What do you remember?

[billintulsa]

For the people who want to improve things in our city, I wish they would take the time and read through these posts.  Perhaps it would cause someone to really stop and ask if what they are wanting to do is an improvement or not.

[cs6000]

In the 5100 block of south Peoria, on the west side, there used to be a sprawling old motel, what was it called? Also, just south of this motel was a little strip center with a ritzy chocolate and candy store, anyone remember that?
This would be just north of the site of Quik-Trip #1.

Also, I don't think it has been mentioned, but the Beryl Ford collection of photographs is being slowly put up on the Tulsa Library website. You basically have to browse the photos, but there is a lot to see.

[MichaelC]

Holy crap, this is an old thread.

Way to go billintulsa!  Almost 20,000 reads.

[billintulsa]

Next thing - people will be recalling things that were happening when this thread was created!!!!!!

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[TulsaTV]

Trade Winds West:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/tulstiki.html#tradewinds

QT #1:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb072001.html#quik

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

Trade Winds West:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/tulstiki.html#tradewinds

QT #1:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb072001.html#quik

WOW!!!!!!  I worked for KAKC "back in the day," and those pictures brought back some memories!!!!!

[Kashmir]

I am a child of the 80's, and I always thought Tulsa was so fascinating as a child. Bells captivated me, but in later years I wouldn't go there.  Utica Square was another world to a kid from the east side.  Simply for the "oldness" it had, since everything was late 70's-80'ish over east.

I remember the bread sticks with cheese dip at Crystals,  how if you went there for lunch and came out into the daylight, it seemed impossible that it wasn't night already!  As a child that place was magical.

I grew up on the east side and went to movies @ 21/garnett.  I adored Eastland mall and spent afternoons browsing with my little girlfriends Alone! On the east side!  (Chalkdust was a teacher supply store there and it was like finding the keys into elementary school!)

Gus's Coney Island 21/Garnett is still there.  My mom loved Vito's pizza, which is also still around but not the same...
EL Chico's used to be different too.  We really liked Alfredo's @ 31/Garnett.  Similar to Casa Laredo Style.  

I was in a commercial for the Fox 23 kids club...I walked up and pout an (fake) entry in a (fake) box.

Remember the Beauty Biz guy?

Alas I always dreamed of living midtown, it was soo comsmo and exotic to me but that dream was severed short 20 years later when I fell in love at first sight with a master bath complete with jacuzzi tub on the south side.  
[:O]
Yes, I am that shallow.  Maybe someday I'll go midtown, but I doubt I can afford it!

[cks511]

I've been meaning to ask this for awhile but then I forget.....LOL.

Do the social clubs of the 50's thru the 70's still exist in the high schools?  Like Merry Maids, Eclat, Breezers Barons...etc?

[Wingnut]

I spent a lot of time at Utica Square as a kid as that was where my Dr's office was. That building is gone now, the medical building on the south side. I remember the Yorktown area pretty well and loved/love the homes in the area. Of course, we didn't have enough money to do any shopping there, it was still a neat place to go look around.

quote: Remember the Beauty Biz guy?

I faintly remember Beauty Biz commericals, but I can't quite remember the guy. Please refresh my memory.

[Kashmir]

 

quote: I faintly remember Beauty Biz commericals, but I can't quite remember the guy. Please refresh my memory.

He was all fake Miami-ish and was terribly annoying.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by Kashmir



 

quote: I faintly remember Beauty Biz commericals, but I can't quite remember the guy. Please refresh my memory.

He was all fake Miami-ish and was terribly annoying.

Hey, it wasn't his fault! It was the 1980s!

And remember, if it's in  New York on Monday and LA on Tuesday, it's at Beauty Biz on
Wednesday!

[Kashmir]

Thanks, for the laugh, Mr. Jaynes![]

[monterey1967]

anyone old enough to remember the italian gardens, it was about 17th & main back in the early to mid 50s. it was a old house converted into a eating place. also a drive-in called the 'pig stand' on 10th street in the downtown area. i was just a young kid remember them well.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by Kashmir

I am a child of the 80's, and I always thought Tulsa was so fascinating as a child. Bells captivated me, but in later years I wouldn't go there.  Utica Square was another world to a kid from the east side.  Simply for the "oldness" it had, since everything was late 70's-80'ish over east.

I remember the bread sticks with cheese dip at Crystals,  how if you went there for lunch and came out into the daylight, it seemed impossible that it wasn't night already!  As a child that place was magical.

I grew up on the east side and went to movies @ 21/garnett.  I adored Eastland mall and spent afternoons browsing with my little girlfriends Alone! On the east side!  

Remember the Beauty Biz guy?

Hmmm, sounds very similar to my teens. Those days are gone forever, but I treasure the memory....

Yes, I remember the Beauty Biz Guy-and his theme song, Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

[TulsaTV]

Italian Inn:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb110906.html#inn

Frank's Pig Stand:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb060103.html#pig