Volume 8 , Issue 50

Looking For Amorita (OK) Memories

"Another great issue of Okie Legacy, as per usual. You are the best of the best to publish your ezine so regularly and filled with such great history of Oklahoma.

This past week I drove through Amorita (Oklahoma), the first time since Virgil Frey died and I attended his auction several years ago. I am thankful I visited him often to savor the memories. The Balmer Fund purchased the electric refrigerated candy case that he told me had came from the Palace of Sweets in Harper (Kansas). It wasn't cheap--$800. Ouch! We also have the original wood booths (but no tables) from the drugstore.

It was so depressing to see how the town is now about all gone. Nearly all houses are vacant and deteriorating beyond repair. People simply do not understand, nor perhaps care, regarding the value of keeping a cornerstone business going in order to keep a small town alive. With Amorita, as with countless other small towns, it is now too late. But it is not too late to collect any stories or memories that someone may have of a better time in Amorite, when it still bustled. I'd like to share those memories with our Prairie Connection readers in our next January-February issue. Please submit your Amorita Memories directly to me (Rosalea) at the following EMAIL: iread@prairieconnect.com." -- Rosalea Hostetler, Volunteer Editor, Prairie Connection, Harper, Kansas
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