Step Back in Time With
"Once Upon a Time in Bartlesville"
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Buddy Holly, rolled-up cuffs on your jeans and Johnston's Drive-In. The Zesto, the Hilltop, The Osage Theater and Archie comic books. Walking home from school, the days when we didn't have to lock our front door and an ice cold Coke and a Hershey bar were five cents each.
Those days in Bartlesville aren't really gone. They're alive in Barnes' memory and in her fondness for nostalgic writing about window shopping with her mother, a sandwich at Hull's Drug Store, trips to Sunset Lake and the Jake Bartles Day Parade in Dewey.
Remember Aunt Jemima cookie jars, speckled gumball machines, your mama's kitchen on a cold winter afternoon smelling like warm sugar cookies and love? How about American Bandstand, the annual Bartlesville Christmas Parade, Moonlight Madness with street dances in the fall?
Do you recall Don Woods and his little pal, Gusty? How about Lee and Lionel and the Late Show on Channel 6? Remember swimming at Sani-Pool and languishing away a summer afternoon? How about the hot streak during the summer of 1954 when we couldn't play outside or you had to keep your children inside?
Family picnics, listening to Patti Page and a young Elvis. Remember your first Hula Hoop and that the plastic it was made from was invented by a scientist at the Phillips Research Center? Do you still love Lucy and The Beaver and long to relive those days with someone who sees them from
A Bartlesville Perspective
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