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Memories of Downtown Alva, OK
Jerry Crenshaw of the Class of Alva High 1954 mentions memories of, "Hillcrest Dairy; Golden Crust Bakery; Smitty’s Shoe Shop.
The Palace Barber Shop; Lynn’s Restaurant; Warrick’s Shoe Store; Bell Hotel Ballroom for Birthday parties.
Loell Redfern and the Coca Cola Bottling Plant on Flynn. The Sportsmans’ Post; Strickland and Horner Flying School and Rental planes east of Alva. (Piper Cub)
Dr. Pepper and 7-Up bottling on College Ave.; Tanners; Jelly Johnson at Rice Clothes for men and boys. The 3-R’s of entertainment of Homer Jones; Ranger, Ritz and Rialto and the Pix was on the West side of the square.
Monfort’s Drug store where some of us had a lunch of chicken salad san on toast and a bowl of cream of chicken soup most every school day during open lunch.
Also, originator of the "frozen malt soft icecream.
Goldbug Inn across the street to the south of the old AHS.
Mr. Stith the science teacher. Mrs Ewalt, my favorite English teacher. The Home Ec teacher who told all the girls that prolonged kissing would cause pregnancy. (Oh woe were we boys!)
Mr. Gallon taught us how to drive and coached the drivers-ed team.
Mr. Korn. Mr. Geis. May God bless all their souls.
Mr. Harold Shirley, principal. One of the nicest men I had ever known. Bernard Ballard; Horace Mann School; Jack Ging; Tom Dean; Betty Geis; Evelyn Ensor; and ALL the student heros we kids looked up to so much.
Lee Denner; Tom Denner; Coach Johnny Walker and Starbuck Roberts. Those were the days. Those were the days." -- Jerry Crenshaw in Russell, KS
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I have memories of Golden Krust Bakery as well, as a child, skating across the floured floor. My Grandpa, O'Dell Henry worked & retired there. My dad worked there too, but I wasn't even thought of at that time.. ~Christy Coulston 2009-01-10 08:12:48Golden Krust Bakery on the east side of the square. TG&Y and Jett's were on the west side (with C.R. Anthony on the SW corner), and the Ben Franklin store on the north side. Fred Neuman's music store moved a lot, it seems. I can think of at least four locations. 1 - just north of Central National Bank (I think), then just west of the bank, then on the north side of the square (was it in the old theater building?), and finally on the south side of the square where J&J Appliance is located today. ~Rod Murrow 2009-01-08 09:40:20
Other downtown businesses included Pracna Floral Shop, the City Cleaners, Wood Appleman's, Rex Gard jewelers, Brunstetter Motors, Fred Crawford Ford, Joe Edwards Chevrolet, Ware Motors, Jets, C.E. Loomis Furniture, Oklahoma Tire and Supply and many more. I sat down some time ago, and wrote down over 90 businesses that I could remember around or adjacent to the square in the fifties and sixties. ~Terry Smith 2009-01-04 23:22:28
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