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  1. #1276

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    Nobody's mentioned Kress dept store. We always used their free parking. But always shopped at J.C.Penney. Seem's to me like Cattlemen's had a resturant in that hallway place, next to OK Funiture & Rug Co.

  2. #1277
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rickster View Post
    I believe I do remember Groves and the cafeteria. Also, if I remember correctly
    there was a long hallway that had other businesses in it. This would have been
    just west of the Knob Hill theater.
    I've been thinking about that place for years but could never remember where it
    was. I thought it was near Cattleman's but the description you've made is
    definitely the place. If memory serves, there were long curtains in the cafeteria,
    or along the hall way. That was a long time ago.

  3. #1278

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    This is for all you Generals.......I researched the Oklahoman archives and found that Grant Square Shopping Center was opened in the late 50's with Safeway and Woolworth's being the initial "anchor" stores. These stores opened up there in the late 50's and early 60's.....Western Auto, Beam's Car Care Center, Grant Sq. Liquor Store, Pipkin Photo, Gleason Music Co, Belle's Feminine Fashion, Playhouse USA, Key Rexall Drug, Phipps Appliance, Thrift Finance, Bill's Texaco, Rick's Donuts, House of Hollywood, Capri Cleaners, Sharpe's Dept. Store, Grant Sq. Barber Shop & Beauty Shop.

    And Griff's Burger Bar advertised "Nickel Shake Day" in 1961 in appreciation for their customer's patronage.

  4. #1279
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoonerGirl26 View Post
    ... Grant Square Shopping Center was opened in the late 50's with Safeway and
    Woolworth's being the initial "anchor" stores.
    I had many lunches at the soda fountain at Woolworth's. Anything to get away
    from the cafeteria food, which was pretty good...

    Quote Originally Posted by SoonerGirl26 View Post
    Beam's Car Care Center.
    Weren't they famous for selling seat covers?

  5. #1280

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prunepicker View Post
    Beam's Car Care Center.
    Weren't they famous for selling seat covers?
    Yes....I first saw ads for "Beam's Seat Covers" and then the ads changed to "Beam's Car Care Center".

  6. #1281

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    I remember Kresses in Capital Hill. If I remember correctly they had an escalator.

  7. #1282

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rickster View Post
    I remember Kresses in Capital Hill. If I remember correctly they had an escalator.
    Where was it in Capitol Hill? Was it on the corner directly west across from Langston's? Weren't too many 2-story businesses in Capitol Hill.

  8. #1283

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoonerGirl26 View Post
    Where was it in Capitol Hill? Was it on the corner directly west across from Langston's? Weren't too many 2-story businesses in Capitol Hill.
    Its where DHS office is now. Across from Oklaoma Opry. Way back when they had parking meters in Capitol Hill. Kress had the double decker free parking garage.

  9. #1284
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoonerGirl26 View Post
    Yes... I first saw ads for "Beam's Seat Covers" and then the ads changed to
    "Beam's Car Care Center".
    I remember a store on N. Robinson and 13th. Dad had an office nearby.

  10. #1285
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    Who remembers the Skyline Restaurant on SE 15th? It's still there. How about
    the Dairy Boy across the street from Crooked Oak?

    Hey, they're on the Southside!

  11. #1286
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    What was the Mexican restaurant near or on SE 56th & Shields? I'm thinking it
    was Pedro's. It was a single name.

  12. #1287

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prunepicker View Post
    Who remembers the Skyline Restaurant on SE 15th? It's still there. How about
    the Dairy Boy across the street from Crooked Oak?

    Hey, they're on the Southside!
    I remember the Skyline a freind of mine's father owned it at one time,don't know if he still does.

  13. #1288

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    Does anybody remember the x-ray machine to measure correct fit for shoes in Capitol Hill? I don't remember the store but, I do remember seeing the bones of my feet through the shoes.

  14. #1289

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    Does anybody remember Peaches Music Store? There were several. One was at Penn. & 74th where After The Gold Rush went in after Peaches closed.

  15. #1290

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    There was a club called Peaches at about 62nd & Western.

  16. #1291

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    Quote Originally Posted by gen70 View Post
    Does anybody remember the x-ray machine to measure correct fit for shoes in Capitol Hill? I don't remember the store but, I do remember seeing the bones of my feet through the shoes.
    I seen a story on tv one day about those xray machines they used back in the day on folks to size there feet. The people now have radiation poisoning and developed cancer from them...might be a good idea to get a check up brother.

