Downtown Enid, Oklahoma

You Might Be From Enid If...

ENID, OK - If you were raised in Enid like I was there are many things that remind you of why it was such a great place to grow up. Enid Buzz was originally started to help remind people of the unique and quirky things that made our little hometown the best place in America.
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I originally wrote this list in 2008 and have revised it and added to it over the years. It is one of the most engaged posts I've ever written about Enid and it usually sparks the most comments and additional memories. Many of the most memorable items on the list were popular in the 50's, 60's and 70's.
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Being a kid in Enid, back in the day, meant you were free to ride your bike anywhere in town and you always felt safe. You could explore creeks, tunnels and parks where few adults ever wandered. As kids we remember certain things that stick in our memories forever. This list will include of few of those events, places, businesses and people.
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Some of you might not remember everything on the list but I hope it brings back a few great memories. From time to time I do add and subtract from the list. I hope you enjoy rereading the list if it's been a while since you've seen it.
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You might be from Enid if...

1. You dressed a little crazy on the last Saturday of July
2. You spent your allowance at Wackers, Woolco and OTASCO
3. You were or knew an extra in the movie "Dillinger"
4. You ate at a restaurant with a train in it and a train with a restaurant in it
5. You know where you were during the "Flood of '73"
6. You know the Wee Too is not a Chinese restaurant
7. If you're immune to jet engine noise and train horns
8. You can spell Chautauqua and know what it is
9. "Going to the City" meant shopping at Crossroads Mall
10. You attended P.U. and had a skunk mascot
11. You've ever used the term "flyboy"
12. You know what "The Quill" is
13. You've ever seen the winding of a May Pole
14. Someone talked you into going to the "insane asylum"
15. You watched the "submarine races" at Meadowlake
16. You know where Lahoma Road was
17. You remember riding the "Bullet"
18. You ate at a restaurant that had a volcano in it
19. You know who had the largest grain elevators in the world
20. You remember the smell of Bond or Ken's Bakeries
21. You remember the smell of Champlin Oil Refinery
22. You honked while driving by the Enid State School
23. Your favorite astronaut is Owen K. Garriott
24. You threw peanuts into the monkey pit at the zoo
25. You know who the Price brothers are
26. You know who won the 1998 Grammy for Best New Age Album
27. You've ever heard something blamed on the "City Fathers"
28. You got into the "Trail Drive-In" in someone's trunk
29. You've ever been on an Adventure Quest
30. You've marched in a Tri-State parade
31. "Chapter 7" meant more to you than bankruptcy
32. You know that the Tia Juana wasn't a Mexican eatery
33. You know where Enid's only escalator was
34. You remember the failure of "the loop"
35. You know the Simpsons aren't named OJ and Bart
36. You remember the masked jogger that pushed his wife in a wheelchair
37. You knew someone that knew someone that got stabbed at the Magnificent Cobra
38. You read books at a Carnegie Library
39. You bought Boy Scout supplies at Coldirons
40. You know which President snuck out to eat at the Wagon Wheel
41. You could hear the stock cars races at the Enid Speedway
42. You bought school supplies at Vaters
43. You saw the Thunderbirds at an airshow
44. You think carnival rides can only exist on W. Broadway
45. You rented skis and gear from Simpsons, Evans or Crosscourt
46. You swam indoors at the "Y"
47. You've ever sat in an empty bathtub during a severe thunderstorm
48. You ran across the train bridge at Meadowlake to beat the train
49. You know what "Donkey Basketball" was
50. You ever dragged Van Buren
51. You accidentally call Taco Bandito, Taco Grande
52. You loved the Three Towers dressing
53. You know that John Wilkes Booth REALLY died in Enid
54. You got shakes at Gold Spot
55. You think of Roman Holiday for pizza not as a movie
56. You've heard of EnidBuzz.com!

 

Here are some comments we've gotten on this post over the years...

  1.  Robin Pierce

    July 20, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    I’m stumped on the answer to #33! Can you help?

  2. July 20, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    Hi Robin, the escalator was in the original Mongomery Wards building which later became Evans Drug on the corner of Randolph and Grand.

  3. Lorie Legere

    July 20, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    I can’t remember the restaurant in #18, with a volcano???? Please help me out!

    • July 20, 2010 at 3:42 pm

      Toucan Harry’s in the Midwestern Inn on Van Buren.

  4. Erica

    July 21, 2010 at 10:04 am

    # 36 ? What is that about????

    • July 21, 2010 at 10:54 am

      Used to be a guy that jogged everywhere around town. In the summer he would wear a full ski mask, no shirt and a speedo. You could usually see him running along Garriott. About half the time he was pushing his wife who sat in a wheel chair but was not unable to walk. This went on for years.

  5. Jessi

    July 26, 2010 at 11:41 am

    The masked jogger was a state school “graduate”. (See #22) Sometimes he pushed his wife in a shopping cart and other times he wore a tutu to run in. :) It was always fun to see what new outfit he would wear. I’m not sure I ever saw the speedo though.

  6. Michael

    August 5, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    you knew that too get your boy scout stuff you would have to go to coldirons

    The shale pit was an awesome place to take the motorcycle or 4×4

    Grand Natl Quail hunt every year at Mid western Inn

    4th of july at Meadowlake

    Awesome air shows

    Wheat capitol of the world

    Spectator races at the speedway

    Hardees to Meadowlake was the drag

  7. Kurt

    November 1, 2010 at 9:17 pm

    Burger Chef predated McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Hardee’s.

    Hickory Hut was way out west, but the skating rink was practically in the panhandle.

  8. Kurt

    November 1, 2010 at 9:17 pm

    You’re from Enid if you know which President ate at the Wagon Wheel.

  9. Pam Pattillo

    December 31, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    You might be from Enid if your Dad met your Mom at the Youngblood Hotel.

  10. Randy (stet)

    May 27, 2011 at 1:06 pm

    You might have gone to Enid High if you know what the boys wore for swim class in the ’60s!! (SR ’67)

  11. Scott

    June 17, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    Nixon stayed at the Midwestern Inn and walked to the Wagon Wheel in the middle of the night during the Quail Hunt.
    The EHS Boys swim class’ wore the same nothing in the 70s as well. When did that finally STOP?
    Before there was Wal Mart or K.Mart, all the kids bought school supplies at Vaters.
    Did anyone house band kids in their own homes in the 60s and 70s from other states for Tri State?
    How about Pizza Inn and the guy managing the place calling everyone “Ralph!”

