Best of - Tulsa Restaurants That Are Gone

[Aa5drvr]

We used to have running battle of which new style hamburger place we would go to.  McDonalds on 11th or Sandys just a bit west on 11th.  Or Griffs.

When we moved WAY out south to 51st and Yale, before Park Lane theater was built there was a Taco Place about 49th and Sheridan called "Taco Boy."  
We liked it because they sponsored our former barber and Tulsa Speedway driver Val Hess.  Yes Val cut hair with his brother Dewey together for several years.   Their uncle was Dewey Holmes, who advertised himself as a "Short Haircut Specialist".

I remember the DX at 51 and Yale and their car wash.  Several neighbor kids had their first job at the carwash.  

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Fiesta Cantenna se Corner 51st & Harvard by the
Sirloin Stockade and Arthur Treacher's Fish n Chips.

24/7's

Valley Inn Restaurant

Steak & Egg

Saratoga

[Markk]

Country Fair, which used to be located in a strip mall around 37-38th and Harvard.  As a kid, I was addicted to the egg noodles they served.

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The Blue Moon Club

"Menu from the Blue Moon Club, located on the northwest corner of 36th St. North and Cincinnati.

This menu dates from the late 1930s or early 1940s (circa 1940). Restaurants technically could not sell liquor at that time, but all of the typical mixers were available to purchase, and the management generally turned a blind eye to those patrons who brought in brown paper sacks. The Blue Moon was also famous for its dinners and live entertainment."


Ralph Britt Orchestra

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From Tulsa TV Memories Web Site.

Jade East Restaurant

http://tulsatvmemories.com/tulstiki.html

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The Golden Drumstick 11th & Yale

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tulsatv/sets/72157600662232140/

Great Photos of post cards and more from Tulsa Motels and Restaurants.

From Tulsa TV's collection.  
Vist the web site at:

Lwww.tulsatvmemories.com

[aoxamaxoa]

^ and the old MIDDLE PATH!!!!

golden drumstick turned into a health food eaterie.

[Nick Danger]

The subject of Brookside/36th & Peoria reminds me that when I was little, I used to walk with my grandpa and dad to the Page Glencliff Dairy at about 34th or 35th and Peoria for an ice cream cone. I remember they were only 5 cents a dip.

[Wingnut]

quote: I think the Rogers HS equivalent was Boots but don't remember where it was exactly.

There was a drive-in that I think was a Boots at Admiral and Harvard just east of the Mazzios building that is there now. I had only been there once or twice when I was a wee lad.

[Aa5drvr]

As I recall, Boots was on Sheridan about 18th on the east side of the street.  (About where the Braums is now.)
Later there was a strip center (so to speak) built that was home to a bunch of "adult entertainment venues," the most popular of which was "The Pearly Gate".
Right next to Pearly Gate was a Bonanza Steak House.  You could hear the music beating thorough the wall.
Another very popular drive in was at Admiral and Memorial where McDonaleds is.  That drive in was Norman Angels.

[Rowdy]

What was Helmut's Alpine Kitchen called before?  There used to be another name to it but I forgot.

[Aa5drvr]

>>What was Helmut's Alpine Kitchen called before?

House of the "Special Sauce?"

That reminds me of another restaurant now gone, Lum's on 3rd Street east of Peoria.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

I remember when DX had to gold plate the gasoline pump handles and offer Color TV in their lobby to get people to travel as far as...51st & Yale to buy gas. And they did.

And they probably gave Green Stamps and free road maps too.

In the 1960s, the DX station that used to be at 21st & Sheridan (where Burger King is now) would give out Christmas music "various artists" LPs around Christmastime to their regular customers, stereo LPs put out by Columbia Records for Goodyear Tire & Rubber.  I still have 3 of these old albums that I plop on the turntable around Christmas every year.

I remember DX had a kid's premium giveaway toy called the "DX Getaway Chase Game."  It was a racing car/slot car type board game with a cops and robbers theme.  My brother & I had one and used to play with it all the time.  I saw one pop up on EBAY awhile back; that sure brought back some memories.