Crazy 1970's Memory

[Kinsrudg]

This is my first post so why not start with something totally crazy.

I'm pretty sure that I am not delusional but we shall see. I was born and raised in Hobart. I can distinctly remember hearing strange things when I used to mess around with walkie talkies. This was between the late 60's up to 1972. Now, forty years does play tricks on one's mind but this was during the space race and I really want to say I was hearing Russian cosmonauts. I just know it was foreign language. Someone please tell me that they remember something similar.Or recommend some proper medicine

Great forum, I enjoy spending my time in here.

[kevinpate]

Any pockets of immigrant children in/around Hobart who might also have enjoyed walkies playing their version of buck rogers?
Field bosses overseeing work crews?
Visiting trainees out and about from Altus AF or Ft. Sill?

[whorton]

Well as a licensed Ham, you would not hear the soviet space stuff on a hand held W A L K I E talkie (sorry it keeps changing the first word to talkie) the cheap hand held used 27mhz (citizens band) while the soviet's used VHS hi band (147-174 Mhz FM)

[Jeepnokc]

Any pockets of immigrant children in/around Hobart who might also have enjoyed walkies playing their version of buck rogers?
Field bosses overseeing work crews?
Visiting trainees out and about from Altus AF or Ft. Sill?

Talk about reviving an old post. Kevin was the last poster. He is missed. (Kevin passed in 2017) RIP Kevin Pate.

[whorton]

As I was reading posts the other night, I was struck with how many of the "Old guys" have gone silent. The toll of that bell waits for no man. . .

Including me.

I am reminded of Christopher Crook who was a notable poster on a couple of the OK groups on Facebook before he passed.

[btmec]

The craziest was the Sirloin Stockade Murders. A friend of ours was murdered there (Teri Horst) and the day after my dad saw Roger Dale Stafford when he was eating lunch with my mom. He was a cop and was off-duty and had a hunch about him but my mom talked him out of following up. My dad was a good cop who got hunches about people that were usually right. He had the record for the fastest arrest of armed robbery suspects. A small store was robbed and my dad was behind the crook's car and got a feeling and pulled him over. The gun ran, had a gun, pulled it on my dad but my dad took him in without a shot fired. That was before the call went out on the radio. The clerk was tied up.
We could never go out anywhere without him seeing either someone he knew or someone he arrested. That was back when cops got to know their community. We never paid to see a movie or paid for takeout. The cops got free meals because the restaurant owners liked the police presence in their establishments.

Back in the 60s and 70s Spanky MacFarland from Our Gang lived in OKC owned a club on on SW 44th and Agnew called Club Spanky's. The building is still there. (MAP) and my dad used to raid it all the time.

[Ward]

Hobart huh? I'm from Greer County next door, about the same era you mentioned. KTJS AM-1420 way back in the day had a radio host named Gabby. Maybe he, well maybe not.

It was probably those miscreants from Lone Wolf or Granite, always causing something to go on.

It's either them or those pesky Amish stirring up trouble again.

Howdy neighbor.

[Bill Robertson]

The craziest was the Sirloin Stockade Murders. A friend of ours was murdered there (Teri Horst) and the day after my dad saw Roger Dale Stafford when he was eating lunch with my mom. He was a cop and was off-duty and had a hunch about him but my mom talked him out of following up. My dad was a good cop who got hunches about people that were usually right. He had the record for the fastest arrest of armed robbery suspects. A small store was robbed and my dad was behind the crook's car and got a feeling and pulled him over. The gun ran, had a gun, pulled it on my dad but my dad took him in without a shot fired. That was before the call went out on the radio. The clerk was tied up.
We could never go out anywhere without him seeing either someone he knew or someone he arrested. That was back when cops got to know their community. We never paid to see a movie or paid for takeout. The cops got free meals because the restaurant owners liked the police presence in their establishments.

Back in the 60s and 70s Spanky MacFarland from Our Gang lived in OKC owned a club on on SW 44th and Agnew called Club Spanky's. The building is still there. (MAP) and my dad used to raid it all the time.

I was at Taft at the time of the Sirloin Stockade shooting. In scientific geography class I sat next to the daughter of the manager that was killed. Until the shooting. She didn't come back to school for some time. I really don't remember her coming back at all. There were some friends close to her that kept up with her and said she was a basket case. Understandably.
I remember Spanky's. I'm a fan of Spanky and Our Gang. I have songs of theirs on my audio and YouTube playlists. But I had no Idea that the place was owned by McFarlane.

[Bill Robertson]

This is my first post so why not start with something totally crazy.

I'm pretty sure that I am not delusional but we shall see. I was born and raised in Hobart. I can distinctly remember hearing strange things when I used to mess around with walkie talkies. This was between the late 60's up to 1972. Now, forty years does play tricks on one's mind but this was during the space race and I really want to say I was hearing Russian cosmonauts. I just know it was foreign language. Someone please tell me that they remember something similar.Or recommend some proper medicine

Great forum, I enjoy spending my time in here.

Most of the guys I knew in the 70s had CBs in their cars. Late at night there were some odd sounds and parts of odd conversations that you'd pick up parts of. Probably not cosmonauts but still odd.

[btmec]

I was at Taft at the time of the Sirloin Stockade shooting. In scientific geography class I sat next to the daughter of the manager that was killed. Until the shooting. She didn't come back to school for some time. I really don't remember her coming back at all. There were some friends close to her that kept up with her and said she was a basket case. Understandably.
I remember Spanky's. I'm a fan of Spanky and Our Gang. I have songs of theirs on my audio and YouTube playlists. But I had no Idea that the place was owned by McFarlane.

A lot of people don't remember Spanky's. I remember meeting him through my dad. I was a fan of Little Rascals but meeting him was kind of a let down. If you look at the old property records for the bar it shows Spanky as the owner. I'll see if I can find them.

Edit: I looked up property records and his name wasn't there. I guess he leased the building. I remember driving by there many times and the entrance was blocked by 1960s-style lattice that said Spany's diagonally going upward in script. We still have some of the contraband my dad "acquired" during raids there. lol

[mugofbeer]

I was at Taft at the time of the Sirloin Stockade shooting. In scientific geography class I sat next to the daughter of the manager that was killed. Until the shooting. She didn't come back to school for some time. I really don't remember her coming back at all. There were some friends close to her that kept up with her and said she was a basket case. Understandably.

She stayed and attended NWC and then for work afterward. I've seen her in recent years and she is doing well.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I was at Taft at the time of the Sirloin Stockade shooting. In scientific geography class I sat next to the daughter of the manager that was killed. Until the shooting. She didn't come back to school for some time. I really don't remember her coming back at all. There were some friends close to her that kept up with her and said she was a basket case. Understandably.
I remember Spanky's. I'm a fan of Spanky and Our Gang. I have songs of theirs on my audio and YouTube playlists. But I had no Idea that the place was owned by McFarlane.

Interesting stuff Bill. What years were you at Taft? I thought I remember you talking about graduating high school in ‘76 or so? I must be mistaken, because the Sirloin Stockade murders happened in July 1978.

[Bill Robertson]

Interesting stuff Bill. What years were you at Taft? I thought I remember you talking about graduating high school in ‘76 or so? I must be mistaken, because the Sirloin Stockade murders happened in July 1978.

I went back and looked at the date of the murders. I was wrong. I was at Taft before that. My memory isn't what it used to be.