An old man shuffling along downtown streets bundled up in a heavy wool overcoat even in 100-degree weather was a familiar sight to Tulsans in the 1960s.
In 1939, governors of Oklahoma and 21 other states opted to celebrate the traditional Thanksgiving date rather than a week earlier (what some referred to as "Franksgiving" after FDR).
A protest against making the redbud the state s official tree touched off a skirmish among club women and sent Oklahomans scurrying to their dictionaries, encyclopedias and Bibles in 1937.
Former Tulsan William Lawrence Boyd, a one-time playboy, became a "wonderful guy" to conform to characteristics of his movie screen role as the good guy in the black hat.
The first person to be executed for violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law died on a gallows in 1936 at McAlester state penitentiary, the only hanging ever at the prison.