View Full Version : New at www.okchistory.com: Capitol Hill's Katz Drug Store



Steve
04-18-2009, 09:41 PM
Hopefully some of you can fill in the gaps in this story. (http://www.okchistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:katz&catid=42:places&Itemid=78)

papaOU
04-21-2009, 05:53 PM
Hopefully some of you can fill in the gaps in this story. (http://www.okchistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:katz&catid=42:places&Itemid=78)

Two things I remember: 1) They had a great lunch counter. Why did they call it a lunch counter when they served breakfast.
2)My two older cousins purchased a Katz punching bag. Had a weigheted bottom and the bag itself was a blowup plastic. The image on the thing was the Katz cat. Sparring with the bag while my older cousin was "working" Mr. Katz. Next thing I know the feline head butted me and I ended up with a bloody nose. I was preschool age.

Which was first the Katz Kat or Felix the Cat. They are the spittin image of each other.

Generals64
04-22-2009, 04:14 PM
I remember the Capitol HIll story very well...It had a mezzanine where a lot General merchandise was sold....They had agood Lunch Counter and they made something "Phosphate". Can't remember the rest...The mezzanine was over about 1/2 of the store... and I can remember saving the straws so we could run upstairs and blow the paper off of them.....Like we were really something. But, if you needed something from a Drug Store Katz Drug had it....Always...

Redskins/General
04-22-2009, 06:04 PM
I remember the Capitol HIll story very well...It had a mezzanine where a lot General merchandise was sold....They had agood Lunch Counter and they made something "Phosphate". Can't remember the rest...The mezzanine was over about 1/2 of the store... and I can remember saving the straws so we could run upstairs and blow the paper off of them.....Like we were really something. But, if you needed something from a Drug Store Katz Drug had it....Always...
Good ol' Cherry Phosphate, hard to beat!! I wonder if anyone sells them today???

Generals64
04-22-2009, 06:23 PM
Good ol' Cherry Phosphate, hard to beat!! I wonder if anyone sells them today???
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Thank you very much, I could not remember the whole name....Shaw Drug use to make them also.....I don't even think Braum's makes them though. There is complete Fountain (in a Drug Store) in Nichols Hills plaza (best burger in town) we should go up there and see....let me know,,,

Redskins/General
04-22-2009, 07:10 PM
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Thank you very much, I could not remember the whole name....Shaw Drug use to make them also.....I don't even think Braum's makes them though. There is complete Fountain (in a Drug Store) in Nichols Hills plaza (best burger in town) we should go up there and see....let me know,,,
You don't even know me and your asking me out on a lunch date???? I'm easy, but not that easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Generals64
04-22-2009, 07:32 PM
You don't even know me and your asking me out on a lunch date???? I'm easy, but not that easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hey, if you're part Redskin what can I say?????

papaOU
04-23-2009, 12:06 AM
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Thank you very much, I could not remember the whole name....Shaw Drug use to make them also.....I don't even think Braum's makes them though. There is complete Fountain (in a Drug Store) in Nichols Hills plaza (best burger in town) we should go up there and see....let me know,,,

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? NICHOLS HILLS PLAZA!!!

You need a nap!! Doing something so foolish could qualify you for a DIRT NAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ohno:

:bedtime: Bed time for you Bonzo........................

papaOU
04-23-2009, 12:14 AM
You don't even know me and your asking me out on a lunch date???? I'm easy, but not that easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My ex was a California girl that was sssssssooooooooo easy she ran around town on roller skates and a mattress tied to her back........ :tongue:

Generals64
04-30-2009, 04:51 PM
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? NICHOLS HILLS PLAZA!!!

You need a nap!! Doing something so foolish could qualify you for a DIRT NAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ohno:

:bedtime: Bed time for you Bonzo........................

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don't knock it til you try it......But, back on topic tell ab out the Katz Drug Store in Capitol Hill....Back door entrance also, there was an old BLACK Door with a glass in it and a Screen door....You couldn't get by with that in today's world. Armed security and Steel doors with everything in the safe....Upstairs if I remember kinda had a bunch of just odds and ends doo-dads....there were only stairs with a middle landing and then straight up if I remember right. If we could get Red/Gen to curb his attitude he has probably been in that store a million times.....and probably paid for SOME of the items he got there.....Huh?...It was a pretty handy store to go to.....