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DINING GUIDE

From the EDITOR

I give you the 2018 Sports issue! We have so many athletic success stories that we can’t print them all. With April brings track, baseball, golf, softball, fishing, rodeos, and so much more. What a fun time for young and old alike. PLUS, it’s also festival time beginning with Chandler’s Bell Cow Boil April 27th, Prague’s Kolache Festival May 5th, Bristow’s Tabouleh Festival May 12th, Cushing’s BBQ & Blues June 9th, and Stroud’s Wine Festival June 9th.

OK. No different than any other month. Joe is out there in left field – somewhere. Thankfully sports still require arms, legs, eyes, and athleticism, unless we build a bionic human. Scientists are probably getting close to that also. Who knows? By 2020 we could be watching the Oklahoma Gigabytes playing the Texas Megabytes, in a game of Galaxy Mind Ball.

All that sports stuff was fun years ago, but man, when I remember all the energy required running track and playing basketball, my legs get tired and I’m literally out of breath just thinking about it. I don’t want to run, I say, “Oh Lord take me back, I want to RIDE in Geronimo’s Cadillac.” Honestly, I really wish I had lived in Geronimo’s era from 1829 through 1909. When the Cadillac was first built in 1902 in Detroit, nobody ever wanted to use their legs to run again. Life was simple driving one of those

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Would you like to know the best thing about being a publisher? I wake up each morning knowing that again this month I can release my wild and crazy feelings to 11,000 readers around the world! Thank You, Michael Martin Murphy for the Geronimo inspiration.

“Oh Lord take me back I want to ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac!”

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Chantae Embry

A HUMBLE INSPIRATION

by ROBBIE McCOMMAS

Imagine being in seventh grade and having a major university choose you to play basketball. The vast majority of junior high students can barely think of what high school will hold, let alone grasp the thought of college.

One Prague youth has experienced scouts in the stands, meanwhile, she humbly played her best.

Two years later, her story continues.

“She’s pretty remarkable!” Prague Girls Basketball Coach Benny Burnett described. “Most coaches are never blessed to have a student with her ability. It’s a once in a lifetime coaching experience.”

15-year-old Chantae Embry, a six foot, two inch, ball player has worked hard and pushed herself to be all she can be. She’s the kind of youth who is compelled to listen to instruction, training and guidance and try her utmost to produce a fruitful outcome, according to her coaches.

“She’s a tremendous young lady, but more than that, she is a straight A student,” Burnett explained. “She’s a great teammate. She’s the first one there if someone is knocked down on the court to help them up.

“She carried us to the state tournament this year,” he added. “That’s a big load for a freshman to carry especially when she’s been double and triple teamed all year long! She averages 23 points per game, is a leading rebounder with almost 10 per game and brings the ball up the court for us most of the time.

“Chantae has a God-given talent and she works hard. She gets her determination and dedication from her mom, and has a whole lot of inside drive,” Burnett said. “Her teammates realize her talent, look up to her at crunch time and put the ball in her hands.”

“Coach Burnett pushes me to be a good person,” Chantae explained. “He incorporates life lessons when I’m out on the court at practice. And if we, as a team, get down on ourselves, he will make us think—to keep going hard and tells us how basketball can actually change our lives.”

Chantae has grown up in a single-parent home and is the youngest of five children. Her mother, Rhonda Embry, said she’s a different type of kid. “She is mild mannered and has a personality that likes to get along with everybody. She’s determined to succeed as a family, as a ball player and she wants everyone around her to be successful. She’s a strong kid; raising her was easy.”

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nected her with Amateur Athletic Union basketball in Moore and she played for the Oklahoma Lady Bombers for the next four years. Coached by Eric Gooden, the travel team gave her experience, and exposure to college scouts.

“Chantae is a humble, respectful girl who always has a smile,” Gooden explained. “She’s an all-around great kid. A hard worker, she’s attentive to detail, she soaks up the hope to get better and works on improvement at home.

“She has internal drive, she wants to be the best she can be,” he added. She’s a dominant player who took hit upon hits with opponents trying to get her upset. At that time she was just a little girl—a nine or 10 year old standing 5’11! Aside from basketball, she’s an even better individual.”

By her fourth year with Gooden, the team had travel to several states in tournaments and won the national AAU tournament three times. An Oklahoma State Univer-

sity scout spoke to Gooden about Chantae and her future opened an exciting new door.

“Chantae is like family to us,” Gooden expressed. “It was a joy to coach the whole team of these girls, they are all dedicated to academic excellence as well as being an athlete. Chantae was the first one to get a scholarship, she helped the others get noticed, and received college offers.

“Chantae was our best player, but she’s an even better kid; she deflects her success. She never says, ‘I, I, I, she’s humble and grateful for what God has given her. I’m appreciative of her mom for allowing me to be a part of her journey.”

“Playing ball with Coach Gooden was life changing,” Chantae affirmed. “He is like a father figure to me. He and the other AAU families blessed my family and helped us.

Financially, it was hard; my mom is a single parent and the travel to Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and Florida for nationals was difficult to afford.

She was asked, ’Chantae, who is your greatest mentor?’

It took her only seconds to think, she stated in an earnestly, sweet voice, “My mom…She’s gone through a lot. I want to be as strong as she has been. She has tried to get the best life she can for us.”

Chantae has a goal in mind, she has verbally committed with OSU for a full ride, but is keeping her options open.

“I know that basketball is my way out into the world,” she said. “It’ll help me get my college paid for.”

Chantae enjoys reading fiction and educational books, spending time with close friends, attending church and going to the movies.

Coach Gooden explained his dedication to Chantae and the AAU team as “paying it forward”. He, too was raised in a single parent home. He is grateful for the help he received and has been sure to give himself.

It is not surprising that Chantae aspires the same giving attitude. At this time, she is feeling lead to major in Sociology and join a career to help people with their needs.

Meanwhile, she’ll play ball this summer with the Arkansas Banshees, an AAU team of Arkansas.

Keeping fit and injury free is part of being an athlete.

Get ready for some chills as you hear how she prevents injuries!

“In sixth grade I started taking ice baths after a big game,” said Chantae.

