Volume 11 , Issue 31

1929 - No Sunday Movies In Waynoka, OK

Dennis Rittenhouse says, "I was looking for info for my mother's side of the family (COVEY) and coincidently found this link to Waynoka.

I had an aunt on my father's side of the family living in Waynoka, Oklahoma. My aunt, uncle and cousins lived on the East side of Waynoka by the airport.

My relatives were Lawrence and Ruby CROSS and their boys are Ronald and Denny. They lived on the first farm as you pass by the airport and turn left with the highway, on the first farm on the right.

They milked cows until pasteurization forced them to stop as they could not afford the equipment. Lawrence operated the telegraph at the Waynoka depot.

Ronald was a band teacher in Alva for the high school for several years. Denny is in South America.

I do know they knew Erma Fox. She is/was a cousin in the family. Aunt Ruby later married a retired railroader Albert (Al) Potter. He died in '84."

I guess in Waynoka you could not go see a picture show on Sundays in 1929.

I think I need an attorney to explain what this court ruling is about. Quote from ruling:

"This is an action wherein the plaintiff in error, as plaintiff below, sought to enjoin the defendants in error, as defendants below, from enforcing an ordinance declaring it to be unlawful to operate a moving picture show in the town of Waynoka on Sunday." Click HERE for the rest of the story.
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