Don't remember the OKC one having it but one in Tulsa and in Denver had an area you walked through with a tropical setting. On this man made cliff men would dive into the pool of water below. This went on day and night.
Maybe the Mexicans were the cliff divers and the kitchen help was Iranian. All supervised by an Italian woman with a long, thick and jet black mustache.
All were exchange students at Bishop McGuinness.

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What are you taking tonight?...Red, White, Blue, Purple...what color????

Northside memories,
let me see I was born on the southside then Dad got a Good job. Just kidding.
Northside life would have been perfect with Dodson's up there.
I remember Coits, Crystals etc. on northside.
Across the street, ordering on the phone, you would get the drink called the 400 (chocolate milk on ice).
They also had spaghetti red, topped with chili and cheese.

Every spring the sand bass would run in Overholser first then Hefner it used to be deeper.
We would sit on the rocks till late in the evening catching them and jump on the bikes and head home at dark.
Wow, how safe was the city back then?

Does anyone remember thousands of baby toad frogs early in the summer on everyone's lawn? My neighbor and I would paint them with testers model paint for ID purposes.
Mine had silver legs.
Paint bought at TG&Y.

One last one fireworks stands, and bottlerocket wars.

Okay I will think of more later.

Yes............

We used to go to dirt road south of downtown air park. Step Off so many paces and have roman candle fights. You could turn sideways but could not move from the spot you started on.
Bottle Rockets were fun if you let the fuse burn down so far and then throw them into the creek.

At times we would take cats and .....................................

YOU'RE 'JES A KID! I thought you were normal.

As far as Holdhercloser (aka Overholser) is concerned, the sand bass would
run in May but the Hyrids (inter-bred mules aka as stripers and sand bass)
ran all the time. They still do.

Hefner is Crappie Heaven! Man, er girl, I used to catch 2 or 3 dozen a
night when I fished the stalls.

Texhoma is the place for sand bass. Holdhercloser is okay.

That spaghetti was Cincinnati Chili.

You're still 'jes a kid. I thought you were normal.

Dangit.

Make that Double-Dangit...

Define Kid prune.

We used to catch crappie along the rocks at Hefner.
The sand bass I caught were pre Hybrid days
We used to hunt ducks at Overholser as well.

Were those stalls in the men or ladies latrine...........

Holdercloser is best place in OKC for fishin'..............

T Bird if your lookin' for catfish...........the best to eat...........

Hey Frittergir, I just read your post and if you graduated with Mike Calvey you were a year behind me in school (if it is the same Mike Calvey).

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You're A Sicko...Only someone from Capitol Hill would think of the stalls being a toilet.........Grant guys used to have cherry Bomb fights.....Man, I'd love to have a box of those now....Probably end up in Jail though....How about those lady fingers.....How many could you pop in the palm of your hand?????be honest now....

I'll bet you can get them on the black market. I was smart enough to not
pop any firecrackers in my hand.

In the 50's you could tear open a Black Cat or Zebra firecracker and some of
the packing would be newspaper and many times it'd be the comic section.

Bet you were one of those guys that put his arm against another and place a lit cigarette between you and see who could last the longest.

And people think I'm strange for letting a woman walk on my back while wearing spiked heels................

Anyone remember the Delta Drive-In? How about The Gridiron? Mr. Mac's? Simmons' Dairy Boy? The Ritz Theater? Fitzgerald's Place? The OLD Wedgewood on N. May? The old airport at N. May and Britton, across from Twilight Garden? Puddin' Lanes? Pappy's Pool Hall? Maddox's Grocery? Knox-less Gas Station on N. Western? Corson's Grocery on N. Western? Shadid's? The Rocket Grocery? University Heights Grade School?

The Gridiron was a regular stop. Good burgers. Leo had a BBQ cafe after
the Gridiron closed. It wasn't as good as the one on Kelly. Leo's has
really dropped in quality since he passed away.

Where was Simmon's Dairy Boy? I knew of a few of them.

Isn't the hanger on north May still there? It was the Christian Center for a
long time. Maybe it was disassembled in the 90's and moved, but I don't
think so. I remember the water tower next to it.

There was a Puddin' Lanes at Mayfair.

When did they move Wedgewood to NW Expressway? Where was it?

Does anyone remember the Uptown Theater on N. Hudson?

The hanger was torn down when Cooper built the new BMW shop in the early 90's. I think it may have been moved but I don't know where. The water tower was torn down in the late 80's.

I just remembered it being on the news in the 90's. It was taken apart
and moved. There was a lot of history about it.