“Ice baths?”

“I fill the tub with cold water, get in and my mother pours three bags of ice in it, then I sit in it for five minutes.”

This dedicated, exceptional, young lady athlete is serving as freshman class president, she is a math and Science Stem recipient, the basketball team captain, homecoming attendant, Top Vype 100, All Vype 1st team and the Oklahoman Pre-Season All State Conference Most Valuable Player.

Both coaches noted that families bring their daughters to Prague games to watch Chantae play. She’ll be there three more years if you’d like to join her fan team and see her humble awesomeness.

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GINGERTALES

by MICHELLE BROWN

The Toughest Of Them All, Daddy Of Them All, Saddle Bronc Capitol Of The World, Steer Wrestling Capitol Of The World. What do all these cliches have in common?

They describe what some people call The Greatest Sport on Dirt….. Rodeo! They are nicknames of well known rodeos all across the country. As a spectator, you will sit in the stands and watch men compete in such events as calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling, bronc riding and the ultimate adrenaline rush, bull riding. And women are certainly not left out as they show off their awesome riding skills. These lovely ladies and their muscled equine mount look as if they are flying over the ground at a fast speed in the barrel racing event.

But before we can learn about all the ins and outsof the rodeo world, let’s explore the history of how this sporting event originated.

Some say Rodeo is the one true American sport. Rodeo is part of the American western heritage lifestyle our country was founded on. And along came the Vaqueros, Spanish-speaking cowboys, who shared their traditions with the cowboy way of life. It is believed that rodeo was born in 1869 when two groups of cowboys from neighboring ranches met in Deer Trail, CO. Boys being boys, their meeting was to settle an argument over who was the best at performing everyday ranch tasks. Those daily tasks included breaking wild horses for ranch work and catching cattle on the range for branding, medical needs and, of course, for sale. This informal cowboy contest paved the way for today’s rodeo events of saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, team roping and steer wrestling.

In 1950, a trick rider from Florida named Faye Blackstone, put her horsemanship talents to work as a barrel

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racer. Earliest barrel races were done in the figure eight or the cloverleaf pattern. Eventually, the figure eight was dropped in favor in the more difficult cloverleaf pattern of today’s western event. The heart pounding, living on the edge event of bull riding emerged on the haciendas of Old Mexico. Although incredibly dangerous, bull riding has become one of the fastest growing sports in the country.

Today’s professional rodeo cowboy differs a bit from his predecessor of days gone by in the 1800s. Traveling the country, competing in both large and small rodeos, ensures points and a paycheck. The goal is to achieve the world champion cowboy or cowgirl at such events as International Finals Rodeo and the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

Some say rodeo isn’t a sport. How can that be?

The rider uses his or her hands for guiding, legs to balance, back to lean in on a fast run, and thigh muscles to squeeze for speed. And that is just the rider. His or her teammate is a horse, a bronc or a 1,900 pound bull. But just what is their job? A horse needs speed, quick agility, and a fast thinking mind. A bronc and bull’s responsibility is to buck and kick with all their might lasting only eight seconds. Much of rodeo is like any other sport; it takes countless hours of practice and dedication. And again, like most sports, there is a team. But here is the difference: this team includes an animal that moves and has a mind of its own. But wait! Throw into the mix a calf or steer, full of energy, with no specific direction, and the rodeo is on!

Basketball players use a ball to score points. Hockey players use a puck to score a goal. Calf and team ropers

use a rope for a quick catch. Barrel racers, like track runners, use speed. Bull riders use rosin and bull ropes.

Every sport has its equipment and gear, even rodeo.

This old time western event has not changed much.

The cowboy must still be precise with a rope or spurs and the cowgirl must be “tight in the pocket” but not hit a barrel.

Marketing and business advertisement are an important part of the rodeo scene like never before. Sponsorship, for example trucks, trailers, equipment and clothing for the top contestants is a competition all its own. The pressure is heavy on their shoulders to perform accurately without injury, but that’s all in a day’s work. The production of a rodeo is not an easy or cheap task. The stock contractor has this responsibility and an enormous responsibility it is! Much of what is seen through the eyes of the spectator is only the tip of what is really going on behind the chutes.

Barrel racers are not the only beauty rodeo has to offer. Rodeo queens have become an intricate part of a successful rodeo. From local rodeo titleholders, state titleholders and all the way to Miss Rodeo America, these ladies do more than just look pretty!

Their job consists of coordinating advertisement, warming up the pick up men’s horses, to pushing cattle in the arena. These ladies make civic visits and school visits promoting and educating the public regarding this sport.

They must know their rodeo rules and assist the stock contractor behind the chutes. A rodeo queen’s job is a supportive role, yet oh so important. And don’t think that since flashy clothing and make up are involved that they can’t ride. I know the lovely rodeo queen I live with, Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Teen 2018, can ride like the best of them!

And let’s not forget the comedy of the whole arena… the rodeo clown! When the use of irritable Brahma bulls began in the 1920s, the need for safe distraction from the fallen rider became necessary. A rodeo clown’s place of employment is in the presence of a spinning animal weighing just shy of a ton, popping up and down like a jack-in-the-box from a colorful barrel. Together with the clown are the fearless bullfighters who literally protect the bull rider by placing themselves in jeopardy, thus distracting the bull from the rider. Courage, quick feet, and athletic ability are definitely required!

One exceptional part regarding rodeo is its family involvement for all ages. From children competing in the Mutton Bustin’ junior rodeos, to high school rodeos up to any age adult, rodeo includes it all. Both my teens compete in jackpot rodeo and high school rodeo with ambitions of continuing on to the level of PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) as adults. What a diverse sport this is!

Right here, closeby, on The Corridor are a multitude of opportunities to experience this sport firsthand. In fact, Perkins is home to Dakota Rodeo, one of the roughstock contractors for the prestigious Wrangler National Finals Rodeo held each December in Las Vegas, NV. Pick one (or two!), saddle up the whole family and head out to the rodeo! n

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My favorite lifetime sport is tennis. I never competed on a scholastic tennis team, but my oldest brother Bill – always the gifted athlete – introduced me to tennis when I worked summers with him in Indiana.

