Volume 10 , Issue 20

Alva & Woods Co., OK Memories

Linda, each week is a visit to Alva and surrounding areas, but this week you had info on Mrs. Wiesig.

I think she is the one that did sewing and her husband repaired shoes. Anyway it was great to read about her.

I went to a country school to the North and maybe a little West of Alva with Donald Rudy and Karen Eubank. We were the only first graders. The teacher picked me up in town and we went out to the school.

As far as the "Square" was concerned there was ALWAYS activity on Saturday afternoon and nite as the farmers came to town and everyone got in a good visit and gossip.

Monforts had the best soft ice cream around and was a treat - if the allowance went far enough! Also in the fall when the school books came in and the whole store had that smell. During the time of the prison camp a lot of the men would come into town and lounge against the store fronts and visit.

Also... Jetts when the fall material came in along with school shoes - again that special smell.

Shoemacher Drug would make up a liquid cinnamon and IF the teachers did not catch a child with the small bottle, everyone shared by having their own tooth picks in the oil.

Saturday was always movie day and I suspect a blessed quiet for moms as the local kids headed to the theater with their quarter. IF one was careful there would be enough left over to stop at the bakery on the way home for a "crispie" which with the size would last all the way to Barnes and Home. The theater was the one just down from the bakery and a grocery store. Believe they were all Jones Theater except the one that was next to the Jett Department Store. At that time, early 1950s.

The old Court House was still in the Center with the large park and the big trees. Have not been back for probably 10 years but do recognize a lot of the information that you provide. Summers were spent with Emery and Hazel Quinn on a farm outside of Waynoka. Now I wonder how Hazel had all the grandchildren -- kept tract of us -- tended her garden -- kept us from trouble -- OH! The treats of the homemade ice cream and each family bringing a cake. Pure pleasure.

The other thing about Waynoka was being allowed to ride to town to get a block of ice and go into the storage areas of the ice and getting to have a small piece of ice. Sounds funny now with refrigerators, air conditioning and such.

Anyway I hope that people continue to provide memories of those days and names of the different families of Woods and other surrounding counties." -- Carrol (Quinn) Harris
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