What do you remember?

[pmcalk]

Thanks--that was driving me crazy, trying to remember.

[RLitterell]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I can't think of the name, but there was a restaurant downtown where you used a phone in the booth to place an order.  As I remember, it had two floors and they used a dumb waiter to transport the food upstairs.

There was a place in the old Southland mall called Mikes. You ordered from a phone at your booth, When your phone rang your order was ready at the window. You just picked it up. I am not sure but they may have had a D/T location as well

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I can't think of the name, but there was a restaurant downtown where you used a phone in the booth to place an order.  As I remember, it had two floors and they used a dumb waiter to transport the food upstairs.

When I worked downtown in the late '70s and '80s era, there was a restaurant like you described on the ground floor of the Mayo Building at 5th & Main, NW corner.  They had ground floor or mezzanine seating and the phones at the booths.  I think it may have been a Kings Food Host.  There used to be another Kings Food Host with the phone system around 31st & Sheridan; I can't recall the exact spot, but I do remember eating at the one downtown and the one on Sheridan.

Another place downtown that we used to eat lunch at back then was the Charl-Mont restaurant on the mezzanine of the Thompson Building at 5th and Boston, SW corner.  It used to be good but the food got really bad towards the end and the place folded sometime in the '80s.

[billintulsa]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I can't think of the name, but there was a restaurant downtown where you used a phone in the booth to place an order.  As I remember, it had two floors and they used a dumb waiter to transport the food upstairs.

When I worked downtown in the late '70s and '80s era, there was a restaurant like you described on the ground floor of the Mayo Building at 5th & Main, NW corner.  They had ground floor or mezzanine seating and the phones at the booths.  I think it may have been a Kings Food Host.  There used to be another Kings Food Host with the phone system around 31st & Sheridan; I can't recall the exact spot, but I do remember eating at the one downtown and the one on Sheridan.

Another place downtown that we used to eat lunch at back then was the Charl-Mont restaurant on the mezzanine of the Thompson Building at 5th and Boston, SW corner.  It used to be good but the food got really bad towards the end and the place folded sometime in the '80s.

THE CHARL-MONT!  Yes - I've been trying to remember that name.  I went to Central High School downtown and spent many lunch hours in there!

[MichaelBates]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I have been racking my brain over this one - - - - On 41st and Yale infront of the shopping center is a large building which until recently housed Just For Feet.

But years ago only a few feet from that building was a restaurant which stood for years.  Does anyone remember the name of that place?  (If I remember right, I think it was some kind of a steak house.)

Before it was Joseph's, it was a pancake restaurant.  I think it was called the Pancake Place, but I'm not sure.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

quote:Originally posted by Steve

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

I can't think of the name, but there was a restaurant downtown where you used a phone in the booth to place an order.  As I remember, it had two floors and they used a dumb waiter to transport the food upstairs.

When I worked downtown in the late '70s and '80s era, there was a restaurant like you described on the ground floor of the Mayo Building at 5th & Main, NW corner.  They had ground floor or mezzanine seating and the phones at the booths.  I think it may have been a Kings Food Host.  There used to be another Kings Food Host with the phone system around 31st & Sheridan; I can't recall the exact spot, but I do remember eating at the one downtown and the one on Sheridan.

Another place downtown that we used to eat lunch at back then was the Charl-Mont restaurant on the mezzanine of the Thompson Building at 5th and Boston, SW corner.  It used to be good but the food got really bad towards the end and the place folded sometime in the '80s.

THE CHARL-MONT!  Yes - I've been trying to remember that name.  I went to Central High School downtown and spent many lunch hours in there!

The Charl-Mont was pretty good in its prime, but by the time it closed in the late '80s, it was a real stinker!

The Thompson building at the SW corner of 5th & Boston where the Charl-Mont was (I think it has been renamed), and the Tulsa Club building were the last two downtown buildings that still had manual elevators with human operators up until around 1990, or when the Tulsa Club closed.  That must have been both an excrutiatingly boring job and a very interesting one too; confined to an elevator on a stool all day long, but I am sure they met and conversed with some very interesting people.

[okierunner]

Looboyle's,  Froug's.  

My brother and i as kids (late 70s, early 80s) would ride the bus from Holiday Hills downtown to the Williams Center and have lunch with our mom or our dad (who also worked downtown at another building).  All the restaurants on the bottom level of Williams Center.  I thought that was WAY cool.  