I used to direct Discovery Day Camps to introduce kids to a variety of activities, art, music, drama, and lifetime sports. I hoped they’d discover new gifts which they hadn’t previously known they had had. A wonderful mix of folks from my church shared their interests and hobbies with kids at our Discovery Day Camps, becoming a special intergenerational community builder for our congregation. Lifetime sports day camps were some of our most successful camps; because exercise is so important to maintaining healthy bodies, we celebrated children discovering new activities to help them remain physically active throughout their lives.

My favorite lifetime sport is tennis. I never competed on a scholastic tennis team, but my oldest brother Bill – always the gifted athlete - introduced me to tennis when I worked summers with him in Indiana. He took me out to buy my first tennis racket. While he and a buddy were having great tennis matches in the morning before we went to paint houses, he would set me in front of a backboard to practice my serve, my forehand and backhand swings.

After weeks of practicing, Bill and his buddy finally agreed to let me into their game. We played round-robin tennis; whoever’s turn it was to serve played against the other two players. My very competitive brother loved to rush the net to cut off his opponent’s volleys.

I confess that the sight of Bill rushing the net in front of me was frightening. However, one particular summer morning I figured out, quite by accident, a cure for his imposing move to the net. On one of Bill’s serves, he followed his 22 THE CORRIDOR / APRIL 2018

serve with a rush toward the middle of the net.

He intended to utilize his catlike reflexes to slam my return back at me or completely out of reach.

I had three choices: one, I could lob the tennis ball high over Bill’s head – but he had already shown great ability to run down these lofted shots. Two, I could try to sneak a wide shot past my brother’s racket – but again, he had great ability to react and cover both ends of the net.

Three, I could send a rocket shot towards Bill’s head! In a twinkle, I realized choice #3 was the only choice. With all my strength and skill I’d practiced for weeks, I launched a screaming shot straight towards Bill’s head.

I took a tennis class in college. At the end of the class, although nobody asked me to join the college tennis team, I had won our class tennis tournament. Thus, I felt reasonable comfortable teaching a few rudimentary tennis skills to a group of 8, 9 and 10 year-olds at Discovery Day Camp.

We took a load of kids in the morning to the tennis courts at a nearby park. Most of the children had never before played tennis. We had begged and borrowed tennis rackets so that each child could play. We’d also received donations of cans of new tennis balls. After an introduction to the basics of forehand and backhand swings, I invited the children to take turns returning lobs that we adult leaders sent over the net for them to hit. The children were doing so well that I decided they were ready to try volleying back and forth across the net to each other. Just as expected, tennis balls went flying everywhere inside and outside the enclosure.

We stationed three youth staffers just to chase down and return the tennis balls hit beyond the fence. But the kids were having a ball! Each time someone managed to connect with a tennis ball, we would hear squeals of delight.

The children made great strides with their tennis skills that week. Many of them wanted to play a “real’ game. We organized them into pairs and allowed them to try playing a doubles game. One team needed a second player, so I stepped in to be teammate for one of the younger children. Our game was going well; the children were making some impressive volleys.

Now there’s a switch inside me that sometimes gets switched on when I play sports. It’s not a “win at all costs” switch, but more a “ I love competition” switch. My partner in our doubles match returned a really tough serve; but I noticed one of our opponents was rushing towards the net. My switch turned on and I was raced toward the net to meet his volley. In that instant, it occurred to me that this situation was not unlike the summer morning I faced my brother’s rush toward the net years before. The youngster swung his racket with all the gusto he could muster. The tennis ball screamed towards my face. I tried to fend off the volley with my racket, but my reflexes were too slow!

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The KOLACHE FESTIVAL

by MISSY HUSTED

Thinking about the Prague, OK Kolache Festival takes me back to a time when I was younger. A lot younger. I remember driving through town before the festival day and seeing the carnival set up and volunteers scurrying around town preparing for the big day. You could feel the excitement in the air!

Saturday morning of the festival, my parents, my sister and I would always get to town a little early so that my dad could join the Rainbow Playboys, a conglomeration of musically talented Seaton family members and close friends. My dad played bass guitar, my greatgrandpa, Claude Seaton, played fiddle and sang, while uncles, cousins, and friends played drums and electric and acoustic guitars. For years I remember the band entering a float in the parade and playing music while being pulled on a flatbed trailer along the parade route.

While waiting for the parade to start, the rest of the family along with tons of family friends would gather inside and on the sidewalk of Davenport’s Archery.

Visiting and sneaking kolaches from Jewel Novotny, who would set up inside the archery shop selling the homemade delights, family and friends, both locally and from out of town, would visit. After much anticipation, the kids would ask, “When is it going to start?” Then the sirens would begin to blare, flag bearers appeared walking down the middle of the street, and lights flashed from the fire trucks and police cars! All these signaled the start of the parade! Everyone headed to the edge of the street to watch! The kids hoped to catch a few pieces of candy, and the adults were just glad the kids were occupied with the parade so they could visit a little more without interruption.

So, after a bit of rambling about my memories from the Kolache Festivial, I’ll tell you a little more about the actual history of the Kolache Festival, what you can expect at the festival, what a kolache is and is not, and a few things about the Czech national dress and Beseda.

Around the turn of the century, a group of Czechoslovakian pioneers took part in the Oklahoma Land Run and settled in an area they called Prague in remembrance of their homeland. It is said that the Lions Club was trying to decide how to celebrate the 50th birthday of Prague and they dreamed up the Kolache Festival. The Czech- themed festival was named after the kolache, which is a delicious Czech pastry made with sweet bread dough and usually has a fruit filling. The 26 THE CORRIDOR / APRIL

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first festival was held in May 1952, and has been held on the first weekend of May since then.

The festivities start the week before the festival with the royalty competition. This is where the kolache queen, junior queen, princess, and prince contestants compete for points to win the honored privilege of representing Prague locally, around the state and nationwide. The bulk of the points awarded are for personal interviews and on-stage questions with the other points being based on the candidate’s kroj, or traditional Czech clothing. Contestants then eagerly await the judges’ sealed envelope to be opened on the day of the Kolache Festival.