    • June 28, 2011 at 5:50 pm

      Thanks for the additions!

  12. Karen Waldman

    June 28, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    You know you are from Enid if you remember:

    The great walk-out protest against the school dress code.

    Playing “Ghosts at Midnight” in the Bird Sanctuary

    Visits to the Lahoma Drive-in

    Dear Gabby in the Waller newspaper.

    • June 28, 2011 at 5:49 pm

      Great additions!

  13. Karen Waldman

    July 2, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    Does anyone know what happened to the Main Street Station railroad car that used to be a restaurant downtown? Thanks!

194 comments

  1. Billie Walsh 1 July, 2012 at 15:30 Reply

    Michael Wrote:
    Hardees to Meadowlake was the drag

    The “drag” was from Vans Plaza Drive In to A&W. Actually the south turn-around was in the shopping center. AND, you had to swing through Sonic on the north run.

    You might be from Enid if:

    You know what Pack-a-Sack smells like.

    You could get a bannana shake/malt at the Navaho.

    What fast food place started out in a clapboard shack just south of Tia Juana in a dusty dirt lot. [ Hint – has Lotta in the name ]

    You know who Polly and Peggy are/were.

    • Steve L. Epp 9 August, 2016 at 23:27 Reply

      Billie Walsh: Lotta-Burger, my favorite only to Dan & Bakes Onion Burgers on Randolph, 1 block west of “the square”—now a nice little green park. We had to move to “The City” in 1964 when I was 14, so I missed a lot of the above, but a lot of them bring back great memories! Marched in Tri-State parade in ’64 outta Longfellow JH. We lived in a green house right next to a little ol’ beer joint where Hardee’s built later. I remember the Pak-a-Sack aroma, lemon custard at Gold Spot Dairy, root beer drive-ins on north Grand . . . Thank you ALL for the great memories!

    • admin 1 July, 2012 at 21:55 Reply

      Hi Linda, Gary owns Chicaro’s and he will not let anyone wear a hat in his bar. If you refuse to remove it he kicks you out, as many of us have been over the years.

  2. Barbara 26 December, 2012 at 20:33 Reply

    #34 the Loop, when and how long did it last? also #36 he also was a great pianist, before he had a wheelchair he had a shopping cart with the end cut out.

    • admin 4 January, 2013 at 22:29 Reply

      The Loop was decades back, I’ll be creating a page about it on the website but I don’t remember the dates at the moment. I do know it did not last long. Residents were not happy with the plan at all.

      • Kent 29 February, 2016 at 01:07 Reply

        I think “the loop” was around 1969. It only lasted about a year since people were about ready to storm city hall. My dad knows about it and has more details than I do.

      • Conti 19 July, 2017 at 10:55 Reply

        Hi. The loop was 1966. I remember because I had just gotten my drivers license and took my friends on a loop-de-loop ride around downtown.

        Also, one of my favorite memories is walking into the old Carnegie library barefooted in the summers and feeling the cold marble floors on my feet.

      • Kathy Yosten maiden name Powell 23 March, 2018 at 06:52 Reply

        I remember the loop. My Mother really hated it. She would complain while trying to drive it.

  3. E.B. Cornman 2 February, 2013 at 22:23 Reply

    #14 was there an old asylum? If so, what was it called? If not, what was the underground structure at the old landfill?

    • admin 4 February, 2013 at 20:38 Reply

      Most of the kids in town called it an asylum, I think it was actually an old folks home that had been abandoned. I have not tracked down the actual name of the place yet.

  4. Penny Vincent Stout 25 April, 2013 at 02:01 Reply

    You might be from Enid if your lunch hour in high school meant piling many people in one car and going to either Taco Grande or Tastee Freeze. If you went to Tastee Freeze, I believe the lady’s name was Janet, would have your hamburger already prepared when you arrived.

  5. Curt 9 July, 2013 at 19:24 Reply

    The north end of the drag was originally Sandys long before Burger King. Sandys was the first of the new style drive inns.

    • admin 9 July, 2013 at 19:32 Reply

      Thanks Curt! I’m still looking for a photo of our Sandy’s, I remember it before we ever had a McDonalds. Actually it was at the old Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr location. Burger King is way over the overpass closer to Willow.

      • J.R. 10 June, 2020 at 14:40 Reply

        Drag went from Sandy’s to Wallace Shopping Center. You haven’t mentioned Navajo drive inn and thief fries and Texas toast. I don’t see anything about A & W drive inn or Somewhere on north van Buren What about This Old House on west market street. What above the Twig.

    • Scott Smith 5 July, 2020 at 15:16 Reply

      I was born in Enid, 1960, my father Eldon Smith worked at Wabco? George E Failing I think, same company, my mom Sheila worked at Zales jewelers, my dad raced stock cars at Enid Speedway during the early 70’s, #41, we moved to Texas in 73, my favorite memories, my mom would give us money to go get our hair cut and then to Jo Dons drive in for a burger and of course watching the Saturday races, glad I came across this website, thanks. Wish I could find more pics of racetrack and cars when my dad raced.
      Scott

    • L J P 15 December, 2019 at 06:42 Reply

      I can’t believe you didn’t list the moving of the train engine through downtown. It used to sit on the corner of 5th and maine street across from pack-a-sack.

  6. Jo Coffey 12 January, 2014 at 12:14 Reply

    White Way Cafe
    Teepees on the court house lawn
    You have a root beer mug you borrowed from A&W
    Phillip’s pool
    Lazy Dazy’s from the little hamburger joint on Maine street

    • John Wright 24 June, 2017 at 00:15 Reply

      Fondly remember eating at Doyle’s Cafe, loved their Salad Dressing.

      Roberto’s Mexican at the Stock Yards and following him all over town.

      Sir Victors fish kind of like Long John Silvers.

      Charlie’s BBQ
      Richils Cafeteria and Furs
      Always loved the We Too
      Geans Chinese Restaurant

      The Chief Movie theatre
      Esquire Movie Theater
      What was the one named on Grand?
      Pack A Sack

  7. Joyce 12 January, 2014 at 13:20 Reply

    You danced to Poverty’s Children
    Visited the old fire station downtown with its brass poles
    The first roller rink was across the street from Champlin Pool, west of the YMCA
    Shopped at Newman’s and Lamberts
    Participated in Little Olympics at Plainsmen Field
    Saturday morning movies for kids at the Esquire
    Paying 5 cents for a giant pickle at the movies
    Burger Chef on the south end of Van Buren
    Great salad dressing at Pizza Inn on Van Buren
    Ate at Taco Bandito when it was Taco Grande on south Van Buren

  8. Di Lupton 12 January, 2014 at 16:18 Reply

    One of your original statements was about the only escalator and there was a reply that I think is incorrect. I’m pretty sure that the only escalator in Enid was in Evans Drugstore on the square, and it only went up.

