I don't want to call it a "favorite" of mine but does anybody remember Sinbad's on Meridian? I worked with a salesman from Univac that loved the women, the less clothes, the better. He took me there a couple of times. Not my cup of tea but interesting to say the least.
C. T.

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.

Thanks for the information, I have always wondered about Kreme. I have lived in Midwest City since 2008 and I frequently passed that place and wondered about what it looked like inside and that sort of thing. The Prince Song Cream would would pop in my head. Now, I know. Thanks again.

I don't want to call it a "favorite" of mine but does anybody remember Sinbad's on Meridian? I worked with a salesman from Univac that loved the women, the less clothes, the better. He took me there a couple of times. Not my cup of tea but interesting to say the least.
C. T.

I think Sinbad's was at 16th and May. Some of my old acquaintances in The Rogues used to hang out there not long before it shut its doors. (The Rogues was a motorcycle club . . . not a band.) It was just up the street from Bosco's--another place I don't know anything about, personally . . . =)

I probably drove by what became Kreme hundreds of times when I lived on that side of town. Was it, at one time, the meeting building for the African-American branch of The Masons (Prince Albert Hall or whatever)?

13th & May(my aunt lived down the street from there).....there was another place at 23rd & Meridian sometime in the 80's but don't remember the name.

Yes, my mistake, I remember the place on May, and drove by it yesterday.
C. T.

This Thread is amazing and brought back a ton of Great memories!

I remember the Hideaway club, it was the first club I went to after high school. Quicksilver had reopened on 10th and MacArthur so that was another one I went to. I wasn't able to get into adult clubs until 1990. Ebonys on 4800 n Lincoln was a fave.

In the 80's I was very much interested in BeBop. Nothing else. As far as I was
concerned there was no other kind of music. I'm glad I took a cold shower
and woke up.

Now I'll play and arrange whatever pays.

If you want a string quartet, brass ensemble, full orchestra, small orchestra,
jazz band then I'm your man.

Do you have a song you want played to String Quartet? Brass Quintet?
Orchestra? Solo?

Let me know. Even if our politics don't jive I'll still do whatever needs to be
done to make you look as good as possible.

Seriously.