“Once Upon A Time”
Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma
1980s
In the 1980s while Betty Carroll was employed by American National Bank in Ardmore she was called on to narrate local history. During her time there she was asked to do some 1 minute radio spots for advertising purposes, with local history as the theme. Some of the information Betty uses comes from the book ‘Reporter’s Notebook’ published in 1973 by Mac McGalliard.
Betty Sue Carroll (1927-2020) is buried at the Crinerville Cemetery SW of Ardmore.
The recordings below should stream automatically to your computer if you have Windows Media Player or some similar program. A “Thank You” goes to Betty Carroll who has graciously made the recordings available here online.
Volume 1 – keywords:
Spot No. 1 – Charles Criner, John Criner, Alva Roff, Criner Hills, Crinerville
Spot No. 2 – Ranch House in SE Ardmore, Alva Roff, Roff Addition, Roff, Oklahoma
Spot No. 3 – Cornish Orphan Home 1905, Moses Harris, Peak Victory, Wirt Franklin
Spot No. 4 – Blue River, Austin Hughes, Mattie Hughes, Vanoy Hughes, Hughes Crossing
Spot No. 5 – Ft. Washita, Robert E. Lee, Zackery Taylor, Pawnee Trail
Spot No. 6 – 14 flags over Oklahoma
Spot No. 7 – L.D. Rickey, game ranger, Goddard Ranch
Spot No. 8 – Hale Dunn, Ardmore police chief for 16 years. Holmes Akers first sheriff.
Spot No. 9 – Turner Falls cave, Honey Creek canyon
Spot No. 10 – Lorena Park, Mattie Cravitt, Walter Hardy, Hill Sanitarium, Rose Crory Hospital
Volume 2 – keywords:
Spot No. 1 – Cotton trail from Ardmore to Duncan
Spot No. 2 – Felix and Callie Boyd King dairy farm on 3rd NE, Boyd and Love Oil Springs Health Resort
Spot No. 3 – Cave SW of Turner Falls, Ethel Hindman, Wild Woman Cave
Spot No. 4 – Dr. F. S. Douglas’ letter to Dr Lyman Veasey, Dutch George on Caddo
Spot No. 5 – Dutch George con’t. Mike Gorman Undertaking
Spot No. 6 – Jake Hamon in NYC, Waldorf Hotel, John Ringling, oil discovered at Healdton
Spot No. 7 – Ringling Railroad, Charles Wilson, oil boom years
Spot No. 8 – Gene Autry, OK., C.C. Henderson, Lou, OK., Dresden, OK., Berwyn, OK.
Spot No. 9 – A 1893 review of the needs of Ardmore including a fire department
Spot No. 10 – Dr. John J. Chapman, Poolville, OK., Elk, OK., First registered woman pharmacist after Oklahoma becomes a state in 1907 is Mrs. Chapman
Spot No. 11 – Train robbery near Greenville, OK., $50,000 in gold taken, Lake Murray cave
Spot No. 12 – Abb Jolly describes early day schools in Ardmore, Woods Ford, Woodford, Otterville, OK
Volume 3 – keywords:
Spot No. 1 – Geologist Albert Giles finds 3,000 yr old skeleton by Hickory Creek near Crinerville
Spot No. 2 – US Deputy James Robert “Bob” Hutchins, police chief, Billy Washington, Hanging Judge Parker, John Ringling, 1915 explosion, Jake Hamon bodyguard
Spot No. 3 – Ashley Douglas, Stephen Douglas, life at Overbrook, McAlester Church, Bomar Millinery store,
