Most of my memories centered around the NW part of town.

I worked at Kennards Grocery at 50th and MacArthur for a few years. Mr. Kennard was a great guy. He gave a lot of kids a chance at a job. I also remember the minimum wage was $1.30 !

Fishing on the docks at Lake Hefner was great fun. We could ride our bikes there and afterward we'd go to the ranger station where we'd get a pop and they'd let us go up into the observation tower.

There was the Oklahoma City Country Club( or something like that ) at 63rd and Portland Ave, across from channel 5. We belonged there for a few years and went swimming there. There was the Coronado Square shopping Center there, too. I remember the barber shop. Walk in on saturday morning and take a number!

My father was an engineer at the General Electric plant. That was in the days when a computer occupied an entire room.

NW 39th street still looked a lot like the old Route 66 it once was.

Good days and we managed to survive without cell phones, computers, the internet or video games.

Anyone else remember these things?


Mike