What do you remember?

[Porky]

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

That is hilarious.  A guy I work with is always tellign Judy Booger jokes - particularly one involving a cigarette.  I thought he was making it all up, but if you guys can remember her after all these years, it must be true!

Best smoke rings I ever saw!

[Hometown]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

I think you mean Skyline Park:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb051404.html#skyline

Thanks, you must be right.  I was there in the late 50s or very early 60s and I have not lived in Tulsa since 1974.  I do remember the coaster and the sandy lake and given the impressionistic quality of my memories Skyline could have easily morphed into Skiatook.

I also remember a huge city owned pool that was enclosed by chain link fence and that had locker rooms towards the west side of town on the way to Sand Springs.  Seems like almost every city park had a small wading pool.  Later they were filled in and make into splash pads.

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

I think you mean Skyline Park:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb051404.html#skyline

Thanks, you must be right.  I was there in the late 50s or very early 60s and I have not lived in Tulsa since 1974.  I do remember the coaster and the sandy lake and given the impressionistic quality of my memories Skyline could have easily morphed into Skiatook.

I also remember a huge city owned pool that was enclosed by chain link fence and that had locker rooms towards the west side of town on the way to Sand Springs.  Seems like almost every city park had a small wading pool.  Later they were filled in and make into splash pads.

That was probably Newblock Park on Charles Page Boulevard. Originally part of the Tulsa Waterworks ca. 1910. They used to pump drinking water out of the Arkansas there for treatment. The settling tanks are still there. Swam there once in the late fifties I think. The cool building is an art studio and the pool is now parking.

[RexBrown]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

I think you mean Skyline Park:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb051404.html#skyline

Wow... I never knew it was called Skyline Park. American Airlines had their employee picnics there when I was a kid. That would have been the early `70s and it was Indian Nations Amusement Park by then. AA moved the party to Bells after the roller coaster at Indian Nations was closd down.

www.defunctparks.com/parks/OK/indexOK.htm

For years it was just a vague memory and I never really knew its exact location. Then we were invited to a wedding at the Five Oaks Ranch some years back. Boing-g-g-g..... that's the place!

[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.

[Porky]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

RIDESHY

Did you know the name Rid-eshy spelled their phone number? []

Check it out 743-3749

I use to work at a place called Unit Rig which was just down the road from the Rideshy Club.
Some of those I worked with back then that visited that place during the lunch hour told me this. I wondered if the cops knew back then?

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by RexBrown

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

I think you mean Skyline Park:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb051404.html#skyline

Wow... I never knew it was called Skyline Park. American Airlines had their employee picnics there when I was a kid. That would have been the early `70s and it was Indian Nations Amusement Park by then. AA moved the party to Bells after the roller coaster at Indian Nations was closd down.

www.defunctparks.com/parks/OK/indexOK.htm

For years it was just a vague memory and I never really knew its exact location. Then we were invited to a wedding at the Five Oaks Ranch some years back. Boing-g-g-g..... that's the place!

Many of us may be aware of Crystal City shoppoing center in West Tulsa.  I heard a rumor that it was an amusement park at one time.  Anyone else know anything about this?

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

quote:Originally posted by RexBrown

quote:Originally posted by TulsaTV

I think you mean Skyline Park:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb051404.html#skyline

Wow... I never knew it was called Skyline Park. American Airlines had their employee picnics there when I was a kid. That would have been the early `70s and it was Indian Nations Amusement Park by then. AA moved the party to Bells after the roller coaster at Indian Nations was closd down.

www.defunctparks.com/parks/OK/indexOK.htm

For years it was just a vague memory and I never really knew its exact location. Then we were invited to a wedding at the Five Oaks Ranch some years back. Boing-g-g-g..... that's the place!

Many of us may be aware of Crystal City shoppoing center in West Tulsa.  I heard a rumor that it was an amusement park at one time.  Anyone else know anything about this?

I just had a conversation last night with a local Dr. who moved here in the 40's. He told me about Crystal City Amusement park. Apparently had swimming pools, rides and a lake. He says you can still see some of it off of I-75. I can only surmise that it was near the present day shopping center off 33rd west.

He told me that when they moved here from Madison, Wis. after the war that his mother had described their new home as near a creek and some lovely woods just outside of town. It was 21st and Yorktown.

[Steve]

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 thought the exact same thing when I first saw that commerical.  I thought "They're making fun of Lewis Meyer!"  I remember his Sunday morning book review show on TV and am racking my brain to remember the closing phrase he always used to say.  It was something like "books are your window to the world" or "expand your world through reading."  Can't remember now, but it will come to me one day.

[TulsaTV]

Crystal City Park, circa 1920s:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb050303.html#crystal

with the original Zingo:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/statfair.html#zingo

[pmcalk]

I believe the closing for Lewis Meyer was "the more you read, the taller you grow."  My grandmother graduated from highschool with him.  She always talked as though she knew a world-famous celebrity.

Does anyone remember a place called The Open Door on Cherry Street--late 70's, early 80's?  We use to go there often in high school.

[RecycleMichael]

My favorite Lewis Meyer memory is that he wrote a comedy book, a sex manual (in Tulsa in the 70's) for older married couples called "Pooped".

Does anybody have a copy of it?

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

I believe the closing for Lewis Meyer was "the more you read, the taller you grow."  My grandmother graduated from highschool with him.  She always talked as though she knew a world-famous celebrity.

Does anyone remember a place called The Open Door on Cherry Street--late 70's, early 80's?  We use to go there often in high school.

You are absolutely correct, "The more you read, the taller you grow!"  Thanks so much for refreshing the old memory.

[billintulsa]

Here's another "blast from the past" - - - - does anyone remember (or possibly still have) a 7Up Uncola Card?  I believe they were distributed by KAKC.

[TulsaTV]

Uncola card:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/uncola.html