During the week leading up to the festival you will see many ladies wearing headgear, including flower garlands if you are single and bonnets or caps to indicate that you are married. The gentlemen, likewise, will be wearing caps, usually adorned with feathers. Long feathers are for those that are single and short feathers are for those that have been “plucked” from the marriage market.

During the week you will also be able to catch the Beseda Dancers, young and old, that hit the hot spots in town to show off their skills. The local banks, nursing home, and schools are just some of the fun places you might catch them dancing. The word beseda means company or visitor. The beseda dance is a combination of dances from a number of small tribes that settled in the central part of Europe. The tribes were surrounded by savage war like tribes so had to band together for mutual protection. While the adults were out fighting, the children were left to the grandparents. For entertainment, the grandparents told them folk tales of their ancestors. Those tales eventually became folk songs and folk dances. The dance is now an eight part Beseda, with each part telling a story. For instance, the first part tells of a group of young people who are out having fun and the girls decide to look around to see if they can find new partners more to their liking. You can also see the dancers at the band stand on Saturday during the Kolache Festival.

Another highlight of the Kolache Festival is the Czech national dress also known as the kroj. The ladies are adorned in beautiful and always unique skirts, blouses, vest and aprons. The usually very puffy sleeves and collar of their white blouse is decked out with heavy embroidery full of color and cutwork. Topping the blouse will be a black vest, also heavily embroidered along with a dark colored skirt with a trim around the bottom and a white apron and covered in embroidery and cutwork. The ladies wear black dress shoes or boots and a garland, cap, or bow in their hair. The gentlemen also have a dapper costume of black pants with trim down the side, a white shirt with embroidery on the sleeves, trimmed vests, and caps with feathers.

A final highlight of the Kolache Festival I want to explain is the kolache, the namesake of the festival. A kolache is a sweet bread dough with a fruit or cream cheese filling, not to be confused with klobasnek which

is dough wrapped around meat. I personally love to eat kolaches, and the apricot one is my favorite. Unfortunately, kolache-making is a skill I have yet to master, mostly from lack of trying. The one time I did try to make them they didn’t turn out so well: they were a bit unsightly and a little on the hard side. Think “hockey puck” rather than “kolache”. So, I leave kolache making to the professionals.

I was at the Prague Bakery the other day and asked the owner, Mary Jane, how many kolaches she makes for the festival. I was astounded when she told me that they start the process mid-March and work until the festival the first weekend of May. They will make roughly 28,000 kolaches and will almost always sell out the day of the festival! Wow! That’s a lot of dough and filling.

The Catholic and Methodist churches in town also make and sell kolaches. The Catholic Church offer them for sale at the festival and the Methodist Church does preorders selling them in advance. At the festival there is a kolache baking contest where local community members exhibit their baking skills, vying for the title of Best Kolache. Many members of the community have perfected this art over the years through untold hours of practice.

You can also try your hand at the Kolache Eating Contest. I don’t think you’ll go wrong there.

So I’d like to invite you to get out along The Corridor and visit this year’s Kolache Festival which will be May 5th in Prague, OK. More information about this event may be found at www.praguekolachefestival.com/.

Take the family, plenty of sunscreen, your polka dancing shoes, and plan to stay the whole day to enjoy the Kolache Festival! n

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GIVE ME SOME OF THAT OLD TIME

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Every time I walk into Steer Inn Restaurant in ever, back in the 1920s through the 1960s there Cushing, I walk to the west wall and make sure the were also several other leagues in many different baseball picture is still there on the wall. Oh, what cities with many great players passing through. history! My mother had four younger brothers and These teams played baseball in many differtwo of those brothers, Uncle Clarence Butcher and ent parks or pastures in the local area. One such Uncle Sam Butcher, are both in the picture. The field was Speedway Park located just west of the picture was taken in the 1940s. I get a warm feelold train depot at East Broadway and Howerton in ing every time I look at the picture…it comes from Cushing. The park was in existence until the 1940s. my love of On many baseball sunny LEAGUES CITIES PLAYERS TEAMS and my days you Sandlot Sapulpa, Shawnee Carl Hubble Cushing Kerr Macs love of my could enjoy A, B, C, D Stroud, Stillwater Babe Ruth Deep Fork Mud Hens family. I car, morecently torcycle, City Drumright, Perry Johnny Bench Midland Co Ops began and horse Refinery Tulsa, Pawnee Jim Beecham Gribble Gasers researching racing, a College Cushing, Okemah Paul Waner Tydol Oil additional circus, or Industrial Ardmore, OKC Lloyd Waner Wilson Packers information just have a about this 4th of July team from the 1940s, and I didn’t have to go very picnic. Most importantly, you could enjoy a great far. Every place you turn in this part of Oklahoma, baseball game. there is a story to listen to about baseball and the Just to name a few, Major League great Carl effect the sport has had on this part of the country.

Hubbell from Meeker pitched in Speedway Park.

The history, the love of the game, and certainly the Hubbell played for the New York Giants and was a talent from these players is on the minds and in the hearts of so many. It is Spring, the month of April, and certainly the time to get excited about watching sports and enjoying baseball. As you sit down in your chair to relax and watch some exciting games, let me share with you some history of baseball right here in our area!

The first World Series was held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1903. This story takes you back in time, but not quite that far. I said, “Give me some of that old time BASEBALL, not Old Time Rock and Roll.” Baseball was around long before Rock and Roll and thriving in Cushing, Drumright, Stroud, Chandler and other surrounding areas. For years Cushing had their own baseball association. At one time there were 13 refineries in Cushing, with most of them having a baseball team. We know nationally about Major League, Triple A, and Double A. HowTHE CORRIDOR / APRIL 2018 35

Mid-Land Co-Op’s State Championship team from the 1940’s

Bottom row: Manager Ed Kirk, Oliver Kinzie, Clyde Caruthers, Alfred Brooks, Sam Butcher, Billy Gist, and Coach Marion Jett Top row: Jim Kirk, Taylor Cook, Joe F. Wilson, Clarence Butcher, Marvin Brooks, and Joe Cameron.

Major League MVP for the years 1933 and 1936.

