Southside OKC Memories....anyone?

[papaOU]

I think most everyone has taken the summer off???????

[USG '60]

Every substantive memory I have is already on this thread; there ain't no more. Someday I will tell my grandkids to just read this thread as my auto-biography.

[storybookmom]

I remember the old Reding Shopping Center on SW 44th & Western across from Sears. They had everything. We loved eating at Dodson's Cafeteria and Big Ed's Hamburgers. We shopped at Street's, TG&Y, Rudy's Best Yet Foods and Otasco. Every Fourth of July Reding Shopping Center would have 5cent hot dogs and Pepsi in the late 70's when I was a kid. At Christmas they had the horse drawn carriage rides. We also ate at the resteraunt inside of Sears and the candy counter was wonderful. Does anyone remember a Burger King, Kinney's Shoe Store and a Tasty Freeze being on 57th & Western? I remember going to Safeway on 59th & Western in the shopping center across the street from Buchanan's Grocery Store. I remember my mother buying stamps at the little stamp machine postal area in the shopping center at 59th & Western. It seems like things were more convenient then. That area of town was so nice in the early 80's. It is sad to see how run down it is now.

[Vintage BMX'er]

Anyone remember the grocery store on S. Portland? It had a large figure in the front parking lot holding up a sign. Well, this week they have powerwashed all the graffiti off of it and it's now back in it's original state. Anyone know what's up with that?

[Rickster]

Seems to be an echo going through this thread....Did all of our memories go away down memory lane? Just because this thread is so long and people have enjoyed it so much ....where is everyone????? Roll Call Please:.....Generals64...next

Rickster here. Just having an Alzheimer moment.

[papaOU]

Anyone remember the grocery store on S. Portland? It had a large figure in the front parking lot holding up a sign. Well, this week they have powerwashed all the graffiti off of it and it's now back in it's original state. Anyone know what's up with that?

They had to wash him since he has been there so long with armpits exposed. Is he still wearing his animal robe?

[Generals64]

They had to wash him since he has been there so long with armpits exposed. Is he still wearing his animal robe?

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that was originally "Honest John's"....Didn't work so they (Don Fox) opened the big Giant Warehouse and that worked for many, many years....Very successful I might add....

[USG '60]

Isn't the giant about 50 years old now?

[Generals64]

Isn't the giant about 50 years old now?

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No, it was built right across the street from my Grandfather's house in about 1959-1960 somewhere in there....duh, that's about fifty years ago....hey '60 if my math has lost me that bad maybe you or papa should come and get me for the next meeting....just kidding....didn't realize that fifty isn't really that long ago....

[USG '60]

I am thrilled that I have one more brain cell left than you do. I was thinking that it was built between about '58 and '60. As teenagers we used to plot to make a huge paper mache (shall I say) "member" to attach to it some night. I don't THINK we ever pulled it off or some one would have mentioned it before now.....

[MonkeyBiz6903]

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No, it was built right across the street from my Grandfather's house in about 1959-1960 somewhere in there....duh, that's about fifty years ago....hey '60 if my math has lost me that bad maybe you or papa should come and get me for the next meeting....just kidding....didn't realize that fifty isn't really that long ago....

64 do remember them giving rides in a go-cart, that looked like a model-T? Musta been 1959

[Generals64]

I am thrilled that I have one more brain cell left than you do. I was thinking that it was built between about '58 and '60. As teenagers we used to plot to make a huge paper mache (shall I say) "member" to attach to it some night. I don't THINK we ever pulled it off or some one would have mentioned it before now.....

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Hey '60, most of these guys were either little bitty kids or not born yet....they wouldn't remember if you did or didn't pull off the caper....or whatever....You know, there has to be more memories out there floating around....We can't be brain dead yet are we????If we start back at the beginning, this thread would be 200 plus pages.....Oh well, here we go again....

[grantgeneral78]

Every substantive memory I have is already on this thread; there ain't no more. Someday I will tell my grandkids to just read this thread as my auto-biography.

Yeah I think my memory bank has tapped out also...it is all here for all to see.

[Generals64]

Yeah I think my memory bank has tapped out also...it is all here for all to see.

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We shall not give up the battle. Even when all your memories are floating in your head there is one (at least one) that you haven't shared...The challenge is to find one in your mind (EVERYBODY READING MUST DO IT) and post it then think some more....Keep digging.....I remember getting asked (thrown out of) to leave the Boy Scout meeting.....I didn't mean to shoot the dart at the leader....
Or, How about making a sling shot out of a willow fork and a bicycle tube with the tongue from a leather shoe....Used my marbles for bullets....Lost all my Marbles......How many of you GUYS remember polishing your Black shoes with so much liquid polish that when you walked out in the rain there would be a trail of black polish....????Come on...there's something or some teenage embarassment that you haven't haven't told us.....it's your tuen....Kevinpate...Generals78....Prunepicker (if he's still alive) I'm sure that Soonergirl26 has some embarassing moment she will share with us...how about you Southside Girl....We've worked to hard to stop....help Bluedog or ECO...How about native Okie....PapaOU i know I can count on you....all right team let's go Frisky where are you????