  9. Michael Mariner 14 January, 2014 at 13:54 Reply

    Hmmm..where to start? Don’t remember a volcano in a restaurant, but T-38 and T-37 air force jet trainers were a daily sight and sound over my house. Smelled Champlin refinery, Worked at one of the worlds largest grain elevators one semester. My Mom got her teaching degree and Masters from Phillips (P.U. University). Ate many times at Tia Juana as a child. Marched in Tri-state 5 years. Know about submarine races at meadowlake,but we all chose oil well sites out in the country. Crazy days on the square, Mr. Bull (my scout master was an extra in Dillinger),Michael Hedges was 1998 new age artist of the year. Owen K.Garriott,(his hand prints are here in town along with all the other men), I dragged Van Buren many a night, dated a wing commanders daughter from VANCE, know that John Wilkes Booth REALLY died in Enid,Oklahoma upstairs of the Garfield furniture store (former hotel), and…worked for and got all my prescriptions from Walter Scheffe,(Scheffe’s drug store;…former B-29 pilot from W.W. II and all around great guy).
    Yes…I’m in Florida now,but will forever be from ENID, OKLAHOMA.

  10. Michael Mariner 14 January, 2014 at 14:02 Reply

    P.S. Got a swat or two from E.H.S. Band director Mr.Griffen, Flood of 73..was walking in chest deep water arm in arm with my Dad out of our front door that night. Know that Enid was the chicken raising capital of the world in the 1920’s. Was a proud member of the Valiant Knights Drum and bugle corp which traveled nationally each summer. Watched stock car races at fairgrounds on Saturday nights, paddle boats at Govt. Springs park, May pole, rode little train at Medowlake park,and worlds first portable drilling rig was invented and built by George Failing company of Enid,Oklahoma. Last but not least…Garber oil field was the worlds TOP producer of super fine grade oil in W.W.I.

  11. Bruce 14 January, 2014 at 17:19 Reply

    you knew that too get your boy scout stuff you would have to go to coldirons

    The shale pit was an awesome place to take the motorcycle or 4×4

    Grand Natl Quail hunt every year at Mid western Inn

    4th of july at Meadowlake

    Awesome air shows

    Wheat capitol of the world

    Spectator races at the speedway

    Hardees to Meadowlake was the drag

  12. Bruce 14 January, 2014 at 17:25 Reply

    you knew that too get your boy scout stuff you would have to go to coldirons
    I worked at Coldirons during high school and worked downstairs and sold the Scout stuff and the “overhauls”

    The shale pit was an awesome place to take the motorcycle or 4×4
    I used to take my motorcycle to the shale pits to jump.

    Grand Natl Quail hunt every year at Mid western Inn
    I worked part-time for Richills and Dick Autrey, who catered the big dinner, and worked the big quail hunt dinner for many years

    4th of july at Meadowlake
    I used to go there to watch the biggest fireworks show in town

    Awesome air shows
    Went to many of those

    Wheat capitol of the world
    I cut wheat around Enid for 2 summers

    Spectator races at the speedway
    I worked for the ambulance service and one summer I worked the races every saturday night on the ambulance (took in more people from the stands that summer than we did drivers)

    Hardees to Meadowlake was the drag
    I learned to drive dragging Van Buren

    Thanks for the memories!

  13. Craig 14 January, 2014 at 19:18 Reply

    Snipe Hunting
    The Gucci Monster
    The Big Chicken
    Sloe Gin Fizz’s thanks to Sonic’s Large Sprites
    The Petrified Rock Houses off of Van Buren

  14. Gary 14 January, 2014 at 22:11 Reply

    This is cool. I lived in Enid and Drummond (15 miles SWof Enid) in the 70’s and 80’s. I remember the jogger on Lahoma Road and he had an incredible tan. Also how about JuDon’s Drive-In. I worked at Atwoods when it was on North Van BUren and used to get lunch at the Navajo.V

    • Cammey Kasper 4 January, 2017 at 02:43 Reply

      I was going to mention that. 🙂 The soda fountain at Down’s Pharmacy was my first job. I learned a lot from Ray and Linda Downs, it stayed with my my whole life, and has served me well. Thanks Ray and Linda.

  15. Bill Gerhard 15 January, 2014 at 16:20 Reply

    How about the flake ice at the CharBurg (just east of the train underpass that keeps getting hit on Maine street). And the auction company that sat directly behind it – went to many an auction there as a kid, and marveled at the auctioneers. And, remember the big statue right by the underpass – was the mascot for the lumber company that was right there, but can’t remember its name.

  16. Dorothy Schmidt Krimm 15 January, 2014 at 18:56 Reply

    You are from Enid if you remember the wonderful smell of fried onions for the hamburgers at Dan and Bake downtown. I remember the Cherokee Strip Celebrations when the Indian Village with wigwams were set up in the square. You could buy used school textbooks at Vaters? book store and the busy music store where we bought our sheet music and had our instruments repaired. What WAS the name of it? We walked to school.

    • Larry Boyer 17 January, 2014 at 07:01 Reply

      The busy music store was Chenoweth & Green. In addition to selling musical instruments, sheet music and records, they had rooms upstairs for music lessons on all types of instruments.

      • Steve L. Epp 9 August, 2016 at 23:55 Reply

        Yes, Chenoweth & Green! Was there also one called Jewell”s or is that just in my coronet-blowin’ head? Also, Vater’s was my favorite store ever: geek here LOVED the Zaner-Bloser penmanship ballpoint pens!

    • Steve L. Epp 10 August, 2016 at 00:01 Reply

      Thank you! I was beginning to think Dan & Bake was a figment of my imagination, as my siblings don’t remember it, but before a picnic at Gov’t. Springs Park, my mom let me go in by myself to pick up the sack of O.F. burgers she’d called in for as they were on sale for 5 cents each! YUM! Now I have to go to Johnnies in El Reno from Moore.

  17. Sharon 15 January, 2014 at 21:25 Reply

    Skated many a night at Jerry’s Roller Rink owned by Jerry Galusha and wife “Sis”. The original Jerry’s was beside the newer one built later. Ate at the “Gypsy Inn” …. a Mexican restaurant that was in a house west of Enid. Taylor Bros. service station on Van Buren. I mowed down 2 pop machines at that station in the 60’s in my future husband’s new 1965 Mustang. Clinesmith Furniture on Independence..I worked there for awhile. Mr Cline’s house on S. 9th that had plaster animals in the yard. Took twirling lessons at Bridge’s Music Store on Randolph from the feature twirler at OU..Sherena Holland. Took accordion lessons from Mrs. Elliott at Chenoweth & Green Music Store on Independence. Dragged Van Buren, circled A&W. Ate at Ken’s Pizza on North Van Buren. Miss the “Old Enid”

    • Kathey Townley-Unruh 7 August, 2016 at 21:37 Reply

      Jerry’s skating rink-yes. It was so fun to hand out birthday skating part invitations in grade school.

  18. Robyn Guest 17 January, 2014 at 08:40 Reply

    What about Vann’s Drive-In? That is where my dad met my mom.
    Don’t forget Ernie’s Trading Post? On Enid radio station’s their Christmas jingle marked the beginning of the season.

  19. Jenny Wren 17 September, 2014 at 09:48 Reply

    You might be from Enid if you know who flew the plane that took the photos that was right behind the one that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.

  20. William watts 14 February, 2015 at 14:20 Reply

    S&H green stamp store. (Was on Cleveland and Owen k). Also big als used to be on Van Buren (near the stadium I think ).

    • J.R. 10 June, 2020 at 14:47 Reply

      Drag went from Sandy’s to Wallace Shopping Center. You haven’t mentioned Navajo drive inn and thief fries and Texas toast. I don’t see anything about A & W drive inn or Somewhere on north van Buren What about This Old House on west market street. What above the Twig.

    • Becki Lawson 21 June, 2022 at 16:21 Reply

      I remember as a young kid going with my mom to the S&H Green Stamp Store. My parents just retired a waffle maker they got with S&H Green Stamps store.

  21. C. Schalk 19 March, 2015 at 09:21 Reply

    One of first skating rinks, was in building that was just East of Convention Hall back in the 40’s , then it moved to building that was under the Enid Business College. That was behind First National Bank. From there it went to the location on West Cherokee and man by name of Day run it with his wife. That was before it moved out to West Owen Garriott (formerly Lahoma Rd.) Do any of you remember the ball park where K-mart is now?

    • Rockne Hughes 3 January, 2017 at 20:33 Reply

      Played jr league baseball a couple of times at that park. Enid had a semi-pro team at the time and I watched Mickey Mantle play there one night when he was still with Joplin before he moved up to the pros.

      • Chuck Lipps 26 January, 2017 at 10:19 Reply

        Rockne that ball field was before my time but my Dad told me stories about it. Didn’t Champlin sponsor the semipro team? He also told me a great story about having a “Coyote Rodeo” on the field. It was a contest where the area coyote hunters (my Grandpa was one) would hold their dogs at home plate and they would release a coyote in center field and time how long it took the dogs to catch the coyote. That had to be prior to the 1940’s because the family moved from Okeene to Enid in 1942 and didn’t hunt coyotes after that.

  22. Richard Gregg 13 April, 2015 at 21:13 Reply

    The old asylum was actually about where the police shooting range is at between 10th and 16th on Rupe St.

  23. James Tidmore 12 June, 2015 at 17:05 Reply

    My father made those hamburgers at the Dan and Bake at the corner of Randolph and Washington streets. Great chili also.

  24. Jane Horner Hodges 29 August, 2015 at 11:49 Reply

    My daughter, Ashley, was born just before the flood of 73 and we were on the top floor of St. Mary’s Hospital! The nurses could not leave the hospital and it was a long few days until we could leave and go home. Very exciting time.

    Also, loved Dan and Bakes can still remember the wonderful food and smell!

    Great memories! Thank you for this!

  25. Jane Horner Hodges 4 September, 2015 at 10:14 Reply

    This is a great sight for former Enid residents. Thank you for letting us comment and remember the great memories.

  26. Dorothy Schmidt Krimm 10 October, 2015 at 20:44 Reply

    I think it was about in the late 1930’s, the Jacob Schmidt (potato chips) family of seven would occasionally present a musical program on a Sunday afternoon at the “FEEBLE MINDED INSTITUTE” North of Enid. Yes, that was it’s name.

  27. Rusty Wilson 27 October, 2015 at 23:17 Reply

    Didn’t see anyone mention Gibson’s. Can’t remember where it was located. Used to drive by Bond’s Bakery just to smell the bread baking. My dad worked at Goldspot till it closed. Used to stop in walking home from Emerson so we could coax him into buying us a malt. And could anyone forget the candy counter at Sears downtown? I remember the smells like it was yesterday!

      • Deb Buckminster 3 January, 2017 at 22:15 Reply

        Thanks for remembering Sears candy counter! I worked there my jr year under the tutelage of Mrs. Beck — a very nice lady. My sr year, I was promoted to Sears Credit Office and worked for Gary Melton. (1970-1971)

  28. Allen U. Williams 7 November, 2015 at 08:15 Reply

    I really liked reading what you posted and what other people have posted on this site. Sure brought back a lot of memories. Been living in Enid off and on since 1957. Back in the late 60’s early 70’s there was actually two drags of Van Buren. The short drag was to start at Sandy’s drive all the way to the A&W drive in. Either stop there and get a root beer or circle around and exit to Van Buren. You could not make a left turn at the exit, you had to turn right. This took you to the old Wallace Shopping Center parking lot. You cirlcled through the parking lot or stopped and talked to friends. The you would go north on Van Buren circling through Sonic and continue north all the way to Sandy’s. That was the short run. The long run you didn’t stop at Sandy’s going north. You continued on over the overpass to Willow taking a right all the way to Grand St. Take Left at Grand and no you are on Rock Island Blvd. You continued till you got to Navajo’s Drive-In located close to the Three Towers Chinese Resteraunt. You either stopped there to talk with friend or circled around it and then headed back to Sandy’s to start all over again. Very seldom did anyone then go to Meadowlake, the south side Meadowlake had not been delveloped bach then. Well anyway that is the way me and all my friends did it back then. There were lots of drag racing back then as we had the original muscle cars.

    One question. Does anyone know when the Van Buren overpass (over the railroad tracks) was built? I have seen information that that overpass is finally going to have a completely new one built in 2018. I have searched and searched and cannot find any history on that overpass.

