Volume 13 , Issue 35

NW Okie's Corner

We want to thank all of you who responded to us during our work through of our OkieLegacy mailing list database debacle last Monday, August 22 & 23, when we published last week's "OkieLegacy" newsletter. We hope you finally got your email copy of the Vol. 13, Iss. 34 this Sunday, August 28, 2011. Thanks for your input, feedback and patience! Also a big Thanks to nwOKtechie for helping us get the database mailer up and working again.

We heard from Sandie Olson (Email: sandie.olson@gmail.com) with the Waynoka Historical Society this weekend. Sandie is looking for information about a hotel in Avard which may have been named Lindsey Hotel. What Sandie was telling me, "A brother and sister inherited it. It was cut into two pieces and moved to Waynoka for houses. The late Jim Lindsey lived in his half, and had a sporting goods store. Recently several pictures were found in the attic - portraits and a cabinet card photo of the P.C. McDonald Carriage Painting business. Address (house number) of the latter is 717, it probably isn't Avard."

If you have any information about the hotel or the photos Sandie Olson would appreciated hearing from you. You can email Sandie at the email listed above.

Roy reminds us in his OkieLegacy Comment, Feature #6166, concerning John Standley's It's In the Book, "I think that I wrote you about Johnny Standley and this recording several years ago! Johnny had been a member of the Standley Family Players who had followed the Chautauqua Circuit (traveling shows) over Oklahoma towns and those north to Nebraska. A few years ago I was rehearsing for a play with the (now defunct) Mummer's Theater in Oklahoma City and between scenes I made the remark: 'It's In The Book.'

"To which our director Mack Scizm said: 'Roy, this lady next to me is Martha Standley Knott, and it was her brother Johnny who recorded that record called It's In The Book!"

"And then he (and she, Martha) told me the story about the Standley family of actors who had done various little plays and skits while traveling 'on the road' with these presentations. Martha and her daughter performed in several of the Mummer's productions."

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