In the 1934 All-Star game, Hubbell struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin consecutively. After retiring from baseball, Hubbell spent time as a scout for the New York Giants for players in this part of the state. Bill Dicky also came to Cushing as a scout. On one occasion Hubbell came to Stroud to watch an amazing pitcher who was playing shortstop one particular night. On his first time at bat he hit a towering home run over the wall. He was asked to come to New York to try out for the Giants. The gentleman replied, “I would love to, but I have a wife and two baby girls on the farm I must care for.” This gentleman is alive and well today and asked me not to reveal his name. What I will reveal is the sparkle he had in his eye just talking about the history of the “game” we love!

I was told by one baseball fan from Cushing that several players from the Drumright Tydol Oil team were offered $100 to come try out for the Giants after playing a major league team.

During this time, $100 cash just to try out for the Giants was a huge amount of money! Many of these local teams were given money for travel expenses by their sponsors. If you played for a semi-pro, team you could get paid 20 or 30 dollars per game. However, mostly the men played for the “love” of the game.

Occasionally a pitcher was offered five or ten dollars to pitch for a team. Cushing resident Cliff 36 THE CORRIDOR / APRIL 2018

Miles stated, “I helped my dad and many friends cut down trees for poles and nailed chicken wire to them for backstops. We would fill gunny sacs with dirt for bases, and use a 2x4 for a pitching rubber just so that we could have a ball field to play the game we loved.

Some pitchers threw the baseball so hard it would actually go through the chicken wire. I watched my dad drive a tractor on our adjoining farm to a baseball field we had built. I know dad was dying to play, but work came first in those days.

Today’s major league teams go to Florida or Arizona for spring training. Back in the old days these teams toured our smaller cities for warm up games and publicity. Can you imagine today the players from the Texas Rangers coming to Drumright, OK to play an exhibition game? They wouldn’t bother and today there are no “old-time” baseball games happening around the corner!

It’s a fact that Oretta Holderread’s father, Lefty Holder, struck out Babe Ruth along with several other greats when he played for Tydol Oil in Drumright. On one 1954 summer evening in Cushing, Kerr McGee Refinery’s team, the Kerr Macs, defeated the Tulsa Oilers, a St. Louis Cardinal’s farm club, with a score of 10 to 2.

Cliff Miles said, “TV’s and air conditioning put an end to Old Time Baseball. Oliver Kinzie commented, “It wasn’t unusual to have crowds of two or three thousand fans at our games. At 19, I was

one of the youngest players. Some of the best I ever played ball with were the Butcher brothers, Clarence, Sammy, and Ernie from right here in Cushing.”

In1958 the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angles and the New York Giants moved to San Francisco.

Carl Hubbell was the Giants’ Farm System Director. Hubbell’s cousin, Floyd Hubbell, a Stroud resident, was very instrumental in developing baseball in Stroud. In the early 1950s, George Foster gave land which was close to the Stroud High School to the City of Stroud. It was named Foster Park and today many baseball games are played there.

Floyd Hubbell gathered many volunteers with equipment and in 1951 took an average ball field and made it into a beautiful ball park.

Stroud resident Clifford Wright remembered, “Every Sunday afternoon the ball park was full of players and fans.”

Floyd also sponsored several American Legion and city teams in Stroud. Floyd’s son Tommy recalls

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that Carl Hubbell gave uniforms from the New York Giants to his youth team.

Floyd asked his wife to alter the large uniforms down to kids’ sizes, which was nearly impossible.

So, as you sit down tonight in front of your big screen, high definition TV with your soothing central heat and air while you watch the World Series, remember some of our old timers and all their fans.

Where would baseball be without them?

1955 Chandler American Legion Baseball Team Top Row: Jim Mastin, Wellston; Johnny Wright, Davenport; Richard Beirman; Roger Potts, Wellston; Harold Brown, and Frank Reedy, Agra; Jerry Witcher, Chandler; Carl Herd, Davenport; Bottom Row: Assistant Manager Bob Melton, Chandler; Delano Carson, Clifford Wright and Glenn Nichols, Davenport

The Allied Materials Corporation’s baseball team from 1948 is pictured after a win over the inmates inside the State Penitentiary.

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An Amazing Year Ahead for Community Events

by RAQUEL LeMASTER

Stroud Arts has an amazing year ahead for art events in the community: April 7th: “Murder in the Hedgerow”, a murder mystery dinner theater at Prairie Pointe Assisted Living Center. The setting is in England in the 1920s.

Please join them for a splendid British dinner and smashing interactive play where you will make choices to steer the course of the plot & characters.

This benefit is to raise funds for their ‘Container Garden Project’ to grow fresh produce for the residents, and to grow Stroud Arts’ membership, enrichArctic Fox by Olivia LeMaster / 4th Grade / Stroud ing the community with the Arts.

Pencil and Colored Pencil Drawings To find out more, visit the Stroud Arts Facebook page.The actors in this performance are of the Improv Action Theater. They have been performing in various venues throughout the corridor since 2015. They are for hire for your next event and will truly make your event even more memorable with a guaranteed fun time by all! If you would like to book an event with Improv Action Theater, call, text or message David Timmons 918.968.5114 For the first time this year, Stroud Arts will be hosting Table Top Games in honor of International Board Game Day on Saturday, April 28. It will be an all day event and there will be fresh food available from Guinea Pig Playground by Olivia LeMaster / 4th Grade Lusetta’s Fresh Grub food truck. You can find out / Stroud Pencil and Colored Pencil Drawings more about their cuisine and availability for your next event by visiting www.lusettasfreshgrub.com. Whatever they are serving, they will be using as many fresh ingredients as possible from local sources.

Stroud Annual Art Walk—Thursday, May 3 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Area artists will display their art in participating local Stroud businesses. It is free to the public and free for artists that would like to share their work with the community. The artists stay with their work so guests can ask questions and get to know the artists. Stroud Arts is hopeful that artists will make some sales because when we apply for grants, it looks favorable for Husky Profile by Olivia LeMaster / 4th Grade / Stroud Pencil and Colored Pencil Drawings

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us when we work to help artists make a profit.

