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Hardigree's Donuts on Main and Western next to the Vocational School building....You didn't know that that building was an old Vocational School did you?????Also, Dan's Donuts they were located next door to Bob Poole's Grocery Store on the North East Corner of 44th and S. May.....Did you remember Bob Poole's????They (the donuts) were 50 cents a dozen or three dozen for a Dollar......Fresh, and hot to your front door....."I always said when the people came to the door when they would ask how much????I'd say 3 Dozen for a dollar......most of the people were still sound asleep and would dish out a dollar to get rid of that "Pesky" little kid.....I would make about $3.00 a day and all the donuts I could eat.....Then I'd bring home the ones we didn't sell for my Mom and Sisters......Miss those days....$3.00 would equal a NEW Model car and Glue... sometimes new Model Paint.....a dollar or so left over for the movies at the Chieftain Theater......You can tell I was a money saver.....I knew what my budget was.....
In the early fifties that grocery store on the N.E. corner of 44th and May was Rhoads Grocery, also on the N.E. corner of 44th and Walker. Kay Rhoad's (married to deceased Bobby Murcer) Dad!! That was probably before you moved into that neighborhood?

In the early fifties that grocery store on the N.E. corner of 44th and May was Rhoads Grocery, also on the N.E. corner of 44th and Walker. Kay Rhoad's (married to deceased Bobby Murcer) Dad!! That was probably before you moved into that neighborhood?

Just east of Ernie's DX and Burl Higgins' Barbershop (I think he called it the Knob Hill Barber.) Burl was studying to be a lawyer; does anyone know if he made it?

Just east of Ernie's DX and Burl Higgins' Barbershop (I think he called it the Knob Hill Barber.) Burl was studying to be a lawyer; does anyone know if he made it?

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You are OLD....I haven't thought of Burl Higgins in forever......

The TV Repairman!
Do you remember the huge box he'd carry in?
How about when he'd use a mirror, propped
against his tool box, to adjust the set from
the back?

And Dad's reaction to the bill!

The TV Repairman!
Do you remember the huge box he'd carry in?
How about when he'd use a mirror, propped
against his tool box, to adjust the set from
the back?

And Dad's reaction to the bill!

How about some the rigging that needed to be done since the sets were not cheap. Our set got to where the tuner/station dial (For you youngsters there were no remotes. Besides, I think we only had stations 4, 5, 9, 13 & maybe 14) would not "hold" on its own so we had to wedge a butter knife in the thing to watch programs.

Let's add that our kids will never know a life where all the t.v. stations went off the air late at night. Anybody know what time?
So no all night t.v.

They'll never know what it's like to be responsibile for getting home in time for dinner without having to rely on a cell phone call from mom/dad.

They'll never know what it's like to be responsibile for getting home in time for dinner without having to rely on a cell phone call from mom/dad.

You are lucky to have a "family" dinner

You are lucky to have a "family" dinner

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family Dinner........Family dinner............Hmmmmmm....Oh Yeah....The Village Idiot's dad was the neighborhood TV Repairman....I think V I still has his box of tubes.....

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family Dinner........Family dinner............Hmmmmmm....Oh Yeah....The Village Idiot's dad was the neighborhood TV Repairman....I think V I still has his box of tubes.....

Would make a great Christmas gift for "Uncle Fester"

Dialing a phone number to the bank downtown to get the current time and temp.

How about some the rigging that needed to be done since the sets were not cheap. Our set got to where the tuner/station dial (For you youngsters there were no remotes. Besides, I think we only had stations 4, 5, 9, 13 & maybe 14) would not "hold" on its own so we had to wedge a butter knife in the thing to watch programs.

Let's add that our kids will never know a life where all the t.v. stations went off the air late at night. Anybody know what time?
So no all night t.v.
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Most generally midnight after the Star Spangled Banner was played...And, the television announcer from any given station took the time to Thank all of the viewers for their patronage...

