PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Back around 1900 Ardmore had several Round Houses used by the railroad company to repair and service locomotives. The round house was also used to ‘turn-around’ an engine so it faced the other direction on the track. Keep in mind that early locomotives only traveled…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 The old Bankers National Bank (today known as the Dunlap Building) is located in the SW corner of Main and A Street SW.  It first opened for business in 1906. The bank changed it’s name to American National Bank and operated in this building until 1916,…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 From This and That newsletter archives of March 6, 1999:  Q. What Cherokee Indian developed the Cherokee alphabet?A. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/U/UN005.html Q. A. (answer in next week’s T&T) Gas prices today in the Ardmore area…… https://oklahomahistory.net/gasprices.html Some mail from this week’s MAILBAG…..“Butch: Thought you might be interested in…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 We had an interest conversation the other day on Facebook about Bomar, Oklahoma.  Some (including me) remember it being located about 3 miles south of Marietta, Oklahoma on Highway 77.  But there were several who remember a Bomar located south of Thackerville. Frances Long Anthony…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 A T&T Reader visited Brown Springs south of Thackerville Oklahoma last week, took some pics.  My first time to visit Brown Springs was back around 1970 or the late 60s, on my motorcycle, after reading about bodies being dumped in this infamous place just a…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I am always amazed when someone shares something I haven’t thought or even seen in many years, jogging my memory of a time from my younger years. That happened this week from an Ardmoreite who still had in her possession a membership card from years…

Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I had a pleasant surprise this week, a visitor from my long ago past, someone I had not seen since my teenage years.  Charles Dabbert stopped by to share a book with me. His wife, Dana Dabbert, passed away about 6 months ago, and he brought by a book she had…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Jill and I were in Gainesville Texas last Saturday just messing around. We strayed from our norm and instead of seeking out a good hamburger, stopped in at the Smokehouse II for a BBQ sandwich. The $3.98 BBQ sandwich was delicious and packed with sliced…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Since gas is on the rise the past couple weeks, and predicted to hit $4 a gallon by summer, Jill and I decided to make a road trip last Monday while we can still afford it.  We traveled to Ada, Oklahoma and saw some sights. …

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Through the years from time to time there is mention of the 1977 movie Dillinger in which many of the scenes were filmed right here in Southern Oklahoma including at the Carter County Courthouse. It see the CD now available on amazon.com for $6.22 –…