  29. Cashwell 9 November, 2015 at 16:23 Reply

    The trail bowling lanes
    Searching for the ginger bread house
    The pig farm
    Riverbottom
    Mel’s Clothing Store
    The Bamboo

    What was the name of the pool hall and arcade on N Van Buren?

  30. Sue Lounsbury 25 November, 2015 at 19:26 Reply

    I remember most of those. I almost drowned jumping off the high dive at champlins..my dive turned into a flip and belly buster.

    Cramming people into the trunk at the drive in movies.
    Going out to the asylum and these guys from kremlin stealing our flashlights …we crawled out because there were holes in the floor. Then we pretended to be abducted causing April Craddock to freak. Sorry bout that one.

    Playing sardines at the Simpsons mansion for a work party.

    The short lived water slide out by North Enid.
    All skate All skate…roller rink
    The train at Meadowlake….and fishing for perch at the water works.

    Playing video games at the arcade..and foosball at the lil arcade north of town..cant remember its name it was close to willow and VB.

  31. Stan 14 February, 2016 at 08:39 Reply

    you might be from Enid if…
    …you smell like cigarettes after going out anywhere.
    …sports like lacrosse or ice hockey are foreign concepts to you.
    …your idea of great seafood is The Red Lobster.
    …you donate more to a local church than a local school.
    …your idea of fine dining is in a strip mall.

    • James Hawkins 20 December, 2017 at 15:13 Reply

      Must be from up north. I lived there in the early eighties and liked it. Maybe next time keep your comments to yourself.

  32. James 18 April, 2016 at 13:50 Reply

    If you graduated from Enid 1960 to 1967, you might recall some of these cool cars.

    Listing Factory Stock Cars Only

    Jim Crabbs – 1961 Ford Starliner HT, (white) 390 cubes, 375 HP, 3 speed column
    Chuck Ainsworth – 1960 Ford Galaxie HT (white) 352 cubes, 300 HP, 3 speed column
    Jerry Soderberg – 1962 Ford Galaxie, (black) 406, 385 HP, 4 speed
    Jerry Ross – 1964 Galaxie 500 XL HT (blue) 390 cubes, 330 HP, 4 speed
    Johnny Rinehart – 1964 GTO (blue) 389 cubes, 325 HP, 4 speed
    Gary Chappell – 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 XL Conv., (burgundy) 390 cubes, 330 HP, 4 speed
    Name ??? – 1964 Chevrolet Impala SS (white) 327 cubes, 300 HP, 4 speed
    Richard Hamilton – 1961 Chevrolet Impala Conv., (burgundy) 348 bored to 409, est. 385 HP, 4 speed
    Larry Bundren – 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS HT (gray) 409, 385 HP, 4 speed
    Bill Lochner – 1962 I Chevrolet Impala SS HT (red) 327, 300 HP, 4 speed
    Larry Schultz – 1962 I Chevrolet Impala HT SS (blue) 327, 300 HP 4 speed 456 posi.
    Tom Tarrant – 1960 corvette 283, 270 HP
    Ed Poage – 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS HT, (white) 409, 409 HP, 4 speed
    Hathoot – 1962 Pontiac Catalina (Blue/Green) 421
    Gary Polachek – ’61 Ford Starliner, 2dr ht, (black) 390, 401 HP 3 speed column
    Buddy Faukner – 60 Chevrolet Impala, (black) 348, 335 HP 4 speed
    Steven Stewart – 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, HT (white) 409, 385 HP, 4 speed

    • Larry Keahey 23 October, 2016 at 18:55 Reply

      How about the great sound of a red 69′ Camaro with the name Suspicion over the rear tires. In the summer of 72′ I got pulled over one night racing him, he got a ticket and I was told to not to race on Van Buren. I had a dark green 70 Mach 1 Mustang 351 Cleveland engine. Wish I still had that car it’s value is sky high now.

  33. Mike Gulrud 26 April, 2016 at 20:58 Reply

    I only lived in Enid when I was very young but still remember the chocolate chip pancakes at Maxwell’s pancake house fondly.

  34. Marilyn 10 June, 2016 at 01:16 Reply

    THIS IS A LITTLE FARTHER BACK THAN MOST OF THE OTHERS ABOVE:

    You might be from Enid….
    If you remember the shows ( movie theaters) in Enid were the Aztec (now known as the Esquire), the Chief (Now the Gaslight Theater), the Mecca, and the Royal.
    if you remember the big dances upstairs above the Jitney Jungle on Saturday night You could hear the music if you were coming out of the movie (we called “shows”).
    if you went to town on Saturday nights and “watched the people go by.”
    if you played outside at nights until your parents whistled.
    if you rarely got to go to a cafe’ or a cafeteria…but usually ate all three lunches at home with the whole family around the dinner table.
    if you remember that no stores had air conditioning. After a while, you loved going to the show because the new Esquire was cool. Schools were NOT air conditioned either.
    If you went to the show on Saturdays and saw Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, and etc. serials that continued from week to week. Then, you went to Chenoweth and Green music store and got in a booth to listen to the latest records.
    if you remember Woolsworth’s had a fountain where very occasionally you could eat lunch with your mom if she took you to town on a city bus.
    if you remember that Moler’s Drug had frozen malts, served by a curb hop in small glasses. We occasionally went there in the hot evenings.
    if you remember the milkman delivered milk at the door, and exchanged it for your empty bottles.
    if you remember the ice-man brought large cubes of ice, which he entered your house and put it in the ice box (not electric) to cool your foods. We would jump on his truck, find a big chunk of ice, roll it around in our hands until any dirt fell off with the drips, and you thoroughly enjoyed it on a very hot day.
    if you remember people dying, being paralyzed, living lives in an iron lung due to Polio (Infantile Paralysis). Parents would not let children go swimming, eat bananas, go to the show, or any place where their were crowds, for fear of “catching it.”
    At St. Mary’s Hospital, all of the nurses or hospital staff members were nuns
    who wore their complete long habits (black in winter; white in summer), the stiftly starched white (forget) things that covered their heads and surrounded their faces, and long black veil over that and down their backs. My parents used to tell about the nuns “dropping like flies” because of the heat.
    if you remember that getting a Grapette, Orange Crush, a RC cola, or a Coke (in very little bottles) was quite a treat, only enjoyed very occasionally.
    if you remember that most shows were either war movies or musicals.
    if you remember saving bacon grease and smashed cans to turn in for the war effort. Mom used to save rags, and donate them where they were sterilized and the women went to the Red Cross here in Enid, and tore and rolled bandages for the War. You were issued ration stamps that you had to use when at the grocery stores that allowed you to buy only certain items and amounts….no supermarkets here in Enid.
    There was a bubble-gum shortage. We would hear a rumor that a certain store would have it, and we would walk clear across Enid to find it, and usually to no avail. We did actually put our chewed bubblegum on the bedpost to use it again.
    Any time the Star Spangled Banner was heard, people in Enid stopped what they were doing, and stood in respect for our country.