......................................Stag Beer......

Dialing a phone number to the bank downtown to get the current time and temp.

Do you remember the phone number for Liberty Bank time & temp?

Rick

Do you remember the phone number for Liberty Bank time & temp?

Rick

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Nope, couldn't afford a telephone...back in the good ole days when times were bad...what was it? Do they still give you the time and temp???

Phone exchanges. JAckson, VIctor, CEntral, MElrose, MUtual. Those are the only ones I can remember.

Rick

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Nope, couldn't afford a telephone...back in the good ole days when times were bad...what was it? Do they still give you the time and temp???

Don't know if they still do or not. I believe the number was something simple, like CEntral1-2345 or CEntral2-2222. "A cancelled check is your best receipt. Liberty Bank time....9:12, temperature...33."

Rick

Phone exchanges. JAckson, VIctor, CEntral, MElrose, MUtual. Those are the only ones I can remember.

Rick

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Orange was Del City...Skyline was another....betcha Soonergirl could tell us all of them....

Sermonettes and the poem with the pilot flying a jet that ended, "and
touched the face of God."

I am originally from Ardmore.....and when my cousins were growing up their mother would come home after work and spank them unmercifully. The reason???? her best was was THE operator and what you did was just give her the number ( i.e. 199) and she would plug you in to that number. She would also listen to their calls and whenever something was wrong, here came the belt...One time, one of them was bragging to a friend about "Stealing" certain items from the Drug Store.....The operator called the store and had them charge the items to my aunts account....Man, you want to talk about a whipping exercise ....she execute it....however, he still had the goods and she still had to pay....

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Orange was Del City...Skyline was another....betcha Soonergirl could tell us all of them....

Yep, I remember them now. S & SE OKC was like another world to us near Northside (23rd to 39th) kids back in the early '60s.

Rick

Hey:....just thought about something...I have a "New" Daughter-in-law"....City Slicker but willing to try anything and Cute enough to make it happen...'nuf bragging....She never knew about Persimmons until Just BEFORE the first freeze. She said something like "You're going to die"....Her mouth was too puckered up and I was too busy laughing.....I know, someday I'll pay...but, it was worth it....

Orange was Del City...Skyline was another... betcha Soonergirl could tell us
all of them...
SKyline was far north OKC. SUnset was Bethany. PArkview (?) was also
N.W. OKC. SWift - was that Moore? MUtual and MElrose were Southside.
JAckson, VIctor, WIndsor, CEntral, PErshing and GArfield.

Operator!

SKyline was far north OKC. SUnset was Bethany. PArkview (?) was also
N.W. OKC. SWift - was that Moore? MUtual and MElrose were Southside.
JAckson, VIctor, WIndsor, CEntral, PErshing and GArfield.

Operator!

I think you got 'em all PP! Whoa! I just got a Time Tunnel rush seeing all those names again. Everyone I called was either JA or VI, but I remember all of 'em!

Sad side note on OK literacy: Back in the days before the internet & DVDs, when there were only 4 TV stations, including KETA, when you could only get KOCO if you lived within 3 miles of the station or had one hellacious roof antenna, my friends and I would amuse ourselves by looking up goofy names in the phone book. (DISCLAIMER! I am NOT making this next part up!) One day, in the "f"s in the white pages, we found "Fone Company". In the column where the address and number would normally be listed it read, "See 'Southwestern Bell Telephone Company'" We laughed for hours about that. If anyone has an OKC phone book from circa 1966-67, please corroborate this for me!

Rick

Don't know if they still do or not. I believe the number was something simple, like CEntral1-2345 or CEntral2-2222. "A cancelled check is your best receipt. Liberty Bank time....9:12, temperature...33."

Rick

It's been 599-1234 for as long as I can remember (I'm 37).

I just called it, and it's still up and running.

