What do you remember?

[USRufnex]

Whoa.  Angel Flight slacks?... used to wear those to church... if memory serves, got them as hand-me-downs when my rich-kid cousin from California refused to wear anything that wasn't "Hang Ten."

Tuff Nut jeans?  The kids wearing those were made fun of by the cool kids wearing "elephant bells"...

"Are you expecting a flood?" [}:)]

[Hometown]

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!

Oh, I think that wonderful menswear store was Orbachs.  Remember Orbachs.  Understated.  Top quality.  

Exodus had two locations.  One was in the strip mall across Yale from Southroads Mall.

Keep those memories coming Steve.  You have a great memory for details.

[art_cat]

as a kid of the 50's, i remember rallying around the daily ice-cream truck to get a popsicle[sp?] for a nickle, watching fireflys, and listening to crickets at night. sometimes we'd walk down to 11th street just to see the lights at night, and watch traffic wizz by. i remember shopping at brinlee's the neighborhood store on the corner of 11th and quaker, and how big it seemed to me! we used to pull our wagons up to 12th street and ride them down as far as they would go, about 3/4's of the way down the block. summers weren't as hot or as humid back then... our dad had a jeepster, and sometimes on weekend nights, he'd drive down boston with the top down, and we'd be amazed at the tall buildings of that era!

[billintulsa]

HA!  I Remember Brinlee's Grocery.  That's where I bought all of my Archie Comic books!  

I was only about 7 or 8 at the time.  My mom sent me to Brinlee's to buy some ceral.  I saw a shiny box called "Uncle Sam Cereal," so I bought it.  I didn't realize that it was actually a laxative.  

Mom never sent me to buy cereal again!

(p.s. I also remember spending summerc at Tracy park at 11th and Peoria.  That was back in the day when there was still a small swimming pool and the shelter was staffed by park employees.)

[art_cat]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

HA!  I Remember Brinlee's Grocery.  That's where I bought all of my Archie Comic books!  

I was only about 7 or 8 at the time.  My mom sent me to Brinlee's to buy some ceral.  I saw a shiny box called "Uncle Sam Cereal," so I bought it.  I didn't realize that it was actually a laxative.  

Mom never sent me to buy cereal again!

(p.s. I also remember spending summerc at Tracy park at 11th and Peoria.  That was back in the day when there was still a small swimming pool and the shelter was staffed by park employees.)

ah yes, the wading pools! and right up there with that memory are the elephant slides, those tall, tall swings, the pony swings, and those crazy go-rounds, where we'd all get so dizzy after about 20-30 revs, lol!

waterboy tried to convince me that 50's summers were just as hot as these current okie summers, but when you realize that 1) we had a nice intact o-zone, 2) far fewer drivers, 3) far fewer manufactured lakes, and therefore less humidity, I suggest that those summers where far milder than Tulsa's current summers. The o-zone actually protected us from this stinging heat!

I can also remember when all our shopping and doctor visits were Down Town! Ah, the good 'ol days, lol... There used to be X-Mas parades in DT Tulsa; are there still?

[BixB]

First job in 1978 at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips at 31st & Garnett.

Later worked at Looboyle's in the Forum 21 Mall when it was brand new, and at Checkers Restaurant inside the Vandever's Department Store at Southroads.

Butterfield's Overland Express restaurant in Fontana.  Also Swenson's Ice Cream there.

The big Continental Theater near 31st & Memorial.

Woodland Hills before the expansion, when the Piccadilly Cafeteria was at the end.

Eastland Mall when it was sitting half constructed for years with 20 ft. tall trees growing in the middle of it.

Hale-East Central Football games:  "BOMAR!"  "SOMDEC!"

Wishing I had the money to buy a Fiat Sport Spider from Chris Nikels Autohaus when it was on Harvard.

Molly Murphy's House of Fine Repute

20th Century Electric Company

Crystal's Pizza when it was still nice and they had the strolling magician and live piano music.  Best Canadian bacon pizza ever!

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by BixB

First job in 1978 at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips at 31st & Garnett.

