Happy Father's Day!

We hear NW Oklahoma got some much needed rain this week ... around 2.5 to 3 inches. AND... lots if wind! What would Oklahoma be without wind, hail, thunderstorms and threats of tornadoes around harvest time, though?

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1935 - 11th Annual Junior-Senior Banquet of NSTC

It was Monday, May 13, 1935, 6:30 p.m., at the American Legion Hall, in Alva, Oklahoma, that the 11th annual Junior-Senior Banquet of the Northwestern State Teacher's College was held. March of that year the "Castle on the Hill" had burned.

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Early Oklahoma School Photos

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1958 - Chimney Creek News

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Neuman's Boys Choir Outing (Feb. 27, 1958)

It was fifty years plus a few months, February 27, 1958, that a group of Neuman's Boys Choir had an overnight outing at the Salt Plains lake lodge of their director, Fred Neuman [more]... View/Write Comments (count 2)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1920 Pow Wow Yearbook & Floris Patterson

"I want to thank Tami for making sure that Grandmother Floris' painting was returned to her grandchildren [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Minton's Ice Cream Parlor

"DEFINITELY Minton's! It was located in the same block as the old Ranger theatre, which was across Flynn north of the Post Office [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

A Grandson's Memories of "Hap" Pearson

"Dennis talks about being at the college with Grandpa Hap and how they walked everywhere on campus [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Memories of Our Father

It was no secret in February 3rd, 1950 what Gene McGill stood for. He was a Democrat running for State Senator for Woods / Woodward Counties -- announcing his candidacy February 3rd, 1950 against Claude Seaman of Waynoka in Northwest Oklahoma.

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How I Remember My Dad

We are in the process of taking down Kenneth Updike's stories and ramblings of "Growing Up In Oklahoma" because Kenneth asked us, "To remove all of my previous writings to you about my Ramblins [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Hintergardt Bros. OKC Station

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Feb. 27, 1958, Hopeton, OK News

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Woods County, Guy Lanman Triplets - What Year

We are not sure of the date on this yellow-aged news clipping, dated to sometime around July 15th [more]... View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1936 - 37th Annual Commencement Sermon & Bacclaureate

Let us take you back the the thirty-seventh annual Commencement Sermon and Baccalaureate Exercises of Northwestern State Teachers' College (NSTC), in Alva, Oklahoma, held in Herod Hall, May 17 and 20, 1936 [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Jim Barker's Sports Spasms Article - 06/04/2008

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Feb., 1958 - Share Fun Winners

This old newsclipping came from the Woods County News, dated Feb [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Old Crowell House In Alva, OK

Marty Myers of Cherokee, Oklahoma sent me this information that appeared in the Enid News & Eagle concerning the Old Crowell house located on the southwest corner of 8th & Flynn Avenue, in Alva, Oklahoma.

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Home Comfort Range, Model CB

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The Skunk Story - by Marvin Wiebener

"This incident happened in early April and since then I've been encouraged to write it down [more]... View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Feb. 1958 - Rialto Theatre Movies, Alva, OK

Remember when Adult prices at the Rialto were 65-cents and children got in for 10-cents in Alva, OK, February 1958?

The epic of the real American cowboy, titled Cowboy starring Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon was showing in Alva, Oklahoma at the Rialto, in Alva, Oklahoma [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW Oklahoma News

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NW Oklahoma Memories

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Albert "Hap" Pearson Obit - 10/7/1907-06/2/2008

Albert Brant "Hap" Pearson, a long time Woods County, Oklahoma resident was born October 7, 1907, in Neodesha, Kansas, to Albert Francis and Elzina (Van Huss) Pearson [more]... View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe