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rdmore Dragway owners and staff extends our gratitude to all our fans, racers, and sponsors for a wonderful 2017 race season.

As the wheels stop turning on our 63rd season of drag racing, the momentum is already started for 2018. Again, Ardmore Dragway is excited to be affiliated with the National Hot Rod Association and the great privileges it brings to our race fans.

In the upcoming race season we will once again be hosting our Friday Night Fun Drags. This is an opportunity for the community to bring their family sedan or pickup and race in a safe, legal environment against their friends.

Ardmore Dragway will also be participating in the NHRA Youth Program, which offers young race enthusiasts the chance to compete in street legal cars and our Junior Drag Racing League Series.

Saturdays, we will once again be running the Summit Bracket Race Series featuring the best sportsman racers in Oklahoma and Texas.

The Spring Swap Meet and Children’s Shelter Car Show will return next year along with The Cowpasture Nationals, Friday Night Nitro, Ardmore Dragway Racers Reunion, and many more specialty events.

Thanks again for your support and we will see you soon in 2018....Ardmore Dragway

Ardmore Dragway is located 7 miles North of Ardmore, Okla.

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HOLIDAY 2017 Vol.4, No. 4 PUBLISHER / ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kim Benedict ADVERTISING SALES Becky Matchen Traci Chronister Lynn Powdrill STAFF WRITERS Austin Jackson CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Dr. Harry Galoob Tyler Young Martin Dyer Cory Blankenship Kalyn Gensic Lone Beasley Robert Dalton Kim Benedict GRAPHICS/PRODUCTION Julie Thomas Cathy Roberts Natalie Garrison LAYOUT/DESIGN Neal Burke STAFF PHOTOGRAPHY Austin Jackson Rhiannon Saegert COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Shana Sessions

DISTRIBUTION Charlie Ammons CIRCULATION Mary Butler BUSINESS OFFICE Kathy Worley Kathy Keeton

THE ARDMOREITE Established 1893 117 W. Broadway P.O. Box 1328 Ardmore, OK 73401 (580) 223-2200

SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA LIVING Published 4 Times Per Year Distributed through insertion in The Ardmoreite and at select locations throughout Southern Oklahoma Holiday 2017 issue printed and distributed initially on October 27, 2017 Copyright 2016 GateHouse Media, LLC 117 W. Broadway P.O. Box 1328 Ardmore, OK 73401 (580) 223-2200 All Rights Reserved No portion of this magazine may be reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the publisher or its designee.

Contents Greetings from the Publisher Ready to celebrate the holidays in Ardmore

By Tyler Young Gratitude for Christmas past, present and future

By Kalyn Gensic Sweet sensations: Bedré Fine Chocolate

By Lone Beasley Back in time: Decades of change for Ardmore

By Martin Dyer Scene on scene: Ardmore band booster fundraiser

By Rhiannon Saegert Give the gift of self improvement this holiday season

By Dr. Harry Galoob The place for music, arts and cultural events

By Cory Blankenship ‘It was a baseball town’

By Austin Jackson How to stop money from flying out the window

By Robert Dalton Mark your calendar — Holiday events

By Ardmoreite Staff

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About the Cover This photo was taken the Christmas after we lost everything in a house fire.

It reminds me of the real reason for the holiday season, being with your loved ones and cherishing the little things.

— Shana Sessions, Photographer

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Cherishing the Southern Oklahoma holidays From the Publisher

area concerts and fundraising activities, the last two months of the year are jam packed with events! is the season . . . and it’s When cold weather finally makes amazing how quickly time its appearance, you want your flies. It seems like just home to be free from drafts and yesterday that we were cold winds that eat your heat gearing up for our summer edition and drive up utility bills! Robert and now we’re already publishing Dalton offers some expert inour holiday edition! formation on page 21 on how to Equally strange is how long the purchase windows based on what warm weather has lasted. It’s a you need and want for your home. little difficult to embrace the holLong-time Ardmore commuiday spirit when you’re still mownity leader Martin Dyer waxes Kim Benedict ing grass! nostalgic on bygone days and the We have some great, and timely, evolution of Ardmore, which has always columns in this edition from our very been a special place, to a progressive talented contributing writers. community gifted with community leadThere’s no lack of things to do in ers and residents that plan and embrace Southern Oklahoma as we move into growth and innovation. Check out his holiday mode and Tyler Young, operastory on page 12. tions manager for the Ardmore ChamKalyn Gensic also takes a look back on ber of Commerce, gives you all the info Christmases past and shares her story of on page 5. Additionally, check out the the joys and challenges that come with calendar of events on page 22 and make marriage and growing a family. Enjoy her notes on your personal calendar so you tale of blending history and creating a don’t miss anything! new story on page 8.

