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Time travel to 1960 Tulsa OK. Corner of 18th & Boston Ave. Vintage cars pass as we see Fire Station #5 (light brick), House of Rattan, Thompson Movie Supply, Dupont Paint store, Tidewater Oil billboard. Today, Delasandro's restaurant occupies the building on right side.
Throwback to 1940s Tulsa OK. President FDR visits the airport & Douglas bomber plant to inspect A26 aircraft production.
Time travel to 1960s Tulsa OK.
Street repairs at 25th & Harvard Ave angers drivers and merchants.
Reporter Bob Brown does interviews at liquor store, drug store, and Trippett's Shoe Store about construction delays and mad customers.
Film from 1960s assembly Central High School Tulsa, OK to address racial fights on campus. Principal Roy Lewis addresses students. This is when Central High was at 6th and Cincinnati Ave downtown
historic film takes us back 60+ years in Tulsa OK when morning commute looed much different than today. Notice Fred Jones Ford (Edsel), Arthur Murray dance studio, Horace Mann school. Boston Avenue Methodist church hasn't changed much
In Tulsa 46 years ago, the Roughnecks soccer team was drawing large crowds to Skelly Stadium and the team was running TV commercials like this one featuring Alan "The Boomer" Woodward
Gayla Peevey was 10 years old when she recorded "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". We interviewed her around 2010 for our documentary "OKC A to Z", and she could still belt out the tune. The "hippo" song came out in 1953 and was used as a fundraiser by the OKC Zoo to purchase a hippo
Time travel to Brewster's Toys, 10th & Peoria Tulsa OK Christmas 1965. It was a popular place to buy Christmas gifts. Anyone remember this place or get a gift from there? Check out the TulsaFilms DVD gift set for cool DVDs about Tulsa
Composer Ralph Blane, co-writer of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" interviewed at his Broken Arrow OK home. Blane is interviewed about songwriting for Broadway shows. Ralph Blane is buried in Broken Arrow OK. More great clips like this at TulsaFilms.com
Tulsa's Main Street was a Holiday shoppers delight.
Froug's, Clarke's, Vandever's, Brown Dunkin, Penney's, Renberg's
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Simpler Times in America.
Christmas parade 1950s Tulsa OK
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