This year we will have the artwork of middle and high school students from Stroud and Drumright. Parkview Elementary will have over 400 pieces displayed at Stroud United Methodist Church.

Moneica Slane is returning with new pieces of original art and jewelry.

Judy Bukowski of Dreamcatcher Photography will be joining us again with her award-winning photographs of new-borns, families and other fabulous subjects. Find more of her work or arrange a photo shoot at www. dreamcatcherphotographybyjudy.com Joe Don Brave is a Native American artist from Pawhuska, joining us for a second time.

JJ Huelsman and his ‘Metalwork’ will be exhibiting for the first time, showing his fine jewelry and objects.

Find out more about his work by going to www. jjhuelsmannmetalwork.com Gina McGee is a two-dimensional artist from Davenport, who works in a wide array of media, including oils, acrylics, and water colors, as well as pen and ink and colored pencils.

Participants can expect to see paintings, metal work, 3D dioramas, photography, and more. We will also have local authors, Melissa Goodmon and Guy Lozier, local artists, a community art project and live The Seventh Sense by Guy Lozier performances.

Pick up a map at any of the participating businesses to follow the path of the Art Walk.

Gina McKee takes her artistic inspiration from the natural world and often depicts this in abstract imagery. She does best when she is able to combine multiple interests in one piece.

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At the Festival...

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Visit the Tabouleh Bar to get a tabouleh cheese ball. This crowd favorite has been requested many times over the years.

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Freddie’s Steakhouse will be selling their famous tabouleh, cabbage rolls, and hummus.

Look for the tent at 6th & Main.

Middle Eastern Food

Several Middle Eastern food vendors will be selling a variety of Middle Eastern cuisine such as baklava, gyros and kebabs

Belly Dancers & Sitar Player

Visit the Lebanese Section to see belly dancers and Oklahoma’s only sitar player.

Lebanese in America Museum Exhibit

Bristow Historical Society will be hosting the Lebanese in America Exhibit. This was developed by the Moise A Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University.

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Keeping Us ‘Covered’ Along The Corridor RedLand I’ve heard very pleasant things about a cover band out of Davenport recently. In fact I’ve heard about them several times.

RedLand, a group made up of local professional men who lend their respective musical talents each Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Davenport, Ok., has been together about five years now.

As a plus for the rest of us they are a versatile band for hire that has performed in such venues as the Cowboy Hall of Fame, Riverwind Casino, Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Hard Rock Casino and many places in between.

Their repertoire includes gospel, country, red dirt, a little rock and roll, songs by the Turnpike Troubadours, Brooks and Dunn, George Strait, Don WIlliams, Chuck Berry and Stoney LaRue, to name a few. An

impressive and well rounded popular music catalog.

They perform for weddings, receptions, reunions, anniversaries, organizational or corporate events.

Or for any other reason if the schedule permits.

The band consists of brothers Clint Gaylord (fiddle, vocals) and Brad Gaylord (lead guitar), Dan Waters (bass), Kelly Stambaugh (percussion) and Micah Keeling (rhythm guitar, vocals) I visited with a few of these guys recently to check in.

Clint Gaylord was first on the list.

Clint’s day job is serving as Chief of Police in Stroud. As for his interest in music it seems it was always present. (His older brother Brad who plays lead guitar in the band may have had some influence there.) He told me that his parents took him to the Tulsa State Fair once when he was four years old to hear a distant cousin, Monte Gaylord, play in a fiddle competition. He says he pointed to the stage and said ,”I want one of those!” And he got it. Both brothers took lessons at Gilliam Music in

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Chandler. Music had its hooks in the Gaylord brothers at an early age.

Clint later became an award winning fiddler when he took first place in his division in the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest (one of the largest in the nation) in Weiser, Idaho back in the late 1980’s.

(Interestingly enough brother Brad Gaylord is also a police chief serving the Absentee Shawnee.)

Dan Waters was next on the list.

Dan began playing guitar in his youth and while living in Oklahoma City, during his college years, played in a rock band for a while. “We played MTV Rock”, as he puts it, adding with chuckle, “you know, being famous in our own imaginations!” The music of ‘Led Zeppelin’ and ‘Bad Company’ were making the soundtrack he grew up listening to and emulating.

Somewhere along the way he also took up bass to supplement the sound of a gospel group he became part of.

His graduation from medical school was followed by 23 years working as a doctor in the emer

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There are a lot of cover bands that are here today, gone tomorrow, but these folks seem to have some staying power. gency room of St. Anthony Hospital in OKC. Consequently work, life, raising a family crowded out most of the music making from his routine for that period of time.

These days he’s still a practicing MD, but has gained enough time to allow music back into the mix and is says he’s quite happy to play country covers with RedLand and is especially happy to be playing in the church and spreading the gospel of Jesus.

Dan is the elder figure in the group.

Micah Keeling grew up surrounded by music and musicians.

He says he’s been playing all of his life having been raised in a musical family.

HIs father, Ron Keeling (who was killed in an auto accident in 2016) was a musician and minister and heavily influential on Micah’s life. In fact he says he gives him all credit for the talent he possesses and continues to play in the memory of his father.

He plays rhythm guitar in the band but can fill in on any other instrument if need be.

He says his parents and grandparents started the ‘Country Music Spotlight’ in Oklahoma City years ago and he spent a lot of time there.

Then a few years later his folks started a music show in Stroud called ‘Oklahoma Kinda Country’ where he spent much time as well.

Additionally he says he and the Gaylord’s ‘grew up playing together’ so the band fits him like a glove.

I asked how the group came about. It seems that a few years ago after a couple of the guys began playing a few songs in church on

occasion they began talking among themselves about forming a church centered band to perform all the worship music. They didn’t have to look far to round out the line up because unbeknownst to them, everyone they needed was already in the church. Funny how things work like that sometimes.

Keeling serves as Stroud’s Director of Public Works.

Kelly Stambaugh, who works in internet technology, also plays drums and other percussion instruments to fill in the rhythm section.

There are a lot of cover bands that are here today, gone tomorrow, but these fellas seem to have some staying power. Could be the professional nature of their day jobs has taught them an extra dose of discipline. It might also be that regular Sunday church gig that keeps their hands steady at the wheel.

