Photo of Brewer’s Drive-in theater at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.
Below is a photo of Ardmore’s Carmike Five theater on West Broadway.
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From this week’s Mailbag
Butch, below is my Grandfather Claud Oran Burris Sr. and my Grandmother Mary Agnes Hoffman at Bomar Point near Wilson, some time probably in 1927 as they were married on September 10, 1927. -Rick Burris
Grandpa Burris built oilfield tanks and Granny Burris was 1/4 Chickasaw.
Butch – I read today’s 4th of July column today with my usual level of interest and a good dose of patriotic fervor. The Munzesheimer / Daube Building picture you posted “above the fold” depicts attorney B.C. Franklin, who also practiced in Tulsa.
In fact, Franklin gave one of the enduring and vivid accounts of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, unpublished at the time but discovered in 2015 and stored now in the Smithsonian.
The above article gives greater historical context of the picture plus some omitted content.
Below B.C. Franklin and his associates pose before his law offices in Ardmore, Oklahoma, 1910 NMAAHC, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin. I know our late friend James Clark would have enjoyed this as well. Thanks for keeping his memory alive. -Derrick Harvey
Butch, you indicated that you received a communication from a lady whose husband’s grandmother was Clutchene Tupin Jordan. The lady said Clutchene went to school at the O’Savior School in western Love County. I remember Clutchene, as well as her husband Starling “Snowball” Jordan and one of her brothers, Lester Tupin. The Tupin family lived close to my Walker grandparents and about two miles from my Rogers grandparents. Quite a few Tupin, Rogers, and Walker kids attended the O’Savior School at the same time.
Although the school was generally called the O’Savior School because of its location on Frank O’Savior’s land, it was officially designated the Simon Valley School when school districts were first established in 1908. It operated as a subscription school prior to statehood, but at a location on Simon Creek about two miles northeast of the O’Savior farm. The school was re-located in order to place it nearer the center of the school district. The school operated until 1927 when it was consolidated with the Orr School. The Simon Valley School and the Simon School were two different schools, and in two different school districts.
I’ll send along several photos that might be of interest. The first is a photo taken in 1910, the only photo I’ve seen that includes the school building. It shows the west end only and is not very representative of the overall appearance of the building.
The second photo is one taken in 1916 with all the students and teachers. Clutchene isn’t in the photo, I believe because she wasn’t old enough to attend school that year; but several of her siblings are in the photo. A teacher, Oren Wester, who’s in the photo, later was county superintendent of schools and a long-time sheriff of Love County.
The last photo I’ll send is a map showing the location of the school.
Thank you, Butch, for everything you do on behalf of southern Oklahoma.
-Charles Walker, Asheville, North Carolina.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19817204/clutchene_adell_jordan
Below is from my newsletter dated
July 7, 2001 – Issue 220
The Carter County Assessor Sam West as added a new feature to his website. Its maps! Its not 100% up and running, but you can get a good idea what the maps module is right now. Just go to Assessor Sam West’s website and click on MAPPING at the bottom of the Page. If you don’t see the word MAPPING, you may need to hit REFRESH. Now let’s say you want to see a certain house at 218 SW B in Ardmore. Type that address in the box and click GO. The next screen will show you the Address and Map Number. Now click on the little WORLD GLOBE at the right. In a minute a box will pop up showing a map of that area, and the 218 SW B address will be highlighted in green along with a Thumbnail of the house. If you click on IDENTIFY on the right hand side, and then click on that address or any adjoining property, the program will give you the owner’s name. Pretty neat! The Carter County Assessor’s Office is the first county in the state to make this kind of map information available on the Internet!
“The mills coinage were originally of metal, but later were switched to some kind of pressed paper or plastic.”
“The article on Freckles Brown was great. He and Jim Shoulders used to come down to Ratchford Brother’s south of Davis and watch the cowboys buck out on week-ends. Ratchford Brothers had one bull named “Little Jim” that was a joy to watch and attempt to ride at the same time. I believe he was name after Jim Shoulders based on his rodeo abilities.”
“Butch, Hope all is well with you. I was looking through some old issues of the Oklahoma state FOP Journal the other evening and came across a story about a “Police Bell” that was dedicated on the grounds of the Lawton Police Department. This bell was used in the early 1900’s to notify the officers that headquarters had a call for them. I do not know if it is still on the grounds of the PD where it was dedicated in the 60’s, it seems like.”
https://www.lawtonok.gov/departments/police/about-us/history
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” -Michelangelo
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore, Oklahoma
580-490-6823
