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August 27 2006 at 01:35:44
Name: Gary Chew
Topic: Maynard/YouTubing
Email
: Just SW of the Donner Party Family Grill
Comments: Kudos to our mighty Webmeister for putting up the Ferguson Band's take on "'Round Midnight."

I almost got a tear listening to the great Kenton-like chart Maynard and his men were playing on what seemed to be a blurry kinescope.

Experiencing the Ferguson Band again took me back to one of times I caught the Kenton Band at the Cimarron Ballroom at 4th and Denver in Tulsa. The brass and reeds are still tingling in my ears across the decades.

A story I always connect with seeing Kenton at the Cimarron was a remark made by the lady who was with Tulsa trumpet man, Scott Senter, that evening. She hadn't seen Kenton before and wasn't a big devotee of jazz. She, herself, was a very proficient keyboardist with perfect pitch, and was a music student with me at the time at TU.

I said to her, "Well, what do you think of this Kenton sound filling the Cimarron Ballroom?" With a twinkle in her eye, she said, "Well, it's really interesting music...and they sure do play in tune." I said, "Yes, they sure do."

Stan Kenton was born in Wichita, but moved to Denver as a child, and moved on with his parents to La La Land. His sound, which preceded Maynard's Kentonesque ensemble, is a pure example of West Coast Jazz, some of which at the time was referred to as Progressive Jazz.

I always considered it to be just a stone's throw away from Third Stream Music, which is a combination of jazz and classical music; a place where my true musical heart lies.

I guess I have to thank guys like Stan and Maynard for helping shape that taste that's been with me since the mid-50s.

Delmeaux de Gillette du Coffeyville




August 26 2006 at 14:13:13
Name: Mike Bruchas
Topic: Tahlequah connection?
Comments
: Six degrees of separation from the late great Maynard Ferguson - but how did/does Northeastern U or whatever it is now in Tahlequah - always seem to draw jazz greats for concerts there?

I remember me and date Maureen Pagano braving a wintery drive to "Taley-claw" to see Woody Herman and band there in a fantastic concert in the 70s. I found out whatever Music Dept. was there did a lot of band clinics but someone had to budget for bringing in big name groups there.

I had a Maynard CD somewhere here but for those of us now dabbling in iTunes - what Maynard numbers would y'all suggest acquiring?




August 26 2006 at 05:40:29
Name: Alex Rivers
Topic: We've lost another talent
Email
: alexriversatearthlinkdotnet
Comments: I am deeply sorry to hear of the passing of Jeff Myers on August 8th. Jeff was an extremely talented vocalist and sax player for the long time Oklahoma group, Xebec.

Jeff had spent the last years of his life as a sound engineer for two of the major news networks, primarily working with Dan Rather.

You can read more about him and view a picture on the Tulsa World web site under Music in the Spot section.

Jeff was a wonderful person and will be missed by all who knew him.


I remember Xebec as one of the top bands at the Blue Onion in Norman during my years at OU in the early 70s.





August 26 2006 at 00:51:28
Name: Gary Chew
Topic: Maynard Ferguson
Comments
: It's great to read George Tomek's thoughts about a superb brassman. I missed the concert George talks about here (what a fantastic line-up it surely was).

Sometime during the many years I resided in Green Country, I had the absolute pleasure of digging Maynard and his tight and incendiary band down at Tahlequah. I think it was on the campus there. Terrific. Wow.

And George also mentions another long swinging jazz great: the incomparable Dave Brubeck. Since I've lived in Sacramento, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dave some years back when he performed with the Sacramento Symphony.

At a reception after that concert, I visited with Dave a bit more. He said to me, "Did you hear that extra melody I was putting in on such and such (one of his standards which I can't think of right now)? I said, "No, I missed it, I'm sorry. He said, "It was 'California Here I Come.'" He told me that, at that time, he hadn't been back to California in quite a while and thought he should lay that melody in to the piece he was already wailing on.

By the way, Mr. Brubeck and his Quartet are playing this weekend here in Sacramento as promoted by the Jazz and NPR News station that is a sister to the classical FM on which I have a daily music program.

Dave is getting up there; I think he's about 86, but his easy-going way may give him more time here to spread yet more pleasure with his artistry.

One of my favorite ballads by Dave is called, "Strange Meadowlark."

