What do you remember?

[Breadburner]

I remember my older brother taking me to the Christmas Parade downtown in the early seventies...I must have been around 4 or 5...It was very cold so aftewards he took me to Ike's chili house...I think I ate a bowl of chili and maybe some of a cinnamon roll...I promptly went home and began to vomit...My mom was ready to ring my brothers neck and I didn't eat chilli again until I was 16.....

[USRufnex]

...My grandpa drove me downtown at night in his '57 chevy to see the Christmas lights every year... grandpa also took me down the street to the "Burger Chef" at Admiral between Memorial and Sheridan for burger and fries... or at the A&W for a teeny burger...

...listening to TU's baseball team in the college world series against Southern Cal...

...sitting on the hood of an Opel(?) at the Admiral Twin... and playing on the playground  there before it got dark...

...oh, and the first opera I ever paid money to go see... Don Carlos in the 80s before the oil "bust"... Ed Purrington's Tulsa Opera  cast included Tatiana Troyanos, Sam Ramey, Rosalind Plowright................. and appearing in a fire engine red inquisitor's outfit...... Jerome Hines... quite an entrance... had no idea how incredible that cast was until years later...

[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..

[pmcalk]

Swensons--that brings back great memories.  My grandparents lived near Utica Square, and my sister, cousin & I use to walk there.  One time, we only had enough for one dip of ice cream.  We asked the waitress for three spoons & one dip.  She said she knew what it was like to have to share with family, and gave us three scoops.

We tried the same tactic many times after that; unfortunately, it never worked again--we always did know how to push our luck.

[billintulsa]

Swensons!  Now THERE'S a name I haven't head n a while.  I used to work downtown and everyday for lunch I would go ice skating at the Williams Center, and follow it up with a visit to Swensons before I went back to work.  This went on every weekday for about two years.

[RLitterell]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

quote:Originally posted by RLitterell

Man-O-Man... I found this page after Googling "Clarkes Good Clothes" My Mother, who is dying of cancer at age 79, worked there and I was looking for anything she might enjoy reading. She also worked at Siedenbachs (Spelling?) Dept. Store, downtown. I remember all of these places mentioned here. Mom and I would catch the bus at Chrystal City Shopping Center and ride downtown for lunch at Skaggs, then shop at the stores like Brown-Duncan, Frougs and others. We might eat at the Coney Island also.
My Dad worked at Colonial Furniture on Harvard at about 31st. There was a school across the street. I think it is a hardware store now. We would pick him up from work, everyone only had one car back then, and stop a few doors down at a bakery for fresh bread. I would ride with Daddy on Saturdays to pay bills, places like Otasco, The H&E market, and a little place called Nelson Electric, a store in Chrystal City that sold electrical stuff, you could pay your utility bills there .I am so glad I found this site. I live in Memphis now and really miss Tulsa. I haven't lived there in over 30 years, I think I may just cry.

Glad you found us!  

Remember - you don't leave Tulsa because you grow old, you grow old because you leave Tulsa.

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[] Thanks so much. I have so enjoyed browsing around here and I have added it to my favs list. I was born in the old Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in 1958. Reading these posts has flooded my brain with things I haven't thought of in years. After joining the Navy I never lived in Tulsa again. I visit once a year when I can. My son and his family live in the house I grew up in on the west side.
Does anyone remember Penningtons Drive in on Peoria? They had the best Malts and Shakes around. I think we called Peoria "the restless ribbon". It was the place to go on Friday and Saturday nights. Oh how we burned up that cheap gas. What about the old mansion on Memorial that was turned into a haunted house at Halloween. Is it still there? [?] Or the Glider Roller Rink on Skelly, west of the river? I could go on and on.... Thanks again and I look forward to reading and posting here in the future.

[RLitterell]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

...My grandpa drove me downtown at night in his '57 chevy to see the Christmas lights every year... grandpa also took me down the street to the "Burger Chef" at Admiral between Memorial and Sheridan for burger and fries... or at the A&W for a teeny burger...

...listening to TU's baseball team in the college world series against Southern Cal...

...sitting on the hood of an Opel(?) at the Admiral Twin... and playing on the playground  there before it got dark...

...oh, and the first opera I ever paid money to go see... Don Carlos in the 80s before the oil "bust"... Ed Purrington's Tulsa Opera  cast included Tatiana Troyanos, Sam Ramey, Rosalind Plowright................. and appearing in a fire engine red inquisitor's outfit...... Jerome Hines... quite an entrance... had no idea how incredible that cast was until years later...

