What old business do you remember in OKC?

[grantgeneral78]

Remember the old OTASCO? and what was the logo name on the oil cans, and plug wire boxes?

How about Scott Chevrolet? what was there address and phone number? and what was the little slogan they had back then?

[Generals64]

Hey, between red/gen, Generals64, USG60, Carltonskeeper, and Soonergirl26 we can cover you whipper snapper's up.
Otasco (Oklahoma Tire and Supply Co.)
TG&Y (of course)
C.R. Anthony:...(knew the family)
Napoleon Nash
Sam's Surplus.....Tener's Boot Shop:...knew Ray well
Ellen's Grille
Potter's drive-In
Western Dip
Kip's Big Boy
Safeway Stores
Central Fixture
Tammy Lynn's
Rothschild's
John A. Brown
The Oklahoma Journal
Gibson's Stores
AMC (American Mutual Co.):...American Candy Co.
Friendly national bank
Turelove's Pool Hall
Western Auto
Glen's Hik'ry Inn
Nicolosis Restaurant
Pizza Planet
F.W. Woolworth
S.H. Kress Co.
Kresge Co.:....they are now K-Mart/Sears Roebuck Co.
Yale theater
Agnew Skating Rink
Comet Skating Rink
Rocket Skating Rink
Evans "Big Red" Furniture
Brown Motor Co.


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I'll give the others some room:...Take it Away Boys

[grantgeneral78]

Hey, between red/gen, Generals64, USG60, Carltonskeeper, and Soonergirl26 we can cover you whipper snapper's up.
Otasco (Oklahoma Tire and Supply Co.)
TG&Y (of course)
C.R. Anthony:...(knew the family)
Napoleon Nash
Sam's Surplus.....Tener's Boot Shop:...knew Ray well
Ellen's Grille
Potter's drive-In
Western Dip
Kip's Big Boy
Safeway Stores
Central Fixture
Tammy Lynn's
Rothschild's
John A. Brown
The Oklahoma Journal
Gibson's Stores
AMC (American Mutual Co.):...American Candy Co.
Friendly national bank
Turelove's Pool Hall
Western Auto
Glen's Hik'ry Inn
Nicolosis Restaurant
Pizza Planet
F.W. Woolworth
S.H. Kress Co.
Kresge Co.:....they are now K-Mart/Sears Roebuck Co.
Yale theater
Agnew Skating Rink
Comet Skating Rink
Rocket Skating Rink
Evans "Big Red" Furniture
Brown Motor Co.


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I'll give the others some room:...Take it Away Boys

Ok that about covers the phone book! WOW

[Generals64]

Ok that about covers the phone book! WOW

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Naw, you asked and you shall receive:...the wife is sound asleep I'll rack my brain (what little's left:

El Charrito Mexican Food Beck Jewelry
Veazey Drug Pumps Restaurant
Humpty Dumpty Foy's IGA
Snyder's IGA Jim's IGA
Crystal's Pizza Peter piper pizza
Murdock Salyer Murdock Chevrolet
Steve and Barry's Barry's Chicken
Aquascaliente (Best Mexican food) Long's Paint and Body
Chieftain Theater Redskin theater
Coker Pontiac R T Scott Chevrolet
Downtown Chevrolet Hancock's Fabrics
Atlantic Mills Spartan Department Store
Spartan/ Atlantic McCrory's
John A. Brown Katz Drug Store
Emmer Brothers Lerner's
Doncene's Hobby Shop Crossroads Hobby Shop
F.W. Woolworth's Griff's Burger Joint
Keirn's Dairy Charlie's Pub
Randall's Capitol hILL mUSIC cO.
Mode O' Day ladies wear Ben Franklin Stores
Texanna Red's Dos Tacos
Fuddrucker's Twitty Burger
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man, I'm going to call it a night.......

[Dollie]

Kerr's, In redding shopping center, also Down Town & in Sheppard Mall, Dillards came to town & bought them out. Streets, Peyton Marcus, in Capital hill & down town. Those go a way back like me.

[Prunepicker]

I just remembered a past Beverly's location that I don't believe has
been mentioned in any of the posts or threads. There was one at
N.W. 16th and N. May Avenue. The location became the first
Jimmy's Egg.

[CarltonsKeeper]

Hey, between red/gen, Generals64, USG60, Carltonskeeper, and Soonergirl26 we can cover you whipper snapper's up.
Otasco (Oklahoma Tire and Supply Co.)
TG&Y (of course)
C.R. Anthony:...(knew the family)
Napoleon Nash
Sam's Surplus.....Tener's Boot Shop:...knew Ray well
Ellen's Grille
Potter's drive-In
Western Dip
Kip's Big Boy
Safeway Stores
Central Fixture
Tammy Lynn's
Rothschild's
John A. Brown
The Oklahoma Journal
Gibson's Stores
AMC (American Mutual Co.):...American Candy Co.
Friendly national bank
Turelove's Pool Hall
Western Auto
Glen's Hik'ry Inn
Nicolosis Restaurant
Pizza Planet
F.W. Woolworth
S.H. Kress Co.
Kresge Co.:....they are now K-Mart/Sears Roebuck Co.
Yale theater
Agnew Skating Rink
Comet Skating Rink
Rocket Skating Rink
Evans "Big Red" Furniture
Brown Motor Co.


