What do you remember?

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

Uncola card:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/uncola.html

[]HA!  

I had a feeling that you would probably have an image of this!

[TulsaTV]

Yep, and here's that Lewis Meyer "sex manual":

http://tulsatvmemories.com/meyer.html#sex

[Hometown]

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

I believe the closing for Lewis Meyer was "the more you read, the taller you grow."  My grandmother graduated from highschool with him.  She always talked as though she knew a world-famous celebrity.

Does anyone remember a place called The Open Door on Cherry Street--late 70's, early 80's?  We use to go there often in high school.

No but how about The Free Store, a place for flower children to hang out near a little park that was destroyed for the freeway near Boston Avenue Methodist Church (around 13th and Cincinnati I believe).  A middle aged religious man ran it in the late 60s.

[Rico]

One of my first memories of Tulsa was driving up Denver and seeing this... Not too long ago and not too far away....  She sold the place for $350K....... Who knows, might have received that much for the artwork on ebay.

Denver Grill


[8D]

[waterboy]

Here's one. Pure Milk drive up stores in the 60's. Buildings shaped like milk cartons that sold dairy products. The clerk ran out to your car to take the order and retrieve it for you. Long lines of cars at 5-8pm each evening. They had the amazing coin operated rotating vending machines for after hours purchases of ice cream, milk, juice.

Maybe the forerunners of Braums, they were prone to vandalizm. Found out years later there had been a glut of dairy production and the milk association hastily put these up all over the country. In France they just dump it in the street!

Milk was .19 gallon and ice cream was .85 gallon. TulsaTV have any pictures?

[Hometown]

Sparky's graveyard on the way to Jenks.  Tulsa teenagers went there to park.  Sparky was a psychotic murderer / graveyard caretaker who would dash out of the trees with an ax and behead the unlucky teenager who was slow to get away.  I never saw Sparky and I admit that he might have been an urban legend.

[TulsaTV]

Pure Milk kiosk:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb121202.html#superman

[billintulsa]

Does anyone else remember "The Red Rat?"  If memory serves, that was the name of a small roller coaster which used to be at Bells.

[TulsaTV]

How about the "Mad Mouse"?

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

How about the "Mad Mouse"?

[:I]  That's it!!!  Thanks --- I can sleep tonight.

[Hometown]

If you can survive socialization in Tulsa you can survive anything
There was one murder in Lortondale II where I did some growing up
We didn't lock the house during the day and we always left the car unlocked
Tulsa Public Schools' mandatory trip to the opera
Weekly Reader
Posture pictures
Dodge ball
Smoke hole
All Souls Unitarian Church and their civil rights march in the 60s
Segregation on the buses
Neighbor for Neighbor
The neighborhoods of empty houses (all gone now) that had been bought out for the Broken Arrow Expressway
Fights after school
Bell Bottoms
Hip Huggers
Cruising Brookside
Girls with straight long hair split down the middle
The heavy weight of conformity
The White Panthers
No homelessness
The shag
The jerk
The mashed potato
Greasers and Soches (need help with spelling soches)
Instead of neighborhoods, we had school districts.  Mine was Hale
Sweet 16
Freaks and the Pigs
Liberal Religious Youth
Socialites
The big fat black AT&T telephones that never broke?  
Did Tulsa have any unique telephone exchanges?  I remember LU[ther] and WE[bester]

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

I believe the closing for Lewis Meyer was "the more you read, the taller you grow."  My grandmother graduated from highschool with him.  She always talked as though she knew a world-famous celebrity.

Does anyone remember a place called The Open Door on Cherry Street--late 70's, early 80's?  We use to go there often in high school.

No but how about The Free Store, a place for flower children to hang out near a little park that was destroyed for the freeway near Boston Avenue Methodist Church (around 13th and Cincinnati I believe).  A middle aged religious man ran it in the late 60s.

I REMEMBER THAT!!!!  I went to Horace Mann Junior High School and I skipped school there on more than one occasion.  (Blush!)

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

We didn't lock the house during the day and we always left the car unlocked
Tulsa Public Schools' mandatory trip to the opera
Weekly Reader
Posture pictures
Dodge ball
Smoke hole
All Souls Unitarian Church and their civil rights march in the 60s
Segregation on the buses
Neighbor for Neighbor
The neighborhoods of empty houses (all gone now) that had been bought out for the Broken Arrow Expressway
Fights after school
Bell Bottoms
Hip Huggers
Cruising Brookside
Girls with straight long hair split down the middle
The heavy weight of conformity
The White Panthers
No homelessness
The shag
The jerk
The mashed potato
Greasers and Soches (need help with spelling soches)
Instead of neighborhoods, we had school districts.  Mine was Hale
Sweet 16
Freaks and the Pigs
Liberal Religious Youth
Socialites
The big fat black AT&T telephones that never broke?  
Did Tulsa have any unique telephone exchanges?  I remember LU[ther] and WE[bester]

One of my earliest memories was riding the bus downtown with my mother to visit my childhood dentist, Dr. Caudill on Boston Ave.  I remember mom telling me we don't sit in the back because that was for "colored people."
I remember the posture pictures, dodge ball (we used to call it "bombardment" at Whitney Jr. High), and girls literally ironing their hair straight with a clothes steam iron.
Tulsa's old phone exchanges I remember:
Temple (83)
National (62)
Webster (93)
Riverside (74)
Luther (58)
Hickory (44)
General (43)
Yea, those old phones were indestructable.  You can still find them today in thrift stores and with plug adapters, they almost always still work!

[Hometown]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

We didn't lock the house during the day and we always left the car unlocked
Tulsa Public Schools' mandatory trip to the opera
Weekly Reader
Posture pictures
Dodge ball
Smoke hole
All Souls Unitarian Church and their civil rights march in the 60s
Segregation on the buses
Neighbor for Neighbor
The neighborhoods of empty houses (all gone now) that had been bought out for the Broken Arrow Expressway
Fights after school
Bell Bottoms
Hip Huggers
Cruising Brookside
Girls with straight long hair split down the middle
The heavy weight of conformity
The White Panthers
No homelessness
The shag
The jerk
The mashed potato
Greasers and Soches (need help with spelling soches)
Instead of neighborhoods, we had school districts.  Mine was Hale
Sweet 16
Freaks and the Pigs
Liberal Religious Youth
Socialites
The big fat black AT&T telephones that never broke?  
Did Tulsa have any unique telephone exchanges?  I remember LU[ther] and WE[bester]

One of my earliest memories was riding the bus downtown with my mother to visit my childhood dentist, Dr. Caudill on Boston Ave.  I remember mom telling me we don't sit in the back because that was for "colored people."
I remember the posture pictures, dodge ball (we used to call it "bombardment" at Whitney Jr. High), and girls literally ironing their hair straight with a clothes steam iron.
Tulsa's old phone exchanges I remember:
Temple (83)
National (62)
Webster (93)
Riverside (74)
Luther (58)
Hickory (44)
General (43)
Yea, those old phones were indestructable.  You can still find them today in thrift stores and with plug adapters, they almost always still work!

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.

[Steve]

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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.