Ah yes, the Christmas lights downtown. Mom and Dad would take me Downtown every year to see them too!!!( we had a 55 Crown Vic, you could see the lights through the roof) And the Admiral Twin... I used to work there!!!

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by RLitterell

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

quote:Originally posted by RLitterell

Man-O-Man... I found this page after Googling "Clarkes Good Clothes" My Mother, who is dying of cancer at age 79, worked there and I was looking for anything she might enjoy reading. She also worked at Siedenbachs (Spelling?) Dept. Store, downtown. I remember all of these places mentioned here. Mom and I would catch the bus at Chrystal City Shopping Center and ride downtown for lunch at Skaggs, then shop at the stores like Brown-Duncan, Frougs and others. We might eat at the Coney Island also.
My Dad worked at Colonial Furniture on Harvard at about 31st. There was a school across the street. I think it is a hardware store now. We would pick him up from work, everyone only had one car back then, and stop a few doors down at a bakery for fresh bread. I would ride with Daddy on Saturdays to pay bills, places like Otasco, The H&E market, and a little place called Nelson Electric, a store in Chrystal City that sold electrical stuff, you could pay your utility bills there .I am so glad I found this site. I live in Memphis now and really miss Tulsa. I haven't lived there in over 30 years, I think I may just cry.

Glad you found us!  

Remember - you don't leave Tulsa because you grow old, you grow old because you leave Tulsa.

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[] Thanks so much. I have so enjoyed browsing around here and I have added it to my favs list. I was born in the old Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in 1958. Reading these posts has flooded my brain with things I haven't thought of in years. After joining the Navy I never lived in Tulsa again. I visit once a year when I can. My son and his family live in the house I grew up in on the west side.
Does anyone remember Penningtons Drive in on Peoria? They had the best Malts and Shakes around. I think we called Peoria "the restless ribbon". It was the place to go on Friday and Saturday nights. Oh how we burned up that cheap gas. What about the old mansion on Memorial that was turned into a haunted house at Halloween. Is it still there? [?] Or the Glider Roller Rink on Skelly, west of the river? I could go on and on.... Thanks again and I look forward to reading and posting here in the future.

Alas almost everything you mentioned is either gone or almost changed beyond recognition.

The hospital you were born in is now called Tulsa Regional Medical Center (incidentally, I was born in the same year at Hillcrest).

Penningtons closed their S. Peoria store years ago.

Kids now cruise along S. Memorial between 41st and 61st. (And they're paying a LOT more for gas then we did!)

The mansion you spoke of is now gone and a residential area is now in its place.

The Glider Roller Rink still stands, but I believe it is now being used as storage.

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Good thing we still have our memories!

[Vision 2025]

The telephone exchanges had names...Riverside, Luther, Webster,...

The Downtown establishments of Bishops and The Tulsa Club

Fikes Grocery Store at 51st & Lewis (where Parkhill's is)...when it closed my mother bought the butcher block from Mr. Fikes and my dad still has it!

[carltonplace]

My mom has the old grand piano from Central High auditorium downtown.

[Breadburner]

Anybody remember Sleepy Hollow......

[RLitterell]

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

Anybody remember Sleepy Hollow......

OK I am going out on a limb here. I sure remember the name. Was it a eatery that served a really good Chicken Fried Steak? I think it was on South Lewis. Maybe I am all wet.[]

[carltonplace]

Yes, it then became Oliver's and now a tex mex.

[pmcalk]

quote:Originally posted by RLitterell

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

...My grandpa drove me downtown at night in his '57 chevy to see the Christmas lights every year... grandpa also took me down the street to the "Burger Chef" at Admiral between Memorial and Sheridan for burger and fries... or at the A&W for a teeny burger...

...listening to TU's baseball team in the college world series against Southern Cal...

...sitting on the hood of an Opel(?) at the Admiral Twin... and playing on the playground  there before it got dark...

...oh, and the first opera I ever paid money to go see... Don Carlos in the 80s before the oil "bust"... Ed Purrington's Tulsa Opera  cast included Tatiana Troyanos, Sam Ramey, Rosalind Plowright................. and appearing in a fire engine red inquisitor's outfit...... Jerome Hines... quite an entrance... had no idea how incredible that cast was until years later...

Ah yes, the Christmas lights downtown. Mom and Dad would take me Downtown every year to see them too!!!( we had a 55 Crown Vic, you could see the lights through the roof) And the Admiral Twin... I used to work there!!!

This is downtown from the 1960s, I believe.  Not the best picture, but the best I could find.

[Vision 2025]

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

Anybody remember Sleepy Hollow......

Best biscuts and gravy with pan fired chicken on earth!  How about The Country Fair on harvard...my first real job!