From the Festival of Lights auction on Just as we re-furb, rehab and update Nov. 14 to the two downtown Ardmore our homes for holiday gatherings and parades to the many Chickasaw events, festivities, it’s also a great time to take per-

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sonal stock and determine what enhancements or “upgrades” could make us look and feel better. Dr. Harry Galoob shares information on different procedures for self improvement on page 16!

In addition to these stories and more, area businesses have provided messaging for unique Christmas gift ideas, services and programs. Shopping local drives our economy and provides a solid foundation for our existing businesses and interest for new business or industry that may be considering a location in Southern Oklahoma.

And as you’re shopping, please consider making a donation to the Salvation Army — their Red Kettle campaign has a long history of helping those in need — or another agency, or two, whose mission is to aid those that are homeless, hungry, cold or in need of medical assistance. Sometimes it’s that hand up that provides a turning point for someone in need of hope and help.

Best wishes to you and yours for a safe and happy holiday season!

Kim Benedict, Publisher Southern Oklahoma Living magazine

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- November 18th at Regional Park - Early Registration Deadline October 31st - Events start at 4:00pm - Children’s races, 1 mile, 5 mile and 5K - Festival of lights officially opens

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- November 28th at Central Park - 11:00am vendors and food trucks - 4:30pm entertainment, hot chocolate, horse-drawn carriage rides and more

Santa’s Workshop

- December 1st & 2nd at the end of the Festival of Lights - Regional Park - 6:00pm -10:00pm crafts, pictures with Santa, homemade goodies and story time

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- December 16th - meet at Central Park - 10:00am - 1:00pm Receive a Parks and Rec stocking to gather gifts from local and enjoying the holiday atmosphere

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all and Winter in southCenter kicks off November ern Oklahoma are full of 10th through Sunday the fun community events 12th. and activities.

The same weekend, the From fairs to parades Carter County Arts and auctions to theater, and Crafts Festival & there is always someFood Fair will be at thing festive for visitors Hardy Murphy Coliand locals alike. seum on Nov. 10 and Fall is full of fairs in 11. Combined, these Ardmore, and the seacommunity mainstays son starts Nov. 4 at the feature over 300 Ardmore Convention booths with vendors TYLER YOUNG from across the reCenter with the 2 Hip Chicks Roadshow. gion offering homeThe show features everymade arts, craft goods, tasty thing from clothing to home food, and items of all kinds. décor, party goods and food, So, come to Ardmore startand many other unique items. ing Nov. 10 to pick out ChristAs local families and vismas gifts for your friends and itors from all around know, family, grab the perfect holthis season is also time for Ar- iday decorations, and enjoy dmore’s two famous arts and the delicious food on hand. craft fairs: The Fall Festival at the Ardmore Convention SEE CHAMBER PAGE 6

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Make sure to be at the Ardmore Convention Center as the Chamber of Commerce Foundation hosts the 21st annual Festival of Lights Auction on Nov. 14.

This annual fundraiser is the primary source of funding that ensures the Festival of Lights Christmas lights drive-thru grows and improves every year. Open to the public, the auction has raised over $120,000 since its inception. The funds are reinvested directly into the expansion and maintenance of the drive-thru display at Regional Park.

This year’s theme is “Meet me Under the Mistletoe”, which is sure to showcase Ardmore’s holiday spirit. The evening includes both a live and silent auction, and features items and services donated by local businesses.

It all kicks off at 5:30 p.m. with the silent auction, which includes items ranging from top toys and gifts for Christmas to certificates for restaurants, movies, professional services and more.

Then, at approximately 7 p.m., the Live portion gives attendees the opportunity to bid for and win unique packages and items to treat themselves or offer as great holiday gifts.

Ardmore’s Festival of Lights begins on Nov. 18.

This Ardmore tradition offers the perfect opportunity to get a head start on your holiday gifts and all for a great cause, so don’t miss the Festival of Lights Auction.

Lastly, the celebrated Festival of Lights Drive-Thru at Ardmore’s Regional Park opens November 18 following the annual Chigger Chase Run through Ardmore’s Regional Park.

This 1.5-mile drive through of vibrant Christmas lights is the largest holiday

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light display in southern Oklahoma. Admission is free, although donations are accepted by volunteering organizations.

The Ardmore Festival of Lights is perfect for visitors of all ages, so come to the Ardmore Festival of Lights and see more than 90 displays.

As you make your way to Ardmore’s Regional Park, tune your car stereo to a favorite Christmas music station and enjoy as the holiday season comes to life.

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Gratitude for Christmases past, present and future song, “Kentucky Homemade Christmas.”

There is no telling how many times I subjected my Yankee, country-music-loathome this December, my husband, ing husband to Roger’s Christmas classic Rev. Dr. BJ Gensic, and I will over the month of December. spend our twelfth Christmas toTwo thousand and nine was gether as a married couple. I rethe Christmas that my arms were member every single Christmas, empty.

I lost our first pregnancy every celebration of God becomin March of 2009, a pregnaning man. Like a movie preview, cy that would have been due a these memories, when combined, few days before Christmas. Our offer a snapshot of our story thus dream of having a family seemed far. suspended and distant.

In 2006, BJ and I spent ChristBlessedly, we celebrated Christmas as blissful newlyweds. We mas in 2010 as a family of three.

KALYN GENSIC drove 16-hours from my homeI carefully wrapped the classic sweet-home, Texas, to the northchildren’s book, Runaway Bunny, and eastern corner of Indiana. BJ was thrilled then proceeded to take dozens of pictures to show his Texan wife a northern, snowof our two-month-old son, Shepherd, white Christmas. I was painfully cold and doey-eyed in love. But mostly, I was cold. watching us unwrap this first gift for him.

For Christmas of 2007, the tables Two thousand and eleven was our first turned; BJ had his first Christmas with Christmas in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Shepmy family in Texas. While he missed herd was a rambunctious toddler, and I snow, the abundance of fried Southwas miserably nauseous, in the depths of ern fare and Tex-Mex treats more than the first trimester of another pregnancy. atoned for the balmy temperatures.

I hosted Christmas for my family, but evWe moved to Kentucky in 2008. I was eryone else had to do the cooking in our devastated to leave Texas but eager to live tiny kitchen because I could not be near in the state featured in Kenny Roger’s food without turning green.

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During the Christmas of 2012, our Christmas card featured two-year-old Shepherd, grinning with a snotty nose, and four-month-old Lydia, sporting her distinctive elf-ears and shockingly-straight hair standing an inch above her head. With two kids in cloth diapers, BJ and I were drowning in laundry and parenthood.

We spent the Christmas of 2013 announcing to our families that we were once again (and very unexpectedly) expecting. We chuckled along to the many good-natured jokes that came our way: “No, we don’t need to be told how babies are made.” And once again, I thought fondly of how good Christmas food used to taste before morning sickness.

For our Christmas 2014 celebration, we found ourselves once again with two children in diapers, but this time was different. Shepherd was in preschool, and we proudly dressed our little family for the Christmas program. It reminded us that our children would not always be babies, that they were growing up. And this realization made me cherish our baby Violet all the more. Our family of five felt complete.

We drove to my parent’s house in

Menard, Texas, for the Christmas of 2015. At this point, two of the three children were potty-trained, and there was a light at the end of the tunnel. While unwrapping gifts, my brother and his wife announced that they were expecting their first child. I cried tears of joy that I would finally be an aunt. And I might have also been enjoying the fact that for once, I was not the one too nauseas to enjoy the Christmas feast.

Last year, in what was the most startling shock of my life, I once again spent Christmas pregnant despite our best efforts.

This time around, when people jokingly asked us if we knew how babies were made, we retorted, “Clearly, we do not.” While I hosted another Christmas feeling exhausted and nauseated, BJ recovered from a vasectomy.

So this year, BJ and I approach our twelfth Christmas together as a family of six. Finn, our little oops baby whose existence we spent last Christmas reeling over, has filled our home with smiles and giggles and gurgles and coos. Shepherd says it is hard to remember when Finn was not a part of our family. Finn has shown us that what felt like a complete family three Christmases ago was actually just an interlude before we got our exclamation mark.

Looking at so many Christmases from a single couple’s life is a reminder that though it is the happiest time of the year, the holiday season is not immune from the tensions of life. Some years, life is going as planned, and Christmas is the icing on the cake.

