I thought of some more-- Speaking of air conditioning - the first department store to have it was Sears down on 6th and Boulder (it was freezing). There was also Rainbow Bread. How about the swimming pools There was one over in West Tulsa or Red Fork-- remember the name? Also one going out toward Sand Springs line? The other one was "Riverside Park" Swimming pool, picnic tables, baseball field and open air dance hall at 71st and Peoria (my grandfather owned this one). I lived at 62nd and Trenton and could hear the Big Band music from there. Those were really swimming pools (Huge) !!! Joan

The swimming pool going out toward the Sand Springs line was Newblock (New Block) Park. I grew up north of Turley and after they closed the swimming pool behind Rainbow Skating Rink we used to (get this!) walk from 75th St North & Peoria to Skiatook - about what 5 or 6 miles? (Folks would not allow us to ride our bikes on Peoria). Walked there spent the day swimming and then walked back. Admittedly we walked down the railroad track so it was a straight shot but still - can you imagine any of today's kids hoofing it that far? Maybe that's why we were all so skinny - you think? <LOL> And, Remember the old Warehouse Market downtown? They turned it into a used book store - I spent hours and hours and hours there. Had to take the bus downtown and then hike over several blocks but what a way to spend a day. It's now on the historical register. I'm trying to dig up a photo of it to put on the Tulsa site. Such fun to stroll thru the old memories isn't it? Linda homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2 MuskogeeCoOk: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okmuskog SurnameLists: H.A.A.S/H.A.S.S. L.E.W.A.L.L.E.N ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee & Joan Case" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: [OKTULSA] Memories > I thought of some more-- > > Speaking of air conditioning - the first department store to have it was Sears down on 6th and Boulder (it was freezing). There was also Rainbow Bread. > > How about the swimming pools There was one over in West Tulsa or Red Fork-- remember the name? Also one going out toward Sand Springs line? > > The other one was "Riverside Park" Swimming pool, picnic tables, baseball field and open air dance hall at 71st and Peoria (my grandfather owned this one). I lived at 62nd and Trenton and could hear the Big Band music from there. > Those were really swimming pools (Huge) !!! > > Joan > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >