Southside OKC Memories....anyone?

[Redskins/General]

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Yeah on the Ice Cream But....I gotta drink More BEER.....Shucks.....

I bet those stones were the size of golf balls with little spurs on them! You can sure tell your gettin' old when all you do is whine about your health, you little wuss!! You know I'm only kidding, or am I!! How long are we going to have to hear about these little stones of yours anyway?

[Generals64]

I bet those stones were the size of golf balls with little spurs on them! You can sure tell your gettin' old when all you do is whine about your health, you little wuss!! You know I'm only kidding, or am I!! How long are we going to have to hear about these little stones of yours anyway?

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Oh man, your back....finally someone to pick on.....and oh yeah, I know you've been down this same road and you know they hurt like H%$#......Stay with us....

[Prunepicker]

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Southside OKC Memories
Get Together

Coit's Root Beer Drive-In
2500 S. Western

August 15, 1:30pm

Bring memories, memorabilia,
photos, yearbooks, etc...

[Alek Hidell]

Just discovered this site and this thread in the last couple of days ... great memories of many things I'd forgotten. Lifelong southsider here (Coolidge Crocodile, M.L. King Fifth-Year Center [remember Fifth-Year Centers?], Roosevelt Titan, U.S. Grant General), and in fact I still am - just a lot farther south now. I'm a little younger than some of you (age 43), but it's been a real pleasure reading this thread.

Here are some southside locations I remember of which I've seen little or no mention on this thread:

• I've seen a couple of passing mentions of Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips - there was one at 59th & May at one time (early '70s?), just west of May, maybe across the street from Pizza Inn. Anyone remember it?
• Cullen Lumber at SW 25th & May.
• The Brigadier - a small hobby shop on 59th, just west of Blackwelder (near where the Tandy Leather store is). Closed around 1975 or so.
• Bramble Hardware - just west of Western on 59th. Building is still there, you can still see part of the outline of "Bramble Hardware" on the facade if you look close.
• I think I saw one mention of Stockton's in the shopping center at 59th & Western (SE corner). Was it the one that had the big heavy front doors?.
• A few mentions of Big Ed's, but I don't think anyone mentioned that he also had a location in the Almonte Shopping Center (59th & May). We used to eat there all the time. There was a Coney Island hot dog place in the Almonte too (in the 1980s).
• I've been racking my brain trying to recall the Across the Street restaurant. Where was it exactly - east of Del Rancho? I lived so close to there I feel I should remember it. That 7-11 store on 59th (across from Del Rancho) was my main comic book supplier in the 1970s.
• People have mentioned the ill-fated Sirloin Stockade. Wasn't there a similar restaurant, too, called Sizzlin' Sirloin? They may even have had the big cow out front too. Seems like there was one near 59th & Penn (across from Kenny Skaggs?). I also remember that there was a Jack in the Box restaurant on the NE corner of 59th & Penn at one time (I don't think it lasted long).

Thanks for the memories, everyone!

[papaOU]

[QUOTE=Alek Hidell;245164[*]I've been racking my brain trying to recall the Across the Street restaurant. Where was it exactly - east of Del Rancho?

It was east of Del Rancho. Is the Del Rancho still open? The Across the Street and the 7/11 are both gone.

How about Neptune's Submarine Sandwiches. It was if all those closed one night and just never reopened with no warning............

[Alek Hidell]

[QUOTE=papaOU;245438]

I've been racking my brain trying to recall the Across the Street restaurant. Where was it exactly - east of Del Rancho?

It was east of Del Rancho. Is the Del Rancho still open? The Across the Street and the 7/11 are both gone.

How about Neptune's Submarine Sandwiches. It was if all those closed one night and just never reopened with no warning............

Yeah, I think the Del Rancho is still there. I don't get over that way too often anymore. Del Rancho did close their location at NW 10th & Virginia a few years back, but I don't know of any others that have closed.

[Generals64]

[QUOTE=Alek Hidell;245561]

Yeah, I think the Del Rancho is still there. I don't get over that way too often anymore. Del Rancho did close their location at NW 10th & Virginia a few years back, but I don't know of any others that have closed.

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It is still there, it used to be called Don's. The 7-11 building he's talking about is still there but is a pay day loan place. The original Del Rancho (15th street in Del city) closed some time back......If you were to look at the front of the center at 59th and Agnew by the creek, that is where Across the Street restaurant was located.......The guy that owns Charlestons, Krispy Kreme and so on began as a fry cook right there.......

[Prunepicker]

[quote=Alek Hidell;245561]

Yeah, I think the Del Rancho is still there. I don't get over that way too often
anymore. Del Rancho did close their location at NW 10th & Virginia a few
years back, but I don't know of any others that have closed.

The Del Rancho on S.W. 59th is still there. It used to be Don's Drive In in the
60's.

Across the street was on the N.E. corner of S.W. 59th and S. Agnew on the
southern most part of the shopping center.

[Prunepicker]

I should have read Gen64's post, first. We said the same thing!

[Generals64]

I should have read Gen64's post, first. We said the same thing!

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Brilliant minds think alike....Right?????......

[Prunepicker]

Brilliant minds think alike... Right?

That's encouraging? I mean, that's encouraging

[grantgeneral78]

[QUOTE=Alek Hidell;245561]

Yeah, I think the Del Rancho is still there. I don't get over that way too often anymore. Del Rancho did close their location at NW 10th & Virginia a few years back, but I don't know of any others that have closed.

I worked at ACROSS THE STREET RESTAURANT back in 74-75 was the most fun at a job I ever had.

[papaOU]

A memorey from S.E.: Burger Train........

[andy157]

A memorey from S.E.: Burger Train........

You talking about the one in Del City on S.E.15 and Sunnylane?

[gen70]

I remember the Burger Train. Kenny Skaggs Jr. and I had a mind blowing experience there once. We pulled into the place having never been there or even heard of the place before and..well..it was a surprise..you know..those box things that went back and forth from the bldg. to the cars.

[andy157]

I remember the Burger Train. Kenny Skaggs Jr. and I had a mind blowing experience there once. We pulled into the place having never been there or even heard of the place before and..well..it was a surprise..you know..those box things that went back and forth from the bldg. to the cars.

Were you by chance pulling up in a black 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS?

[Prunepicker]

I remember the Burger Train. Kenny Skaggs Jr...

I played baseball with Kenny Skaggs, Jr. I see his dad every Sunday.

[gen70]

Were you by chance pulling up in a black 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS?

No, It was dark blue. And we cowboyed the hell out of it. It even went thru a flood in front of my parents house at S.W. 61st and Kentucky, water to the top of the doors.

[TOWNHERO]

I played baseball with Kenny Skaggs, Jr. I see his dad every Sunday.

I knew Kenny Skaggs Jr. I'm sitting here trying to remember, it was either baseball or pee wee footbal that I played with him. I think it was football with either the S. Optimist Bears or the Tigers.

Gen70, where did you go to Jr. High. I went to Roosevelt.

There is a guy that works in another department that I played pee wee football with that graduated from Gran in 1970.

[gen70]

I knew Kenny Skaggs Jr. I'm sitting here trying to remember, it was either baseball or pee wee footbal that I played with him. I think it was football with either the S. Optimist Bears or the Tigers.

Gen70, where did you go to Jr. High. I went to Roosevelt.

There is a guy that works in another department that I played pee wee football with that graduated from Gran in 1970.

I went to Jefferson but, played for the Tigers in the 9th grade. Coaches name was Wilkerson or Wilkenson (I think).

[TOWNHERO]

I went to Jefferson but, played for the Tigers in the 9th grade. Coaches name was Wilkerson or Wilkenson (I think).

Thats to funny. I bet we might know each other. I played for him from about the 4th to 8th grade, then played 9th grade football at Grant. His son's name was Butch and was the QB. I use to know a lot kids from Jefferson from playing footbal and baseball. After the 9th, they changed the district and I went to Capital Hill and graduated in 1970. Then went to college at CSU, graduated in 1974, then went into the Marines for 16 years. I've been back in Okla since 1990.

[USG '60]

Did any of you have Brynda Buckner for English or Latin at Jefferson. She was too young to be an old biddie, but she was a biddie just the same. Hey, I can say that she was (still is) my sister. (I dare say this because she told me recently that she doesn't know how to use google. If she learns I'm in trouble)

[andy157]

No, It was dark blue. And we cowboyed the hell out of it. It even went thru a flood in front of my parents house at S.W. 61st and Kentucky, water to the top of the doors.

I remember it being a dark color. Did you know his cousin Eddie Ray? Did you by chance play softball on the team that K.S. Sr. sponsered?

[Generals64]

I remember it being a dark color. Did you know his cousin Eddie Ray? Did you by chance play softball on the team that K.S. Sr. sponsered?

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you guys are really making me feel old. It's 10:30 p.m. I just moved the last of my wife's teaching materials out of JEFFERSON.....I was in the first Graduating class (9th grade) at Roosevelt....1961.....I knew Kenny Skaggs Jr. when he was in diapers......and still know him...he probably should go back to diapers.....I also remember when Miss Shugru had REAL Black hair.......and Clarence Huffman was the principal at Grant. But, did you know he wasn't the first principal at U.S. Grant High School????and Townhero, we are having our weekly meeting this Saturday at Coit's at 1:30....and just for good measure this is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY for having Southside memory meetings......Steve....you need to do a story about this one.....

[USG '60]

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you guys are really making me feel old. It's 10:30 p.m. I just moved the last of my wife's teaching materials out of JEFFERSON.....I was in the first Graduating class (9th grade) at Roosevelt....1961.....I knew Kenny Skaggs Jr. when he was in diapers......and still know him...he probably should go back to diapers.....I also remember when Miss Shugru had REAL Black hair.......and Clarence Huffman was the principal at Grant. But, did you know he wasn't the first principal at U.S. Grant High School????and Townhero, we are having our weekly meeting this Saturday at Coit's at 1:30....and just for good measure this is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY for having Southside memory meetings......Steve....you need to do a story about this one.....

Wasn't it Russell Brough?