What do you remember?

[mrburns918]

1.Being hearded into Helmut's Alpine Kitchen's kitchen during a tornado, helping myself to a piece of pie.

2. Seeing the face of a man who walked into the Stables only to see his sister dancing. He lost his mind.

3. Seeing the stars at Crystal's grand opening. I still have the poster.

4. My cousin setting the most purchased record at Peach's Records & Tapes. He bought every single Frank Zappa and Allman Bros 8 track.

5. Beth Rengal cussing on live TV. Nice!

6. Terry Young getting his arse handed to him by a sign company owner in the democratic primary.

7. Flipping mayo on people inside the Old Tyme Cinema. Give me a break I was sixteen at the time.

8. My first line of credit was at OTASCO. I bought a car stereo.

9. Tulsa University winning the N.I.T. Hey, that was a big deal back in the day!

10. I can think of a hundred other things. I love Tulsa.

Mr. Burns

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

Bombardment, man I dreaded bombardment.  And remember climbing that rope and doing those chin-ups with every other boy in your class staring at you.  And being the last one picked for the softball team.  Talk about humiliation.  How did I survive it?

Wow, the old telephone exchanges!  You know Steve you have quite a memory, great attention to detail and you never overreach.

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Yes, I remember clearly things from 40 years ago, but can't remember what I had for dinner last night!!!
I have had many phone numbers in Tulsa over the years but the only one from the past that I remember is my childhood number, TE8-8332.  We had that number from 1961 to 1974.  I guess I still remember that because we had it so long, and it used to be a requirement for Tulsa schools kindergarten kids to know their phone number!  Any other alumni of the old John Paul Jones Elementary School out there?  I was in the kindergarten class when that school first opened in 1962.  The building is still there at 15th St. & 71st E Ave, but is no longer a public school.
I was always one of the last ones picked for teams in gym class too.  I remember during softball at Whitney, whenever I came to bat, all the outfielders would move in about 25 feet!  One day I took them all by surprise and hit a homerun, well over their heads.  That was a great feeling.

We (Burbank Cardinals) played you guys (62 - 66) in PeeWee baseball as I recall. Lanier had a pitcher that scared us to death - he threw really fast and wild and hit some of us. We also played Lindberg and St. Pious (sp?) and others I can't remember. Funny, but I remember my old phone number too  TE-65018 - that was 45 years ago!
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[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

Any one remember Charles Chips..They came in a can and I think they were delivered.....RI7-0081 was an old phone number I remember RI being Riverside....Jack Bright Tailors was a shop downtown then moved to the Farm shopping center.....I loved Looboyles....Southroads Cinema...The Coney Island at Southroads use to be out by it's self....Funway Freeway.....Swensons Ice Cream....Column and Boren was a sporting-goods store....Bud's Thift-T-Wise, before that it was Sam's...I could go on...O yes and Sambo's on 31st Richmond when Goldies was just a hole in the wall next door with a rock fountain...Next to Aqua-pets..

My grandparents got Charles Chips and Meadow Gold delivered milk and ice cream bars to their home too.

[TTownGen4]

There was a Ma Bell's restaurant on Yale near 51st and one out on Admiral past Sheridan for a while. Anyone remember Horn Brother's or Mink's furniture? Remember the Borden's on the second level of Sheridan Village? Tuesday night kid's special: drumstick, green beans, and jello.

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvet" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by billintulsa

I can't think of the name, but there was a restaurant downtown where you used a phone in the booth to place an order.  As I remember, it had two floors and they used a dumb waiter to transport the food upstairs.

When I worked downtown in the late '70s and '80s era, there was a restaurant like you described on the ground floor of the Mayo Building at 5th & Main, NW corner.  They had ground floor or mezzanine seating and the phones at the booths.  I think it may have been a Kings Food Host.  There used to be another Kings Food Host with the phone system around 31st & Sheridan; I can't recall the exact spot, but I do remember eating at the one downtown and the one on Sheridan.

