Volume 13 , Issue 2

Duchess & Sadie's Snowy Domain

Has Winter snow come your way yet? There are ways to get out and enjoying the Winter months and make something out of something cold and dreary. AND ... if you are an outdoors type of person, you might try skiing, snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing and making something out of all that snow.

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Home Comfort Range (1934) - Chimney Construction

Last week we promised you some information from our Home comfort Range cookbook about the Chimney construction and the most common faults in construction and care of chimneys.

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

We went back through our OkieLegacy archives and find another view of the McGill Bros. Swimming Pool in the early 1900's. The photo on the left shows the backside of the building and the McGill Bros Swimming Pool, with the young boys in the pool and standing up against the building are supposedly Alva businessmen and fathers of the boys. Grandpa Wm. J. "Bill" McGill is the tall, fourth gentlemen from the right, backrow, in front of a door or window.

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McGill Swimming Pool

Earl Fugit remembers swimming the McGill Swimming Pool. Yes! It was between two buildings. There was a skinny walkway from the front of the building on the eastside towards the back where the swimming pool existed. See photo in next paragraph showing location of McGill Bros. Furniture and the short building on the far right where the swimming pool was behind. Today, as you walk the 600 block of Barnes Avenue, you might see a short building with a "Hot Rod Mural" on the front. The swimming is filled in now, but sets behind this building.

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Nickels / Ensor / McClure Home Restoration

The Nickels / Ensor / McClure home that stands at 13th & Locust Street, on the southwest corner, in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma, is continuing its restoration of this pioneer home that dates back to the early days of this northwest Oklahoma community.

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NWOSU's Lincoln Bust

Lisa Ingels - Ayala comments on the feature (NWOSU's Lincoln Bust), in Vol. 9, Iss. 4, dated 2007-01-27, "Thank you for displaying the bust with my great uncle, Frank Ingels, brother to my grandfather, Roland Ingels. Anyone out there, I would appreciate help in obtaining a family tree that leads from Roland Ingels to Quanah Parker.

We have a lot of American Indian blood and I am proud of that. Thank you."

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This Day In History (January 10)

On this day in history, January 10th, do you remember back to 1964 when the rock-n-roll british group known as the Beatles introduced their first album (Introducing the Beatles) in the United States?

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McGill Swimming Pool Memories

This photo on the left shows what the 600 block of Barnes Avenue looks like at the present. Behind the short building is where old McGill Swimming Pool once filled many young lads and girls in the early 1900's during the hot summer months.

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Gene & Bob McGill (July 1923)

We found this photo of our dad (Gene McGill, age 9), on the left, and his younger brother (Bob McGill, age 7), on the right. The date written on the back was 24 July 1923. You got to love those swim suits & caps that they wore back then, don't you.

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