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“Ouch!” Karon screamed, as she swung an arm in the direction of Delilah and Cassidy, who dodged the blow with ease.

“Karon, you have GOT to stop doing that,” Delilah pleaded.

“I’m gonna die!” Karon wailed.

“I’ve already told you, cacti aren’t poisonous,” Delilah assured her friend for the fourth time.

With some difficulty, and a great deal of agitation from Karon, Delilah and Cassidy had managed to remove Karon’s clothes. A good number of the cactus spine had been eradicated with the clothing. But there was still a couple dozen spines deeply embedded in Karon’s skin; specifically, in her backside. And now she lay face down across Delilah’s bed.

“We really need tweezers if we’re going to extract the entire spine,” Cassidy said. She lightly ran a finger over the back of Karon’s thigh. “Oh, yes. See? The tops of some of these spines have broken off, leaving part of them in the flesh.”

“Oh, my Lord!” Karon cried. “I’m gonna have spikes in me for the rest of my life.”

Delilah gave Cassidy an exasperated look.

Cassidy stifled a chuckle and shook her head.

“I’ll get the tweezers,” Delilah said, stepping toward the bathroom.

“Cotton balls and rubbing alcohol, too, if you have it,” Cassidy said.

“Alcohol?” Karon asked nervously.

“Just to clean the punctures so they won’t get infected,” Cassidy said.

“Oh, sweet Jesus!” Karon wailed. “I ain’t gonna die from poisonous cactus. I’m gonna die from skepticemia.”

Cassidy shook her head as Delilah stepped back into the bedroom. “Septicemia,” Cassidy said on a chuckle. “And that’s what the alcohol’s for.” She turned to Delilah and said under her breath. “Don’t suppose you have any alcohol of the drinking kind, do you?”

Delilah, Karon, and Cassidy went still, and listened as footsteps padded up the stairs.

Delilah dove for the door, while Cassidy jerked a cashmere throw from the foot of the bed and swung it over Karon’s nakedness.

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DIANE BROWN

“Who’s that!” Karon yelled.

“Just me,” Dooby replied as his foot hit the top step. He moved with caution into the bedroom.

“You okay?”

“Do I look okay?” Karon growled. “Do. I. Look. Okay?” she repeated when Dooby failed to answer within .32 seconds.

Karon reached behind her back and ripped the small blanket away from her body. Dooby winced. He ran his hands over his bald head.

“I guess this would be an inappropriate time to suggest you get back on the horse, because, you know they say when you fall off a horse . . .” Dooby didn’t finish the sentence. And not because Delilah slapped his arm, but because Karon looked at him with such fierce ire that he was certain she would explode if he did finish it.

Dooby raised his hands in surrender. “I’ll just leave you to it,” he said, and he began back stepping from the room.

“Wait, where’s Delaney?” Delilah asked, moving toward Dooby.

“She’s riding with Joel,” Dooby said.

“Is that a good idea?” Delilah asked.

“They’ll be fine,” Dooby said.

Delilah wasn’t so sure about that. It wasn’t horseback riding that had her concerned. She had confidence in Delaney’s riding ability, and in Joel’s ability to look after her. Truth was, the two seemed to have an immediate attraction or connection when they met. She had every intention of keeping an inconspicuous eye on the two, and that would be difficult if they were riding the pastures alone. Delilah froze, giving this some thought. Then her reverie was interrupted by a shrill cry from the bedroom.

Dooby grinned. Delilah slapped him on the arm once again.

“Dooby!” she whispered with a growl. “It’s not funny.”

“Really?” Dooby said, with the grin widening.

Another scream issued from the Delilah’s bed.

Dooby chuckled softly.

“I wouldn’t be laughing if she’d been seriously injured,” Dooby assured her. “And what’s with her hair?”

With that, Delilah lost her composure. She covered her mouth with one hand and took Dooby’s arm with the other.

She hurried him down the stairs.

“Didn’t she tell you?” Delilah asked when they reached the bottom step “She had an altercation with the vacuum at the car wash. I’m afraid the vacuum emerged victorious.

That is, it relieved Karon of a number of her braided hair extensions.”

Even though screams were coming from the floor above with rhythmic precision, Dooby starred at Delilah as though he’d been turned to stone. His mind was processing what he’d just heard. Delilah knew when the image had come into clear view in Dooby’s mind, because he blinked twice and bit his lower lip. He turned and walked away, and when he reached the back door he burst into raucous laughter.

The land line rang before Delilah made it back to the stairs. She scurried into the living room and answered the phone. An eerie silence was the only response.

“Hello,” Delilah said again.

Her heart instinctively sank, and involuntary chills raced from the back of her neck all the way down to her toes, which had nothing to do with the maniacal screams coming from the room overhead. She punched the disconnect button with unnecessary force, and returned the hand set back

to the base like it was a reptile about to bite. She looked around the empty room as if she actually expected to see someone there. When her eyes lit upon the windows, she focused her gaze beyond the house and into the yard and driveway. She gave her head a good Etch-a-Sketch shake to erase the paranoia, and then returned upstairs to assist Cassidy.

Karon bowed out of supper that evening, which was just as well. By the time the table had been set, she had already begun complaining about being stiff and sore. Dooby had anticipated this but chose not to mention it earlier in the day. Why throw jet fuel on the bonfire?

Delaney and Joel spent the entire dinner discussing their horseback riding adventures that day. And for the rest of the evening they sat in the living room, completely oblivious to the others in the room.

The following morning, after breakfast, Dooby went to the stable, Gus tended to the livestock, and Delilah, Marietta and Cassidy stayed in the house watching movies. Joel and Delaney rode horses.

“Cassidy,” Delilah began after hitting pause on the remote control. “Does Delaney have a boyfriend?”

The space between Cassidy’s brows narrowed. “Now there’s a frightening thought,” she said.

“I guess that means no,” Delilah said.

“As far as I know, she does not,” Cassidy said on a sigh. n “Has she ever had a boyfriend?” Delilah urged.

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“Good.”

“And don’t say anything to Delaney,” Delilah added.