Devil’s Kitchen, Lake Murray
Spot No. 4 – Spanish Fort at Red River, Wichita Indians, Marvin Tong, Devil’s Canyon in SW Oklahoma
Spot No. 5 – Marie King Garland, Initial Point, Indian Meridian
Spot No. 6 – Robert H. Love, Thomas C.S. Love, Governor Cyrus Harris
Spot No. 7 – Love family of Love county, Thomas Love, Burneyville cemetery, Mahota Love
Spot No. 8 – Sulphur Springs, Medicine Springs Hotel, Robert Love Thomas Love, Robert Wilson health hotel
Spot No. 9 – Fort Arbuckle, Katy Grant Allen, Tom Grant
Spot No. 10 – Fort Arbuckle, Munford Johnson, Neil Johnson, Pearl ????, George Shirk, Billy Myers
Spot No. 11 – William Louis Brooks invents gas stove, Wilson Newman Sheetmetal
Spot No. 12 – Ralph Schuerhoff, Berwyn
Spot No. 13 – Cowboy Hall of Fame, Jim Eskew, trick roper
Spot No. 14 – Buck and Dutchie Estes
Spot No. 15 – Bud Ballew, John T. Spears, Buck Garrett
Volume 4 – keywords:
Spot No. 1 – Bud Ballew killed in Wichita, TX, Otis Morris
Spot No. 2 – Elmer Leroy Baker, Gunman’s Territory, E.W. McIntosh, Overbrook, Black Kettle, Bill Turtle
Spot No. 3 – Sam Blackburn, The Wicked Flea column, Lillie Doyle
Spot No. 4 – Sandford Harville, Rosa Smith, train accident
Spot No. 5 – Salvation Army est. 1917 in Ardmore, Maggie Knotts, Minnie Wood
Spot No. 6 – Dinosaur gizzard stones found near Wilson, OK by James Steele
Spot No. 7 – Fred Beaver, artist, Acey Blue Eagle, Jerome Tiger
Spot No. 8 – Cold Storage Plant, E.C. Heath, Arthur James, Dry Cold Ammonia Plant
Spot No. 9 – John O’Mealy, Santa Fe station opens for passengers 1887, Zack Addington, Mamie Gibson
Spot No. 10 – Effie Ryburn, Wheeler Oil Field 1905
Spot No. 11 – Dr. Hugh H. Monroe, Pickens County Medical association
Spot No. 12 – Lazy S. Ranch, Robert Scivally
Spot No. 13 – Robert “Bob” Scivally, Blue River, Springer, County commissioners
Spot No. 14 – Early day towns, Chagris, Monk Tipps
Spot No. 15 – “A New Year”
Spot No. 16 – Wild Woman Cave, Ethel Hindman
Volume 5 – keywords:
Spot No. 1 – Wagon hounds, whiskey vests, bootleggers, Bob Hutchins
Spot No. 2 – Paint buckets used for whiskey, whiskey smuggling
Spot No. 3 – Bob Hutchins, Republican Ardmore chief of Police, Little Dixie
Spot No. 4 – Bob Hutchins, 2 anonymous policemen, H.G. Stone Cabinet Maker
Spot No. 5 – Bob Hutchins, Bloody Caddo, Maggie Hobbs, Salvation Army
Spot No. 6 – Bob Hutchins, 1915 Tank Car Explosion, Bloody Caddo
Spot No. 7 – Simpson Building, Ardmore Hotel
Spot No. 8 – Oil made Ardmore, Walter H. Gant, Healdton Field
Spot No. 9 – Bill Skelley, Walter Gant, Frank Phillips
Spot No. 10 – Healdton, Palmer, Roy Johnson, Healdton Discovery Well
Spot No. 11 – Healdton Field, Wirt Franklin, 1914 Ardmore Independent Oil Field Producers Association, Max Westheimer, Ed Galt, Fred Tucker, Sam Daube, Frank and Ward Merrick, Will Smith, Walter Neustadt.
