Yucatan Liquor Stand- 90's
Was originally built as a Chi-Chi's restaurant in the 70's. Was TGI Friday's after the Yucatan. I spent quite a bit of time there.


Cafe Exito on NW Expressway, previously City Lights. 80'sOriginally TaMolly's Mexican Restaurant by Bob Tayer of Molly Murphy's fame. The clay tile roof was actually repossessed off the building which is why it had green asphalt shingles. Johnnie's was the last thing that I knew in there.


After Daddy's Money on Wilshire just East of Rockwell. Had an aquarium with a shark in it. 80'sThey had male strippers there in the very early 80's. I have been trying to remember the name of the owner, he had some of his cars on consignment at John Hoke Lotus when it was open.


Confettis where Petsmart is now at 63rd and May. 80'sWas also known as The Zoo (as you mentioned previously) and The Plum. We spent a lot of time there and Charlie's Chili in front of it since a friends parents owned it. Charlie's was originally built as a Luther's BBQ.


Nate's: inside a building on the North side of 63rd across from where PetSmart is now. Very shortlived, near private access to get in. Crystal chandeliers all over. Brian and Bryan spun there. 80's
I remember it having a different name in the late 80's/early 90's.


The Edge Club in Norman owned by David Box, later called the Shark Club. Renovated twin movie theater in Stubbeman Village strip. Brian and Bryan spun there, then DJ Love. 80's-90's
It was still a theater when I was at OU, the midnight movies had The Rocky Horror Show all the time on one screen and porno in the other.


There were several clubs in the building that housed Jokers comedy club on May ave. I just can't remember the names.
Face's was the first name, had some friends who worked there before Joker's moved from the old Shotgun Sam's location at Britton & May. The first Joker's location that I remember was at Lakeshore Plaza.

Originally TaMolly's Mexican Restaurant by Bob Tayer of Molly Murphy's fame. The clay tile roof was actually repossessed off the building which is why it had green asphalt shingles. Johnnie's was the last thing that I knew in there.

Johnnie's is still there.

Face's was the first name, had some friends who worked there before Joker's moved from the old Shotgun Sam's location at Britton & May. The first Joker's location that I remember was at Lakeshore Plaza.

Lotsa great info, bluedogok.

I forgot that Joker's was also at Britton and May. Of course I was referring to the location that you are where Face's was further up May ave. in the building in the same lot as Best Buy. It had a whole side that was curved glass looking out onto the street. After Joker's moved down to Bricktown other dance clubs came in, the last one was called Rhea's.

Johnnie's is still there.
My parents and wife had a surprise 40th birthday party for me there in one the party rooms after I had moved to Austin. The last time we went there they had cut the dining room down to what seemed like less than half the size of the original and not sure why because it seemed like the other half was nothing but office. We haven't been back since.


Lotsa great info, bluedogok.

I forgot that Joker's was also at Britton and May. Of course I was referring to the location that you are where Face's was further up May ave. in the building in the same lot as Best Buy. It had a whole side that was curved glass looking out onto the street. After Joker's moved down to Bricktown other dance clubs came in, the last one was called Rhea's.
We used to go to the midnight show every weekend at the Britton & May location. It moved to the Face's location when I was living in Dallas, I only went a few times after I moved back to OKC, the setup was not as good as before in my opinion. I think new owners changed a lot of the way things were done at the old location. I never went to the one in Bricktown.

Nate's: inside a building on the North side of 63rd across from where PetSmart is now. Very shortlived, near private access to get in. Crystal chandeliers all over. Brian and Bryan spun there. 80's

It was first Club Dax (1981) then Trump's (1984) before Nate's took over in around 1986.


Didn't Clementine's also start out in 50 Penn Place and then later moved to the Electric Company location?

Started in Penn Square then moved to that Broadway & Hefner location.


And I was wrong about Pistachio's... It was indeed at 50 Penn, not Penn Square.

I have to mention the Apartment Key Club on NW 10th and Villa.

I went to my share of clubs in the 80's.

Samuri Saki House 70th & N May

Confettis - NW 63 & May

Whatever large club was at 30th and N Portland. They had a bartender that had one the best large all natural chests that I have ever seen

Russel's in the Marriot

Whatever large club was at 30th and N Portland

Quicksilver's?