SKyline was far north OKC. SUnset was Bethany. PArkview (?) was also
N.W. OKC. SWift - was that Moore? MUtual and MElrose were Southside.
JAckson, VIctor, WIndsor, CEntral, PErshing and GArfield.

Operator!

These "exchange" numbers are still used by the phone company. Had a problem with my phone and a SW Bell tech came out on a Saturday morning to fix it. I said something to the effect that it must suck to have to spend a Saturday working especially in this area because all the homes are so old. Told me she loved working the "melrose" exchange and went one to explain that the bldg. on South Shartel contained the exchange.

It's been 599-1234 for as long as I can remember (I'm 37).

I just called it, and it's still up and running.

I'm 56 and it was CEntral something (23X) back in the day before you were born ; )

Rick

Cool.

I know that the name of the bank running it has changed many times...But they always leave that line up.

@Prunepicker

You mean the Poem High Filght, I remember them doing a reading
of this when one of the stations went off the air. Here is the Poem:

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.


Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

Here is a Wikipedia article on the author:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.

I've always like this poem.

Chuck E.

@Prunepicker

You mean the Poem High Filght, I remember them doing a reading
of this when one of the stations went off the air. Here is the Poem:

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.


Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

Here is a Wikipedia article on the author:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.

I've always like this poem.

Chuck E.

Actor/director John Houston was the voice used for the piece.

(DISCLAIMER! I am NOT making this next part up!) One day, in the "f"s in
the white pages, we found "Fone Company". In the column where the
address and number would normally be listed it read, "See 'Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company'" We laughed for hours about that. If anyone has
an OKC phone book from circa 1966-67, please corroborate this for me!

You are correct. I won many a bet on that one. It went through the 70's
and lasted until "political correctness" took over. I think was also under T
for The Fone Company.

You mean the Poem High Filght, I remember them doing a reading
of this when one of the stations went off the air.
Yes! That's the one.

How about the segment where a preacher or minister came on giving a prayer or reading from the bible? Often called titled prologue.

You are correct. I won many a bet on that one. It went through the 70's
and lasted until "political correctness" took over. I think was also under T
for The Fone Company.

Too funny! I had a neighbor in the late 70s-early 80s (The calendar, not the neighbor) who worked for SWBT as an information operator. She told me that at least once a week they would get a call asking for the number for 911.

Rick

What about SKyline or WIndsor?
My first phone number was VI-29456, had to memorize this for kindergarten.
My parents' work number was WI-61461, had to memorize this in case my older brother was picking on me...

SUnset, ORange, MUtual,

When the phone numbers were given 7 numbers, the first two were still the prefix always used.
SUnset 9-9182 became 789-9182

SKyline was far north OKC. SUnset was Bethany. PArkview (?) was also
N.W. OKC. SWift - was that Moore? MUtual and MElrose were Southside.
JAckson, VIctor, WIndsor, CEntral, PErshing and GArfield.

Operator!



What about SKyline or WIndsor?
Ahem... please notice that the remarkable and amazing Prunepicker, who
is also incredibly humble, addressed this!

Gen64! Why didn't you address this? Me beating you to it isn't a good reason!

Loading a roll of film into a camera.

And I don't mean dropping a 35mm cartridge into a point & shoot, or a 110 instamatic, or a disc. I have and use 4 cameras older than I am, and it's always like a birthday or Christmas to open one of these up, take the roll out and spool another one on. "Ooh! Did I use the right aperture and meter my exposures well on this roll?"

Instant gratification is overrated.

Rick

Most all businesses closed on Sunday.

Blue Laws.

Most all businesses closed on Sunday.

Blue Laws.
In addition to that, places that only take cash. I know many younger ones who are raised in the city are shocked that places exist that don't take debit/credit cards. We still find many of these places out on our motorcycle rides because we purposely go to those small mom-n-pop type places out in rural areas. I use the card more than I used to but still always try to have some cash, I know all to well having worked retail back in the days when electronic card transactions were just starting (over 20 years ago) and worked about 25% of the time...so i still don't trust them to be fail safe.

