PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I received a long mailing tube in the mail this week from Texas and I could hardly wait to see what was inside.  William Hardy sent me a photograph taken around 1900, I think, in Ardmore.  William thinks it may be a Mason group photo,…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Its been 6 years since I tried to sandblast lettering on a brick (2006 brick), but I found out this week I have not lost my touch. I sandblasted a porcelain block from the old Noble Foundation Ag Building which is now just a memory.…

Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 My distant cousin Sue Roberts Daugherty of Lone Grove brought by an interesting piece of Love county history last week.  It’s a hand drawn map of Love’s Valley showing where everyone lived during the 1930s. Bill Roberts, who is nearing 80, wrote the names down, then placed them…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 On a recent trip to Madill my mind thought back to my ambulance driving days. Around 1971 a young couple was getting married about 25 miles east of Ardmore in Madill, Oklahoma. At that time the “new highway” between Madill and Ardmore only went about…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Oklahoma’s greatest radio and TV broadcaster, and a legend in his own time, passed away this week in Oklahoma City. One of my first memories of Danny Williams was watching him on our black and white TV when he did his 3-D Danny kid’s show.…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Last year I mentioned something called Pink Slime. Until then I had never heard of pink slime and I didn’t know it was being mixed in ground beef and sold to Americans by some big box supermarkets and even worse, to some school cafeterias across…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I received an email this week asking about what happened to Carter county deputy Bill Guess. Some of you will remember we’ve talked about him on several occasions in past issues.  Bill’s real name was William Edgar Guess, born July 30, 1894 and died June 6,…

My T&T Readers never cease to amaze me. This week I received an old fashioned letter in the U.S. Mail from Mary Wilson in Lone Grove. In it was a newspaper clipping from 1975 about the first “motel” in Ardmore.  The article tells about a tourist camp on Highway 199 East, just west of the casino,…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Dr. Pepper back in the 1980s was the most opened soft drank in Ardmore. More Dr Pepper was sold in Ardmore then any other city in the United States. I can say I have been a dyed-in-the-wool Dr Pepper drinker all my life. Up until…

Ardmore, Oklahoma Email:  butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 Back in the 1960s and 1970s I remember a sign on the south side of Highway 70 between Lone Grove and Wilson (at Cottonwood Creek) that read: Oklahoma Coon Hunters Association. I haven’t seen that sign in years, until last Sunday afternoon.  I was traveling south on Midway Road, south…