Anyone remember putt putt business on NW 39th St...

[OKCisOK4me]

My dad used to take me there when I was a kid. I'm thinking it was where the Volkswagen dealership is now.

It had a two foot high metal pole perimeter (painted orange) and the course was concrete lined (also painted orange).

There was an old Long John Silvers right next door, I think.

I used to climb over the orange railing and go play on the railroad tracks behind the putt-putt course.

I think there were 2 or 3 sets of track over there (it was an industrial spur line for the Union Pacific).

If any historical photos or photos at all of this location/business exist, please provide them. Thanks!

[Pete]

This is from 1976:

[Pete]

They were all pretty much the same layout:

[Bill Robertson]

OMG yes!!!! Mom & dad and my oldest sister and BIL went to Casa Bonita then to Putt-Putt many, many Saturday nights. I loved it!!!

[Martin]

i had forgotten about these... there was one around sw 70th and western that looked almost exactly like that, right down to the light fixtures.

[Martin]

ha... the internet delivers! i remember these ads on tv:

[OKCisOK4me]

Sure enough. Right there where the spur line came up from the south.

Thanks for the images above, Pete!

[Roger S]

Remember it? I'm pretty sure I still have some trophies stashed somewhere from tournaments I played in there.

Here's a little FYI that most people didn't know about Putt Putt courses:

If you ever noticed a cigarette burn in the carpet, a ding in a rail, or most any other irregular mark on a hole. It was put there by one of the professional Putt-Putt players to know where you needed to hit the ball to make a hole in one.... The other info that was kept secret was where you needed to play the ball from on the tee mat and whether you needed to push/pull or hit the putt neutral.

Once you figured out the last 2 pieces of the info. You had a pretty good chance of aceing the hole every time.

[Shortsyeararound]

Putt Putt Southside all the time in my youth. Norman Putt Putt to play volleyball in my teens. Loved those places.

[Urbanized]

Interesting. Do you know roughly when the course on 39th went out of business? I got excited when I saw this thread, because I too remember a putt-putt course on NW 39th, but I was almost certain the one I'm thinking of was closer to Bethany. Maybe it was a different one, or maybe my memory is getting foggy (my memory is almost certainly getting foggy). The memory I have is of a course that was possibly even PAST Bethany, and this was in the late 1980s.

[gjl]

I sure do miss that Roy Rogers just east of Putt Putt. I ate there all the time. Their roast beef was so much better than Arby's. And their Double R Bar burger with ham on it. I also worked at that Sirloin Stockade for a few months as a dish washer in High School. When I wasn't washing dishes I would wrap potatoes in foil for baking. What you have labeled Fred Gangs I remember being Billie Lee Pies. Pretty sure Sirloin Stockade got their pies from there that they served. Thinking Sirloin Stockade owned BLPs too. We had a prep lady named Alfia that made the salads and cut the pie slices and if she messed up a slice of pie cutting it she would bring it to the dish room and give it to me. There was also a liquor store next to that Monterey House that sometimes when we got off work, Alfia would go there and buy me and my friend that was a cook at SS a 1/2 pint of Cherry Vodka to split. I spent many a summer night on that strip of 39th between Ann Arbor and Meridian. 1971-1973.

[Sydonesia]

Interesting. Do you know roughly when the course on 39th went out of business? I got excited when I saw this thread, because I too remember a putt-putt course on NW 39th, but I was almost certain the one I'm thinking of was closer to Bethany. Maybe it was a different one, or maybe my memory is getting foggy (my memory is almost certainly getting foggy). The memory I have is of a course that was possibly even PAST Bethany, and this was in the late 1980s.

I used to play at the Putt Putt on 39th as a kid, and it was usually full in the early 80s but the place started dying off around 87 or 88. I know the last time I went was in junior high and my friends and I were literally the only ones there on a weekend, and they had all but given up on maintenance. That was either 89 or 90, so I'm guessing it was shut down sometime soon thereafter.

[Bill Robertson]

Closing in the early 90s sounds about right. Then I remember it sitting abandoned for quite a while before anything happened on that lot.

[Urbanized]

Can anyone remember there being another one closer to Bethany/SNU, or have the sands of time clouded my memory and I’m actually remembering this one and have my locations mixed up?

[Pete]

Can anyone remember there being another one closer to Bethany/SNU, or have the sands of time clouded my memory and I’m actually remembering this one and have my locations mixed up?

There wasn't one in that area; you are thinking of the one on 39th which was only a couple of miles from Bethany.

[Urbanized]

I suppose so, but sure did think I was remembering one a few miles west of there.

[Pete]

There are two big mini-golf chains looking for OKC locations right now:

https://www.puttery.com/

https://popstroke.com/

[BoulderSooner]

There are two big mini-golf chains looking for OKC locations right now:

https://www.puttery.com/

https://popstroke.com/

popstroke is awesome and is in major expansion mode ...

that would be a great get for the Half ...

[soonergolfer]

Popstroke would be awesome. It is Tiger’s company and partnered with Taylor Made Golf. Would say it may be a reach, but they are opening up one in Tuscaloosa, so you never know.

[BDP]

popstroke is awesome and is in major expansion mode ...

that would be a great get for the Half ...

That's a good call. Would be perfect at the Half.

[Cohiba]

*** Does anyone remember the "mini" golf course in Edmond at Boulevard and Memorial? I never played it but from what I remember and saw as I drove past it; it looked like a real golf course but mini sized. I can't remember how many holes there were but I seem to remember you played with a driver,a wedge and a putter. Then a few years later a Mercy medical clinic and other things were built there. What year this was for the golf course...early '90's???

[Urbanized]

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That was Lions Fun Park. Opened early-mid nineties. Had a passable mini golf, but also an arcade, a driving range and a REALLY nice little 9-hole par 3 course. Redeveloped maybe 15 years ago..?

Edit: closed and seized for tax liability in 2003. Redeveloped a few years after.

[Pete]

*** Does anyone remember the "mini" golf course in Edmond at Boulevard and Memorial? I never played it but from what I remember and saw as I drove past it; it looked like a real golf course but mini sized. I can't remember how many holes there were but I seem to remember you played with a driver,a wedge and a putter. Then a few years later a Mercy medical clinic and other things were built there. What year this was for the golf course...early '90's???

This is from 1995; Boulevard is on the right side of the image:

[Urbanized]

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I seem to remember there were also some softball-related components. I think the oddly-shaped area near the middle of that shot may have been a batting cage.

[gjl]

There was also a 9 hole par 3 golf course and batting cages on the east side of Western across from Downtown Airport.