Another place downtown that we used to eat lunch at back then was the Charl-Mont restaurant on the mezzanine of the Thompson Building at 5th and Boston, SW corner.  It used to be good but the food got really bad towards the end and the place folded sometime in the '80s.
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I remember the Charlmont. There was also a grill of some kind on the north side of fourth between Main and Boston. I also remember a place called The Libary(?) on 11th.

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

Anyone remember when Ambulances were Red and White Cadillac's......

I do - the service was owned by Pat Mace - a good friend of my grandfather's. Then EMSA came a long and took over. My grandfather was a Tulsa patrolman, then detective (45-48), then Police and Fire Commissioner (48 - 50) here. Man, did he have some stories! Especially about those murders that took place from 1945 throught 1948 or so. A guy would break into a lady's apartment and bludgeon them to death - don't think they ever really solved that one.

[dbacks fan]

quote:Originally posted by TTownGen4

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

Anyone remember when Ambulances were Red and White Cadillac's......

I do - the service was owned by Pat Mace - a good friend of my grandfather's. Then EMSA came a long and took over. My grandfather was a Tulsa patrolman, then detective (45-48), then Police and Fire Commissioner (48 - 50) here. Man, did he have some stories! Especially about those murders that took place from 1945 throught 1948 or so. A guy would break into a lady's apartment and bludgeon them to death - don't think they ever really solved that one.

Central Ambulance was the name of the service.

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by BASleuth

[}:)]I'm back, just set down and thought of some old places, gone but still remembered.  Silver Castle located in unit block of south lewis. Cox and Sons department store first located in Whitter Square then moved to Mayo Meadows. Foodtown Grocery and attacked cafe, Night manager was "Chester" located in the 2000 block of east 3rd, building still stands, but all three groceries in those two blocks, gone. Quaker Drug, remember the name and can see it, but can not recall exactly where it was located.Anyone remembers? Frank's Pigstand, 15th and Boston. The Hub at 11th and Boulder, while the Pig N Pen was located on Southwest Blvd, everyone knew "the tree" was located in Howard Park.  Have really been down memory lane this afternoon.

My grandma worked at the Quaker Drug somewhere near 18th and Boston in the 1930's. She used to go on dates to the the PigStand too.

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

quote:Originally posted by BASleuth

[]Earlier were you thinking of Taylor's bakery located in about 1300 block east 8th.

As a kid I lived close to there.  On cold winter mornings I used to walk past Taylor's on my way to Longfellow Elementary (where I proudly served as a Liutenant in the Safety Patrol), but the aromas floating from Taylor's almost made me late on many occasions.

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Thanks everyone for the wonderful memories.  Let's keep this thread going and keep Tulsa vibrant!

Anyone remember the aromas from Wonder Bread at 11th and Sheridan. Of course, they're still there but as Cub Scouts, we actually got to tour the place...Heaven!

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

Anyone remember going to see Richard DeLafont perform at the Captain's Cabin?

I do. He was amazing. A girl I knew cleaned the office building where he had an office. They had a nickname of some kind for him. Mr. Creepy or something like that.

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

quote:Originally posted by Steve

Hey Hometown!  How are you and Luis doing?  Give me a call sometime.

Does anyone else remember attending the Fall 1969 state 4A high school football championship game between the Nathan Hale Rangers and Booker T Washington Hornets at Skelly Stadium?  I was in 7th grade at Whitney Jr. High and attended the game with my parents.  My brother was in 11th grade at Hale and went with his friends.  That was back when 4A was the largest high school designation, back when high schools in Tulsa were 10-11-12 grade only and 2,300 kids roamed the halls of Nathan Hale.  That game set an attendance record at Skelly Stadium that stood for many years.  I don't remember much about the game itself, but I do remember the huge, sell-out crowd and the excitement of the event.

Washington and Hale were the real high school football powerhouses back then, and both were even when I graduated from Hale in 1975.

Hey Cuz, Good to hear from you. I'll give you a call soon. We were driving by Lortondale today and boy those houses look good.