    • Rockne Hughes 3 January, 2017 at 21:03 Reply

      You must be from my time. Add in teen town in the old post office building where the Library is now. Occasionally PAK A SAC would have hamburgers 8 for a dollar.
      Taking the girls out to mausoleum in the cemetery at night, there were no lights and once we were in someone would yell and everyone fled. Locking up the high school with chains. What is East Garriot was East Market and still a dirt road. Nine mile canyon, lovers lane. Cleveland was the edge of town. Model A’s, model B’s with rumble seats and 41 Chevys. Freezing in the swimming pool in Government Springs park. One other theater downtown, the Cherokee. Lahoma road was two lane, not four. Oakwood Country Club was actually in the country. Bicycles were the primary mode of transportation for most of those under 18. Root Beer floats at A&W and prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

  35. Marva Wilson 5 November, 2016 at 14:09 Reply

    Going to imo cemetary. To see the ghost hanging from the tree. The old trees that looked like people out by the best western. And in the 70a the drag was from hardees to medowlake before they made the park’s close at dark. And the asylum was somewhere out west and south. Like heading out to imo rd.

  36. Candace Sheep 28 December, 2016 at 21:51 Reply

    I got an autographed “photo” of Johnny Weismuller as Jungle Jim when he appeared at the Grand Opening of Trade Mart on South Van Buren. And, does anybody remember the Somewhere Drive-In burger place on north Van Buren? Their burgers were always crowned with fancy toothpicks spearing an olive and a small sweet pickle. They were right across the street from Sandy’s … no McDonalds in those days.

    The first pizza I ever had in my life was in the mid 1960s at a place on Lahoma Road. It was like a small residential house and it took an hour before the pizza came to the table — and it was HUGE. I remember they either only offered cheese pizzas or that’s all we ordered. What was the name of that place ???

    • Steve Epp 5 December, 2017 at 19:39 Reply

      Thanks for the Somewhere and Sandy’s mentions. I lived in the old green house they tore down to build Sandy’s. Little ol’ lady lived right behind us in a little bitty house and kept cases of the small (8 oz.?) Cokes and would give us one any time we visited, never refrigerated. Vater’s was my favorite store toward the end of summer when it was time to shop for school! I try to get back to Enid as often ax possible. It’s really changed since the mid-60s!

  37. Kent Cook 3 January, 2017 at 23:29 Reply

    Jack’s Records and Tapes. Jack Garner what a great guy. Miss him! Davis Auto Supply on east Broadway. Bob’s Cone Corner. Bill Hill’s This and That book store. The Barn owned by Puss Himes on north 4th Street. The Bamboo Club.

  38. Monty Melvin 3 January, 2017 at 23:44 Reply

    Enid had 3 bottling plants. Coca-Cola,RC Cola plants were on south Grand. 7UP was on n Independence. We raced dirt track at Enid Speedway during 60’s & 70’s. Bought a new 71 Mach 1 from Semkies? on north Grand. Spent several days in 1973 after flood looking for missing people with the Okla NG. Stopped cars Crusing thru Wallace Shopping Center so they would show how good their car would burnout. I think Greg Cox 396 Chevelle is still going!

  39. Stan F. 3 January, 2017 at 23:54 Reply

    Thanks for sharing this forum and bringing back some great memories. I lived in Enid during the 60,70s . I still tell stories about how fortunate we were to grow up in ENID AMERICA!!!! I remember once myself and 3 of my friends tried to ride our
    bicycles to Salt Plains Reservoir because it only took about 45 mins .to drive there in a car. We only made it about 10 miles. Thankfully we told someones little brother that we were heading that way.

  40. Curtis Tappan 4 January, 2017 at 00:02 Reply

    You could stay in the Esquire theater all day on a Saturday and watch the show over and over.
    Goofy Golf on Maine.
    7 for a $1 burgers at pak a sak
    And don’t forget Bob’s Cone Corner
    And The Mad Calf on broadway.

  41. Barbara 4 January, 2017 at 05:15 Reply

    Someway drive in was on elm and van buren what about the dip cones at Lenox drive in ive lived here all my life I was raised at tia Juana restaurant

  42. Vernice Willis 4 January, 2017 at 10:58 Reply

    The movie theaters had cry rooms and they would pass out headshots of Elvis if his movie was showing. Woolworths had instant photo booths for taking pictures. The drug store on the south side of the square would have cinnamon toothpicks for after school buys. Mayfest was a big todo! Elementary School Christmas Cantatas were awesome gatherings, as well as the Kiwanis club annual Little Olympics! Government Springs Park had a zoo, and naming the first female lion was a contest. A lot of good in Enid.

  43. Allie 4 January, 2017 at 11:46 Reply

    Loy and Joys
    Ike’s pool hall for the rougher crowd
    Nixon’s visit to Enid coincided with a grand opening of McDonalds.
    Guess which event had the larger crowd.

  44. Paul Schulz 4 January, 2017 at 13:37 Reply

    You might be from Enid if you could pick out the only male large mouth bass hanging in the Wagon Wheel. (Where you got you french fry and gravy fix.)

    • Kathy Yosten maiden name Powell 23 March, 2018 at 06:50 Reply

      I remember you as a little boy. I went to school with Brenda and Dale.
      Remember Chief theater, when you went to the movies there. There was a muriel on the ceiling that was of the night sky of stars

  45. Terry Naifeh 4 January, 2017 at 15:04 Reply

    Bat Caves, TFFLB, A&W “frosted mug” root beer /w onion rings, Ike’s pool hall, Friday night football, victory dance after the game, original meadowlake golf course and the burgers they sold. YMCA across from the pool. Janet’s husbands name (tastee-freeze)

    • Steve Hamil 21 April, 2021 at 15:12 Reply

      You went to high school with Gilda Gilstrap. She kinda took the school by surprise. Pretty woman. Hey buddy, Steve Hamil

  46. Rebecca 4 January, 2017 at 19:27 Reply

    One of my greatest memories growing up in the 70’s /80’s was the waterside on hwy 81 just at the edge of town. Seems like it was near John Deere?