I swear i saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the Delman. I just KNOW it.  And the Drive- in on East 51st.  It felt like it was way out there. I do remember when Woodland Hills was built around NOTHING.  

I also remember as a kid going with my neighbors and their ATV's down to Riverside and ride around there and have cookouts.  

Those were the days!!![}:)]

[MichaelC]

quote:Originally posted by okierunner

I also remember as a kid going with my neighbors and their ATV's down to Riverside and ride around there and have cookouts.

I took my motorcycle down under the I-44 bridge once.  Had a hard time digging it out of the sand.  Still go down there from on rare occassions, just to walk around out on the sand bars, see what I can see, and take in the fabulous odors.  

Fun all around though.

[okierunner]

I took my motorcycle down under the I-44 bridge once. Had a hard time digging it out of the sand. Still go down there from on rare occassions, just to walk around out on the sand bars, see what I can see, and take in the fabulous odors.

u poor thing.  Although i now run along riverside, so i am no stranger to the "aromas?" []

[MichaelC]

I'm an occassional water and nature fanatic.  Smell, no smell, can't avoid the river. []

[pmcalk]

quote:Originally posted by Steve
The Thompson building at the SW corner of 5th & Boston where the Charl-Mont was (I think it has been renamed), and the Tulsa Club building were the last two downtown buildings that still had manual elevators with human operators up until around 1990, or when the Tulsa Club closed.  That must have been both an excrutiatingly boring job and a very interesting one too; confined to an elevator on a stool all day long, but I am sure they met and conversed with some very interesting people.

My grandfather used to take us to the Tulsa Club, and our favorite part was going up and down the elevators.  I loved to watch them work the shifts that magically took you to the right floor, and I always presumed that they must be the "luxury" type of elevators, since they required trained people to operate them.  My mother, who had gone to the TulsaClub as a child, once confided in me that she had wanted to grow up to be an elevator operator.  It might have been an interesting job, but I am sure that the operators grew quite tired of all the kids begging to have a turn running the elevator.

[D.Schuttler]

quote:Originally posted by MichaelC

I'm an occassional water and nature fanatic.  Smell, no smell, can't avoid the river. []

There use to be an island south of I44 that seemed to be about 100 ft tall .You could get to it when the water wasn't running Then came the washout in the 90's and poof!

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

quote:Originally posted by Steve
The Thompson building at the SW corner of 5th & Boston where the Charl-Mont was (I think it has been renamed), and the Tulsa Club building were the last two downtown buildings that still had manual elevators with human operators up until around 1990, or when the Tulsa Club closed.  That must have been both an excrutiatingly boring job and a very interesting one too; confined to an elevator on a stool all day long, but I am sure they met and conversed with some very interesting people.

My grandfather used to take us to the Tulsa Club, and our favorite part was going up and down the elevators.  I loved to watch them work the shifts that magically took you to the right floor, and I always presumed that they must be the "luxury" type of elevators, since they required trained people to operate them.  My mother, who had gone to the TulsaClub as a child, once confided in me that she had wanted to grow up to be an elevator operator.  It might have been an interesting job, but I am sure that the operators grew quite tired of all the kids begging to have a turn running the elevator.

My attorney was in the Thompson building and I sometimes went to lunch at the Tulsa Club, courtesy of the bank executives where I worked.  You told the attendant what floor you wanted and when you reached the floor, the outside doors would open.  Then the attendant whould check to see if the cab was level with the floor, and level the cab by a lever if it was not level.  She would then open the inside gate and let you off.  If you were civilized, you did not forget your "please and thank you's."  It did feel like a small luxury, especially since good personal service today is mostly just a memory.  A charming bit of the past that unfortunately no longer exits.

[Copperhead]

I know I've been feeling really old lately, but since I remember most of this, there is little doubt now . . .

[USRufnex]

Since this is "March Madness"... my memory comes from my high school days in the "Owasso Rampage" (one pg of the Owasso Reporter) newpaper-staff back in the day...

I went to one of those blue/gold basketball scrimmages (at the Owasso gym) and "interviewed" the new TU coach-- Nolan Richardson.  The guy had this really calm and intense look in his eye... and talked to me, a hs sophomore... like an adult.

Got a couple of tickets to TU's opener that year against defending NCAA Champ Louisville... TU won in those tiger-striped shorts and "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" was the theme song when Paul Pressey, Phil Spradling, Mike Anderson, etc. and coach Richardson came that year from their nat'l championship junior college team and took TU to the NIT title-- back when winning the NIT meant a lot more than it does today...