A few weeks ago I mentioned a photo I had misplaced on my computer of a baptism taking place at Rock Crossing Creek south of Ardmore years ago. Rock Crossing Creek is a few miles west of I-35 at the Carter/Love county line. This week I stumbled across the photo by accident.
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos14a/RockCrossingBaptism.jpg
Below is a picture I took in 2002 from the road looking west at the dam and area where the baptism took place.
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/photos2002a/rockcrka.jpg
Below is a map I made showing the location of Rock Crossing creek. You can see the dam area just to the west.
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/maps/RockCrossingCreekMap.jpg
I want to mention to everyone there will be open house and a tour of the Tivoli Theater this coming Saturday evening at the Taste of Ardmore. Hope everyone will take advantage of this tour of an Ardmore landmark. Below is the email I received:
Butch, I wanted to let you and your Readers know that the Tivoli Theater will be open from 5:30-7:30 this Saturday evening March 29th during the Taste of Ardmore Event.
The two historic photos below will be on display that evening. Main Street has support to renovate the building, and wants to find out what the community is interested in. We thought this would be a great way for people to reconnected with the building and the memories, as that process begins. We invite people to come roam, reminisce and dream of new possibilities.
Hope you'll join us!
Kind Regards,
Maria Wilkinson
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos14a/Tivoli_1912a.jpg
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos14a/Tivoli_1912b.jpg
http://www.ardmoreite.com/article/20140325/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/140329773
http://www.ardmoremainstreet.com/calendar-of-events/
In my March 2000 newsletter OHP Trooper, Bruce Schulze, Retired, sent me the following email:
"I wanted to invite you (and anyone else) to the gathering of the Buckskinners or Fur Traders at Fort Washita. We will all be there dressed in those buckskins and carrying our black-powder rifles, knives and tomahawks. I will be there. Hope you find time to come and see how they lived before 1840's."
Nearly 15 years have passed, and the Oklahoma Fur Traders meeting will be held again at Ft Washita. History will come alive April 2, 2014 - April 6, 2014 at the Fort Washita Fur Trade Rendezvous. Located on Highway 199 between Madill and Durant, Oklahoma, the event hosts thousands every year from around the country. It will again showcase mountain men, traders, contests, Indians, trappers, vendors and allow participants to travel back in time.
http://www.okhistory.org/about/calendar/event/fort-washita-fur-trade-living-history-event/
The Marietta Monitor
August 22, 1930
Preliminary work on the new free bridge which is to span the Red River south of
Marietta has been started. The bridge will be west of the old toll bridge and
near the Santa Fe railroad bridge. A concrete road has been laid south of Bomar
to White Rose. The paving company is now working on the road from Bomar to
Overbrook.
The Marietta Monitor
September 4, 1942
Officials of a construction company in Dallas were in Marietta this week
preparing to start construction of the highway bridge over Hickory Creek east of
this city. The new construction will cost approximately $165,000. The bridge
across the creek is now below the water level of the lake to be created by the
Denison Dam. State highway officials are now drawing plans for a proposed
highway from Marietta to Lake Murray and if the plans are adopted the old
highway bridge being removed will be used on this new road.
We took our second walk at Ardmore's Regional Park Hiking Trail last weekend, and it was the best ever. We got off the paved walkway, taking the Red Trail (dirt trail) off to the east toward Ardmore City Lake. About halfway to the lake we watch nearly a dozen deer, until they finally ran off into a wooded area. At City Lake we sat on a very comfortable bench and watch family of ducks lazily paddling in the water. So quiet and serene. Our walk was 3.2 miles.
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos14a/ArdmoreRegionalPark032414a.jpg
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos14a/ArdmoreCityLake032414.jpg
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos14a/DucksCityLake032414a.jpg
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos14a/DucksCityLake032414b.jpg
Q. In what year did the Oklahoma Territory legislature first meet?
A. August 5, 1890 at
Guthrie,
Oklahoma
Q. Stanley Street SW was named after what prominent Ardmoreite?
A. (answer in next week's T&T)
From This and That newsletter archives of March 25, 2000:
"Coleman Younger Jones was the bearded
man on the bicycle. He and his mother lived across the street from me on Douglas
Blvd. His mother was reportedly a member of the famous Younger family. Her
second husband was named Charles Carter and he was the early U. S. Congressman
from Oklahoma and member of the family for which Carter County was named.