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I'll give the others some room:...Take it Away Boys

Gen/64, I bet some of these are the ones you were holding back on:

Swyden's Restaurants
Dryer Clark & Dryer Oil Co.
Darby Everest Cadillac
A.W. Lee Oil Co.
A.W. Lee 3 Service Stations
Kite & Son Automotive
Salami's Hot Dogs, 29th & S. Douglas
Knack Shoes, Door to Door Sales
Pete Peterson Campers
D.H. Henery Auto Sales
2020 Carland Of Plenty
Hub Cap City 1800 S.W. 29th
Buddy Rice Machine Shop
Moore's Cycle (original location) South Robinson, dealer for Mustang and Simplex
Victoria Hotel before urban renewal
Hudson Hotel
Black Hotel
Uncle Sam's Pawn Shop (home of the swithch blade knives)
Victory Arms
Mashburn Arms
Curtis Service Stations (all decked out with their tiile)
Capri Cleaners in Grant Square Shopping Center
Rhoads Grocery Stores both locations
J&J Speedometer Shop
The Rafters Club
The Onxy
Both Roundtable's
The 950 Club
Ginny's Pub
Borthick's Furniture
Bruno's Furniture on S.W. 29th (original)
June and Gin's convenience
Tiny Tim's on 59th
Coots convenience store
The Rail Fence Motel
The Swank
The Catalina
The Chieftain Motel
Ed Cox Applicance store in Reding Shopping Center (Superman)
Kerr's Dept Store
Napoleon Nash
Mr. Buck's
Luttrell's Barber Shop
Yount's Super Market
Ruth's Pies
Mrs. Degrafenreids's Pastry
Theater Supply Co.
Gardner Hotel Supply
Mike's Shoe Shop (cousin or uncle was Caesar Romero)
Kathryn Lipes Clothing
Peyton Marcus
Lerners Womens Wear
The Rose Glo Tavern on 29th
Henson's on Meridian
Hollie's Variety Store
Rancho Drug Store
Hogan's Restaurant (Virginia & Main)
Stero City across from AMC
Hilltop Bar on South Central
Capital Hill General Hospital (my birth place)
Time to quit:

[grantgeneral78]

Gen/64, I bet some of these are the ones you were holding back on:

Swyden's Restaurants
Dryer Clark & Dryer Oil Co.
Darby Everest Cadillac
A.W. Lee Oil Co.
A.W. Lee 3 Service Stations
Kite & Son Automotive
Salami's Hot Dogs, 29th & S. Douglas
Knack Shoes, Door to Door Sales
Pete Peterson Campers
D.H. Henery Auto Sales
2020 Carland Of Plenty
Hub Cap City 1800 S.W. 29th
Buddy Rice Machine Shop
Moore's Cycle (original location) South Robinson, dealer for Mustang and Simplex
Victoria Hotel before urban renewal
Hudson Hotel
Black Hotel
Uncle Sam's Pawn Shop (home of the swithch blade knives)
Victory Arms
Mashburn Arms
Curtis Service Stations (all decked out with their tiile)
Capri Cleaners in Grant Square Shopping Center
Rhoads Grocery Stores both locations
J&J Speedometer Shop
The Rafters Club
The Onxy
Both Roundtable's
The 950 Club
Ginny's Pub
Borthick's Furniture
Bruno's Furniture on S.W. 29th (original)
June and Gin's convenience
Tiny Tim's on 59th
Coots convenience store
The Rail Fence Motel
The Swank
The Catalina
The Chieftain Motel
Ed Cox Applicance store in Reding Shopping Center (Superman)
Kerr's Dept Store
Napoleon Nash
Mr. Buck's
Luttrell's Barber Shop
Yount's Super Market
Ruth's Pies
Mrs. Degrafenreids's Pastry
Theater Supply Co.
Gardner Hotel Supply
Mike's Shoe Shop (cousin or uncle was Caesar Romero)
Kathryn Lipes Clothing
Peyton Marcus
Lerners Womens Wear
The Rose Glo Tavern on 29th
Henson's on Meridian
Hollie's Variety Store
Rancho Drug Store
Hogan's Restaurant (Virginia & Main)
Stero City across from AMC
Hilltop Bar on South Central
Capital Hill General Hospital (my birth place)
Time to quit:

I did not know Ed Cox started in reding shopping center...hmm...interesting

[CarltonsKeeper]

I did not know Ed Cox started in reding shopping center...hmm...interesting

He also be dead now! After his divorce he bought an applicance and electronic repair shop on S.W. 89 around the Walker area. I guess his last store was on about 66th or so on south western his, his wife got it in the divorce and couldn't make a go of it. I guess the Superman Suit didn't look so good on her!! LOL

[CarltonsKeeper]

Can anyone IMAGINE Gen/64 in a Superman Suit?? I'll have night mares for sure...

[Prunepicker]

And Tape Town, in Stereo City.

[Generals64]

And Tape Town, in Stereo City.

