Tulsa Memories from the 80's

[breitee]

I beleive it was called Pizza Train for a short time.

[Wingnut]

I remember it was call Iron Horse when it opened and it was a pretty fancy place to eat. I also remember eating pizza there later on around "77 or so.
I'm thinking it was called "This Train" for a while.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by breitee

I beleive it was called Pizza Train for a short time.

Yes! As I recall, Gailard Sartain I think did the commercials for it!

[MichaelBates]

quote:Originally posted by Wingnut

I wonder if Doc Rock is Sluggos daddy??

I don't remember 7 screens at the Annex. I remember 3, but they may have added some screens later on. I think the Southroads Mall Cinema is where I saw Star Wars.
I remember "Earthquake, in Sensurround" at the Bowman Twin at 31st and Sheridan, which is now Lazer Quest.

They started with three, then added four more, replacing vacant retail space at the other end of the mall.

It's stunning to think that I'm old enough for stuff that I remember being built is already long gone.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by MichaelBates

quote:Originally posted by Wingnut

I wonder if Doc Rock is Sluggos daddy??

I don't remember 7 screens at the Annex. I remember 3, but they may have added some screens later on. I think the Southroads Mall Cinema is where I saw Star Wars.
I remember "Earthquake, in Sensurround" at the Bowman Twin at 31st and Sheridan, which is now Lazer Quest.

They started with three, then added four more, replacing vacant retail space at the other end of the mall.

It's stunning to think that I'm old enough for stuff that I remember being built is already long gone.

And I remember the arcade there, as well as the Swensons Ice Cream place there that my dad would take me to as a kid. Even remember the lady who would wait our table every single week we went in there (or more if we were in the area), I even remember her by name, first and last! Wonder if she is still in Tulsa, now that I think about this, would be nice to visit...

quote:Originally posted by mrskns

quote:Originally posted by Wingnut

I have fond memories of Southland. Back to school shopping at Frougs, Clarks Good Clothes, Pennys, Walgreens with the coffee shop, etc. Open air in the middle with the sidewalk sales in late summer. What a great mall. Southroads had Woolco and Spencers with Looboyles on the lower level. Of course, all thats gone now.
Ok, I'm collected and back to reality now.

Is Tulsa still full of mega-churches like it was in the 80's?  I remember Grace Fellowship, RHEMA Bible Church, Victory Christian Center, Higher Dimensions, Boston Avenue Methodist, and the list goes on.

Southland, a good center. Like Woodland or southroads, anything you wanted to find was there. Still remember in my teenage days, whilst exploring there (my parents turned me loose to look around), a girl my age and I shared a momentary glance, and just like that, she was gone. Wow....I get butterflies when i think about that.

Megachurches, I have little use for. Just because it's the biggest church, it doesn't always make it the best.

[mrskns]

I agree with you about the mega churches.  I just wondered if they were still going strong or had fizzled out.  I remember another church... seems like maybe at 51st and Lewis or Peoria.  I don't remember the name, but it was started by a missionary named TL Osborn.  The church had a museum of art from all over the world.  Am I remembering correctly?

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by mrskns

I agree with you about the mega churches.  I just wondered if they were still going strong or had fizzled out.  I remember another church... seems like maybe at 51st and Lewis or Peoria.  I don't remember the name, but it was started by a missionary named TL Osborn.  The church had a museum of art from all over the world.  Am I remembering correctly?

Osborne's church, I think used to be a thing called the World Museum, and I remember going to it a few times, once on a family outing and another on a field trip. Interesting things there. In 1988, some time after it had become a church, I'd visited there on the behest of a friend to see this evangelist named Roy Blizzard teach a seminar.

[Sardonicus Rex]

quote:Originally posted by mrskns

I agree with you about the mega churches.  I just wondered if they were still going strong or had fizzled out.  I remember another church... seems like maybe at 51st and Lewis or Peoria.  I don't remember the name, but it was started by a missionary named TL Osborn.  The church had a museum of art from all over the world.  Am I remembering correctly?

It's still a church, sort of. Victory Christian Center runs a Bible school there. I believe there are a few churches who use it on Sundays. I know mine did a few years ago when it was destroyed by a tornado.

[YoungTulsan]

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

quote:Originally posted by mrskns

I agree with you about the mega churches.  I just wondered if they were still going strong or had fizzled out.  I remember another church... seems like maybe at 51st and Lewis or Peoria.  I don't remember the name, but it was started by a missionary named TL Osborn.  The church had a museum of art from all over the world.  Am I remembering correctly?

Osborne's church, I think used to be a thing called the World Museum, and I remember going to it a few times, once on a family outing and another on a field trip. Interesting things there. In 1988, some time after it had become a church, I'd visited there on the behest of a friend to see this evangelist named Roy Blizzard teach a seminar.

Looking at the I-44 expansion plans, I'm pretty sure that church will soon be history.

Going back to mrskns' question about megachurches, I would say they are going strong.  In fact, the trend seems moving towards building churches that can be seen from space.

Rhema some years back built what seemed like a giant building at the time. (in Broken Arrow)



Asbury Methodist recently decided to build one of the hugest churches I have ever seen.  Square in the middle of big-box big-parking-lot land.



(The forum downsized the pics just slightly, click on them and they are a little more crisp)

[mrskns]

Wow! Thanks for the photos and the wonderful information.  Gee... those facilites are huge!  I must say, I'm glad Tulsa is so christian-oriented.  

Is that Union High School's playing field across from the Asbury church?  You are right, it looks tiny beside the church.  If it is Union, I know how big that school is, so it's a great comparison.

[YoungTulsan]

Yep.   Thats Union.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by Wingnut

I have fond memories of Southland. Back to school shopping at Frougs, Clarks Good Clothes, Pennys, Walgreens with the coffee shop, etc. Open air in the middle with the sidewalk sales in late summer. What a great mall. Southroads had Woolco and Spencers with Looboyles on the lower level. Of course, all thats gone now.
Ok, I'm collected and back to reality now.

Ah Southroads. I remember Woolco, with rows after rows of cool stuff to buy; if they didn't have it, you didn't need it that bad. And Looboyles, with the sporting goods and the automotive stuff. Hey, do you remember a Hasting's records store on the upper level, or a Jessica's Cookies shop, also upper level? Do you remember all the unique places to eat there?

[Wingnut]

When I was 13, I think, there was a bb gun shoot at Woolco and I won a rod & reel. That was pretty neat.
Hastings Records was just outside Woolco in the mall. Spencers Gifts was a little further down.
I really liked the little hallways that had stores in them that you would have to look for to find.

[AMP]

quote:Originally posted by Aa5drvr

1969-1972 or therabouts...
Riding dirt bikes at 61st and Sheridan, I recall the hill on the SW corner was nicknamed "Suicide."  Not Suicide Hill, just Suicide.
We also rode where the post office is at 51st and Sheridan and where the Farm Shopping Center was.  The old barn that was standing was quite a hangout for various activities.

We blazed those trails in 1964 on our Honda 90s.  Me, Gary Ritterbusch, Al Osborne, Hardesty, Richey Ward, Richard Goob Dobson, Jack Williams, Duke Thompson, Robert and Alan Jandebeur.

[Aa5drvr]

By '69 we upgraded to Suzuki 125s, a Benelli (bought at J.C Penney), a Montessa, and several Honda 70s.  Oh yeah and a Mini Enduro some kid got for xmas in 1970.