Volume 13 , Issue 5

NW Okie's R & R - The Good Old Days of 1920's

This week we decided to show the younger McGill Bros. (Gene (on the right) and Bob McGill (on the left)) standing on the running board of the elder McGill Bros' (James & Wm "Bill" J. McGill) furniture truck that they used for hauling furniture around the Northwest Oklahoma countryside. I assume it is parked in front of Bill McGill's residence (or someone's residence), in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma. Both Bob and Gene are dressed in what looks like their best clothes, short pants, long stockings and jacket-type shirt with some sort of scarf-tie.

In the past archives we mentioned that McGill Bros. Furniture and Swimming Pool was located in the middle of the 600 block, southside of Barnes Avenue, just off the Southwest corner of Alva, Oklahoma's downtown square.

Last week we heard from Lois Guffy concerning memories of Peggy Stover Cook who worked wife Lois' mother (Banna Clover Caywood) at the Dog Ranch near Cherokee, Oklahoma. You can read more of that in this week's OkieLegacy Ezine.

We will attempt to jog some memories of the 1950's with a vintage photo of a Longfellow Elementary school photo taken around 1951-52, in Alva, Oklahoma. Also, we hope to jog some "old" Rock & Rollers and Rockabilly enthusiasts and hope to hear some of your memories from that era.

We would like to hear what it was like for those living through the McCarthyism era of the early 1950's (particularly around March 1954).

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