[papaOU]

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We shall not give up the battle. Even when all your memories are floating in your head there is one (at least one) that you haven't shared...The challenge is to find one in your mind (EVERYBODY READING MUST DO IT) and post it then think some more....Keep digging.....I remember getting asked (thrown out of) to leave the Boy Scout meeting.....I didn't mean to shoot the dart at the leader....
Or, How about making a sling shot out of a willow fork and a bicycle tube with the tongue from a leather shoe....Used my marbles for bullets....Lost all my Marbles......How many of you GUYS remember polishing your Black shoes with so much liquid polish that when you walked out in the rain there would be a trail of black polish....????Come on...there's something or some teenage embarassment that you haven't haven't told us.....it's your tuen....Kevinpate...Generals78....Prunepicker (if he's still alive) I'm sure that Soonergirl26 has some embarassing moment she will share with us...how about you Southside Girl....We've worked to hard to stop....help Bluedog or ECO...How about native Okie....PapaOU i know I can count on you....all right team let's go Frisky where are you????

Remember when we poured liquid bleach on our jeans to fade them? Now you have to pay for them to come that way. So how about wearing a pair of those jeans, a wife-beater t-shirt and no shoes or socks.

But I did make it to 7:00am mass.

You did not say who would be embarrassed. Though not in attendance my parents were slightly embarrassed.

[andy157]

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We shall not give up the battle. Even when all your memories are floating in your head there is one (at least one) that you haven't shared...The challenge is to find one in your mind (EVERYBODY READING MUST DO IT) and post it then think some more....Keep digging.....I remember getting asked (thrown out of) to leave the Boy Scout meeting.....I didn't mean to shoot the dart at the leader....
Or, How about making a sling shot out of a willow fork and a bicycle tube with the tongue from a leather shoe....Used my marbles for bullets....Lost all my Marbles......How many of you GUYS remember polishing your Black shoes with so much liquid polish that when you walked out in the rain there would be a trail of black polish....????Come on...there's something or some teenage embarassment that you haven't haven't told us.....it's your tuen....Kevinpate...Generals78....Prunepicker (if he's still alive) I'm sure that Soonergirl26 has some embarassing moment she will share with us...how about you Southside Girl....We've worked to hard to stop....help Bluedog or ECO...How about native Okie....PapaOU i know I can count on you....all right team let's go Frisky where are you????

OK 64 here's one for you. During the Christmas seasons back in the 60s and 70s, where was the most famous house (IMO) on the Southside?

[papaOU]

OK 64 here's one for you. During the Christmas seasons back in the 60s and 70s, where was the most famous house (IMO) on the Southside?

I have discovered that there were two famous houses during The Holiday Seasons. One location south and another north.

Are you ready for this?


Jessie's.........


Unless you lived too far south of 44Th and between Penn & May......

The big thrill for those people was seeing Mr. Hankey the Christmas Pooh.................

[Generals64]

OK 64 here's one for you. During the Christmas seasons back in the 60s and 70s, where was the most famous house (IMO) on the Southside?

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I'm going to do my homework before I answer this....I'll get back quickly....

[SOUTHSIDE GIRL]

There was a house about SW 42 and Douglass that had a sleigh with a real live Santa.

[andy157]

There was a house about SW 42 and Douglass that had a sleigh with a real live Santa.

The house I was thinking of is on S.W. 42nd or 43rd St. But it is 2 or 3 blocks East of S.Western, which would be Olie or Shartel. The house was East of Sears. I remember sleighs, trains, rocket ships, and what as a kid seemed to be millions of lights, and long lines of cars backed up waiting to drive by.

[papaOU]

The house I was thinking of is on S.W. 42nd or 43rd St. But it is 2 or 3 blocks East of S.Western, which would be Olie or Shartel. The house was East of Sears. I remember sleighs, trains, rocket ships, and what as a kid seemed to be millions of lights, and long lines of cars backed up waiting to drive by.

My youngest just turned thirty. Do kids still like to do that stuff? Don't really see or notice people driving through neighborhoods anymore. My oldest granddaughter was taken around until she was about 5. That's when she decided she would rather ride the horse and carriage in Chickasha than look at any lights.

[SOUTHSIDE GIRL]

The house I was thinking of is on S.W. 42nd or 43rd St. But it is 2 or 3 blocks East of S.Western, which would be Olie or Shartel. The house was East of Sears. I remember sleighs, trains, rocket ships, and what as a kid seemed to be millions of lights, and long lines of cars backed up waiting to drive by.

I think it was the same house but it was off Douglas by the hospital

[gen70]

I remember the house east of Sears. It was something else. Also the houses at Ski Lake.

[gen70]

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We shall not give up the battle. Even when all your memories are floating in your head there is one (at least one) that you haven't shared...The challenge is to find one in your mind (EVERYBODY READING MUST DO IT) and post it then think some more....Keep digging.....I remember getting asked (thrown out of) to leave the Boy Scout meeting.....I didn't mean to shoot the dart at the leader....
Or, How about making a sling shot out of a willow fork and a bicycle tube with the tongue from a leather shoe....Used my marbles for bullets....Lost all my Marbles......How many of you GUYS remember polishing your Black shoes with so much liquid polish that when you walked out in the rain there would be a trail of black polish....????Come on...there's something or some teenage embarassment that you haven't haven't told us.....it's your tuen....Kevinpate...Generals78....Prunepicker (if he's still alive) I'm sure that Soonergirl26 has some embarassing moment she will share with us...how about you Southside Girl....We've worked to hard to stop....help Bluedog or ECO...How about native Okie....PapaOU i know I can count on you....all right team let's go Frisky where are you????

I still have many memories to post, can't imagine running out. I have memories that I can't post that would fill this entire site.

[Generals64]

ok 64 here's one for you. During the christmas seasons back in the 60s and 70s, where was the most famous house (imo) on the southside?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------that house was located on s. Ollie just north of 44th st. Around 42 or 43...