What do you remember?

[RecycleMichael]

Eddie and the Ecclectics

Joyce Martel?

[union86]

This might have already been discussed, but does anyone else remember the restaurant just south of Oertle's called Freddie Fudd's Food and Factory Place?   It had the Windmill on top of the building.   They served drinks in a large glass goblet.  We use to go there when I was a kid after church.

[RLitterell]

I remember Dickson-Goodman Lumber CO. at the West 41st overpass and Southwest Blvd.

[RecycleMichael]

I've got one I doubt many remember...

Bechtold's Grocery at fifth and Yale. It was about the size of a postage stamp, but had plenty of penny candy and those stupid wax shapes filled with kool-aid.

[Aa5drvr]

I dont remember Bechtolds specifically but I do remember a small grocery store on 4th between harvard and Delaware.

Also fun stuff I remember:
Norman Angels
Coney hut on Admiral and Yale with giant Tiki mask.
Sipes at Eastgate, Humpty at Sheridan Village.
Bordens Cafeteria there too (park on roof).
Don's Restaurant on N Sheridan.
Home Federal Savings & Loan (free suckers).
The "little store" at 91st and 11th street. Actually a Cardinal food store.  Dewey's Barber shop next door.
The restaurant in the original Tulsa municipal airport terminal (long gone) They had "Chicken in the Rough" brand chicken.
SevenElevenBehindTheHilton (Say it all together), long time purveyor of 3.2 beer to underage teens.
Suicide Hill beside the nursing home at 61st and Lakewood. Very steep at the top for dirtbikes.
Being a "B" in 7th grade in Jr. High.

Ahh yes, The Geisha, Pearly Gate, Temperature's Rising, Plaza Circle,Valhalla and Rideshy. (Those places I just heard of never personally went there)

[Aa5drvr]

One more thing I recall:
Fast food Mexican was a new thing.  
Before that if you wanted Mexican you had to go to El Rancho or El Charito.
Taco Hut, Taco Boy were the first ones I remember.
Taco Bell and Bueno followed.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by union86

This might have already been discussed, but does anyone else remember the restaurant just south of Oertle's called Freddie Fudd's Food and Factory Place?   It had the Windmill on top of the building.   They served drinks in a large glass goblet.  We use to go there when I was a kid after church.

The restaurant just south of Oertles with the windmill I remember as a Zuider Zee seafood restaurant.  I remember there used to be a big giant slide for kids around there too. You bought tickets for like 25 cents to go down the big slide on a mat.  There were a couple of those giant slide things back then in the '70s; must have been a fad of the time.

[mdunn]

I grew up on the westside of Tulsa and have been gone for many years now.The last time I visited was in 2001 I believe and I couldnt believe how run down things have gotten.Most of my childhood favorite places are now gone.
My father opened The Yellow Submarine Sub shop at crystal city in 1977.My brothers and I loved running from store to store at Crystal city.Every sat morning we would go bowl on the YBA league at Crystal bowl,then get a hamburger at the restaurant there.When I was there last I saw a partial piece of My dads old Yellow Submarine Sign hanging under the Crystal Bowl sign.Looked kinda spooky.He sold it in 1980,it is now a Bill And Ruths.I also heard H&E grocery is now a Pawn Shop!And I will never forget Pop Bottle Pete..Ya never knew where ya might see him!THE GOOD OLE DAYS ARE GONE!

[art_cat]

First of Thanks to TulsaBill for recommending this thread to me! [^]

Bishops was the place we'd get our breakfast on Sundays, back in 50's. [Didn't they have as part of their sign a huge fake 3-d steer head?] Where Panera's now resides on Cherry street, was a Safeway, and next door to it, a dime store called Weiners. There was a mom-n-pop grocer's called Lowry's Market where the Bourbon Street restaurant is, and next door, of course, there was Arnie's, then Shwegman's Laundromat. [Kind of Ironic that across the street is now a car wash, lol].

The Free Store actually opened circa 1971-72, and was run by a radical branch of the Presbyterian Chrurch. They wanted that location to be a safe haven for kids to hang out. It had soda-pop and candy machines, a pool table, ping-pong table, a nice stereo, couches, and chairs, all donated. The building was due to be razed for the oncoming highway, and was rented for like $1/year. George Stewart was the minister there, and was in his 30's [easy to think of a 30-something as being middle aged as kid, huh?] The Free Store eventually moved up to 3rd street where there is now an architect [I think]. Mr Stewart went on to become a local TV reporter.

At the corner of 15th and Rockford, where the Hideaway now sits, used to be Joe West Insurance with a huge cool neon sign. On the corner across from that, East, was an old filling station that became Ted's Garage. I painted my first ever professional sign there, using an Anchor Paint product around 1971-72; I think I made about $10!. Just past the alley, past the apartments, was Family Leather. So impressed with my sign work, they hired me to paint their sign, and wanted the glass to look like wooden planks... It amuses me that all these years later, the paint has been stripped from that facade to raw wood, lol.

After Ted's Garage closed, that sign I painted kept fading through whatever paint was used to paint over it with, much to my delight!

Further down from Family Leather was The Open Door, a coffee house on 15th at St. Louis, and was owned by my neighbor's sister, circa 1975? I performed there with my underground group, Snipe Theatre. They had open mic night, poetry readings, and other similar events.

There were two hip Tulsa nightclubs I had heard about in Tulsa in the early 1970's, which I never attended. Pepperland on Brookside, and either on 41st or 51st, was 20th Century? Or 20th Century Fox?