  47. Rick Chastain 4 January, 2017 at 21:07 Reply

    Shamrock Bowling Alley on north Van Buren.
    Sitting at the snack bar on the second level at Champlain pool.
    PAL Park off of Chestnut.

    So many great memories. Oh, to go back to those days of friends and carefree fun.

  48. Marvin Kusik 4 January, 2017 at 21:58 Reply

    Wow, does this ever bring back memories! Here’s a few: No one mentioned Bob’s Cone Corner and the “Lumberjack and onion rings.” Also, who remembers that before there was a South Van Buren overpass, it was an underpass, part of which is still visible on the east side of Van Buren, just north of the overpass. I remember that the A&W was the busiest place in town after dark until we were told the police would hand out tickets to people that just drove thru without stopping. Don’t know if that was true, but it seems the A&W went away soon after.
    So, thank all those that shared their memories and thank you Enid Buzz!

  49. Robbie Pack 30 January, 2017 at 07:16 Reply

    A couple more how about Brights drive Inn on North grand it’s now Dennys car lot , gourmet restaurant on grand1 block north of randolph

  50. Helen 4 April, 2017 at 13:54 Reply

    Sounds like you are from my “time.” Remember Newt’s Potato Chips…and the cherry orchards up on North 16th where we would pick cherries for 10 cents a bucket…good ‘ol days…thanks for the memories!

  51. Dale 16 May, 2017 at 17:02 Reply

    How about “Somewhere” banana splits?
    Bright’s drive-in?
    Bob’s Cone Corner? “The Lumberjack”!
    Back when local people owned places instead of franchises.

  52. DOUGLAS GREER 24 May, 2017 at 13:47 Reply

    TEEN TOWN ON WEST END OF YMCA , WHICH IS NOW THE LIBRARY
    CHAMPLIN POOL AND THE ROLLER RINK ACROSS THE STREET
    SOONER THEATER, CHIEF AND ESQUIRE
    DAN AND BAKES CAFE DOWNTOWN
    TRI STATE FESTIVALS
    SWIMMING AT SPRINGS PARK POOL
    FROZEN CHOC MALTS AT CHAMPLIN POOL SITTING ON TOP DECK
    CHAR BURGER ON EAST MAINE
    WINDMILL CAFE DOWNTOWN BY KRESS
    ERNIES TRADING POST
    PAK A SAK BURGERS
    SANFORD AND STUNKLE DRUG STORES,I DELIEVEERED PRESCRIPTIONS
    ON MY BICYCLE ALL OVER ENID
    CADDING AT OAKWOOD AND MEADOWLAKE GOLF COURSES
    BOND BAKERY AND GOLD SPOT DAIRY
    SEMEKES ROOTBEER AND MINITURE GOLF ON NORTH GRAND
    NEWMANS AND COLDIRONS
    YOUNGBLOOD AND OXFORD HOTELS
    BROADWAY TOWER
    LOST OF GOOD MEMORIES FROM ENID, WOLD LOVE TO GO BACK IN TIME AGAIN.

  53. Darrell Weidner 21 June, 2017 at 11:45 Reply

    Every year…going to the speedway to go to the fair….

    Eating at Pizza-Inn after the Saturday night races…

    If you know who Bill Beebe or Ted Shepard are…

  54. Danny (Sumrall) Camp 12 July, 2017 at 23:53 Reply

    You might be from Enid if you remember the Army Recruiting burning down, my Dad was the Recruiter then, Calvin Sumrall, how bout ice skating at Meadow Lake Park,

  55. Larry R Wedel 23 July, 2017 at 21:19 Reply

    Great memories.

    My brother and I delivered the Enid Morning News and Daily Eagle.
    I worked in the meat market at Wynn’s IGA on Main Street just north of the railroad underpass. Several trucks had their tops ripped open or off because they were too tall and could not safely go under the the train tracks. I attended Wilson Elementary School at 10th and Chestnut and Coolidge Elementary School at 15th and Chestnut. I also worked at Coldiron’s while in high school and on weekends and summers when I was home from attending Oklahoma Baptist University.

  56. Johnny Barnes 7 October, 2018 at 17:12 Reply

    How about shopping at Trade Mart or eating at the lunch counter in Woolworths? Where was the Lahoma Drive In located?

  57. Shelley Culver 10 January, 2019 at 22:16 Reply

    My dad was telling me how he used to be a pin setter at a bowling alley that was located on the 2nd floor of a building on the square. I also remember Stunkle’s .

  58. Dave Bank 30 January, 2019 at 21:26 Reply

    Graduated in 63. Used to cruse VanBuren. Sonic… Tasty Freeze. A and W. Years later as a physician in Elk City, who should show up but Janet and Fletch who had Tasty Freeze when I was in high school. Remembered the model of the “Missouri” he had at Tasty Freeze. He served on that ship during WW2. Small world ????

  59. Sue Ellen Harris-Gamble-Schritter 17 August, 2019 at 11:33 Reply

    Does anyone remember the carnival like park, Hellum’s??? in north Enid. They had lights strung (I think they only opened at night. It was magical to me. 🙂

    I remember Van Buren circling A&W and Tastee Freeze in my best friend’s (Janis Goad) ’49 Plymouth.

    The Wagon Wheel restaurant had the best chicken fried steak.

  60. R, Janet Walraven 3 April, 2020 at 11:44 Reply

    Hello. My dad built a grain elevator in Enid. He was superintendent for Chalmers & Borton. My parents met there in 1942 when he was in the army. He built barracks out at the airfield. I’m currently writing my parents’ love story during WW2.

    Does anyone remember Rae and Andy Thomas. Rae owned a beauty salon and a restaurant (Mexican restaurant if I remember correctly). Andy owned a diner and made the best chicken and dumplings. Does anyone know the names of those eateries or have any other information about these two? Names of children and their whereabouts? I’d appreciate any info you might have. Thanks. Janet Walraven

  61. Debi Kaye 5 May, 2020 at 16:46 Reply

    I was there for a year. The year of the flood in 73. I recall a tornado going through at the same time, Turkey Creek was 5 miles wide. I remember Peggys a coffee shop, where we would be ignored because they didn’t serve” longhairs”. Also got thrown out of a red neck bar for wanting to play pool. Great days!

  62. ken berg 26 July, 2020 at 09:28 Reply

    A few additions
    you knew you grew up in Enid if–

    You remember the Apache Indian groundskeeper’s name at University Lake Golf Course (Rudy Tah).

    Snuck into the mausoleum at night at the Catholic cemetary to be scared by ghosts..