Quicksilver's?

Pete, I can't remember. The name changed so many times. It was the building that was in the SE corner of that shopping area. I remember it was gravel parking lot on the East side. I enjoyed a couple of activities in that parking lot. ;)

It was probably Fritzi's in the Will Rogers Center. Quicksilvers was at 10th and MacArthur.

Bigray in Ok

Three whole pages and nobody has yet mentioned The Store at NW 50 and Portland? Granted, it's more of a beer joint than a dance club, but when I hung out there in the early 80s it did have a tiny dance floor and featured live jazz most every night of the week. I first encountered the place in the early 60s when it was known as the StarMist Club; a fellow ham operator loved the place. However I didn't go inside more than a couple of times until the late 70s/early 80s when my wife's all-girl bowling team would stop by there after league play for a few drinks. It had a piano bar, and the first few times I visited, Baird was at the keyboard. Then long-time local horn man Wayne Nichols took over his spot, and I took to hanging out beside the piano, nursing a draft beer all evening, and visiting with Wayne whenever he took a break.

Whenever a touring band came through town, they would drop in to see Wayne and have an unscheduled jam session. Now and then other local musicians, both professional and amateur, would stop by. It was the closest to traditional jazz clubs I ever found in OKC.

However Wayne fell off the wagon and not long afterward succumbed to a massive coronary, The Store replaced him with a C&W one-man band, and I stopped going. Haven't been there since, but I see it's still in business...

It was probably Fritzi's in the Will Rogers Center. Quicksilvers was at 10th and MacArthur.

Bigray in Ok

Wasn't it also called O'Tooles at one time?

Wasn't it also called O'Tooles at one time?
I think that was the name before it was called Fritzi's.

Does anybody remember Hoagy's Roadhouse?

The original Friends on 63rd and NW highway. Late 80's, early 90's. It was great. On 5 consecutive Friday nights, I walked out of there and went home with 5 different women. Scored with all 5. All northside women. Northside women rock.

Star 7 Discotek (that's how it was spelled) in MWC owned by Ed Smith (aka: Ed Crunk) mid 90's

EBM at I-40 and Scott St. also owned by Ed .

Wow, you definitely know your stuff! However, my club was spelled Star Seven Diskotek... which Shiny Toy Guns gives a nod to in their song Le Disko. I'm also about to kick off "DISKOTEK Saturdays" at XIII X Lounge (kamp's), which is where we do our much loved "ROBOTIC Wednesdays".
Thanx for remembering!

This might be the place for this question: I assume that the building in the late 1980s ( along the 6800 block of W. Wilshire or thereabouts) marked ominously in spray-type letters "AXIS" was a club of some kind; what exactly was it? To my recollection, the building is still there.

After Daddy's Money was out there in the late 70's to early 80's. Last that I knew it was a church but I have heard it was for sale.

Back at some point in a summer in the late 70's or early 80's we had just returned to OKC from a trip to Galveston. The evening (a week or so previously) that we rolled into Galveston, we went walking down by the seawall to look for a place to eat. There was an old, historic, Chinese pagoda-looking, sort of octagonal, restaurant out at the end of an enclosed pier.

The sign out front said, "Casual Dress Welcome." We were--for sure--dressed "casually" and took them at their word. We walked out to the end of the pier. Through the glass doors to the restaurant we could see waitstaff dressed in what looked like formal wear and figured that there was no way that they were going to let us in. We were wrong. They not only seated us immediately, but put us at a table overlooking the surf that I would have personally picked had I been given a choice.

We enjoyed a wonderful meal (I still remember that I ordered "Red Snapper Ponchitrain") along with a couple of tasty "hurricane" cocktails.

At any rate . . . Upon our return to OKC, for some reason, someone wanted to go to some dance club in some shopping center somewhere around here. I seem to remember that you had to access it by going down a friggin' slide of some sort into the bowels of the building. Guess what: I couldn't get in because I was wearing JEANS. Not old tattered or cutoff jeans--like, say, in Galveston--but jeans that probably cost more than the ubiquitous khakis that the dork at the "door" had on.

