Anyone remember old Tulsa restaurant

AKguy1985 said:

Holy seven year old thread batman!!!

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p238shooter said:

Ron's Playgirl had nifty Budwiser 2 lamp fluorescent 4ft fixtures hanging over their pool tables that plugged into receps in the ceiling and hung by short chains. Guess one of the lamps burned out one night and they just quickly replaced the whole fixture and sat the old one outside the door by the trash bin where I happened to pull up to park one night. It still makes a unique light over my shop workbench today. One mans trash is sometimes another mans treasure. Ha Ha

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OKNewshawk said:

Since I've only been in Tulsa for seventeen years as of this month, I don't have any memories of some of the older restaurants everyone has talked about. The one I miss is the Five and Diner that used to be next to Route 66 Harley Davidson on Memorial Dr. It was in the shape of a classic chrome diner and always reminded me of the diner in the town I grew up in at the Jersey Shore. Just like that diner, the Five and Diner served the best club sandwiches in Tulsa, maybe in Oklahoma.

What was their secret? layers upon layers of turkey, cut thin. To me, a great club sandwich is one that you have to plan how to eat because the quarters are too big to just fit into your mouth. If a club sandwich is only about two inches thick, its too small. The Five and Diner didn't skimp. The other plus was they didn't add cheese to the recipe. Club sandwiches do not have cheese!

I hadn't heard that the Five and Diner was closing until after the fact. It seemed that Route 66 Harley needed space to expand. since they owned the land, IIRC, they just cancelled the lease for the diner and tore it down. Tulsa has been a poorer place for a club sandwich connoisseur like me since then.

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p238shooter said:

Since our Fearless Leader, Mr. JB brought up the Stables lounge, that made me thing of the Stables and the Stables Lounge 2nd edition. JB did not depict whether he was referring to the world known Stables Lounge Rock and Roll Joint or the Stables lounge, world known strip joint. Because I am an old guy, I started thinking about both and they started to merge together with Ron's Playgirl lounge, the Keg on 11th street, and the joint I can not remember the name of at 4th and Memorial, P J's Club at 41 and Peoria, and the Brass Rail where a friend took me into and a lady dancer by the name of Patti Ann caused me to drink my first beer. Damn that has cost me a lot of money as I am sitting here and sipping on my 9th beer of the evening. She did know what was good for me.

This post and thoughts brought up things from 40 years ago in my mind of Tulsa night spots of things I had totally forgotten about.

I know the OP of this thread was relating to the uniqueness of the phone ordering system at Ma Bells to order your food which I have done, and I do not want to take away from that uniqueness, however --- --- Here is a old memory that will be unique to the ones that had ever seen it, you will know.

In the early days before strip joints they were basically called Go-Go joints. The ladies danced with very skimpy costumes but there were small spots that had to be covered, no differential in color was allowed, so depending on the individual lady, it depicted how she was formed, that depicted how big the covering had to be. The cover could protrude, but all had to be one color, and usually had tassels. Some lady's were very adapt at putting on a show with them, twirling in unique directions with the music.

My question is does anyone here remember this? If you ever saw it, you will remember.

There was a joint on North Sheridan called The Brass Rail. There was a lady there that took a different approach to "keeping covered". She used a bed sheet.

During a whole set of songs she could flip it up, down sideways, in, out, everything to the music dragging over her stuff making impressions very visible (not illegal as long as was "covered")
She really put on a show, without showing you anything, but you wanted to see more and you would sit and drink waiting for her turn to come around again just in case of a malfunction. It never happened while I was watching.

Were any of you there?

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clk1019 said:

it's been a while, but does anyone remember the restaurant in Tulsa called "Ma Bells"?
was having a discussion here and I seem to remember that before it became "Ma Bells" it was named "Across the street" or something like that. I'm trying to remember the previous name.
location was just east of sheridan on the south side of admiral I think... been a while since I've been in the area, might have the location completely wrong.

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