How about Jesse's??????can't get an answer from you guys....does that one count?

[janeyring]

We used to go to OTASCO near or in Warr Acres often. We used to go to the TG&Y in Warr Acres. Used to go to C. R. Anthony's to buy clothes--two locations--I believe one on 10th Street (NW), and I believe the other was in or near Warr Acres. I went into Rothchilds some--can't think of the Mall off busy highway.
Janey

[kikkwik]

I remember most of the ones you mentioned. Do you remember the El Patio Restaurant at 417 sw 5th? My grandmother founded, owned, operated it.

[Prunepicker]

I remember most of the ones you mentioned. Do you remember the El Patio
Restaurant at 417 sw 5th? My grandmother founded, owned, operated it.

I do! I thought it was part of the El Charrito chain.

So cool to learn a wonderful part of culinary history in OKC!

[bs2007]

Does anyone remember a car wash shaped like a whale on or around NW 50th and Meridian??

Or am I just crazy??

[Prunepicker]

Does anyone remember a car wash shaped like a whale on or around NW 50th
and Meridian??

Or am I just crazy??

Yes. A whale of a car wash, I believe, was the name. That location is now a
frozen drink drive-in.

[RadicalModerate]

Does anyone remember a car wash shaped like a whale on or around NW 50th and Meridian??

Or am I just crazy??

I sort of remember that . . .
But that doesn't begin to answer your second question one way or the other. =)

[soonergeezer]

Does anyone remember a car wash shaped like a whale on or around NW 50th and Meridian??

Or am I just crazy??

You are not crazy,I think it was bight blue.

[SoonerQueen]

I'll mention a few places that meant something to me.

OTASCO (I was an OTASCO bonus baby. My mom worked for the company when I was born, and my brother and husband later worked for the company until they went out of business
The SHEEN DRUG Company (My aunt and Uncle owned it)
Shakey's Pizza
Billie Lee Pies
Sirloin Stockade
TG&Y
Street's Women's Clothes
Pick's Fine Foods
Glen's on NW 10th Street
Roy Rogers Roast Beef Sandwiches
Humpty Dumpty Grocery Store
Wilcox Music

[Prunepicker]

Robert Hall
MacArthur Park Raceway
Deep Rock
Murcer's Jewelry - TG&Y
Western Dip aka the Grease Pit
Knob Hill Theater
Criterion Theater
State Theater
Cooper Theater
Robo Car wash
Denny's Donuts
Glen's Hik'ry Pit
Chandelle Club
Herman's Seafood
Beverly's Restaurant
Patio Restaurant
Sieber Hotel
Huckins Hotel
Biltmore Hotel
Hotel Black
Corvette Center on S. May
Tastee Freez - esp. Billie's
Hudson Gas
Eskridge Oldsmobile
Scott Chevrolet
Pullum's BBQ

This is going to take all night!

[bluedogok]

The SHEEN DRUG Company (My aunt and Uncle owned it)

Growing up we went to the 16th & Portland location. I went to high school and worked at Skaggs with the pharmacists son (Greg Smith IIRC).

MacArthur Park Raceway

You mean this MacArthur Park Raceway? It has been reopened.

what was the either honda or kawasaki dealer that was on 29th between western and blackwelder?

Jandebar's? Or was that NW 10th? Reave's?

Jandebeur's Honda-Kawasaki was on SW 29th, the House of Kawasaki out at NW 10th & Council is the only one that I knew of on 10th. Our neighborhood bought most of our motorcycles out there and when we started riding we rode on the land on the SW corner of 10th & Council before the subdivision went in out there. We also rode at the north end of Overholser in what is now Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge.

[grantgeneral78]

Jandebeur's Honda-Kawasaki was on SW 29th, the House of Kawasaki out at NW 10th & Council is the only one that I knew of on 10th. Our neighborhood bought most of our motorcycles out there and when we started riding we rode on the land on the SW corner of 10th & Council before the subdivision went in out there. We also rode at the north end of Overholser in what is now Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge.[/QUOTE]

Thats it jandebeurs!....My cousin scared the crap out of a salesman there..

[Prunepicker]

Jandebeur's Honda-Kawasaki was on SW 29th, the House of Kawasaki out at
NW 10th & Council is the only one that I knew of on 10th. Our neighborhood
bought most of our motorcycles out there and when we started riding we
rode on the land on the SW corner of 10th & Council before the subdivision
went in out there. We also rode at the north end of Overholser in what is
now Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge.

There was a motorcycle shop between N. May and N. Villa on the north side
of the street. It may have been another Jandebeur's.

There was some major 1% biker activity around there in the 60's and 70's.

[bluedogok]

There was a motorcycle shop between N. May and N. Villa on the north side
of the street. It may have been another Jandebeur's.

There was some major 1% biker activity around there in the 60's and 70's.

On NW 10th between May & Villa? About what years? There may have been an independent shop there or maybe a Harley shop. The H-D shop that I remember was Parr's at Melrose & Rockwell during the AMF/H-D years. I also grew up going into the European dealer on MacArthur where Fred Baker Firearms is. I grew up on Kawasaki's but always wanted a Euro bike, well, I have a Triumph now.