Delmeaux de Gillette du Coffeyville


We had the pleasure of Mr. Brubeck's company at our Greenwood Jazz Festival in the 90s. I can't believe how many jazz greats we got to see during Barbara Swiggart's tenure as chairman.





August 25 2006 at 23:01:53
Name: George Tomek
Topic: Maynard Ferguson
Email
: mranchor@cox.net
Comments: The death of Maynard Ferguson rekindles memories of a jazz festival in Tulsa that was organized and promoted mainly by fellow TU J-School student/graduate Tom Birmingham. It was 1959 or '60. It was one helluva lineup that included Maynard Ferguson and his band, Chris Connor, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Dave Brubeck (with originals Paul Desmond and Norman Bates) and a couple of other great jazz groups of the time.

I remember the afternoon before the concerts some of us got to watch the rehearsals. Brubeck was so laid back he welcomed us to come up on stage and stand around has he tickled the ivory as only Brubeck could.

I still have about half a dozen Maynard Ferguson LP's including "Message From Birdland." It was classic Ferguson who could hit the high notes better than anybody at that time -- or since.

If Tom Birmingham still lives in the Tulsa area or contributes to this fine website, maybe he can help fill in the blanks of my sometimes fuzzy memory. Again, there were two shows as I recall and neither was a sell out.



Maynard Ferguson circa 1960





August 25 2006 at 22:05:40
Name: Lowell Burch
Topic: M.F. Horn
Comments
: Maynard Ferguson passed away on Wednesday. I mention this here because the man traveled all over the world to do concerts and clinics for young musicians. He appeared a number of times here in Tulsa, usually having been invited by local high school bands. On one of his visits here, I had the opportunity to visit with The Boss and was very impressed. He was a very buoyant individual who obviously loved the kids.

I guess he's screamin' those super-C's with ol' Gabe right about now.




August 25 2006 at 21:24:35
Name: Mike Bruchas
Topic: The Illusionist
Comments
: If this is playing in Tulsa, a great little movie. Paul Giamatti is great in it! Saw it tonight. It probably would be fun at the Admiral Twin to see!




August 24 2006 at 20:30:20
Name: David Bagsby
Topic: Monster movie show
Email
: dcbatsunflower.com
Comments: Here's a link to a late night cable access monster movie show I've been helping out with here in Lawrence called: The Basement Sublet of Horror.


Sounds like a candidate for the TV's Greatest Horror Hosts webring.





August 24 2006 at 19:26:06
Name: Dana LeMoine
Topic: Dueling Dairies
Email
: d4wdw at valornet.com
Comments: I reference to Si Hawk's comment...


"The funny thing about the Meadow Gold sign on 11th Street, was it was placed there by Meadow Gold as a jab in the belly of the Hawk Dairy Company".


It reminded me of Braum's putting a retail store right in front of Blue Bell's production facility out in Broken Arrow.

Coincidently, they are dairy companies as well.


It's a cow-eat-cow business.





August 24 2006 at 18:08:09
Name: Si Hawk
Topic: Meadow Gold Sign
Email
: siborg54@sbcglobal.net
Comments: The funny thing about the Meadow Gold sign on 11th Street, was it was placed there by Meadow Gold as a jab in the belly of the Hawk Dairy Company, whose milk and ice cream processing facilities and one of the dairy stores were on the northeast corner of 11th and Lewis. This is somewhat like the placement of the KTUL-TV sign beside the pizza place at 37th and Peoria (next to KJRH-TV back in the 80s). The difference was all that neon light!




August 24 2006 at 15:00:55
Name: George Tomek at KTVY, Channel 4, OKC, 1976George Tomek
Topic: "Tube Poker"
Email
: mranchor@cox.net
Comments: I wanted to give an update on my U.K. venture, the short film "Tube Poker" I did a couple of years ago.

It is still making the film festival circuit -- winning three and was shown at Cannes in 2006. It won the Gijon, Spain Film Festival late last fall, won the Urban Culture Award at the Brussels Film Festival earlier this year and a couple of weeks ago was chosen the Best Screen Play at the Benicassim Film Festival. also in Spain.

"Tube Poker" is running on Current TV now in the U.S which is in New York, Seattle and other selected markets with Comcast. It's edited to about half the length (8:11) to fit Current TV requirements. And although the editing chopped off all of the news segments, hits by viewers wanting to see the complete version have skyrocketed on the "Tube Poker" website.

The short film is also available on my website (GeorgeTomek.com). It seems to be generating a lot of interest which is good because there may be other plans for it down the line.