At other times, though, Christmas is touched by feelings of emptiness or isolation or overwhelming stress. However, Christmas is the ultimate reminder that God clothed himself in humanity to participate in the complex and messy experience that is life. Christmas is the most human of holidays, and as such it is a time to acknowledge both the joy and sorrow of life and thank God for each moment.

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Ready or not,

Bedré Fine Chocolate is located just 25 miles north of Ardmore.

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Sweet sensations Bedré Fine Chocolate reflects its namesake with delectable delights

By Lone Beasley

Many chocolate-loving Oklahomans probably don’t realize it, but they have a Scandinavian word in their vocabulary the fictional Willie Wonka would have done well to emulate.

Bedré, as in Bedré Fine Chocolate, which is located just 25 miles north of Ardmore, gets its name from a Norwegian word meaning “better.”

Ardmoreites traveling north on Interstate 35 to Exit 55 at Davis, Oklahoma, will find not just a retail store on the western side of the highway, but also the factory where the treats are produced.

Visitors to the location can try free samples and make their selections while watching the treats being produced in the state-of-the-art facility through a glass partition separating the factory from the retail store.

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mel drenched in chocolate, as well as nut clusters under the name “Oklahoma Cow Patties.”

Other customer favorites are Bedré Chocolate Coffee and chocolate-covered espresso beans.

Its customers are not limited to Oklahoma. Retailers such as Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdales sell Bedré chocolates in stores across the United States.

Bedré creates chocolate guitars for guests at Hard Rock Hotels.

The Chickasaw Nation purchased the company in 2000 and in 2003 moved it to a new 26,000 square-foot factory in Pauls Valley where it remained until moving in 2013 to its current location, a state-of-the-art 34,600 square-foot chocolate factory in Davis.

Later in 2013, Bedré Café was opened in Sulphur, Oklahoma, as one of three new attractions, which also included the Chickasaw Visitor Center and the ARTesian Gallery and Studios.

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Bill Anoatubby said at the time, that the café, art gallery and visitor center are part of the Chickasaw Nation’s tourism initiative in Chickasaw Country.

“Opening these new facilities is an exciting step into a new era of tourism in southern Oklahoma,” Anoatubby said.

“From gourmet chocolate to gorgeous artwork and natural beauty, these new facilities offer something for almost everyone in an area that already provides travel experiences that entertain, inform and enlighten.”

The Bedré website includes the following information about its connection to the Chickasaw Nation and other Native Americans.

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true and reflect the time-honored tradition of the Native American peoples who first cultivated this divine delicacy.

“Now, as the only Native American tribe to create its own brand of fine chocolate, we take great pride in our products and instill our cultural passion into every delicious morsel.

“Given our strong ties to our culture and community, we make an effort to give back to the land and people who support us.

“Bedré Fine Chocolate enjoys contributing to the educational, health and wellness programs and also supports the endeavors of a number of philanthropic organizations within the Chickasaw Nation.”

In 2013, Bedré Fine Chocolate relocated to its current home, a state-of-the-art 34,600 square-foot chocolate factory in Davis.

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Back in time: Decades of change for Ardmore

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s a third generation, lifelong Ardmoreite, I frequently find myself reminiscing about what Ardmore was like in my early years. I recently took a trip down memory lane remembering what Ardmore was like in the 1980s when I was first elected to the city commission and thinking of the many changes and improvements since that time that have improved our quality of life and made Ardmore a great place to live.

Some of the changes were significant and some subtle, but all contributed to the betterment of our city.

One of the most significant is commercial and industrial development. In 1980, North Rockford Road ended at 4th Avenue, and 12th avenue was mostly pastureland west of Mountain View Mall. About the year 2000, North Rockford was constructed from 4th to 12th and shortly thereafter

was completed to Veterans Boulevard.

Holiday Drive was also constructed.

Now, that whole northwest area is MARTIN DYER a large commercial area containing a shopping center, restaurants, auto dealerships, a movie theater, hotels and other businesses and is still growing and expanding.

Another shopping center is planned for 12th Avenue, which will contain some national chains.

In the early 80s, we passed a one cent sales tax which is significant. One half cent was dedicated to street construction and improvements and currently furnishes $2.8 million annually. The benefits are easily seen, the latest being Stanley Street. The other one half cent is used strictly

for capital purchases and improvements.