Dang I'm glad that this idiotic, pseudo-snooty,sartorial snobbery is a thing of the past.

(Oh! Just FYI: My favorite bars back about this time included The Nook, The Crutch, The Hobby Hut, The Western Corral, whatever that bar at the corner of Reno and Sooner? was and The Red Barrel with occasional excursions over to The Hideaway. We tried to steer clear of dives like The Frog Pond. The Eagle's Nest and Maurice's Club. They were too rough. And The Martinique was just a bit too "high-class"--although with no ban on denim. =)

Pistachio's was in 50 Penn

You would be talking about The Balinese Room (http://www.balineseroom.net/). It was a casino until the Texas Rangers effectively shut it down in the fifties. From the stories that I have read Galveston was a pretty wild place back in those days. There was someone that reopened it in 2003 but it was lost forever when Hurricane Ike went through in 2008. It is completely gone now.

Wikipedia - The Balinese Room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_Room)

That was the place, bluedogok . . . The restaurant was at the far end of the pier. The rest of it was pretty much just an enclosed walkway. Thanks for digging that up.

The teen disco was called StarShip 9 located in Warr Acres at 48th & MacArther and operated from 1978 thru 1980. I worked there in my Jr. & Sr. years in high schoold. It was owned by Randy Chandler and he also opened a teen disco on the southside called Safari's in 1979. He also started Christie's Toy Box that was originally called The Adult Toy Box before chaning the name and franchising Christie's. I worked for Randy at all of these businesses. Unfortunately Randy committed suicide and died in OKC.

The first time that I went to Galveston was a few months after Ike, you could tell where it used to be. I just knew about it from some motorcycle friends who grew up in the Houston area and used to talk about it quite a bit.

Hands down my favorite club was Sherlock's on I-40 & MacArthur. Best dance club in the 80's. I still run into people like myself who love to talk about doing the Gator at midnight. I used to love how the place would go pitch black and they would bring the lights up with the music. Dance floor was always packed, and everyone had a blast! I think it's still open, but people are going more to brick town these days.

New here... Im in Costa mesa now and reading these memories are FAB !!... What about Biancas !? In French Market Mall !.. That was a chill out place !.... And someone asked about the owner of After Daddys Money.. Wasnt it Randy Moody, who owned After the Gold Rush ..... ?...... I was so under age when to Gold Rush, and Long Branch Saloon on S Agnew, which I think is now ( still ) Harley World ...... ..aaahhhhhh Goooood times !!!!!

Second Fret, anyone? (Classen, around where the Blue Goose had been)

The Hutch, beer bar in a strip center just south of Britton on N. MacArthur. The place to go back in 1978 or so. Lots of PC people hung out there, when the beer drinking age was lowered to 18.
I was a bartender at Michael's Plum from 1981 to about 1984. The owner of Michael's also owned Pistachios, and he also owned the Across the Street Restaurants. Loved Wednesday nights at Michael's it was ladies night and they could get .25 cent drinks, the place was always packed.

Anyone remember 'Rock and Roll and Then Some' at Club Gators? Here is an old video I have from when we used to go in the 80's. Many of the people in this video are my PCHS classmates. Good Times.

I couldn't find the original file, so, I'm trying to link to my FaceBook. Hope it works. Is it possible to embed video on this forum?

http://www.facebook.com/v/1201646443003

Anyone remember 'Rock and Roll and Then Some' at Club Gators? Here is an old video I have from when we used to go in the 80's. Many of the people in this video are my PCHS classmates. Good Times.
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The 80's were magical times ... the hair ... not so much.

"The 80's 'magical'" . . . ? =)
Obviously you missed The 60's.
(through no fault of your own =)

(Thankfully, we apparently agree that The 70's should be redacted--if not erased--altogether. =)

Bianca's (Jazz Club) in French Market Mall at NW 63rd & May. Whew...had not thought about that place in maaany a year...

My favorites back in the day... 20th Century Electric Company (had the lighted up dance floor like in the movie with John Travolta), and After the Gold Rush, tougher bar, and Fritzi's, large dance floor, extrememly loud, and Long Branch Saloon, tough bar, bikers. :cool:

What was the name of a club in 1980 that featured male strippers? Twas a big deal. The one I'm thinking of was on Hefner Road near Broadway, as I recall. Went there on my 30th birthday, lol.