Switching gears, the University of Tulsa has always been an outstanding school and I was very fortunate to escape the University of Illinois and get my degree there. It was tough to see the baseball program go away, but the emergence of other sports and women's athletics is great. And, led by the football program and finally finding a suitable home in CUSA is icing on the cake. Here's to another and bigger bowl victory next January! Go TU!




August 23 2006 at 11:14:26
Name: Erick
Topic: Charles Chips
Email
: ericktul@yahoo.com
Comments: Not too long ago, I purchased a tin of Charles Chips at Restoration Hardware in Utica Square.




August 22 2006 at 15:00:58
Name: Dana LeMoine
Topic: Potato Chips
Comments
: All the recent posts to and from Charles and Charlie, have me craving a big ol' can of "Charles Chips".


Order 'em at CharlesChips.com.





August 22 2006 at 14:38:02
Name: Charles
Topic: Woolaroc
Comments
: Thanks Joe! I went to Woolaroc many times as a child. I haven't been there in years. I would love to take the kids there this weekend...but it's a bit of a drive from my current home in Fargo.

After looking around on the net, I think the name of the painting is "Visions of Yesterday", but I can't find a reproduction of it anywhere. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please do.


How about right here?


Visions of Yesterday





August 22 2006 at 13:20:55
Name: Charlie
Topic: Tulsa TV/History of T-Town
Email
: charlie_tooley[at]acordia[dot]com
Comments: This is an open message to everyone, especially those of fame from Tulsa TV days when I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s in my beloved city of my birth.

This site is just absolutely filled with wonderful nostalgia and memories of my youth in almost every aspect; so my hat is off to the Webmaster as well as those who have so much given of their time, talents and careers in Tulsa!

What strikes me interestingly enough, removed now from Tulsa for a good number of years, is the constant references to what life was like in those early days in the Tulsa media of all phases.

Living in Cincinnati now, allows me to realize what Tulsa lost in many respects from the time the town was born. Namely, the loss of so many, many unique and wonderful old buildings, structures and facilities that were torn down and razed all in the name of "progress".

Wow, we lost the Ritz, the Orpheum and Rialto to what??? Parking lots and other "new" skyscrapers?...and for what? We lost some of the heritage that the original founders built into Tulsa that made it what it was.

It seems now that Tulsans are striving to re-capture some of that which remain intact and hopefully not destroy all of the past.

I'm so very happy to have found this site and each and every day I seek out comments, interesting aspects of Tulsa that are imparted by so many great people that I had such pleasure in growing up with on TV and the various forms of media.

Thanks and keep up the great work.


You're welcome, Charlie.





August 22 2006 at 10:39:02
Name: Joe
Topic: To Charles: Gilcrease
Comments
: Charles, it must have been too many moons since you've been up the road to one of the world's greatest museums; WOOLAROC, because that's where the wall-size painting of the indian behind the plow is. Great news...it's still there, along with other fantastic paintings by the artist W.R. Leigh. Take the kids this weekend.

We Tulsans are a fortunate lot to have Gilcrease, Philbrook and Woolaroc in our backyards. (p.s., I can't remember the name of the painting.)




August 22 2006 at 07:32:10
Name: Lowell Burch
Topic: Lists, signs, etc.
Comments
: I've enjoyed the Webmaster's lists of favorite movies and music. I am not familiar with some of the titles and I will certainly be checking those out.

Less familiar than the Meadow Gold sign to most Tulsans is the Apache Circle sign that could be found east of Cincinnati across from the old Jitney Jungle. I saw a sign company removing it a few months ago. They said a collector had purchased it. It was in remarkable shape for such an old sign. Of course, the old Jitney Jungle had an unusual landmark. It was a large sphere on a tall pole. That is still standing, but for how much longer?

It is good Mike took the advertisements for the pills off the GroupBlog. I didn't know it was spam, I just thought King Lionel had come out of retirement and was trying to pick up a few bucks hawking pharmaceuticals.




August 21 2006 at 20:47:04
Name: Mike Bruchas
Topic: Harold Roberts
Comments
: Harold passed away this last Saturday. He was the father of Kitty Roberts (American Theatre Company), Jimmy and Tom Roberts (formerly of KWEN/KTUL/Fairview AFX). - all of Tulsa. Check the Tulsa paper for funeral information....