    Know where the sign “no shoes, no shirt, no service, no Mexican food” was.

    Found how to get into the NG armory after hours to play basketball, and kype sodas from the old soft drink machine.

    Remember which grade school always won the Little Olympics.

    Remember the Hungarian Phillips U business prof who swung his golf club like he was “killing snakes”.

  63. John Stubblefield 17 August, 2020 at 09:56 Reply

    I was one of the “flyboys” in Enid from ’71-’75. My biggest memory of Enid was how incredibly friendly the people were. I’ve been all over the world in my AF and airline careers, but I’ve never been to a friendlier place than Enid. Other memories: the Wagon Wheel restaurant, Sonic (a.k.a. Home of the Fly), high school football games that rivaled the Super Bowl in attendance, the Great Flood, and the train restaurant, which I remember as Maple Street Station. And a special tip of the hat to the appliance store downtown that sold a new dad a washer and dryer on credit that I was in no way qualified to get, simply because I was “out at the base.” Thank you Enid for a great start to my working career!

  64. Louie Priebe 4 December, 2020 at 22:17 Reply

    You know you’re from Enid if you ever ate a great bowl chili at Max & Rex’s, Dan and Bake’s or Polly & Peggy’s. If not, you had a recent response to the radio question on KGWA or KCRC, “Howdy partner. How long has it been since you had a good hot steaming bowl of Wolf Brand Chili?:

  65. Louis Priebe, EHS '59 16 December, 2020 at 07:46 Reply

    You know you’re from Enid if….you ever played snooker at Ike’s a block north of the Square on Grand or the Wheat Shock on North Independence, also a block north of the Square. Incidentally, the “Square” is actually a two-block rectangle cut in half between the Post Office and the Garfield Country court house. It was divided in the mid 1930’s during the administration of Mayor Louis Samuel Morell, my grandfather after whom I was named. He was president of the Enid Plaining Mill, located three blocks south of the Square on Independence for Enid’s first 60+ years.

  66. joseph allan deghi 9 January, 2021 at 10:15 Reply

    Born and raised in Enid.When I was about 10 or 11 Johnny Weissmuller appeared at Gibsons Discount. Every kid in town was there. He was great. Mom drove us there. A great time to be a kid and a great town to grow up in.

  67. Jerry Allen 28 March, 2021 at 17:37 Reply

    I lived in Enid pretty much from the early 40’s through the 50’s Threw papers, worked at Dan and Bake’s before joining the Navy in 1958. Email me if you want to make contact.

  68. Danny Sumrall 8 September, 2021 at 12:39 Reply

    I remember are reason for going to the City was to go to Wedgewood Amusement Park, anyone remember when the U.S. Army Recruitment Office burnt down, I remember cause my Dad was the Army Recruiter then, his name Calvin Sumrall loved the winter when Meadow Lake Park froze over and nearly the whole town was out ice skating, 1963

  69. Jerry Scott 21 December, 2021 at 10:34 Reply

    Does anyone remember the name of the restaurant/bar on south Van Buren on the east side across from Meadowlake mini golf?

  70. Sue L Sewell 15 January, 2022 at 23:22 Reply

    Holy cow crap you nailed this list. 1980 Chisholm High grad. I loved it! We actually would get a bag o burgers at Pak o Sak and head to the govt springs zoo . Did a head over heels flip at the high dive at Champlins pool . Always tried to beat the train at meadow lake bridge. Go carts that shook your arms numb. Fell asleep to the drone of the Enid Speedway. County Fair and TRI state music Festival was the best. Vaters would take your school list and do all the work.

  71. Pam Hutton 25 July, 2022 at 13:03 Reply

    My grandparents owned the Lazy H Motel and I can remember climbing up on the fence behind it and watching the older kids at A&W drive in when I was a little kid. It was just North of the Motel. My grandparents were Carl and Myrtle Holter.

  72. David Wacker 21 August, 2022 at 14:23 Reply

    Holy cow people! I read the whole thing. Not one mention of Next Door restaurant!! Was stunned. I pretty much grew up in that store.

  73. Liz 31 August, 2022 at 20:40 Reply

    Anyone remember Presidents Hotel/Motel just to the west of South overpass? They had great restaurant that served great steaks. Went to a New Year’ celebration where they had a band there one year in the 70’s. If memory serves me correctly there was another hotel right by The Presidents?

  74. Kevin 17 September, 2022 at 10:17 Reply

    In the 80’s, do you remember a Mexican restaurant on the south side of Owen K Garriott, east of van Buren? Started with a “T” I believe.

  75. Bryce Hoeltzel 18 October, 2022 at 13:57 Reply

    Does anyone remember the house on Randolph street about two blocks east of Longfellow Jr. High with a big clock on the front of it? Harold G Hoeltzel had a watch repair shop there, the House of Time. That was my dad, the house where we grew up.

  76. Thomas 3 November, 2022 at 21:20 Reply

    Hello.

    Does anyone know anything about the Mable street station restaurant in downtown Enid? When did they close and why ? Also what happened to the Train cars. I also have a nice picture of it with it was open. Like to post it on here for others to enjoy.

  77. Steph 8 March, 2023 at 03:38 Reply

    Hi different generation here. I remember fat and skinnys, eagle arcade, jolly time, door step diner, and my grampa had an arcade he opened when jolly time closed that was in the building Tina Hall is in now. On Van Buren but I can’t seem to remember the name…. I still have a jolly time token though. I’d go play skiball while my grampa was working after eating at chic fila with my Gramma and had to see the chicken machine that laid an egg with a toy in it . Maxwell House for breakfast and sneakers next to sudurduds . I learned how to braid a may pole in elementary school and we had track for pe at the bird sanctuary across the street from the school. And this one no one remembers, the man in the three piece suit on garriot in the middle of summer with newspaper under is hat holding a Bible and preaching to people while they were stopped in the middle of the road. My step dad worked at gold spot as a mechanic I think until it closed and he used to take us to play tennis at enid high. Also riding in the seat on his bicycle in the shape of cookie monster i sat in when we went riding bikes. We always passed a water fountain downtown with a lions head on it. I think it was a fountain? And Ann Price was my music teacher. Her son is Mark Price. Thought I saw something about the prices but probably not the same ones.

  78. Jeff Richards 25 September, 2023 at 17:01 Reply

    Does anyone remember when they first built the wooden foot bridge across the drainage ditch next to Hayes Elementary School? Hint – fist built in the 1960’s! How about riding your bike down one side of the ditch and trying to make it up the other?

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