What do you remember?

[pmcalk]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

Here's another blast from the past - - - - does anybody else remember the orginal campus for ORU?  I beleive it was called the Diamond Building, and was located downtown on South Boulder.

I think it is still there.  I don't recall it from the past, but my mom has pointed it out to me.  The building is right accross from Veterans park, and it looks so much like the buildings out on Lewis.  I think it became the Mapco building for a while.  It may be empty now.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

Here's another blast from the past - - - - does anybody else remember the orginal campus for ORU?  I beleive it was called the Diamond Building, and was located downtown on South Boulder.

I think it is still there.  I don't recall it from the past, but my mom has pointed it out to me.  The building is right accross from Veterans park, and it looks so much like the buildings out on Lewis.  I think it became the Mapco building for a while.  It may be empty now.

The Diamond Tower building is still there on Boulder, the original home of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Assn.  It was an office for SW Bell in the 1970s.  The building became a foreclosure property in the 1980s, owned by the now defunct State Federal Savings (I used to work for them from '79 to '91.) State Federal stripped all the marble off of the lower exterior and sold it for scrap, along with anything of value they could get out of it.  The building is/was full of asbestos and is slowly yielding to the elements.

[TulsaTV]

This new blog has pix of the "diamond building" at the bottom:

http://www.abandonedtulsa.blogspot.com/

[billintulsa]

In regards to Tulsa broadcasting - - - does anyone here remember the event when Mac Kreeger flipped Tulsa off in the middle of Mannix?  (This happened on channel 6.)  

When it happened, it was rather shocking, but like most other things of this nature, it becomes funnier with time.

[TulsaTV]

The full Mack Creager story here:

http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb051005.html

[billintulsa]

I remember when I was a child going to the Zoo and  somewhere in the middle of the park was a large black locomotive.  Does anyone know whether or not this is the same locomotive which currently sits on the Southwest corner of bells?

[brunoflipper]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I remember when I was a child going to the Zoo and  somewhere in the middle of the park was a large black locomotive.  Does anyone know whether or not this is the same locomotive which currently sits on the Southwest corner of bells?

if memory serves, it was to the east of the old alligator pits...

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I remember when I was a child going to the Zoo and  somewhere in the middle of the park was a large black locomotive.  Does anyone know whether or not this is the same locomotive which currently sits on the Southwest corner of bells?

if memory serves, it was to the east of the old alligator pits...

That's right!!  Very good memory!

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

In regards to Tulsa broadcasting - - - does anyone here remember the event when Mac Kreeger flipped Tulsa off in the middle of Mannix?  (This happened on channel 6.)  

When it happened, it was rather shocking, but like most other things of this nature, it becomes funnier with time.

I will never forget that faux pas. I think that happened in the fall of 1970.  I was 13 at the time, my brother was 16, and we were watching "Mannix" that Saturday night with our grandmother.  "Mannix" and "Mission Impossible" were two of our favorite shows of the era, never missed an episode.  Towards the end of the show, all of the sudden, for just a few seconds, was Mac Creager on screen grinning and giving the "finger!"  My brother and I nervously laughed; I don't remember my grandmother's reaction.  We still laugh out loud today at that.  I am sure it was the end of Creager's career, at least locally.

[brunoflipper]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I remember when I was a child going to the Zoo and  somewhere in the middle of the park was a large black locomotive.  Does anyone know whether or not this is the same locomotive which currently sits on the Southwest corner of bells?

if memory serves, it was to the east of the old alligator pits...

That's right!!  Very good memory!

No real feat, you've got twelve years on me... The say it's always the first to go []

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I remember when I was a child going to the Zoo and  somewhere in the middle of the park was a large black locomotive.  Does anyone know whether or not this is the same locomotive which currently sits on the Southwest corner of bells?

I remember the locomotive too. Seems like it was a Meteor? Anyway, I think it may have ended up in the hands of a restoration group that is looking for a home for it. Check with the Ollies Restaurant in near West Tulsa.

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I remember when I was a child going to the Zoo and  somewhere in the middle of the park was a large black locomotive.  Does anyone know whether or not this is the same locomotive which currently sits on the Southwest corner of bells?

if memory serves, it was to the east of the old alligator pits...

That's right!!  Very good memory!

No real feat, you've got twelve years on me... The say it's always the first to go []

Hmmm.  I seem to remember someone saying that to me before . . . but I'm not sure.

[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.

[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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RecycleMichael]

Here are some other links...

http://www.tulsatvmemories.com/

http://www.losttulsa.com/

http://abandonedtulsa.blogspot.com/

http://signsoftulsa.blogspot.com/