Spot No. 12 – Buck Garrett and Bud Ballew friendship
Spot No. 13 – Bud Ballew, Wirt, Ragtown, Pete Bynum shooting
Spot No. 14 – Lawless towns of Wirt and Ragtown, Bud Ballew
Volume 6 – keywords:
Spot No. 1 – Buck Garrett, Bud Ballew, Jim Taliaferro, Lone Grove
Spot No. 2 – Territorial days, firearms, and lawlessness
Spot No. 3 – Buck Garrett’s dedication to enforcing the law
Spot No. 4 – John Taylor, Dr. Dow Taylor, John Preston Taylor, Carter County Free Fair, Woodford, Ft Arbuckle, Ada, Ft Supply
Spot No. 5 – Altrusa Club 26th anniversary , Mrs. John Simpler, Mrs. Florence Jones, Mrs. John Simpler, Jr., Mrs. John Hargrave, Mrs Frank Young, Mrs Jack Stubblefield, Leta Champion, Betty Dacron, Nola Jackson
Spot No. 6 – Chagris, Oklahoma NW of Healdton, Herb Welch, Alpers, Oklahoma, Dr. H.W. Alpers, Nell Ida, Nelda Tindale, Frank Tindale, E.B. Luke
Spot No. 7 – Roy M. Johnson, Dr. Walter Hardy’s airplane, Walter Kincheloe, Rock Crossing
Spot No. 8 – Ardmore Hotel, Judge Ralph Campbell, street cars, Joe Robinson
Spot No. 9 – Arthur Oakley, Eddie Stinson, airplanes, flying stuntmen
Spot No. 10 – Arthur Oakley, Forcy Eskew, airport near Broadlawn Shopping Center, Dr. Walter Hardy, 1st ambulance service in the world, Tom Parks, Wiley Post, Ben Scott
Spot No. 11 – Redman’s dance hall, City Drug, Possum hunting, hay rides, Doc Fielder
Spot No. 12 – Oklahoma Veterans Home, Confederate Home, Luddie Hailey Wilcott, Daughters of the Confederacy
Spot No. 13 – Lee Cruce, Charles N. Haskell, Muskogee
Volume 7 – keywords:
Spot No. 1 – Ethel May Hindman, Springer, Oklahoma
Spot No. 2 – Ethel Hindman, high diving in water, Ardmore polo team
Spot No. 3 – Ethel Hindman, sky diving, Byers, Oklahoma
Spot No. 4 – Ethel Hindman, dare devil, Hindman’s family
Spot No. 5 – Bob Hutchins, Tom Coggins, Heck Thomas, 1st train to Ardmore
Spot No. 6 – Bob Hutchins, Heck Thomas, John Hall, June 28, 1887 1st train into Ardmore
Spot No. 7 – Bob Hutchins, Bill Washington, 700 ranch, healing mavericks
Spot No. 8 – Bob Hutchins, Bill Washington, Drysden, Henry House Creek, Honey Creek, Ethel Turner
Spot No. 9 – Bob Hutchins, Jackie Akers, Belle Starr, Heck Thomas
Spot No. 10 – Gunman’s Territory, Belle Starr, Bob Hutchins, Heck Thomas, Sam Starr
Spot No. 11 – Belle Starr dead, Jim Starr, Pearl Starr
Spot No. 12 – Bob Hutchins, Louisa Ethel Price, Lone Grove
Spot No. 13 – Bob Hutchins, Ethel Price, wedding, Lone Grove, Sweet Price
Volume 8 – keywords:
Spot No. 1 – Bob Hutchins, Jack Sprat, bootlegging, Judge Parker
Spot No. 2 – Al Jennings, County Attorney, Theodore Roosevelt
Spot No. 3 – Bob Hutchins, outlaw Lou Bowers, Bert Casey
Spot No. 4 – Lou Bowers, T.E. Carson
Spot No. 5 – Judge Parker, 89 men hanged
Spot No. 6 – Bob Hutchins, Judge Parker
Spot No. 7 – Chicken peddlers, illegal whiskey
Spot No. 8 – McNary, Peterman Crossing
Spot No. 9 – Clara Smith, Jake Hamon
Spot No. 10 – Lillie Langtree, Bob Hutchins
Spot No. 11 – U.S. Inspectors from Washington DC, Ocean Rider, Pink Collins
Spot No. 12 – Bob Hutchins, Inspector Ocean Rider, Judge Parker, Jim Sadler
Spot No. 13 – Ben Colbert, US Marshal, Rough Riders
Webpage created June 15, 2009