As I got to the 19th floor lobby, the doors were closing on a crowded elevaor. I squeezed in.

Someone in the elevator remarked that Evel Knievel had been on the Eigen show.

Facing the elevator door, I said "He's a crazy sonofabitch."

From the back came a voice; "You got that right."

I turned and looked back to see a tall, blond guy in a white suit. Evel, of course.

When we got to the ground floor, I hesitated thinking I should apologize or something, but he just slapped me on the shoulder, laughed, and limped off using a cane.

My parents were regular patrons of the coffee house as well as charter members of Tulsa's Folk Artists Association, which was a loosely bound group of performers and patrons of the art form. In addition to featuring regional (later headliner) performers the likes of Mike Murphy, Mike Brewer and Dan Crary, the Dust Bowl drew from a very solid lineup of local artists including, from my fuzzy memory and in no particular order: Dudley Murphy, Pat Blythe (occasionally with girlfriend Arlea Stokes), Bob Anderson (occasionally with his brother Moby), John Chick (Mr. Zing), V.A. McNabb, and dozens more whose names escape me at the moment.

The Dust Bowl is the source of some truly wonderful childhood memories for me.

Thanks, Jack, for another excellent Tulsa program.

Hank Thompson singing "The Wild Side of Life" and Asleep At the Wheel gettin' on with "Take Me Back To, uh, uh---oh yes---Tulsa."

Right now, they have a two hour show on featuring some upstart named Dylan.

The DJ said the Dylan dude was from Minnesota.

One of the greatest lines of all time is from that series. Al 'Grandpa Munster' Lewis was Leo Schnauser, who never won anything, so Muldoon "Herman Munster" rigs the drawing for him to win. Elated, he looks at his prize and it's some crazy modern abstract painting Toody picked out. Leo's response: "I've never won anything in my entire life and when I finally do what do I get?...a picture of a tonsil operation."

Car 54 should have it's own 24 channel.

"CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU----NOW?"

Of course! As we have established earlier: Bruchas is everywhere!

Were any other TTM folks there? It was a lot of fun. The world says good-bye to one of America's most unique characters. Courageous and crazy, he was known as an America hero.

The old STL on Lookout Mountain must have shuddered as it passed that signal to the tower.

But seriously, folks, I'm here all week. (rimshot)

In non-Tulsa news, the New York Times reported today: "Other than the hellish heat, a crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere and corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid, Venus is a lot like Earth, scientists said yesterday."

Following Mason's Reading Matter
Perfect segue: Natalie, Martie and Emily

Pretty and ballsy ladies doing their thing:
Being perspicacious at singing good songs
Pretty like they are yet with a Living Edge

After Mason's the Chicks lamenting
"Travelin' Soldier" On Top of the World
Picking pitch perfect in 3-part harmony

Best thing though wasn't the music---
No. Not even the Chick's sweet voices
Fans roaring over "Travelin' Soldier"!

Metaphoric music for all our ears:
John, Paul, George and Ringo
Walking on Ed's CBS stage?
No. Something else to be thankful for.

Copyright © 2007, Gary Chew. All rights reserved.

They must have told Carole Lambert  (in her ear) that I was an eyewitness but no - Jack Hobson and I were just near the scene and drove towards it, We saw smoke coming up the river and flames.

As we used to say at Channel 6, "...just foller them police cars!"

Plane Crashes Near 81st And Elwood

posted 6:41 pm Tue November 27, 2007 - Tulsa

A plane has crashed near 81st and Elwood, just north of Jones Riverside Airport. Witness Mike Bruchas says he saw intense police activity in the area shortly after the crash.

"We noticed a lot of police traffic at 81st and Lewis and thought we'd come over to see what it looked like," Bruchas says. "We could see and smell smoke down by 81st and Lewis and we came over here toward Elwood and we could see a light in the field. It looks like it's at the very end of the south runway here at Jones Riverside."

Bruchas says he saw flames briefly, but wasn't close enough to see what type of plane it was. It's also unknown how many people were on board or the extent of their injuries.

NewsChannel 8 photojournalist Chencho Flores says he witnessed a large grass fire north of the airport. Between eight and ten fire trucks were on scene trying to battle that fire.

Police currently have 81st and Elwood blocked off to traffic.

Good luck - I knew Don a little, enough to know he was a great guy and loved by all his co-workers who knew him well.

It is always problematic finding any footage from shows of that vintage, and even more so finding specific episodes, since most stations discarded this material periodically.

As starting points, I suggest writing to the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, where Don Wallace was elected to the Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Historical Society.

I haven't been able to get either of the last two GBs to fail, so I don't know what the problem could be. Maybe the verification code presents hard-to-distinguish Os and zeroes, or something like that?

I do have two suggestions. First, type your note into Notepad or Word and save it, then paste the text into the GB. That way, you don't lose any work if it fails. (Alternatively, you can type in your text as usual, then highlight it in the GB message box, right-click and Copy it). That is good advice for everyone, including me.

Second, feel free to email it to me, and I will enter it for you. Maybe I'll see what is going on.

All three recently-used GBs are on different hosts and written in different computer code, so it would be surprising if any of them failed in the same way as the others.

The reach of 50,000 watt KVOO-AM, and its ability to be received on phone lines, guitar amplifiers, etc., was discussed at length. Chuck Adams dropped in. Ben Aronov, a now-France-based jazz pianist and Tulsa Central grad was discussed and seen in a 2000 photo at Jazmo's on Cherry Street.

We are on yet another GroupBlog host in an attempt to find one that is fast and no hassle. This is not the ultimate in features, but maybe it will keep us going while I keep looking.