Later worked at Looboyle's in the Forum 21 Mall when it was brand new, and at Checkers Restaurant inside the Vandever's Department Store at Southroads.

Butterfield's Overland Express restaurant in Fontana.  Also Swenson's Ice Cream there.

The big Continental Theater near 31st & Memorial.

Woodland Hills before the expansion, when the Piccadilly Cafeteria was at the end.

Eastland Mall when it was sitting half constructed for years with 20 ft. tall trees growing in the middle of it.

Hale-East Central Football games:  "BOMAR!"  "SOMDEC!"

Wishing I had the money to buy a Fiat Sport Spider from Chris Nikels Autohaus when it was on Harvard.

Molly Murphy's House of Fine Repute

20th Century Electric Company

Crystal's Pizza when it was still nice and they had the strolling magician and live piano music.  Best Canadian bacon pizza ever!

My first "real job" was also at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips, in 1973 at the store at 51st and Harvard. Leon Russell used to come in there quite often for his fish fix and Lemon Luv fried pies!

The Continental was a great theater.  Boman Twin was also great, even though it was Tulsa's first indoor multi screen, it still had huge screens and luxury type seating.  Boman also had one of Tulsa's only 70MM projection capability with 6-track surround sound back in the '60s and '70s.
 

[Steve]

Thanks for mentioning Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips; I worked there in high school from 1973 to early 1975.  

What happened to Arthur Treacher's in Tulsa?  There used to be about 6-8 of these around town, but I guess they went the way of Jack-In-The-Box (loved their tacos) in Tulsa, gone forever.  I have noticed several former Authur Treachers locations became Egg Roll Express.  The one I worked at back in the day at 51st & Harvard morphed into the Chilis restaurant.  I always loved Treacher's fish, pure cod filets, fried in their "secret batter" in pure peanut oil.  Had it all over LJS, Captain D, or any other fast food fish place.

I believe there are still some Arthur Treacher's restaurants around today, mostly on the east coast in the major metropolitan areas.  

[cks511]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

[]I grew up here in Tulsa, and as a child one of my fondest memories was the old downtown area.  I loved the hustle that downtown Tulsa once had.  The lights from the various theaters (family theaters at that) added to the overall excitement of a downtown scene which could have been the setting for a Thomas Kincaid painting.

Places like the old Rialto Theater, the Majestic; Kresses Department store and the like bring fond memories of a Tulsa which now exists only in my memories.

And who else remembers the old Continental Skating rink which used to be just west of Tracy Park on 11th street.  (When we were walking to the old Warehouse Market, my grandmother would wait while I peeked in through the windows to watch the kids roller skating.)

I would very much be interested to see what you guys remember way back "in the day."

The Mazeppa Show......LAWZEEE another gizzerblinky...or something like that...LOL

[okieinla]

quote:Originally posted by cks511

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

[]I grew up here in Tulsa, and as a child one of my fondest memories was the old downtown area.  I loved the hustle that downtown Tulsa once had.  The lights from the various theaters (family theaters at that) added to the overall excitement of a downtown scene which could have been the setting for a Thomas Kincaid painting.

Places like the old Rialto Theater, the Majestic; Kresses Department store and the like bring fond memories of a Tulsa which now exists only in my memories.

And who else remembers the old Continental Skating rink which used to be just west of Tracy Park on 11th street.  (When we were walking to the old Warehouse Market, my grandmother would wait while I peeked in through the windows to watch the kids roller skating.)

I would very much be interested to see what you guys remember way back "in the day."

The Mazeppa Show......LAWZEEE another gizzerblinky...or something like that...LOL

[] Yeah, Mazeppa Papazoidi (sp?)!
I remember the soda fountain at Walgreens in Southroads Mall, when it was open air. Best fresh strawberry pie!
Shaw's hamburgers, cruising Peoria, Pennington's Black Bottom Pie, Sparky's graveyard

[cks511]

OH MY...Sparky's. Went their one winter in a hearse full of friends packing a Ouija board.  While we were Ouija-ing, it snowed, hearse got stuck....we thought we were Sparky bait for sure.  Rode by the place this weekend on my bike...wow, I'm old....LOL

[dbacks fan]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

There were a couple of batting ranges. One I think where the Highway Patrol offices are now near I-44 and one at the fairgrounds. I remember it was before these ball return machines. A machine pitched real baseballs and you actually hit the ball into a large field and some poor SOB would have to drive a caged golf cart out to scoop them up and reload them. We always aimed for him. That was around 1969.