August 21 2006 at 16:16:29
Name: Dave
Topic: on time
Comments
: The Meadow Gold clock will be in action -- on both sides! See this Tulsa World story.




August 21 2006 at 15:10:14
Name: Charles
Topic: Gilcrease
Comments
: It's great to hear that the Meadow Gold sign is coming back. It was always a landmark on our drives Downtown.

On another note, I need some help. There was a painting at Gilcrease when my family used to go there in the 60s and 70s that I couldn't find when I took my kids to the Museum last year. I asked some of the staff and they couldn't help me.

The painting showed an older Native American bent over a plow working, while in the sky you could see his daydream of his younger days on horseback riding the plains with his tribe. Does anybody know the name of this painting and the artist?




August 21 2006 at 08:53:38
Name: Dana LeMoine
Topic: Meadow Gold Sign
Email
: d4wdwatvalornet.com
Comments: It looks like a Tulsa icon is poised for a return. There's a story about it on KOTV.com.

Hopefully they've replaced the neon and fixed the clock.




August 20 2006 at 15:44:25
Name: Webmaster
Topic: Classic Popeil/Ronco commercials
Comments
: Long-time readers have probably noticed all the Popeil/Ronco images sprinkled around the site. Those commercials were the TV age versions of a boardwalk pitch. They were maddeningly ubiquitous on the tube in the 1960s and 70s.

If they "suit your fancy", you will be delirious when you visit this URL at Biography.com. The following original commercials are viewable: Veg-O-Matic, Mince-O-Matic, Tidie Drier, Miracle Broom, Pocket Fisherman, Bottle & Jar Cutter, Mr. Microphone and more!

It can now be told: as a teenager in 1971, I made and audiotaped prank calls impersonating the fast-talking pitchman (probably Ron Popeil's father, Samuel J. Popeil), and "selling" these products to hapless Tulsans selected mostly at random from the phone book.


Here's the Popeil Kitchen Magician:


And the original Clapper:





August 19 2006 at 21:31:32
Name: Don Lundy
Topic: Mike Douglas Show In Syndication
Email
: don_lundy@rtv6.com
Comments: Just saw Mike Bruchas comments and query re: The Mike Douglas Show. It started in 1961 in Cleveland on KYW-TV, when Westinghouse Broadcasting owned Channel 3 there.

Westinghouse won a court case against NBC in 1965. They opted to swap for a larger market(Philadelphia) Channel 3, moving the KYW call letters there. The Mike Douglas Show came along to Philly.

Initially, it was broadcast by the Group W stations, which numbered five at the time. A couple of years later. Group W Syndication put it on more than 170 stations across America.

Production of the show moved to L.A. in the late 70s. It ended its syndication run in 1981.




August 18 2006 at 17:51:14
Name: Mike Bruchas
Topic: Bill Thrash.....tells us more on 4
Comments
: Wishing Bill Thrash would give us more back story on when the Gaylords ran KTVY.

For so many of us in Tulsa and at other OKC stations, Channel 4 was a better place to work than moving to Dallas. The pay might not have been much better than Tulsa, but there was always a sense of direction in what 4 did.

Though I am told folks often quaked with fear when Lee Allen Smith came down the hallways, 4 was THE superior News, Engineering and local programming leader for sooo many years back then.

I interviewed several times with Spec Hart, Ernie Schulz and Darrell Barton but never made the cut - but boy - I wished I had.

I was always impressed that by the cafeteria, there was a lightboard with 35mm slides of ALL employees with their names. You could put faces to names.

I think too there was access to the Oklahoman Credit Union so employess could buy cars; us TV folks then often didn't have good credit or made a lotta money.

I could go on and on - but CORPORATE CULTURE at WKY-TV/KTVY was a big plus!




August 18 2006 at 16:40:17
Name: Dave
Topic: out-of-town papers
Comments
: I never realized you could have found a London paper in Tulsa back then. I thought at the time it seemed pretty exotic to see the Daily Oklahoman made it all the way up the turnpike to a few newsracks in town.




August 18 2006 at 11:44:29
Name: Don Norton
Topic: Out of Town Newspapers
Email
: donaldhnorton@hotmail.com
Comments:

I go back somewhat beyond the Sixties and the place with which I was familiar for out-of-town newspapers was Harold's News Stand and Bookstore, just south of the Sixth and Main intersection. It was operated (probably owned) by a man named Sam, but I cannot recall his last name.