Coleman Jones' aunt owned the Whittington Hotel."
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"In the article from the Lone Grove
Ledger, it mentioned that there was no information on Dundee. Approximately 3
miles West of Healdton (on Texas Street) was a community that emerged during the
oil boom. It was called "Ragtown" or "Tent City". There was a school there which
was known as Dundee. To the best of my knowledge...Dundee was only the corner on
which the school stood. There is a large granite monument there. Across the
street, there was a post office... it was McMann, Oklahoma. Back to the East,
there was another post office and it was Wirt, Oklahoma. I think Wirt was the
main name of this area. In some Oklahoma history, there was an article written
about the outlaws that came to this big boom area. The name of the article was
"The Wickedness of Wirt". One of the post offices (Wirt, I think) consisted of a
wooden one window structure inside the building and this structure is on display
at the Healdton Oilfield Museum. My Mother was a 1927 graduate of Dundee and she
worked in that post office."
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One survivor, Robert A. Dwyer, 20, of
Glen Cove, NY had only minor injuries in the 1966 plane crash. But he was killed
two years later near his home in NY in a car accident.
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"Well it just happens that I knew
Coleman Jones practically all of my life. Mrs Jewel Whittington was his aunt, I
believe, and & after her husband was deceased she became the sole operator of
the "New Whittington Hotel" Before the explosion in 1915 the hotel was known as
the "Whittington Hotel" but when it was rebuilt it was named the "New
Whittington Hotel". The hotel was very elaborate in its early days & retained
that air throughout its existence. Coleman Jones worked at the desk of the hotel
- he was clean shaven & rather nice looking in his younger days. Reportedly he
was a graduate of Dartmouth College and was very well educated. He was
articulate and could hold your attention with his very interesting observations.
He certainly was no kook, yet for some reason, perhaps know only to himself, he
assumed the role or appearance of a very eccentric person. When I came back to
Ardmore, I was amazed by his appearance and I speculated that he had taken on
the roll of some character he had read about. To me, Coleman Jones was a
gentleman not to be feared or made fun of."
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/colemanjones.html
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Gas prices today in the Ardmore area......
http://www.oklahomagasprices.com/index.aspx?mss=152754
Check gas prices by town or zip code anywhere in U.S.
http://www.kmov.com/traffic/gas-buddy
Non-ethanol gas (pure gas) stations in the Ardmore area.
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/puregas.html
Some mail from this week's MAILBAG.....
"You mentioned the Ardmore Akron Tire last week. I still have
a $100 stock certificate for which I would take bids! My grandmother was married
to R. V. Dixon; thus the name on it. My older brother was born about the time of
purchase, thus he was named after her husband: R.V. (not a very good copy, but
legible." -Donald Bridges
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos8a/ArdmoreAkronTireClipping1918.jpg
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos8a/AkronTireCo.jpg
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos14a/AkronTireShares.jpg
34 high resolution photos of American cities a century ago.
http://acidcow.com/pics/37098-american-cities-a-century-ago-34-pics.html
Vicious dog attack in Jay, Oklahoma
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-man-mauled-in-pit-bull-attack-had-180-to-200-stitches/article/3947280
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/viciousdogs.html
?The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.? -Joel Salatin
See everyone next week!
Butch and Jill Bridges
PO Box 2
Lone Grove, Oklahoma 73443
Vicious Dog Attacks in Oklahoma
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/viciousdogs.html
Bells of Oklahoma
http://www.oklahomahistory.net/bellpage.html
Carter County Courthouse Paver Project
http://www.brightok.net/cartercounty/pavers
Save on long distance calls, just a couple cents a
minute!
http://www.CheapLongDistance.org
Ardmore High School Criterions Online
http://www.ArdmoreCriterion.com/
Oklahoma Bells:
http://www.OklahomaHistory.net/bellpage.html
American Flyers Memorial
Fund - Administration Webpage
http://www.OklahomaHistory.net/crash66.html
Official American Flyers
Memorial Website
http://www.brightok.net/~wwwafm
Ardmore Army Air Field/Ardmore Air Force
Base Website
http://www.brightok.net/~gsimmons
Mirror Site of the Ardmore Army Air Field/Ardmore Air Force Website
http://www.OklahomaHistory.net/airbase/
Carter county schools, past and
present
http://community.webshots.com/user/oklahomahistory
Carter County
Government Website
http://www.brightok.net/cartercounty/
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