Other significant changes are the acquisitions of Lakeview Golf Course and installation of an irrigation system to keep it green; renovations and upgrading Hardy Murphy Coliseum; the remaking of Central Park into a beautiful and family-friendly venue; improvements to our water and wastewater systems; the creation of Regional Park

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We now have 22 hotels, including major chains and a convention center that is second to none. Our industrial airpark continues to grow with good access to an SEE DYER PAGE 27

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As a membership-based institution we recommend you and your family become members for advance notice of events as well as to reap the benefits of discounted art classes, free tickets to our largest performance season to date, free facility rentals, priority seating to all performances, and more.

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der it: New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas.

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Mr. Cannings is CORY BLANKENSHIP a native of Nantwich, England, who received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, his MFA from Syracuse University and makes inflated metal sculptures and installations.

“Mr. Popper’s Penguins” is a delightful, 60-minute action-packed musical adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater’s award-winning children’s book, with original songs and adorable penguin puppets.

This is the perfect family treat for ages 4 to 104. The Goddard Center and Casa Mañana will present this show at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 30. There will be two daytime outreach performances for area students.

In conjunction with this performance Ardmore High School drama coach, Bri-

an Gunter, will teach a free acting workshop for all ages at 6 p.m. on Nov. 29.

“Mr. Popper’s Penguins” is sponsored in part by the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

The Calamitous Cowgirls Exhibit features the illustrations of Donna Howell-Sickles from Nov. 29 to Jan. 5.

Annie Osburn for Southwest Art Magazine once said about Donna’s work, “There is a joyous spontaneity to the drawings of Howell-Sickles that challenges the stasis of the color fields, giving vitality to the gestures whose Cheshire grins fade in and out like shades in a dream fantasy. Unconventional compositions, cropped animals, smeared and erased lines, and a collage-like appearance give the images a sense of process.

Indeed, they seem as if they are being worked on before your very eyes.”

Gracing the Goddard stage for our seasonal Christmas Concert will be the Texas Boys Choir at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15. Steeped in the tradition of European church choirs, members of TBC begin their intensive vocal training at a young age, and the choir continues its reputation as one of the premier boy choirs in the world.

For more than 70 years, Texas Boys Choir has been instrumental in instilling a love of artistic expression and a desire to succeed in its young members.

There will be a daytime outreach performance for area students.

Prior to the performance there will be a gallery reception for Donna Howell-Sickles at 6 p.m. The Texas Boys Choir is sponsored in part by the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

In addition to receiving free tickets to season events, Goddard Center Members get discounts on tickets to Metropolitan Operas and Bolshoi Ballets presented via satellite in high definition. Thomas Adès’ contemporary opera “The Exterminating Angel” will be shown on at 11:55 a.m. on Nov. 18. The following Met Opera will be composer Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic “Hansel & Gretel” at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 12.

It will include hundreds of outreach tickets for area

school children. And our first-ever presentation by the Bolshoi Ballet will be Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” at 6 p.m. on Dec. 19.

Aside from the outreach performances, a light meal, included in the cost of admission, will be served prior to all Metropolitan and Bolshoi performances.

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Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.

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‘IT WAS A BASEBALL TOWN’

Cardinal Field on White Street used to play host to minor league baseball games throughout the 50s and 60s. Keith Nance (middle front) poses with the Ardmore High School baseball team in 1964, and with his old uniform many years later (below). Cardinal Field used to be the home field of the Ardmore Tigers, as well. AUSTIN JACKSON / THE ARDMOREITE

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Hidden past a tunnel of trees in a park illuminated by towering oil derricks sits a baseball field called Cardinal Field.

The field lies vacant now, except for recreational play. And Ardmore residents driving by might just see an old baseball track when they pass the field.

But in the eyes of Ardmore resident and Nance Home Furnishing owner Keith Nance, 70, the park is sacred, hallowed ground even, where legends of baseball’s past used to visit and compete back in the 1950s.

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When Nance was growing up, he would help out a relative of his grandfather who worked as a groundskeeper for the Ardmore Indians and the Ardmore Cardinals.

“As a youngster, I spent a lot of time out with him watering, mowing and doing that sort of thing,” Nance said. “When I came along, the park had a beautiful wood fence around it with all the company advertising on it and a big time scoreboard and a person staying up in it to score runs.”

The current state of the park is different now as many things have changed in Ardmore during the past 50 years.

