http://tulsatvmemories.com Tulsa pop culture and history en-us http://tulsatvmemories.com/favicon.gif http://tulsatvmemories.com http://tulsatvmemories.com/stegman.html Photo of Rocky and Robin Stegman and Clayton Vaughn at the top of the Rocky Stegman eulogy/Booker T. Washington video class photo. It was taken by Lee Woodward at the 1997 KOTV reunion. Midge Caruthers' new page of 5/2 links to the Stegman page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/ktba.html Stacy Richardson told us that our good friend Don Cook, who was Program Director at underground FM station KTBA in the early 70s, passed away on 5/7/2008. Five years ago, Don wrote a great account of the station's beginnings: Reflections on KTBA. http://tulsatvmemories.com/midge.html A new and fascinating article by Madeline (Midge) Caruthers: Media People in the 1970s Made Major Difference in Race Relations. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewbyte.html#ironman Gary Chew reviews a new movie, "Iron Man", with Robert Downey, Jr., Jeff Bridges and Gwyneth Paltrow. Opens 5/2 at the Admiral Twin Drive-In. http://tulsatvmemories.com/capri.html#wide New Beryl Ford photo of the Capri Drive-In. http://tulsatvmemories.com/airview.html#photos Bit of a mystery here; new Beryl Ford photos of a Tulsa drive-in with a "Story Book Lane" playground, but is it the Airview? I'm not so sure. http://tulsatvmemories.com/admiral.html#1962 Added 3 more Beryl Ford photos of the Admiral Twin Drive-In Theatre in 1962...taken the same day as one already on the page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewdecp.html Gary Chew reviews a new movie, Deception, starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams; opens 4/25 in Tulsa. http://tulsatvmemories.com/1957.html Via "PonderInc" at the TulsaNow forum, a link to the well-told story of a Wichita blogger's pilgrimage to Tulsa for the Belvedere unearthing, at the top of the 1957 page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb072002.html#patricia For OKC TV fans, a HoHo The Clown YouTube video is embedded in GB 110. http://tulsatvmemories.com/uncle.html#waverly Video of U.N.C.L.E.'s Mr. Waverly on the 1968 inaugural Rowan and Martin's "Laugh-In" added to the T-Town Affair page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/maintain.html#obit An anecdote about Edwin Fincher and Willie Nelson added to the MAINTAIN page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/whatsnew.html Photos from Lowell and Edwin's services in the current (265) GroupBlog. http://tulsatvmemories.com/whatsnew.html Our good friend and contributor Lowell Burch passed away yesterday. The Tulsa World notice is in the GroupBlog. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chew88m.html Gary Chew reviews a new movie, 88 Minutes, starts tomorrow. http://tulsatvmemories.com/maintain.html#obit To my great sorrow, I learned today that Edwin Fincher, friend, and prime creator of the MAINTAIN program, has passed away. Read what folks have to say about him in the current GroupBlog and on the MAINTAIN page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/dance.html YouTube of Dance Party from Fantastic Tulsa Films, Vol. 2. http://tulsatvmemories.com/adams.html#track Added photo of Chuck Adams driving a race car at the Tulsa Speedway to his page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb042101.html#run Link to Google Video interview with Roy Huggins, creator of "Run For Your Life" and "Maverick" in GB 77. http://tulsatvmemories.com/cars.html#tink Pic of "Tink" Wilkerson added to the Tulsa Car Dealers page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/briefcas.html Lee Woodward's photos of the 1997 KOTV reunion on his Flickr page, now in the Photo/video briefcase. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewsmpp.html "Smart People", a new movie with Ellen Page and Thomas Haden Church, is coming 4/11. Reviewed here by Gary Chew. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewsal.html "Shine a Light" is reviewed here by Gary Chew. It is a Scorcese documentary on the Rolling Stones. Opens in Tulsa today (4/4) at the Cinemark IMAX. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb040308.html#tgy Beryl Ford pics of the Humpty Dumpty on Admiral and the Brookside T.G. and Y., with close-ups of a weight and fortune telling machine from the just-archived GroupBlog 263. http://tulsatvmemories.com/signoffs.html#high New YouTube video on the Sign-offs page: KOED sign-off with airplane. Audio dates back to the 1960s. http://tulsatvmemories.com/signoffs.html#dickwest Dick West's Indian sign language sign-off from KTUL, 1979. http://tulsatvmemories.com/signoffs.html#raychas Ray Charles 'America The Beautiful' sign-off from KTUL, 1979. http://tulsatvmemories.com/newmovie.html Francis Coppola to return to Tulsa for a new movie production. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb061207.html#docrock YouTube Doc Rock spot added to GB 243. Today, Doc sells coneys at Papa Dogs in Owasso, on 86th St N and I-169. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb092407.html#soundtrak A good time to remind that YouTube Linda Soundtrak TV ads can be viewed in GB 252. http://tulsatvmemories.com/koki.html KOKI Tulsa 23 promo spot on YouTube, at the top of the Tu23a page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/giftshop.html New categories added to the Amazon-based TTM Gift Shop: The Tiki Hut, Drive-In Theatre, The Coffeehouse, U.N.C.L.E. Headquarters, The World of Radio. http://tulsatvmemories.com/signoffs.html#cy Upgraded the 1979 KTUL sign-off with Cy Tuma over Mancini's "Dreamsville" to YouTube on the first original Gift Shop page and the Sign-offs page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewstpl.html Opening in Tulsa tomorrow: Stop-Loss, a movie from MTV Films, reviewed by Gary Chew. http://tulsatvmemories.com/womans.html#exercise The secret of happiness according to Jack LaLanne (YouTube). http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewsal.html Gary Chew reviews a Martin Scorcese documentary about the Rolling Stones: "Shine a Light". http://tulsatvmemories.com/kiddie.html#tuffy Jim Hill reported late this evening in the GroupBlog that Wayne Johnson, aka Tuffy the Tiger, has passed away. This is a sad loss. Wayne was a great guy, and he had a lot of friends. http://tulsatvmemories.com/inhofeog.html Former Tulsa TV/radio newsman Mike Miller was interviewed for this in-depth article about the career of Sen. James M. Inhofe, "The Making of a Mountain" by Grant Slater. Copyrighted by Gazette Media, Inc. Republished with permission from The Oklahoma Gazette. Mike worked for Sen. Inhofe in the early 90s, and was extremely candid in his comments. Excerpts from Mike's book, "How High Can a Guy Stoop?", are included. http://tulsatvmemories.com/whatsnew.html Not TV, but Tulsa: for a week or so, a female cardinal in our backyard has been attacking another cardinal beak to beak. She has not been able to run this pesky bird off because it never emerges from the reflection in our sliding glass door. This seems to enrage her even more. Here is one of her many daily assaults on the hated rival before a hopping-mad exit, stage left. (58 second YouTube video) http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewbrug.html Gary Chew reviews a new movie playing in Tulsa, "In Bruges". http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewbart.html Gary Chew reviews a new movie playing in Tulsa, "Charlie Bartlett". http://tulsatvmemories.com/whatsnew.html We were shocked and saddened today: former Channel 2 weatherman, Gary Shore, passed away. People are writing in about him in the current GroupBlog (#261). http://tulsatvmemories.com/mahu.html New Beryl Ford pics of the Ma-Hu Mansion, courtesy of Heath Young. Also converted the 1970s Channel 8 Ken Reed news piece about the Ma-Hu to a YouTube-type video, viewable on the same page. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb092407.html#$$ The $16,000 check cleared; here is the Google Video of the webmaster's phone-a-friend appearance on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewvpt.html Gary Chew reviews a new movie, "Vantage Point", with Dennis Quaid, Forrest Whitaker and Sigourney Weaver. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewunct.html Gary Chew reviews a new documentary about election fraud, "UnCounted". FREE showing at the Hardesty Library in Tulsa, 2/25/2008. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewwebb.html Jimmy Webb in concert in Sacramento; an appreciation by Gary Chew. http://tulsatvmemories.com/vault.html#daddy New CD: "Rock of All Ages" from Daddy A Go Go, with cover painted by Gailard Sartain. Read more about Daddy A Go Go (aka former KTUL and CNN producer John Boydston) in the TTM Gift Shop. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewbyte.html#oscar08 Gary Chew's Choices for Oscar in 2007. He has reviewed many of them on this site. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewsoit.html Chew reviews a new movie with Frank Langella, "Starting Out In The Evening". You will hear it on KWGS, plus many other stations in the West. http://tulsatvmemories.com/fantastic.html I met Josef Hardt in person last week. He gave me a copy of the KVOO-TV Marketer newsletter for November 1965 that included a profile of him, plus the original press release for "Fantastic Theatre". Wow! http://tulsatvmemories.com/kiddie2.html#cowbell Where did the expression, "More cowbell!" come from? Could it have been WBAP-Ft. Worth in the mid-1950s where announcer Lee Woodward was constantly exhorted to ring it? Lee has provided photographic evidence. http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewtwbb.html Gary Chew reviews a movie coming soon to Tulsa: "There Will Be Blood" with Daniel Day-Lewis. http://tulsatvmemories.com/fantastic.html#pyne My correspondence with both Billy Ingram of TVparty, and humorist Roy Blount, Jr. is recounted on TVparty's blog, topic: "ZAPPA MYSTERY?", dated 12/31/07. http://tulsatvmemories.com/adams.html#dratman From the current GroupBlog (259), added Chuck Adams' remembrance of Tulsa World entertainment columnist Chuck Wheat to the "Dratman" story by Mr. Adams. http://tulsatvmemories.com/leeorig2.html#chuck From the current GroupBlog (259), added Lee and Lionel's remembrance of Tulsa World entertainment columnist Chuck Wheat to one of their pages. Chuck Wheat passed away at his home in Vermont this week. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb021607.html#morgan New photo of veteran character actor Morgan Woodward at age 6, courtesy of Lee Woodward. http://tulsatvmemories.com/tulscoff.html#night Photo of the the Rubiot jazz club/coffee house at night, courtesy of Kenny Quinn. For the record, the Rubiot was located at 6740 S. Peoria. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb022306.html#tink More from the Beryl Ford Collection: in GB 206, a photo of Tink Wilkerson himself. http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb052707.html#kart More from the Beryl Ford Collection: in GB 242, two photos of Kartville (which location?) and a Cathey's ("8th to 9th, on Main") billboard.