You keep those memories coming Steve. By the way, what was the name of that menswear store at Utica Square and also Southroads Mall? They had such great clothes. Remember how Tulsa was kind of collegiate way back when? Tulsa has always had this low key, understated kind of style. Not counting our high water wheat straws.

I don't recall the name of the store, but I bought much of my 1970's garb at the store in Southroads on the lower level, tucked behind the stairwell.  I remember the store was immediately behind the stairs; there was a snack bar off to one side.  May have been Exodus Menswear.  Bought some great platform shoes there as well as tons of rayon shirts, polyester pants, remember Angel Flight slacks with the seams stitched in that you couldn't wrinkle if you put a 2 ton weight on top and held them in a press for 3 weeks!  
High water wheat jeans.  Remember Tuff Nut brand jeans advertised on TV by John Chick (Mr. Zing)?  Those were the major brand of wheat jeans I remember kids wearing back then.  Although I wasn't allowed to wear dungarees until 9th grade!  My mother thought they were to hoodie or "James Dean" delinquent, so I had to suffer through jr. high wearing chinos or khakis!  AHA!  The final piece of the puzzle!  No wonder I am so screwed up.  It was all my mother's fault!

That store was likely The Manhole (what a name!) - an extension of the Orbach's upstairs. I bought a lot of clothes there and met a lot of girls in that mall - those were the days!

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by TTownGen4

Anyone remember the aromas from Wonder Bread at 11th and Sheridan. Of course, they're still there but as Cub Scouts, we actually got to tour the place...Heaven!

I also toured the Wonder Bread factory in Cub Scouts; that must have been around 1965-1966, our den/pack was from John Paul Jones Elementary.  I remember the huge "dumpsters" full of bread dough in the rising phase.  Wonder Bread must have been a popular Scout field trip destination in the 1960's.

In Scouts, we also toured the Guy's Chips plant.  Wasn't that around 35th & Sheridan, where the BA XWay crosses Sheridan?  I remember that so well too, because they gave each of us Scouts about a dozen small bags of chips, crackers, and pretzels at the end of the tour.  "Don't forget the Guy's!"

[Steve]

Another very memorable Cub Scout field trip for me was when we got to go down and tour the 4th National Bank building at 6th & Boulder when it was under construction in 1966.  When completed in 1967, it was the tallest building in downtown Tulsa for several years.  The building had been topped out, and they took us to the top (32nd floor?) where it was still mostly just a structural steel skeleton with concrete floors.  Pretty cool to a 9 year old.

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

Wow!  You guys are really churning up some great memories.

I had completley forgotton about the Der Weinerschnitzels.  It's a shame they are no longer.

Also, the Circle Theatre was brought up.  Anyone else remember the Delman at 15th and Lewis?  It was a great theatre, too.

Also, does anyone else remember visiting Lakeside Amusement park?  It was located next to Mohawk Zoo.  (At the time Lakeside was open, the Zoo rented Paddle Boats which you could ide up and down the creek around the Zoo's north entrance.)

I remember the Delman and standing in line what seemed like forever in freezing weather to see "Toby Tyler". When we got to the ticket booth, it was sold out! I remember there was some bar and Massad's right behind or next to the theater too.

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by Porky

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Nine of Cups

http://tulsatvmemories.com/clubcard.html#nine

I noticed 2 other bars in your site that brought back good and bad memories.

Wiskers was a bar that attracked the purest of scum. nuff said.....

Reflections was awesome but not near as good as the bar it was, before Stan Frezby (ms) moved it. The orginal bar was called Tennesse Gin and Cotton. Stan always had away of keeping Tulsa up with the times of the east and west coast.

One night late into the evening at TGC, I saw Stan walking around talking to all of his employees. He had chartered a jet and was taking his employees to New Orleans that morning for breakfast.......what a class act Boss![8D]
[/quote] Speaking of singing celebrities, in the late 70's we went to the Harvard Towers Club at 51st and Harvard to see Gus Hardin. I had never seen her before but some guys in my group knew her. She came over to our booth after a set, was introduced to me, then she proceeded to lay a big kiss on me! I will never forget that - she was pretty wild!