PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Dwane Stevens always has his digital camera handy, and this week he sent in some great pictures he took of some old relics of long ago. Below is his email to everyone: “Rare piece of Southern Oklahoma’s Early Oilfield History rising from the Ashes! Members…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 When I was in Healdton, Oklahoma back in 1998 I saw on the corner by the only traffic light in that town, a piece of oil field equipment cemented into the corner sidewalk. The sign next to this piece of equipment stated it was the first wellhead…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 I remember growing up as a kid back in the 50s and 60s, if you had a piano, there was only one person in Ardmore you wanted to call to come tune it. His name was Jesse Lyons. Everyone said he was the very best.…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Last Saturday, February 24th, the winds around Oklahoma were gusting up to 60 miles an hour. In Ardmore the winds gusted to 65 and did damage a lot of roof shingles. Even with the high winds Jill and I decided to take a road trip…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 There are a number of bridge crossings into Texas at the Red River from the southeast end of Oklahoma to the southwest end of this state.  Ardmoreite Steve Hamm sent in an interesting picture this week of one such river crossing.  Below are a couple…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Back in the 1950s my grandfather Stanley Carmon owned a 1958 Ford station wagon something like the one in this picture as best I remember. 1958 Ford Country Sedan station wagon (except ours was yellow) Below is a scan of the Oklahoma car Title to the station wagon. https://oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos7a/1958StationWagonTitle.jpg We…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Chuck Stallcup is needing help from T&T Readers on making a digital map showing the old schools of Carter county. He is using Google Earth to make an overlay showing where the schools were located years ago. Of course, many of them are gone now,…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 When Jill and I were in Ada last weekend we found a great place to look at curios and whatnots and the like. Inside one business we visited we found a bird cage made out of wood for $9, and we couldn’t resist buying it.…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 In the last few issues of T&T there has been several mentions of Tater Hill east of Ardmore. Tater Hill is located 3 miles south of Dickson, Oklahoma on Dickson Road, and then a little back west on Tater Hill Road. As we’ve read in…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Last week there was mention of the only railroad tunnel in Oklahoma over in eastern Oklahoma by the  Arkansas line just SW of Wofford Lake. The tunnel is known as the Jensen Tunnel. Dwane Stevens sent in a pic showing a neat aerial view. Here…