What do you remember?

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

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



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.)

We considered the Delman and the Will Rogers as suburban theatres! There was a cool men's store across the street in a strip center called Exodus. Barely remember Lakeside, but the paddle boats were there till the early seventies. Did you ever go south to Skyline Fun Spot? Great coaster. Downtown had a Crown drugstore that was popular.
[/quote] Anyone remember The Continental? It was a huge 1-screen theater that sat just east of the hotel on the southeast corner there (name escapes me) where the BA and I-44 intersect. I believe there's a medical center there now. I saw "The Blue Max", "The Sand Pebble" and other great movies there. I guess the timing was pretty bad to build a theater like that, as multi-screen theaters came along not too long after.

[TTownGen4]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

Earlier in this string, someone mentioned remembering Lewis Meyer.  You ever see those new commercials for Six Flags?  The old bald guy they have as their "spokesperson" bears an uncanny resemblance to the late Mr. Meyer.

I'm told Lewis Meyer lived in the house at the corner of 20th street and Peoria (east side of Peoria).
The house faces north and when it was built, it was done so under a tent so as to be a total surprise (I guess) when finished. I think it was featured in some national publications.

[LizaQ]

Does anyone remember the name of the nice clothing store that was in the Shops at the Forum (old downtown skating rink)? It was upstairs and was an upsale clthing store.

[Ttowndad]

quote:Originally posted by LizaQ

Does anyone remember the name of the nice clothing store that was in the Shops at the Forum (old downtown skating rink)? It was upstairs and was an upsale clthing store.

I think there was a Casual Corner there.  Also a Magic Pan restaurant (my girlfriend worked there)and a Swensons Ice Cream.

[mrburns918]

quote:Originally posted by LizaQ

Does anyone remember the name of the nice clothing store that was in the Shops at the Forum (old downtown skating rink)? It was upstairs and was an upsale clthing store.

I believe it was Connelly's. It took up half the floor, great clothes.

Mr. Burns

[TTownGen4]

Oh no! They're demolishing Sheridan Village! We lived 2 blocks from there and walked to TG&Y and Borden's a lot. Many happy memories there.[]

[jkeyeser]

I just spent a bunch of time reading this thread and it was a good read.  I was born in Tulsa in '74 and left in '97.  I grew up in Rose Dew (161st East Avenue and Admiral area).  The Catoosa tornado missed the house by less than a half-mile.  I remember when 193rd and Admiral wasn't the zoo it is now.  I worked at Harden's Chicken for a few years near that intersection.  Someone mentioned in a htread way back about how east Tulsa was supposed to be the place to live.  How wrong did that turn out to be? The ol' neighborhood looks so trashy compared to when I grew up there.   I can't remember if my house was a model home for the neighborhood or an exact duplicate.  

Some things remembered in this thread I remember...other I don't really. I remember old Hwy 33 when it actualy went through Inola and the old Dan P Holmes commercials.  If I recall...we had a neighbor at the family lake house on Lake Hudson.  Her husband was killed on old 33 in a head-on.  I remember when 169 ended at either at 71st for years.  I remember when Eastland Mall was a sitting shell for quite a while.  I vaguely remember the 11st St Drive In at Mingo.  I can't rmember if we actually went to a movie there or not...although I do remmber going to see ET and the Outsiders at the Admiral Twin.  I remember when they filmed the bar scenes at the old house at the top of the hill of the 'hood.  We went up there to watch and visit with the pople who owned it.  We never saw any of the actors though.  My grandparents lived near 61st and Yale and I have pics of their house from back in the late 50s when not much was out there. Here is a little history involvingg my family in the area.  My great-grandmother (the Graves family) had the original farm land where the Memorial Drive Church at 15th is.  She donated part of the land for the church.  Her house was there until she died in the early '70s.  It is where Scott's Camper Sales is now.  My dad stepmother's family also owned the land where Woodland Hills mall is located.  I think the house was about where Sears is. My dad used to love living there. He used to wait for the school bus in a bar on the corner.  

I am sure I will come up with more memories to share down the road.

[sauerkraut]

quote:Originally posted by LizaQ

Does anyone remember the name of the nice clothing store that was in the Shops at the Forum (old downtown skating rink)? It was upstairs and was an upsale clthing store.

The rink in the BOK Tower basement had alot of shops, they had a good ice cream/snack shop, and a book store and tons of other shops.. I don't recall any clothing store but it would not surprise me if they had one there. I did go to the BOK bank in the 1st floor lobby many times many years ago. I gave one of the tellers there some roses once and we talked about going out on a date. He name was Susan.[^]

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by sauerkraut

quote:Originally posted by LizaQ

Does anyone remember the name of the nice clothing store that was in the Shops at the Forum (old downtown skating rink)? It was upstairs and was an upsale clthing store.

The rink in the BOK Tower basement had alot of shops, they had a good ice cream/snack shop, and a book store and tons of other shops.. I don't recall any clothing store but it would not surprise me if they had one there. I did go to the BOK bank in the 1st floor lobby many times many years ago. I gave one of the tellers there some roses once and we talked about going out on a date. He name was Susan.[^]

The clothing store was Conally's as previously mentioned.  I also remember an Elephant Trunk luggage/leather, a great tobacco/pipe/cigar shop, the Magic Pan, but I most miss the Cinema, the last great single screen Cinemascope theater in Tulsa.
Too bad the Forum shops/rink does not survive today.  With current interest in downtown residential and redevelopment, maybe it was just 20 years ahead of its time.

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