August 17 2006 at 08:53:03
Name: Joe
Topic: obits
Comments
: The Thursday Tulsa World reports the death of Tod Lilborn, former photog with Channel 8. Tod, along with two others, died this past weekend in a helicopter crash off the coast of Astoria, Oregon while shooting footage for a Lewis and Clark documentary.

Tod worked at Channel 8 in the early 90s, and was with Channel 4 in San Diego at the time. Raised in Oklahoma, three-time Emmy winner, and a very genuine and easy-going person. He will be missed.




August 16 2006 at 22:03:25
Name: Preem Palver
Topic: The News In Tulsa
Comments
: When I was but a sprout, which is to say The Sixties, there was at least one venue Downtown at which one could purchase exotic newspapers (exotic meaning Chicago, LA, NYC, Europe).

I have before me THE OBSERVER, 18 July 1965, from London.

Whatever this venue was, and I recall in being in a Downtown hotel, I purchased this copy after my family had dined at Bishop's, of happy memory.

Does someone recall this venue?

(Goodness knows, I love the Web, wherein I can access news-sources all over the planet, but what a pleasure it was in those far-ago days, to hold in my hands a newspaper physically published in London, England, then voyaged across the Atlantic, and ending up in Tulsa.)

And read: "Today's weather Sunny. Long sunny periods, except Western Scotland and Northern Ireland where it will be most cloudy, with a little rain at times. Temperature will be near normal. OUTLOOK: Little change."




August 16 2006 at 15:31:16
Name: Mike Bruchas
Topic: ex-KOCOer note
Comments
: Former KGMC/KOCO/KOKH staffer Martie Kretchmar, who worked at several of the Discovery Channel projects and later was at the National Geographic Channel - is now in Germany for a few months - helping on Discovery Germany start-up projects. Her specialty for the last few years for Discovery & Fox has been launching new cable networks.




August 16 2006 at 11:03:11
Name: Bill Thrash
Topic: Mike Douglas
Email
: bthrash[at]oeta[dot]tv
Comments: I was very involved in the production of the Mike Douglas Show taped at the then National Cowboy Hall of Fame in May of 1979. It was tied into Channel 4's 30th anniversary. After the all day taping under threatening skies with guest stars Bob Hope, Dale Robertson, Will Rogers, Jr., Tanya Tucker and Marty Robbins, there was a big show at the Myriad celebrating Channel 4.

Mary Hart and Danny Williams introduced Hope, Mike Douglas and Tanya at the big event to a packed house. Marty was advertized, but could not stay for the nightime show. One person out of 10,000 asked for their $5 ticket to be refunded due to Marty not being there.

At noon that day, there was an OKC Chamber luncheon with guest speaker newcomer Jane Pauley of the Today Show. During the lunch break at the taping, Mike Douglas and his wife Gen and I took chopper four, under threatening skies, to downtown OKC for him to make an appearance at the chamber luncheon. It was discussed as to whether we should do that. It began to sprinkle. All went well.

As we flew over downtown, I pointed to the Skirvin Hotel and Mike was thrilled to see from that view where the Skirvin Tower was. It was the home of WKY Radio where he started his career as a staff singer.

Good times!

Bill Thrash
Station Manager
OETA-The Oklahoma Network


Thanks, Bill. Here is a page on this site about the beginning of educational TV in Oklahoma, part of a 1967 TU master's thesis by Gregory Corarito.

More about KOED on the Links page.





August 15 2006 at 22:31:22
Name: Mike Bruchas
Topic: Your government at work - again
Comments
: This was sent to us staff at the NatGeo on the Film & Tape Library to remind us of what can happen if we don't do our jobs with dedication:

One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures.




August 15 2006 at 10:18:34
Name: Patrick Bryant
Topic: Mike Douglas in OKC
Comments
: I don't remember if Greg Leslie worked the Mike Douglas remote in OKC, but I sure did. I remember Bob Hope being there (he and Lee Allan Smith were great friends and Lee could always get Bob to come out for one thing or another) and the little golfer who grew up to be Tiger Woods. Other guests that week that I remember were Marty Robbins and Tanya Tucker.

Mike Douglas worked at WKY-TV sometime during the early 50s as a staff singer/announcer. Don't think he stayed long.




August 14 2006 at 13:39:51
Name: Webmaster
Topic: Lane Smith
Comments
:

John, Paul, George & BenHere's a recent story in the Sapulpa Daily Herald about Lane Smith, author and illustrator of a funny new book for kids (and adults), John, Paul, George & Ben.

