Blue Dome Diner
Lyons and Tulsa Treasures
Brooks and Dunn get up close at the Cain's
Old Warehouse Market #2Long Gone Grotto Courts - Where I Lived in 1945
Right after World War II we returned to Tulsa where both of my parents were from. The first place we lived was the Grotto Courts, which was an old motel on Route 66 (11th and Hudson) where the railroad crossed. I think I was around 3 years old (1945-46) and we lived in the 3rd unit on the east side. Of course the Grotto Courts are long gone now. In 2008 the railroad tracks were still there but had not been used in a long time.
Some of my first memories are from there. They include a circus train stopping one time. There was a box car loading ramp in the field on the west side of the tracks. They brought the animals out to exercise them; an elephant got away and walked through a hedge in the back of one of the houses to the west. I can still remember a woman screaming. LOL, I would also if I were in Tulsa, OK, in my backyard and an elephant came through my hedge.
I also remember getting stung by wasps in the back of my neck after throwing rocks at a nest hanging from the eave of one of the burned out units in the back. The guy on the south side of us would catch giant catfish (3-4 feet long) and clean them in his backyard. I used to play with Barbara and the other kids in the flower bed in the front, right by the highway. There was a White Castle Restaurant across the street.