Hefner & Broadway would be 20th Century that turned into Clementines later. They used to only let ladies in till about 9pm while the guy dancers performed, then unleashed the testosterone to the fired up ladies. :)

Boars Head at 63rd & May

Groovy Bar at the Crosswinds somehwere on May ave

Groovy Bar at the Crosswinds somehwere on May ave

The Crosswinds is still there at about 61st & May on the west side of the street.

For years, it was a "singles only" complex before fair housing laws ended that.

The Crosswinds is still there at about 61st & May on the west side of the street.

For years, it was a "singles only" complex before fair housing laws ended that.

Its amazing how many times ive driven past that and never even noticed it - therefore assuming they no longer existed.

We used to stand in line there to get into that club and it was always packed.

The gold rush yes

I have to say, this was a really interesting read for me--even though I was only alive for five years in the 80's. :)

It's crazy how times have changed.

Yeah, I was born in 1983 but reading about this stuff is fascinating.

Sooners was THE place for us! Good times! I also remember Charlie's.

I remember it :)

Where was Sooners located at ??

Oh yes the Gold rush, remember it well, They had a band that played there quite frequently , Crystal Image ?? I think thats the name.

Crystal Image?

Such an 80s name...

Charlie's Chili on 63rd & N. May Avenue

Charlie's Chili on 63rd & N. May Avenue
I spent a lot of time there, my friends parents owned it during that time.

Help jog my memory....where was The Onyx located....I can see it in my mind but can't recall location.

I used to play regular gigs at the Split T and at Boar's Head. Both excellent. I really liked the backstage for the Boar's Head though.

The original Friends on 63rd and NW highway. Late 80's, early 90's. It was great. On 5 consecutive Friday nights, I walked out of there and went home with 5 different women. Scored with all 5. All northside women. Northside women rock.

I worked in that building when it was My Pie for 10 years from the time it was opened. Even though you had some good times there i sounds like (: i hated that it became Friends. I had an awesome time working there and occasionally partied at Butterfields nearby whe it was in business. Unfortunately...uh, being the 70s and all i can't remember the names of all the bars we partied at. However i spent a serious amount of time at The Hutch out north on MacArthur.

I worked in that building when it was My Pie for 10 years from the time it was opened. Even though you had some good times there i sounds like (: i hated that it became Friends. I had an awesome time working there and occasionally partied at Butterfields nearby whe it was in business. Unfortunately...uh, being the 70s and all i can't remember the names of all the bars we partied at. However i spent a serious amount of time at The Hutch out north on MacArthur.

Where exactly was the Hutch on MacArthur? I Did alot of clubbing in the 80's and don't recall this one, better yet I should ask what type of crowd did the club attract ? :cool:

Where exactly was the Hutch on MacArthur? I Did alot of clubbing in the 80's and don't recall this one, better yet I should ask what type of crowd did the club attract ? :cool:

It was a little dive bar in the strip center on the east side of MacArthur and just south of Britton.

Mainly a college crowd that I recall.

Didn't seem to last very long.

Does anyone remember a nightclub by the name of Kreme? It used stand between Coltrane and Sooner on NE 23rd until last year.

I have always wondered about the place because it looked like it may have been a decent place at one time.

I don't remember that place but then again it was on the east side, We didn't get over to that side of town.. Was it a little hole in the wall type place?

It was a little dive bar in the strip center on the east side of MacArthur and just south of Britton.

Mainly a college crowd that I recall.

Didn't seem to last very long.

Well that explains it then, never visited the little dive bars, Except for the Old Anchor on North Portland just South of 23rd Street. That place drew a very interesting crowd in the 80's.

This might be the place for this question: I assume that the building in the late 1980s ( along the 6800 block of W. Wilshire or thereabouts) marked ominously in spray-type letters "AXIS" was a club of some kind; what exactly was it? To my recollection, the building is still there.

I recall it being some sort of "after hours" club that was open until at least 4am.


There was another club in the spot at 63rd & May where Pets Mart is that was called The Plum in the early 90's after it was Confetti's, The Zoo and some other names I can't remember.

It was called "Tremors" after it was "The Plum." It lasted about a year before it finally closed and the space was leased to PetsMart.


Quicksilvers was at 10th and MacArthur.

Yes...Quicksilvers was at 10th and MacArthur and they were notorious for allowing underage patrons in the club.

Yes...Quicksilvers was at 10th and MacArthur and they were notorious for allowing underage patrons in the club.
It was an 18 beer bar when I was in high school, that was until beer went to 21 in 1983.

Does anyone remember a nightclub by the name of Kreme? It used stand between Coltrane and Sooner on NE 23rd until last year.

I have always wondered about the place because it looked like it may have been a decent place at one time.

I had never heard of Kreme until a year or two ago. We stumbled upon it while out scouting locations and decided to get a closer look. Post coming today! The post will be located at: http://www.abandonedok.com/kreme

I had never heard of Kreme until a year or two ago. We stumbled upon it while out scouting locations and decided to get a closer look. Post coming today! The post will be located at: Krème Nightclub | Abandoned Oklahoma (http://www.abandonedok.com/kreme)

Very cool! You guys do a great job.


I did find some information:


The address was 4500 NE 23rd.

The structure was built in 1965 and up until at least 1972 was home to Contract Interiors, which sold draperies, bedding, etc. At that same time, they also had a location in Shepherd Mall.

See article below regarding a banquet at that location in 1983, then called the e'clat Club.

In 1987 I found an ad for Hideaway Club at that address.

Looks like it operated as Club Unlimited from 1994 to at least 1996. In '96, they were raided for having more than twice the amount of patrons as allowed by fire code. Not sure if it ever re-opened after that.

In 2002 / 2003 I found wants ads (seeking all positions) in the Oklahoman archives for Klub Kreme at that address with a phone number of 427-7200.

The building was sold and demolished in 2011/2012.


Leonard Sullivan Oklahoma County Assessor Real Property Detail Sheet (http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/Searches/AN-R.asp?ACCOUNTNO=R131995050)



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Banquet to Mark Anniversary Of City's First NAACP Sit-In
Gypsy Hogan • Modified: August 6, 1983 at 12:00 am • Published: August 6, 1983
Tickets are now on sale for a silver anniversary dinner banquet to be held Aug. 21 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the first sit-in in Oklahoma City.

Dr. Roger Countee, an internationally known neurosurgeon and a participant in the civil rights protests, will be guest speaker.

Clara Luper, one of the coordinators, said 500 people are expected to attend the banquet which will be at the e'clat club at 4500 NE 23.

The event will be catered by Eddie's Supper Club, owned by Eddie Walker, another sit-in participant.

"This is going to be one of the biggest events ever held in northeast Oklahoma City," said Mrs. Luper, adding that she is proud that a black businessman has the facilities to host such an event while another black businessman will cater it.

The event, however, will not be all-black, she added. "The movement has always had white friends," she said. "I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't have as many whites as blacks at the banquet."

The first sit-in started on Aug. 19, 1958, when 14 youngsters ranging in age from six to 17 entered Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City. They sat at the counter and attempted to order a Coke.

Service was denied because they were black, a policy that was citywide at that time.

Three days later, the drug store changed policy and served the youths.

The children were members of the local NAACP Youth Council which had spent 15 months in talking to restaurant owners about changing the segregation policy. They finally voted to embark on what would become a six-year series of sit-ins.

Mrs. Luper was their adviser who instructed them daily in the principles of non-violent protest, lessons that were tested as onlookers sometimes spat on them, hurled verbal abuse and physically threatened them.

Tickets for the dinner banquet are $25 a person with proceeds going to the Freedom Center, home for the NAACP Youth Council which is still led by Mrs. Luper. The dinner banquet is part of a weeklong series of events beginning Aug. 15 with an open house at the Freedom Center, 2609 N Eastern.

Former sit-inners are asked to register at the center and participate in the week's activities which will include a voters' registration drive and a NAACP membership drive.

Tickets to the dinner banquet may be purchased at the center or by calling Mrs. Luper at 424-2384 or 424-3949.