What do you remember?

[mr.jaynes]

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We used to walk to TG&Y at 3rd and Utica, next to the Safeway and get the KELI or KAKC top 40 lists, and then decide which 45 we could afford to buy.  Then we would go home and play them over and over and over and over....I later worked at that TG&Y as a stockboy and assistant manager.

I remember TG&Y, how if you didn't know where a Wal-Mart was, chances are there was a TG&Y store on the way. The ones I often used was at 11th and Garnett, but mainly at 41st and Garnett. The latter was next door to a Giant discount foods store and was connected by a corridor.

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

I loved the Will Rogers Theater. We would stand in line on Saturday mornings with 6 packs of Pepsi bottles that we would redeem for admission to the movies .

In my teens, I'd hang out with friends, and we'd sometimes find ourselves along 11th Street at night. I remember the Will Rogers, closed up, and trash strewn in the parking lot. I genuinely become saddened when I see a great-looking movie theatre abandoned like that, and wonder what glory it once had. Even worse is when they get torn down.

quote:Originally posted by Rowdy

Oh and as a youngun', I had a crush on Beth Rengel.[:I]

Won't say who made my Top 10 list, but it's the relative glamour of newscasters that partially informed my career path in the Cosmetology field. Beth Rengel, sure, but Nancy Herr too. Anybody remember Barbara Allen?

[TulsaTV]

http://tulsatvmemories.com/newsmen2.html#barb

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb022301.html#beth

http://www.mazeppa.com/gs1.html
Scroll down to Xmas 1995 for Will Rogers Theater painting.

[monterey1967]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

Italian Inn:

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

Frank's Pig Stand:

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

thanks tv tulsa, i was a little off, it was a inn, not gardens & the pig stand on 15th, not 10th but what did i know being about 5 or 6.  i remember the pork sandwich was so greasey it ran down your arms, just the way it should.

[reign]

It was located on Pine st , just west of Memorial in the 70's?

quote:Originally posted by azbadpuppy

Does anyone remember the Capri Drive-in? It showed porn movies and had this really high fence going around it. I remember as kids we would try to get a glimpse of it as we were driving down the freeway that ran right next to it. I think it was on the west side.

[reign]

There was a Ma'Bells on Admiral, just east of Sheridan back in the 70's too. My mother worked there briefly.

quote:Originally posted by azbadpuppy

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The Carnival restaurant in Utica Square, where Stonehorse is currently located.  You ordered food via phones that were at each table.  They had a dessert (the Bigtop?) that was popular.

There was a restaurant called Ma Bell's I think out on Lewis and 51st? that was the same way. You ordered via phone at the table, and you could call other tables too.
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[reign]

Grew up on north side @ Yale & Pine area most of life. So let's see, Yale Pits, or strip pits, Honda Hills for us who rode dirtbikes. How about Dawson? Jackson Elementary, Hamilton Jr High and Rogers H.S. Remember the Boys Club on Harvard, south of Pine. McClure park swimming pool only 50 cents. Skateboard park at 15th and Memorial(long been a car storage lot). Trying to sneak onto the airport runways by the railroad tracks? Jungle Safari for sure back in high school. Cruising Claremore? Midnight Drags. Fontana cruising on ocassion too. Admiral Twin to see Aliens and going " Holy S*** that is what's laying the eggs", LOL. Metallica at the Pavillion with Big Screens, "OH MY GOD!" Kiss concert ticket in 1979 only costing $9.75. Crystals Pizza, miss it badly. And everyone in high school who had to powerstall their car on a speedbump,LOL, "Please park your VW". Bells of course with 25 cent ride days. 49 cent Qt drinks. 39 cent tacos at the Mayo. 99 cent sandwiches at QT too. But most important, 2 cent bubble gum as a little kid, taking my 100 pennies down and tax was on 3 cents on a dollar. The days of old. What happen to my MTV!!!

[Aa5drvr]

The Capri adult drive in was on Charles Page Blvd between 49th W and 65th.  We all went there in HS in the 70s.
Well I heard some people went there, not that I ever did.  But even if I did, what would be wrong with that?
There was also the Majestic downtown. (From what Ive heard).

[Wingnut]

quote: Grew up on north side @ Yale & Pine area most of life. So let's see, Yale Pits, or strip pits, Honda Hills for us who rode dirtbikes. How about Dawson? Jackson Elementary, Hamilton Jr High and Rogers H.S. Remember the Boys Club on Harvard, south of Pine. McClure park swimming pool only 50 cents. Skateboard park at 15th and Memorial(long been a car storage lot). Trying to sneak onto the airport runways by the railroad tracks? Jungle Safari for sure back in high school. Cruising Claremore? Midnight Drags. Fontana cruising on ocassion too. Admiral Twin to see Aliens and going " Holy S*** that is what's laying the eggs", LOL. Metallica at the Pavillion with Big Screens, "OH MY GOD!" Kiss concert ticket in 1979 only costing $9.75. Crystals Pizza, miss it badly. And everyone in high school who had to powerstall their car on a speedbump,LOL, "Please park your VW". Bells of course with 25 cent ride days. 49 cent Qt drinks. 39 cent tacos at the Mayo. 99 cent sandwiches at QT too. But most important, 2 cent bubble gum as a little kid, taking my 100 pennies down and tax was on 3 cents on a dollar. The days of old. What happen to my MTV!!!