He was a July 4th guest on "The Early Show" (watch the segment with Harry Smith at CBS News).

I learned just a few years ago that Lane is my second cousin; his Grandpa Rual Enlow (pictured in Lane's Aug. 1 blog entry) and my Mema were siblings.





August 14 2006 at 12:01:25
Name: Michele Kimbrel
Topic: John Chick aka Grandpa
Email
: michelekimbrel[at]yahoo[dot]com
Comments: Thank u for all the great stories about my grandpa. I really didn't get to know him very well, he passed away when I was young (I'm 27 now.)

All your stories make me smile. Thank you for keeping his memory alive!!


Michele, you are welcome. Thanks for writing.





August 12 2006 at 21:37:55
Name: Morgan
Topic: KAKC sign-off music
Email
: CharlesHHolley{at}aol{dot}com
Comments: I lived in Tulsa from 1979-89, and used to listen to KAKC AM 1300. When they signed off, they played an instrumental mix of TV show tunes from the sixties that was pretty cool. I wore out my tape years ago, and was wondering if you might be able to find another copy.




August 11 2006 at 17:40:11
Name: DolfanBob
Topic: Gary Shore
Email
: MiamiPhin@yahoo.com
Comments: The old clip of Gary Shore was priceless. Last year, I found out where Mr Shore had went and I emailed him. He was very nice to write back and say that he would very much like to someday return to Tulsa. I always said that when Gary Shore said duck, I ducked. He was my favorite for years.




August 11 2006 at 15:23:43
Name: Mike Bruchas
Topic: Mike Douglas passes
Comments
: They say he was 81 but I think he was older. He was one of the first non-network syndicated afternoon shows that I can remember.

It aired on WGN TV in Chicago way way back when - probably about when Jim Ruddle first went to WGN.

Don Lundy can probably set us straight on this - but I think Avco TV - later Avco Embassy --- started by Crosley Broadcasting - was the syndicator I believe. Like the CBS-owned Dinah! show - I recall it aired in either a 90 min. or 2 hour version.

Some markets only carried an hour and Avco provided cut-down shows that often plugged guests that were left on the cutting room floor! Greg Leslie may have worked the show when Mike Douglas took it on the road to OKC in the 70's - I think WKY/KTVY-Tv provided the remote truck. Bob Hope and I think a 3 year old Tiger Woods were guests. Hope loved OKC. So did Mike Douglas. I think Mike Douglas' wife was from OKC, too! Smaller world all cornected to OK, eh?




August 11 2006 at 15:00:46
Name: Brian
Topic: Funny Radio Skit
Comments
: I'm trying to remember a funny radio skit that happened sometime in the late 70s, or early 80s on a Tulsa radio station.

The only thing I remember is that the DJ kept playing the part of the live Lynyrd Skynyrd album where the lead singer, Ronnie Van Zant, was saying "What song is it you want to hear?" He kept playing that part over and over, and I can't really remember why, but I do remember that it was funny. I even taped it at the time, but there's no telling where that tape is now.

I know that's not much to go on, but I'm hoping that that might trigger someone's memory.




August 11 2006 at 13:19:02
Name: Erick
Topic: Gary Shore
Email
: ericktul@yahoo.com
Comments: I've recently become addicted to YouTube.com and I came across a 30 second promo for former KJRH meteorologist Gary Shore when he was at KTUL sister station WJLA in Washington, D.C.






August 11 2006 at 00:51:50
Name: Webmaster
Topic: Previous GroupBlog
Comments
: Archived GB 218. In it, the following and more:

Leafy Bark got a new home at the Tulsa Historical Society. There are pictures and movies of the event. We heard what was on the original menu of St. Michael's Alley. We learned more about another 60s Tulsa folk coffee house, the Dust Bowl.

Some had drinkin' on their minds, as evidenced by discussion of the songs "Hey Bartender", "Mr. Bartender" and "Six Pack to Go". A semi-related topic: RIDESHY.

George Reeves "Superman" episodes are viewable online, and a new movie about the actor is coming soon. He paid Tulsa a visit in the early 50s.

Now-retired ex-KOTV cameraman, Carlos Hernandez, is doing some fly fishing in Arkansas. Michael and Joe, grandson and son of SEVCO's Joe Pierre, checked in.

The GroupBlog and other pages got a new logo.




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