  17. #1292

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rickster View Post
    I remember Kresses in Capital Hill. If I remember correctly they had an escalator.
    Rickster are you talking about the same building that JOHN A BROWN was in?

  18. #1293

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    [QUOTE=SoonerGirl26;195409]This is for all you Generals.......I researched the Oklahoman archives and found that Grant Square Shopping Center was opened in the late 50's with Safeway and Woolworth's being the initial "anchor" stores. These stores opened up there in the late 50's and early 60's.....Western Auto, Beam's Car Care Center, Grant Sq. Liquor Store, Pipkin Photo, Gleason Music Co, Belle's Feminine Fashion, Playhouse USA, Key Rexall Drug, Phipps Appliance, Thrift Finance, Bill's Texaco, Rick's Donuts, House of Hollywood, Capri Cleaners, Sharpe's Dept. Store, Grant Sq. Barber Shop & Beauty Shop.

    Alot of that was before my time, where was bills texaco at?

  19. #1294

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    Quote Originally Posted by grantgeneral78 View Post
    I seen a story on tv one day about those xray machines they used back in the day on folks to size there feet. The people now have radiation poisoning and developed cancer from them...might be a good idea to get a check up brother.
    Yeah I saw the same show but, I'am still good so far.

  20. #1295

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    When I was very young my mother took me my brother and some neighborhood kids to an easter egg hunt where south community hospital was later built. All the kids waited over by Redding shopping center until a helicopter flew over and dropped hundreds of plastic eggs,then all us kids ran and picked up the eggs. The eggs were the kind you opened up and the prize was inside. There eggs were all different colors but, the grand prize was of course a golden egg. I can't remember what the prizes were except the golden egg was about $50.00 I Think. I did'nt get the golden egg but, what a memory. Does anyone else remember that?

  21. #1296

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    Quote Originally Posted by gen70 View Post
    Does anybody remember the x-ray machine to measure correct fit for shoes in Capitol Hill? I don't remember the store but, I do remember seeing the bones of my feet through the shoes.
    That was a all wood constructed machine, looked kind of like a pulpit with a place to stand, it was right inside Langston's when you first walked in!!

  22. #1297

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    Quote Originally Posted by gen70 View Post
    When I was very young my mother took me my brother and some neighborhood kids to an easter egg hunt where south community hospital was later built. All the kids waited over by Redding shopping center until a helicopter flew over and dropped hundreds of plastic eggs,then all us kids ran and picked up the eggs. The eggs were the kind you opened up and the prize was inside. There eggs were all different colors but, the grand prize was of course a golden egg. I can't remember what the prizes were except the golden egg was about $50.00 I Think. I did'nt get the golden egg but, what a memory. Does anyone else remember that?
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    The contest was originally put together by Hue Weirsig (TG&Y Promotions mgr.)
    The funny part about that was they originally were going to drop baby Chicks also.....They can't fly remember.....That got nixed but, if you remember later after the egg drop, they gave away a bunch of baby chicks.....

  23. #1298

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    [QUOTE=grantgeneral78;195489]
    Quote Originally Posted by SoonerGirl26 View Post
    This is for all you Generals.......I researched the Oklahoman archives and found that Grant Square Shopping Center was opened in the late 50's with Safeway and Woolworth's being the initial "anchor" stores. These stores opened up there in the late 50's and early 60's.....Western Auto, Beam's Car Care Center, Grant Sq. Liquor Store, Pipkin Photo, Gleason Music Co, Belle's Feminine Fashion, Playhouse USA, Key Rexall Drug, Phipps Appliance, Thrift Finance, Bill's Texaco, Rick's Donuts, House of Hollywood, Capri Cleaners, Sharpe's Dept. Store, Grant Sq. Barber Shop & Beauty Shop.

    Alot of that was before my time, where was bills texaco at?
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    Bill's was right on the Southeast corner for years.....Claim to fame was having the hands shot off of his outside clock by some capitol Hill kids.

  24. #1299

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redskins/General View Post
    That was a all wood constructed machine, looked kind of like a pulpit with a place to stand, it was right inside Langston's when you first walked in!!
    Saw one of those in an antique store not too long ago...Trying to rack my brain to remember where it was....

  25. #1300

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    Quote Originally Posted by grantgeneral78 View Post
    Rickster are you talking about the same building that JOHN A BROWN was in?
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    S.H. Kress Co. was directly across the street (west) from the old Katz drug store....Later Langston's and now the Christmas Connection.

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