Getting a sucker from the security guard at the bank....

Getting a sucker from the security guard at the bank....

AND, ta daa, at the DENTIST.

AND, ta daa, at the DENTIST.

I was getting some dental work done when the dentist asked me about my wife (ex wife now) was doing. She had perfect teeth. Flossing fanatic. Told him she was in the lobby waiting for me when he told his assistant to bring her back to where we were. He gave her $5.00 and told her to go to the 7/11, get a giant cup of ice and a couple of bags of corn nuts.

h.i.s. jackets. The zip up, windbreaker kind, not the sport coats. At Harding HS in '67-'68 a navy blue h.i.s. jacket was almost a uniform. A few of the braver souls had the light yellow ones.

Rick

Which reminds me of Arnold Palmer Sweaters.

little red pill you got in grade school with a dental packet (chewed pill and it would show areas you failed to properly brush)

polio shots given at school. At first it was administered within a sugar cube and I have no idea why they changed. Unless it had to do with LSD sugar cubes....

polio shots given at school. At first it was administered within a sugar cube and I have no idea why they changed. Unless it had to do with LSD sugar cubes....

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I was in the group of Fourth Graders that were given the Polio shots "Polio Pioneers".......The Nurses and the Principal (Mr. Lawter) of our school would block the doors when they saw me....They knew I was committed "Coward" and didn't want any D$%&# Polio Shot....Saying the D word Spanking hurt worse thatn the D$%&# shot....But, I still have the Polio Pioneer button.....1954....what a year.....

polio shots given at school. At first it was administered within a sugar cube and I have no idea why they changed. Unless it had to do with LSD sugar cubes....I still have the scar on my arm.

I still have the scar on my arm.

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No, that was for Small Pox.......That hurt also......I have the scar also....The Polio Pioneer Program was given to Fourth Graders throughout the country. Why they had to pick on us is beyond my wildest dream. I don't like needles if you haven't figured this out by now.....

So how old are the youngest of us who have our little small pox scars on our upper arms? ie, When did they quit giving those. Re polio, I think the shots were Salk's and the sugar cubes were Sabine's vaccines.

I don't have a scar but do remember the sugar cubes

I don't have a scar but do remember the sugar cubes
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The scar Frisky is talking about was a small Pox Innoculation usually on your left arm. Almost everyone had that shot....It produced a "Scab" and left a scar. I don't think you are "Old Enough" to have had the shot. Now, the Sugar cubes did have the Polio Vaccine on them.....

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The scar Frisky is talking about was a small Pox Innoculation usually on your left arm. Almost everyone had that shot....It produced a "Scab" and left a scar. I don't think you are "Old Enough" to have had the shot. Now, the Sugar cubes did have the Polio Vaccine on them.....

Not so. You probably had your shot. In the 5th and 6th grades they gave them to us at Lee. They used the new technology of the day, a "gun". operated on air. Ugly looking thing, but did not hurt. Unless you moved....

Don't remember getting the shot.........and don't have a scar. So when did they stop giving the shot.

I don't remember having one after the 6th grade.

The only time I got the Polio Shot was in the Fourth Grade but, there was one shot and two Booster Shots....Man, I hate needles......

Back on topic the kids will probably know about a bunch of "Old Timers" playing the Alphabet game.......Sheesh.....Someone come up with some Y's

Don't remember getting the shot and don't have a scar. So when did they
stop giving the shot.
The late 50's and early 60's we'd go to the doctor for the shots then the
schools started giving them. Later it was put on sugar cubes.

they'll never know about the tattoos that Prunepicker has...

The late 50's and early 60's we'd go to the doctor for the shots then the
schools started giving them. Later it was put on sugar cubes.

Reminds me of something, most kids won't know that at one time, schools had a registered Nurse on staff.