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    Re: What old business do you remember in OKC?

    I apologise if this has already been mentioned, but does anyone remember Dockum Pontiac up on NW Expressway between Meridian and MacArthur?

    One of the salesmen they had there in the late 80's bore...
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    Re: Ghost Town: Picher Ok

    I live down in the road from Picher, in Miami.

    When we first moved up this way 15 years ago, There were still a lot of folks there. In fact one year, I used my truck to pull the parade float for...
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    Re: McDonalds with pirate ship inside?

    It was the McDonalds at 66th and I-35

    Back in the mid-80's, when I worked at the old 12th street McDonalds in Moore, our store would occasionally "horse-trade" with them, if one of the two of us...
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    Re: Things Your Kids will never know about

    There was also one at the IGA at 23rd and Meridian. If memory serves, it resembled a covered wagon.
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    Re: Where were you when Kennedy was shot?

    Where was I when Kennedy was shot?
    Wasn't born until the following May. I'm kind of glad I wasn't around for that, from everyone I've talked to that who was, it had to be a very rough time in this...
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    Re: OKC vs Peer Cities

    I couldn't agree more with this. When I was in high school, we moved from Moore to Pine Bluff, Arkansas for a short time. Talk about culture shock! Having lived in OKC just about all my life, I...
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    Re: Where did you live?

    Cool. Thank you, sir
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    Re: OKC in 1967 Aerial Photo - Someplace Else Mystery Solved

    With all this conversation about 23rd and Western, perhaps someone could clarify for me, whether of not there was a restaurant called "Archies" in the general vicinity of that intersection, around...
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    Re: Where did you live?

    NW 22nd and Santa Fe in Moore.

    I couldn't edit my post for some reason
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    Re: Where did you live?

    Moved from Tennessee to S.Williams st in El Reno in '68. Then from there to 12th & Western in OKC in '69, attended Kindergarten and first grade at Eugene Fields (When the building was still above...
  11. Re: Remains found in rusting car pulled from Oklahoma lake

    Now, its just creepy, looking at the 1969 aerial photo of the area, knowing that at the time it was taken, that car was still in there
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    Re: Shepard Mall is not a Mall anymore !!

    I think it was in '69 or '70, when I was little, we used to go out there and look around. If my sister and I behaved ourselves, we'd get to go to the ice cream store, near the restrooms and mall...
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    Re: Comet Skating Club

    My sister learned to roller skate there, when she was in girl scouts in the early '70's
  14. Re: Ice cream parlor at Crossroads Mall when it opened?

    Ica boxa.........more ica boxa........still more ica boxa
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    Re: Danny Williams Dead at 85

    I used to watch him on Saturday mornings when he was on Foreman Scotty's show, the circle 4 ranch and all. I did speak to Danny once on the phone a few years ago, when he was over at KOMA. We had...
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    Re: New OKC relocation video!

    I think you're right on that. There is however, the south side of Moore. "I remember when that was pasture land as far as the eye could see, old man Peabody owned all of it! Had some crazy idea...
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    Re: New OKC relocation video!

    I grew up in Moore, and I have to agree, the growth there has been phenomenal. It kind of reminds me of Edmond, west of Broadway. Back in the early '70's, people would say about Edmond: "Don't buy...
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    Re: W. Reno & May

    Is it just me, or does the layout of the fairgrounds resemble an airfield?
  19. Re: Ice cream parlor at Crossroads Mall when it opened?

    Getting back to the pig trough at Farrell's......

    I don't remember a stretcher, but I do remember the time my uncle had it and ate the whole thing BY HIMSELF. The entire staff gathered around...
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    Re: Things Your Kids will never know about

    "....and if the President was on, your night was shot!" -Jeff Foxworthy
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    Sticky: Re: "Roll Call" - Introduce yourself

    I've been to Philly a couple of times, and it seemed like a nice place, but I was there on business and really didn't have time to look around
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    Sticky: Re: "Roll Call" - Introduce yourself

    Hi everyone
    My name is Will, but some folks know me as Sandy. I lived in various parts of the OKC area from 1968 to 2000, but mostly in Moore, where I graduated from high school in '84 (while...
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