Anyone remember Sandy's Hamburgers on 11th St across from the TU stadium? The Library restaurant about in the same area? Shield's Music at 11th and Yale? Part of Shield's original neon sign is still on the building. I went there in the 60's to look at electric guitars. I couldn't afford any, although the cheapest one was a used Silvertone for about $100. My dad took me to Sears, where the same model Silvertone was on sale new with an amp for like $79.99, so I got it! [It's still my daily player]

Downtown was Jenkin's music, which was a Vox dealer, and I bought my first "fuzz" box there, a Vox Tone bender for about $20. I see these on Ebay now for upwards of $200... First time I tried it out, I could my dad yelling at me asking what was wrong with my amp, lol

Anyone remember Mi Pi? They made extra thick pizzas, and would serve the pie still in the pan. What about Across the Street Restaurants? They had the best curly fries, and also had a location on Campus Corner in Norman.

Ug, U Needum Tires?

There is one piece of Tulsa history that escapes me, and that's a large pizza/sald bar restaurant that served ike an all-u-can eat pizza/sald buffet built in the late 60's-early 70's. You'd have to stand in line, then inch your way up, order, pay, and get seated in one of many different motif's. Where was this? Yale? Sherriden? The pizza was very good, the sald bar was great, and the people who worked there were so nice. Anyone?

[art_cat]

oops! sorry billintulsa, it was you who suggested this thread! mea culpa![xx(]

[art_cat]

Back in the old days, there were actually homeless people, like in the 50's, 60', and 70's here in Tulsa, but we called them "hobos". I had heard a rumor that Tulsa's Finest, which is what we called the local cops, would gather some hobos up, put 'em on a bus, and bus them to OK City. Any truth to this?

Remember when there were no automatic elevators? They pretty much all had attendants!

Taco Hut was a locally owned fast food taco place, and would have sales every now and again, like 5/$1! I was an assistant manager at the one downtown, for about a year. They closed, as the building had to be razed for the on-coming highway deveolpment.

Remember the Etc Shop in Utica square? They used to burn incense and had a blacklight room... coooool! I remember asking about a specific item, it looked so weird. Then I pondered, "why would someone want to clip a cockroach?"

Anyone remember when KAKC sponsored a beach party at Utica Square? That was about 1968-69? I remember seeing dump trucks unlaoding sand into the parking lot! There were several bands playing, and Tulsa favorite  The Rogues 5 was the headliner. They had a big drawing, and my brother won like 3 prizes!

Didn't Brewsters Toy Shop either sponsor a Saturday show, or had a Saturday show?

BTW: The Free Store held regular Sunday services for their church meetings! They eventually opened a Free Clinic next door, and local doctors donated their services. Speaking of flower children... I used to sell carnations on street corners, circa 1974-75, and actually made a good living doing it, that is, until the owner was busted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor! We'd get paid more than minnimum wage, and a percentage.

Remember when gas was climbing up as high as 50 cents a gallon, and we thought what an outrage that was?

That tornado that rocked Brookside in '74 leveled the Braum's where my sister worked. They all crowded into the walk-in fridge, which was left standing.

[art_cat]

I forgot that someone mentioned Living Arts? Living Arts was founded in 1969 by Tulsa visionary Virginia Myers. It was originally located in a building destined to be torn down for either the PAC or Williams tower. One of my friends was in a musical there at Living Arts in 1970. There were large art studios, and a couple of galleries. Living Arts has managed to survive all these years, and is still alive! They now are Tulsa's oldest contempoary arts organization.

I can remember as a kid in the 50's going to the train depot to pick up relatives. Then, around, 1970, I remember walking through the defunct building, and imagined what a terrific art studio and gallery it would make!

There used to be a row of mom-n-pop thrift stores along Archer? 1st? Somewhere down there, and right on the corner was the Goodwill store. Down the street was the John:16 mission.

There used to be bricked streets somewhere downtown, and trolley tracks too; anyone remember those? Or are they now all asphalted over?

13th street used to run right passed the old Free Store into Boston where Fred Jones Lincoln Mercury was. Used to be a lot of car dealers downtown.

My grandad told me stories about how 13th and 14th used to get closed because the ice and snow would be so bad, and kids would have fun sledding there. My grandparents had one of those huge swamp coolers in the 50's; that must've been before all those Oklahoma manufactured lakes had been made?

Ah, memories... [}:)]

[jdb]

First memory is being stuck in the pay-toilet of the Wright bus station. I was 11 and had just flown solo from S.F. to visit grandparents.

Joey and Luigi were a popular act. Came to a bad end. I still have one of their ep's. Shame.

Mid-sixties(?) Grandpa and I drove 11th st. with a 60 lbs. catfish, we caught in Oolagha, flopping around in the bed of the truck. Hauled that fish back to our farm pond in Perkins where it precceded to eat every-living-finned-thing in the pond.

Coming back in the 80's I ran guns out of a joint on Brookside....er, strike that.

Hey, here's one:
"Red Meat Substitues" a Terrorist Thearte Group.

In 1886 I rode heard on Hodges pasture, now a graveyard on Peoria and 11th...well, that's a lie, actually.

jdb

[LilMikey]

I remember going to Shotgun Sams on 51st (where the Delta Cafe is now).

They had a magician who performed there on the weekends - he sat inside a booth by the front door and was quite good.

[aoxamaxoa]

Decency....