The photo above is Dr. Lawrence E.C. Joers and family. Back when I was a teen I had an ingrown toenail. The ingrown toenail problem had plagued me for months. I finally went to Dr. Joers in Ardmore and using his scapel he fixed me right up. I transported many of his patients during my early years with the ambulance service. I remember him as a kind, soft spoken, dedicated physician.
His son, Skip Joers, sent me a book Dr. Joers published in 1954 titled God is my Captain. The book is 174 pages.
Captain Lawrence Joers, U.S Navy
World War II and Korean War
Dr. Lawrence Joers obituary
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46651128/lawrence-e_c-joers
Note: I see Dr Joers book God Is My Captain for sale on eBay for around $15.
Unclaimed Property Search Update: We have reached over 30 Oklahomans in the month of July with unclaimed insurance for a total way over $201,229. There are probably 30 people (or more) I’ve tried to reach during July who have not responded or contacted me. I could not have accomplished what I have without the help from a lot of you, especially my Facebook friends. Thank you. And the search continues…..
This a link to the unclaimed activity log including July (CLICK HERE)
HAM Talk by KC5JVT via Echolink
Below is info on the Boredom Breaker Net out of Claremore, Oklahoma. Yesterday, Wednesday, we had 66 HAMs check-in from all over the U.S. and overseas. If you’re a HAM check it out sometime, 12:00 noon to 2:00pm Central Time everyday 7 days a week.
From this week’s Mailbag
PHOTO: BACK ALLEY VIEW BEHIND OLD DAILY ARDMOREITE (114 North Washington) > Butch, this view is looking north from Broadway. (behind the Habitat Thrift Store). This would have been the press room, and the open area to the right was for paperboy bikes & scooters. The paperboy newspaper folding room was on beyond that. There were wooden stalls for us paperboys to fold our newspapers and put them into canvas saddle bags made to fit bicycle or scooter handlebars. Us paperboys who had scooters would race them up and down this alley. This was to establish as to who had the fastest Cushman Scooter in town. -Steve Miller
PHOTO: BACK ALLEY ENTRANCE TO THE OLD DAILY ARDMOREITE > Butch, this is the alley just East of Washington and Broadway (behind the Habitat Thrift Store). This would have been the press room, and the open area to the right was for paperboy bikes & scooters. The paperboy newspaper folding room was on beyond that. There were wooden stalls for us paperboys to fold our newspapers and put them into canvas saddle bags made to fit bicycle or scooter handlebars. -Steve Miller
Anyone know where the Tackle Store was located in Ardmore?
Found 3 of these at an antique store in Duncan a number of years ago.
This is how cream was served with coffee back when! -Jerry Jones
Below is from my newsletter archives dated
July 31, 1999 – Issue 119
This is an old pic of the Station Hospital at Ft Sill, Oklahoma
Frederick, Oklahoma Library
Last week the Oklahoma County Works magazine for the Summer came out and in it was a nice write-up about our webtsite for Carter county Government.
About 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City is Asher, Oklahoma. In 1908 they had the largest ear of corn in the world.
Every Sunday morning early at Sulphur,OK they have what is called a Dog Show or Trade Day. It draws a large crowd of people looking for bargins. But here is a Trade Day scene in Duncan, Oklahoma taken back in 1923.
“…When I was in college, I worked on a highway crew one summer, and we were assigned to Ardmore for several weeks. We would eat breakfast at the Hilltop about 5:30 a.m. before going out on the road. The supervisor was a gruff old man, and one day he gave the waitress a hard time. The next thing I knew we were thrown out, which may make me one of the few sober people ever to have been thrown out of the Hilltop Cafe.”
“Your lye-soap awards remind me of one of the things I used to wonder about as a kid. Remember when KXII had a local daytime show called “Woman’s World,” hosted by a pleasant matron named Dorothy Cox. And once a week, Dorothy would pull a postcard out of a fishbowl to determine that week’s winner of a bottle of Adams’s Vanilla Extract. I could never imagine just who would bother with sending a postcard in in hopes of winning a bottle of vanilla. I mean, I like and use vanilla extract myself, with some regularity, but when I enter a contest, I want one of those Publisher’s Clearinghouse millions, maybe a boat and trailer, or a trip to London. It’s a shame all those locally produced shows are gone, all over the country: even in little towns like Ardmore, there was always a local kiddie show, and sometimes a “talk” show like Woman’s World. Everybody over 35 remembers “Miss Carol’s Clubhouse,” I trust (we were always using her to find homes for the produce of our remarkably fecund cats and dogs). And how about “Mr Peppermint” and “Icky Twerp’s Slam-Bang Theater” from Dallas, and “Miss Fran From Storyland” out of Oklahoma City. “The Hudson Brothers Show” on Channel 10 on Sunday afternoons? Now it’s all canned cartoons, unemployed idiots with bad teeth and stringy hair telling Jerry Springer about their sex lives, and reruns of sitcoms that weren’t very funny the first time out.”
“Re the section concerning “Ricks Roost’ section of last sat. T&T, that picture appears to be a postcard of a picture. Do you know what year the picture of Alvins was taken? It has some early 50’s cars sitting outside. A friend of mine thought one of them might be his, as he hung out in there quite a bit.”
This week a “going away” party was held at the sheriffs office here for Deputy Steve Henson. I first met Steve way back in 1969 when his mother worked at the Ardmore Seventh Day Adventist Hospital here in Ardmore in the Respiratory Therapy Department. Steve joined the Sheriffs Department in March 1982. All through these years, Steve has never changed. Steve is moving to North Carolina August 1st to be with his aging father. Myself and a lot of others will miss this long time friend. He was a good officer.
One call Steve and I went on I will never forget was about 1990. The sheriffs office received a call to do a welfare check on an elderly lady in about the 1800 block of Springdale Road . Deputy Steve Henson was given the call and since I was at the office, he asked if I wanted to go, so I did. We arrived at a brick house and the son told us his mother was in the little wood frame house behind his home. There on the front door was a padlock keeping his mother inside. The son unlocked it, we all walked in, and there sitting in a rocking chair in the front room was the elderly lady singing Blessed Assurance Jesus Is Mine. The son had sprinkled Carpet Fresh all over his mother to keep the smell down. Steve radioed dispatch to send the Department of Human Services out and take this lady out of the house to some where safe and clean. Steve Henson told me the next day he never wanted to kill anyone in his life, but he did that day.
Obituary for Steve Henson
https://www.craddockfuneralhome.com/obituary/stephen-henson
Pride comes before a fall
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore, Oklahoma
580-490-6823