Maybe Doug Loudenback can clue us in.

when i was a kid the friends and i would ride our bikes to rockwell and hefner? and hit this neat little bike trail with sweet jumps and such. its a grocery store now.

Prunepicker, the hanger was dismantled and taken into storage for a potential recreation. I think OCU got custody of it.

I'm glad to know that.

I've got a few Northside memories.

I lived at 18th & Classen, 2 blocks east in an apartment with a communal bathroom and a pay telephone. Then at 20th & Penn where I shared a house with OCU basketball players Gary Duncan, Roy Johnston, and Roger Bickel. Roger and I then shared an apartment 3 blocks west of NW 10th and Classen. Then I lived at NW 30th and Villa in 1963 and got to watch Shepards Mall being constructed. The dust stirred up by the dirt movers was almost too much to bare. I shared that house with Gene Tsoodle and his cousin.

One day an Indian artist from Lawton came by to crash on the couch. While he was there I watched him paint eight watercolor paintings at once. He layed them all out on the living room carpet and sat in the center. Then he would dip his brush in the red and dab it on each of the eight paintings where he wanted the red. He did this with each color. Each painting was different. Then the next day he went out to the oil companies to sell his paintings.

While was at OCU I used to love eating at Tony's Via Roma. He made an mouthwatering Italian hamburger. This was the Tony's at 34th and N. May and I ate there so much I negotiated a script deal with him. I made up a little card with 30 $1 boxes that he could check whenever I ate there and then I paid him $ 22 in advance for $ 30 worth of food. If I ate $ 4.30 worth he'd check off 4 boxes and I paid him the 30 cents in change. I'd take dates there and we'd have great food and a great time for under $ 7.

Well I'm a young one but I can still remember:

* Sheperd Mall when it was still a mall
* TG&Y at Windsor Hills (windsor hills was the place to go for a movie back then too)
* Crystals Pizza
* Shotgun Sams
* Casa Bonita
* Big L lumberyards
* Putt-Putt Golf on NW 39th just east of Ann Arbor (next to where TFCU is now)
* Celebration Station when it opened
* Shoneys
* Mazzio's Pizza
* Godfather's Pizza
* Sledding down the hill at Eldon Lyon Park in Bethany

I recently posted something about the hanger in the Wiley Post thread. If I'm not mistaken it was spposed to be reassembeled at Wiley Post and turned into an aviation museum. I remember the tower being knocked down too. Quiet the excitement for a kid. Seems like it took several days with the wrecking ball.

Another Northside memory I thought of the other day (being the 4th and all) was the year Bob Hope came to Stars and Stripes park for Independence day, if I remember right they had a fireworks display shot off form the park and people parked all around the lake to view it.....wish theyd do something like that again.

Sorry to break the news,

BOB HOPE IS DEAD

I was referrng to shooting fireworks from the park, but what the hey. Since Bob is dead maybe they could bring him back for halloween instead. Much more appropriate.

[quote=MadMonk;217558]Here's a few.

Crossing 39th St to go to lunch at a little pizza place (can't remember the name right now)QUOTE]

Mr. Gatti's on 39th just down the way from Nip's Auto Trim (that was quite amusing in 7th grade)

I grew up near NW Hwy & Mac and remember riding my bike everywhere, including:

Woodlake Raquet Club for tennis and swimming

Treasury Drug, Furr's, the Library and the Movies at 63rd and Mac

There used to be a great BMX track where Twin Lakes is now

Spent a lot of time in and around the lake behind Joe's Crabshack well before Joe had crabs.

All over the Lyrewood area (where I would rather not even drive now)

Albertson's when there was a west side entry door

Dockum Pontiac across from the drive in, Service Merchandise

Painting the pylons at 50th and Meridian in high school

Hanging out at Cactus Jack's, Dolese Park and "the tables" at Lake Hefner

Buying beer at Duong Phong on 10th and Council

Cruising 39th street and Broadway in Edmond

Buying cassette tapes at Sound Warehouse on 39th and Mac

Buying a car stereo at Soundtrak on 63rd

Plauing volleyball on the sand bank of the North Canadian River near stinchcomb

Going to Cagle's fitness center on Wilshire there was a big night club near there we used to try to get into as well, not sure the name.

Crystal's Pizza, Shotgun Sam's, Casa Bonita, My Pie Pizza, Longneckers

Who had the kitchen sink dessert near NW Highway and 63rd?

I know there are a ton more but I have slept since then...