The one near the OHP office was actually off of  I44 and 21st Street, it was along the service road next to the west bound off ramp to 21st Street and was a service road going east then north on 99th E ave or 101 E Ave. It was run by a gentleman named Willie Sixkiller from the Sixkller Tribe. I worked for him from 1979 to 1980, driving the tractor that picked up the golf balls, and worked on the pitching machines for the batting cages.

At the end of the off ramp for 21st Street from I-44 in the late 70's was a Kerr McGee Station.

That whole area changed in the early 80's after the '76, '78, '84 floods.

[monterey1967]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

[]I grew up here in Tulsa, and as a child one of my fondest memories was the old downtown area.  I loved the hustle that downtown Tulsa once had.  The lights from the various theaters (family theaters at that) added to the overall excitement of a downtown scene which could have been the setting for a Thomas Kincaid painting.

Places like the old Rialto Theater, the Majestic; Kresses Department store and the like bring fond memories of a Tulsa which now exists only in my memories.

And who else remembers the old Continental Skating rink which used to be just west of Tracy Park on 11th street.  (When we were walking to the old Warehouse Market, my grandmother would wait while I peeked in through the windows to watch the kids roller skating.)

I would very much be interested to see what you guys remember way back "in the day."

[AMP]

Woah, the Living Arts story and the basement of the Free Store brought back a Patuli Moment.

I handled the sound for a few concerts in that downtown building, used a reel to reel memorex 1/4 track recorder that Geoff Bond owned, to create an echo effect that stirred the Ozley crowd in attendance.  Did some electrical activated pyro at the Westby Center and blew the two front rows of people out of their seats one night!  Including Maxine Bond, Geoff's mom.  That was quite a site....

Remember a place near 11th street just East of where the Home Depot is today downtown. it had a rear entrance and a basement, lots of hippies hung out there.  Around 1967=68...

VW Micro Bus was the vehicle of choice, no brakes but held alot of people and band gear.  

Urban life was lots of fun then...

What happened to those days?

[mr.jaynes]

OK, my memories.

I'm a former kid of the 1980's, and even remember some of the 1970's even if I was just a kid.

I remember the Apollo Delman theatre as a kid, and having seen "The Outlaw Josey Wales" there (although it carried an R rating, there were other motives at play in having me watching this, it's a long story). Similarly, I remember the Will Rogers theatre on 11th, and though I never saw a movie there, I do remmeber it as it was closed, trash strewn in the parking lot, but this proud theatre, closed as it was, sort of rising dominant through the litter. They are gone now, but in the age of multiplexes, the old theatres seemed to have something that the 20-screeners didn't have: CLASS! Anybody got pictures of these great theatres? Fire them off to me via email or post 'em here!

I remember the Oertle's Department store, and how it became a store called David's  (they even had one in Broken Arrow), and it seemed that whatever you wanted, you could find it there.

I also remember the old Southroads Mall, both the Upper and Lower levels, and the shops and stores there. They had a Woolworth's on one side, a Vandever's on the other, and all kinds of other things in between. There was a boot store called Boot Hill, and I especially enjoyed hanging out downstairs at an arcade called The Nautilus. Next to Southroads was a theatre (I occasionally went there if there was something good) Diamond Jacks (I liked their Reuben Sandwich anyway) and a Pee Wee's Burgers and Chili (I was there so much, they were tempted to hire me).

I also remember Sound Warehouse (they even had one in Broken Arrow), as well as Peaches' and Buttons, as far as music went.

And in my wilder days, I also remember the KELI spaceship smack dab in the middle of Expo Square, when a younger and not much wiser Mr. Jaynes and two others (who shall go nameless), explored that area, and made our way into the KELI studio.

And there are even some great memories of the old Southland shopping center too.

Good times, good times.