NW Okie's Corner

I woke up Friday morning, 25th February, with the beginning of another year in my life awaiting me [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Alva Teachers - 1907-1908

Alva Teachers 1907-08... While I was digging through some of my grandmother's old photo, I found this photograph of Alva Teachers from 1907-08 school year posed on the steps of a school in Alva. I haven't showed this to you before, have I?

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Green Cars of NYC

Have you ever seen this kind of touring car before? What year were they used in NYC? I did spot a gentlemen in the background that resembled either Bill McGill in his younger years. If I only knew what year, I might be able to distinguish if it were "Bill". Does the clothing fit the era back then?

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Faulkners Bridge

"I used to go out west of Alva on US64, a few miles and then turn North and go just a mile then west again to Faulkners Bridge. This was, I think, the highest bridge in Woods County.

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Old Baseball Pic

"I was perusing some earlier issues of View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

PARNELL Connection

"I'm not an Okie, actually [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Droop Mountain Map

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Old Military Uniforms

I found another interesting photograph taken by Hugh Donnan way back when, but not sure of the date [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Dacoma's Cowboy Grill in 1990

A few weeks ago we mentioned the Cowboy Grill in Dacoma finally closing their doors after 80 some years [more]... View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Remember Jeff Amos at OSU....

Jeff is doing a paper and research on the "POW Camps of WWII" in Oklahoma? He is doing a follow-up on his research by creating a map of the POW camps that were located here in Oklahoma [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Faulkners Bridge

"Faulkner's Bridge was at the site of what they called the Faulkner caves [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Welcome Old Boys of Kemper

This is for all those who might have had a family member that attended Kemper Military school, in Boonville, Missouri, in 1937 [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Samuel GWINN of Virginia

"My name is JR Cox [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

More POW Camp Information

"My name is Jeff Amos and I had communicated with you in December about some information from your website that I had used in a paper that I wrote for a class [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Young Ladies With Diplomas

We know that there was a Hugh T [more]... View/Write Comments (count 2)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Air Tour - June 1, 1946

This next photo was taken June 1, 1946 during an Air Tour we believe was at the Waynoka airport, in NW Oklahoma [more]... View/Write Comments (count 2)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Charles Fredrick Faulkner & Mattie Greear

This information and history of the Faulkner's was taken from the "Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County", pgs 213-215, as told by Greta Faith and Opal French.

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Faulkners Bridge

"It was north from highway 64 on the Cora blacktop (maybe 13 miles or so west of Alva, I think, where the old Cora Church is still standing) [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

WARWICK Surnames

"My name is David Wayne Warwick [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

GWINN Family History

"The Gwinn family originated in Wales and over the centuries established branches in Northern Ireland, in Virginia and throughout the United States [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe