Volume 13 , Issue 6

NW Okie's R & R - The Good Old Days of 1944

This week we take you back to WWII with this photo on the left of the RTU (PR), 9 Sep. 1944, G116-26 grnd liaison officer. The officer in uniform on the far right, wearing sunglasses is my uncle, Robert Lee McGill.

I found this great website called Vpike.com. It lets you put in an address or town, state and get a virtual tour of the area from a birdseed view and on the ground view as if you were on the ground walking down the blue road strips.

I did a search for Alva, OK - Street View as seen on vpike.com, your virtual turnpike. I am not sure when these photos were taken, but it seems to be in the Autumn time and NOT Winter 2011. I selected a "stick person" to place in the middle of the street, Barnes Avenue, looking East towards 6th (College Avenue). Face your "stickman" South and click on 6th St. going towards Northwestern Oklahoma State University at US 64. Once you get up there turn right and travel West up to the infamous Alva Water on the West edge of town.

When you click on the above link, you can position your "stickman" anywhere on the map area on the right. Let us put the "stickman" at the intersection of Barnes Avenue and 6th street. The images should appear in the images on the left.

Using this vpike.com you can navigate around in a 360 degree circle with the mouse or with the navigational tool in the upper left corner. Put in any address, city, state and take a look around. Not all roads have been submitted to the database.

Marty Myers (Email: ) says this about Coy Cemetery, "Dean Schultz has a question about Coy Oklahoma. Cemetery. If he will google Coy Oklahoma Cemetery it will come up on Find a Grave and the directions and a listing also of the people buried there."

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