or miss.  My bad.

Gotta give props to them, they have brought back a "brand" that was histrocial..I have eaten there twice..

1. Bad Slow Service
2. Food is very very...well average.
3. Pies are...average
4. The food is canned(beans etc) average rolls, over breaded chicken fried everything...
5. I have driven by when looking for lunch options and have passed them by..but I assume that I am in the minorty, most people in Tulsa have a lower quality food tolerance than I do I think, so they might do well in a few other places but I for one don't frequent their place.

Canned green beans <*shudder*>

(http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/hillary-beneath-me.jpg)

Hillary's right though...I've been once.  I've never gone back.

The lunch lady makes the same food.

¿You're expecting above average from a place calls itself a "buffeteria"?

No, just average or close to it.

It's open apparently.

Per Tulsa food blog FB post.

And the one on 3rd street is now closed. Tried to go there for lunch last week and there was a sign saying to go the Memorial location.

Can't say that I blame them.  I don't know how the Memorial location looks but the 3rd street location was not pretty.

Another example of someone slapping lipstick on a concept that was fine in the 30's, 40's 50's and not sure if they used all canned products and boxes gravy etc...plus I can assume at that time their location which was downtown was a good fit at that time for foot traffic...but I just don't see them sticking out as a destination at 44th and memorial? I've gone a few times and while the food was "okay" it wasn't something I talked about the next day or a week later to anyone thinking "hey lets make a trip and go eat at Nelson's"....now it will be even less of a chance of that....

Odd move, they where busy anytime they where open from downtown and the neighborhood around them. Most have lost the lease or something.

I used to eat there very regularly in late '60s and through most of the '70s when I worked downtown.  Chicken fried steak was exceptional.  Have tried this version and couple of times, and even with the "glow" of fond memories, it was only 'ok'.  Sadness.



Savoy Restaurant was downtown, too, when I was there and was a place I went to several times a week, starting in 1969.  Sparky, I think was the old cooks name then, was a role model for me - I wanted to be a cantankerous old fart just like him when I grow up.  Getting close...

Kelamis (sp?) family are wonderful people and the new place on south Sheridan (new....LOL...it has been there a long time...) is one I still enjoy, even if I don't get there as often as I would like.  Love the meatloaf!

Years ago my Mother was a secretary at Standard Oil of Indiana and worked in what is now the IBM Building on Boston.  She loved Nelson’s and ate lunch there often.  I can remember her taking me there to initiate me.  I had fond memories of Nelson’s until I returned to Tulsa as an adult and learned that the man who yelled out Chicken Fry was an arch conservative and would also carry on loudly about his political beliefs.  Oh well, I guess radical right wingers are just part and parcel of Tulsa.  God Bless them all.  Just the familiarity of it all is charming.  I have fond memories of just about everything downtown.  I played there when I was a kid living in Tracy Park.  Most of the people in my generation started out downtown.

Awwww..someone was slipping in a political jab...carry on with the real topic of this thread...mental illness shouldn't throw off a thread about greasy American food...

FWIW, that is why I stopped going to Nelson's back in the late 80's when I worked downtown. The food was standard fare from the 50's and nothing to keep me coming back when combined with people blurting out political crap.