“As long as you don’t say anything to Joel,” Cassidy fired back.

“Agreed,” Delilah said.

She picked up the remote and hit the play button.

“Glad that’s settled,” Marietta said under her breath.

The week passed quickly. Delaney and Joel hung out and enjoyed each other’s company. Dooby seemed impervious to anything too serious. So, Delilah let go any suspicions.

And then, on the eve of the sister’s departure, while everyone was in the living room for their final gathering, Delaney snuggled up to her daddy.

“Daddy?” she said pleadingly.

Delilah’s eyes went wide. She didn’t know what Dooby’s youngest was about to ask. But she knew that tone, and she knew that when his baby used that tone, he could deny her nothing.

“Just hear me out, okay?” Delaney continued. “I was thinking I’d like to come live here with you.”

The look on Dooby’s face was a combination of grimace and confusion. “Well, Boo, what about school?” he asked.

“Daddy, some people just aren’t cut out for college,” Delaney said in a soft voice.

Delilah prepared for what she was certain would be the immediate backlash of all out refusal. But to her utter

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“I think she dated a couple guys when she was a senior in high school,” Cassidy replied. “Why such an interest in Delaney’s love life?”

“Well, is it just my imagination or is there is something going on between her and Joel?” Delilah rapidly blurted out.

Cassidy laughed heartily. “You’re kidding, right?” she said. Her expression turned serious. “Oh, my goodness. If that’s true, Mother will have a fit.”

“Why?” Delilah said defensively.

“He’s a white boy!” Cassidy said.

“Seriously?” Delilah challenged. “Joel is the kindest and mos t thoughtful yo ung man I know. And extr ao r d i n a r ily int elligent.”

“And white,” Cassidy added with a chuckle.

Delilah took a deep breath. Hadn’t she been concerned about a connection between Delaney and Joel less than thirty-six hours earlier? And now it sounded like she was defending a love affair made in heaven. The difference was that any prior objection she may have had had nothing to do with race.

“Well, I’m sure it’s nothing but a close friendship,” Delilah said.

“Are you going to say anything to Dad?” “Absolutely not! You’re not going to mention it to your mother, are you?”

“No way!”

“Good.”

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amazement Dooby appeared to be calmly considering the request. She glanced around the room, half expecting to discover an abandoned pod. She turned her head 45 degrees, and she squinted. Nope. No alien space craft parked on the lawn. She had a fleeting moment of déjà vu, and then remembered she had done the same thing just a few days earlier when she got the creepy call, but this time the experience was far less creepy.

Delaney’s new wrinkle didn’t surprise Delilah. The young lady had never rhapsodized about college like her sister had. But she hadn’t scholastically excelled like Cassidy.

Delilah wondered if that had any bearing on Delaney’s sudden plea.

Out of the corner of her eye, Delilah saw the over-interested expression on Joel’s face, and she knew that he had more to do with it than anything.

“I agree, Boo,” Dooby said, wrapping an arm around Delaney’s shoulders. “And I’d love nothing more than to have you come stay with me. But this is something that needs to be discussed with your mother. Would you consider transferring to OSU? Or maybe finishing out the year in Georgia, and then coming to stay here next summer?”

Dela ney stole a q ui ck gl ance at Joel , and th e n a t he r sister.

“Are you saying you want me to leave with Cassidy tomorrow?” Delaney said, with the slightest hurt in her voice.

Dooby took a long moment. “Yes, and no,” he finally said.

“If I had it my way the two of you would always stay with me.

But there’s more to consider than myself. I think, given the short notice of your suggestion, you and your sister need to go back to Georgia as planned. Your mother and I, and you, will talk more about this. And you can always fly back out here, or I can come get you if that’s what we decide. Can you accept that?”

“I suppose I’ll have to,” she said. n

will there be a new resident on the royal flush ranch?

IS THERE MORE TO THE YOUNG RELATIONSHIP THAN EVEN DELILAH SUSPECTS? Has Karon seen the last of her mishaps?

All,or at least some, will be revealed in the May installment of Delilah’s Dilemmas in The Corridor Magazine!

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212 N Oak Ave, Chandler - 3/1 .75 acres mol 107 W. 5th, Stroud - 3/1 Fixer Upper! $18,000 REPO-114 W. 4th, Stroud - 2/1, $19,900 133 Quail Ridge - Davenport - 3/2/2 205 N Old Stroud Rd - 2864 sq ft, 2/2 870523 S 3503 - Davenport - 4/2 1.8 acres mol 101 W. 3rd - Davenport - 2/1 870502 S 3430, Chandler - SOLD! 519 E. 2nd, Stroud - 2/1 Great starter home!

PENDING!

113 QUAIL RIDGE, DAVENPORT - 2015 brick home, 3/2/2

302 W. 5TH, STROUD - Historic home! 4/2

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2531 N HIGHWAY 99, STROUD - 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage, Safe room, plus huge shop with electric & bath, 2+ Acres

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G N I D N E P 137 SOONER DR., STROUD - 2/1.5/1 Fireplace

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870487 S. HICKORY LANE, CHANDLER - 3/2/2, Fireplace

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ON HISTORIC ROUTE 66 IN STROUD! ONE OF A KIND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY! 00 0 , 5 2 $ D E R E LOW E C I R P / L L E ST S

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512 W. Main • Stroud, OK

Industrial style space. Downtown Stroud with a view of Route 66 through large front windows.

Updated central heat and air, updated roof, private parking with six-foot privacy fence plus covered parking.

Brick building in great condition with a great location!

FOR A SHOWING OF THIS HISTORIC PROPERTY CALL 405-443-7122 TODAY

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Chris Hodge - Broker/Owner / 405-443-7122 Jason Hughey / 405-795-7850 • Johnna Plunkett 918-290-0735 • Karen Lujan 580-224-1210 THE CORRIDOR / APRIL 2018 59

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ORDER NOW! HOLIDAY TURKEYS and SMOKED HAMS Available in Nov & Dec!

Let us cater your holiday EVENT! Hours: Sun - Thurs. 11:00am - 9:00pm / Fri & Sat Open til 10:00pm

619 N. 8th Ave. / Stroud, OK

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