Boy! There are some memories! I remember the Yale Pits and Spartan Dump. Being able to drive around in Mohawk Park without having to pay to get in. The observation decks out at the airport. A Taco Burger at Taco Tico was $.25.  I also cruised Fontana and Claremore. Do they still cruise out there?
I swam a bunch in McClure Park pool. There used to be an area on the southeast side of the park that were motorcycle trails. I used to take my Honda 50 down there and ride alllllll the time.
We had one kid that would always pull up to a speed bump in the Rogers parking lot (which is now gone) and just burn 'em off for no good reason. Smoke was everywhere!
Crystals pizza was great. I also loved Applegates Landing pizza with friends and co-workers after a busy night working at Target.

Thanks for the trip back in time for at least a few minutes! I needed it.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by Aa5drvr

The Capri adult drive in was on Charles Page Blvd between 49th W and 65th.  We all went there in HS in the 70s.
Well I heard some people went there, not that I ever did.  But even if I did, what would be wrong with that?
There was also the Majestic downtown. (From what Ive heard).

In the fall of 1973 when I was in high school (Tulsa Nathan Hale), 4 of us piled into my friend's Chevy Malibu and went out to the Capri on Charles Page to see a "dirty movie."  They were showing "Fanny Hill" or "The Stewardesses" or some such nonsense; I really don't remember the movie, and what they showed then would probably barely rate an "R" rating today.  But we sure had fun, and it seemed like such an adventure then!

I also recall the Majestic Art, Studio Art and Paris Art Theaters downtown.  "Art" was the euphenism for "nudie flicks" back then.  Was the Majestic Art Theater the last incarnation of the once grand Majestic Theater downtown?  Sad ending for a once grand movie palace.

[TulsaTV]

http://tulsatvmemories.com/capri.html

[dbacks fan]

My dad was heavily involved with YMCA and Pony/Colt baseball, South East Raiders foot ball and Tulsa Minor Hockey Leauge (which later became the Tulsa Hockey Leauge shortly before the Four Seasons Ice Rink closed).

We used to take a lot of road trips for tournaments in TX, MO, KS, IA, and NE, and one of my favorite places to stop at on the road was Nickerson Farms. Always loved looking in the plexiglass bee hive in the resturaunt. I found this one on I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson, and I think it is one of the few remaining store intact, although it has been closed since 1982 I think.

[Steve]

Nickerson Farms & Stuckey's, I remember these both as a mainstay of I-44 / U.S. 66 between Tulsa and St. Louis in the 1960's.  My family used to drive from Tulsa to Belleville Illinois (just east of St. Louis) about every other year in the 1960's to visit my dad's family.  A stop at the "Glass House" on the Will Rogers Turnpike, a Stuckeys, and a Nickerson Farms was mandatory, as far as we kids were concerned!

[Sardonicus Rex]

This may be too specific an area for wide recognition, but does anybody else remember all the dirtbike trails and wooded creek lands along and just west of 169 between Fourth Place and 11th Street? When I was 10-12 years old, it seemed like you were biking or walking into an uncharted jungle. Tupelo Creek has since been tamed and the lands that were once wild are now where the Red Cross building stands.

[Wingnut]

quote: A stop at the "Glass House" on the Will Rogers Turnpike, a Stuckeys, and a Nickerson Farms was mandatory, as far as we kids were concerned!

On our travels in the station wagon, a stop at Stuckels was a requirement, usually to go to the bathroom. We never really bought much in them, but it was always fun to look at the local souveniers and such. Don't forget those state spoons!
It's really sad to see the old buildings turned into porn shops and such, or just falling apart. It makes you wonder how many kids had fun running around in those stores, making memories. They're some real Americana.
If those walls could talk.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by Wingnut

quote: A stop at the "Glass House" on the Will Rogers Turnpike, a Stuckeys, and a Nickerson Farms was mandatory, as far as we kids were concerned!

On our travels in the station wagon, a stop at Stuckels was a requirement, usually to go to the bathroom. We never really bought much in them, but it was always fun to look at the local souveniers and such. Don't forget those state spoons!
It's really sad to see the old buildings turned into porn shops and such, or just falling apart. It makes you wonder how many kids had fun running around in those stores, making memories. They're some real Americana.
If those walls could talk.

My memory of Stuckeys and Nickerson Farms is fading, but I seem to recall Stuckeys for pecan pralines and candy.  I think Nickerson Farms used to sell these yummy white-chocolate coated pretzels that me and my brother loved so much.

And don't forget Howard Johnson's with their all-you-can-eat fried clams and 21-flavor ice creams!  I also recall between Tulsa & St. Louis the roadside mom and pop vendors, grape stands, "walnut bowls," Meremac Caverns, the Blue Whale, etc.