Before 1961, Ardmore was a baseball town.

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Ardmore Indians, the Cleveland Indians affiliate in the Texas League, to the Ardmore Rosebuds who had one ill fated season in Ardmore in 1961, Ardmore always had a minor league baseball team to call its own.

Nance said the bleachers at Cardinal Park would be filled with around 2,000 people on summer nights.

“Baseball was big here,” Nance said. “We had a lot of fun, minor league baseball was strong in Ardmore. Those Rosebuds came in June of ‘61 and left. And that was the last time we had a true minor league baseball team here.”

Ardmore Mayor Martin Dyer said baseball was the main attraction on summer nights when he was growing up.

“Back in those days television wasn’t what it was, we didn’t sit around and watch TV,” Dyer said. “They’d draw real good

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interstate highway, rail facilities and a runway capable of handling any aircraft. It is looking toward becoming an international cargo port.

There are many, many other changes over the years but space and time will not allow me to list more. Looking back,

crowds for several years.”

After World War II, the Sooner State League and the Ardmore Cardinals flourished, but in 1957 the league folded. But Nance said several baseball legends passed through the gates to play ball at Cardinal Park .

Mostly, it was young baseball players chasing major league dreams, but years after the Cardinals folded, Nance said even legends of the past like Satchel Paige took the field at Cardinal Park.

“Satchel pitched about two or three innings,” Nance said. “My granddad went out and he was sitting in his 1959 red Cadillac convertible with Goose Tatum in the car with him. We stood out and talked with them.”

In 1961, the Texas League resurrected baseball in Ardmore with the Ardmore Rosebuds.

Unfortunately, the Rosebuds relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Despite the team lasting for such a short stint, Nance still has a Rosebuds jersey hanging on a

“Baseball was big here. We had a lot of fun, minor league baseball was strong in Ardmore.”

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wall inside his home furnishing store The Ardmore Rosebuds donated its uniforms to the Ardmore Tigers high school baseball team in 1963, and when Nance suited up to play in his junior season in 1964, he and his team donned the Rosebuds jerseys.

“They were the uniforms we wore in high school,” Nance said.

“Thick wool and built for old men, we did not look very good out there. Very often teams we played would look at that Rosebud and they’d holler, ‘What are you guys, the Ardmore Pansies?’”

Despite the ridicule, Nance kept the jersey in his drawer after high school. He eventually

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framed and hung the jersey in his store next to a picture of the 1964 Ardmore Tigers baseball team.

Nance said growing up with professional teams in Ardmore and playing on the same field as the Cardinals gave he and his teammates major league aspirations.

“The kids in that generation, like myself, we all thought we would be major league baseball players, it was just a matter of waiting until we were old enough” Nance said. “Well, by about junior high we knew that we didn’t have the same type of talent we saw come through here.”

Nance said when the Rosebuds folded, the sentiment around Ardmore was that it was just a matter of time before the team came back.

“We figured it was just a hiccup,” Nance said. “That next year we’ll have a team and everything will get up and going again. But the city of Ardmore supported baseball really well. It was a otherwise you may be doing this all over again in a few years. Take your time and don’t be pressured into buying.

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Construction will start in January, 2018, on our new streetscape project, which together with the upcoming Depot Park and the iconic Mercy Train will convert East Main Street and the Depot District into a destination for visitors and residents alike — a beautiful area containing local shops, restaurants and a park atmosphere, bringing new life to Downtown Ardmore.

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Cosmetic Surgery can enhance your appearance and boost your self confidence.

Dr. Galoob performs a variety of procedures to contour your body, reduce the signs of aging, and help you regain an overall sense of well being. Our use of the patient’s own Platelet Rich Plasma and Cellular Growth factors during surgery improves results and dramatically reduces healing and recovery time in the majority of cases.

• Breast Augmentation • Breast Reduction • Breast Lifting • “New Age” Tummy Tuck • Face Lift - Neck Lift - Eye Lift • Plasma Hair Growth Stimulation • Skin Rejuvenation - Plasma Peels • Liposuction • Cosmetic Laser Procedures Most procedures are performed in our AAAHC certified office surgical suite.

Combination procedures are available.

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Harry Galoob, M.D. Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Cosmetic Surgery Center of Ardmore

818 16th N.W. | Ardmore | 580.226.2171 AAAHC Certified

Certified by the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery 28 Southern Oklahoma Living u Holiday 2017