The Fiesta Bar was located the first building north of the old post office.

The Chuck Wagon Cafe was located just to the north of Kingfisher Body and Glass, owned by Tom Sandefur. Fred Bredel took me there several times, but I didn't have the taste for beer, so I never went back. We would eat a hamburger and drink a glass of beer and then go home.

The pool hall at the north west corner of Main & Miles was owned by ???. Fred Bredel took me in and tried to teach me how to shoot pool or snooker. I had the same problem with shooting the pool balls as I did with shooting doves with a shotgun. If I just shot, I would probably make the shot, if I aimed at the balls, I would almost always miss the shot. I guess I just needed someone to teach me how to line up the shots. I did enjoy playing with some of my school buddies while we were waiting to go to the movies at the Thomas Theater.

The Rook Theater next door north of the pool hall on the corner of Main & Miles. The Temple Theater was next door to the south of the Thomas.

The folks always bought a dozen doughnuts from Vaughn's Bakery, just to the south of the old Zellar's Jewelry store, which was purchased by Roy McNaught. They were very friendly people and the bakery goods they sold were the best in town. They also had all the school supplies. They were the only store in town that handled the school books.

Later, when R.A. Young opened his first $.05 to $.10 store across the street to the west, they gave Vaughn's a lot of competition. Mr. Young later went into partnership and formed the TG & Y stores. He later sold his interest and the TG & Y stores were known widely across the southern part of the United States.

Weimers Cafe, later known as Boyd's Cafe, owned by Elmer Boyd, the county treasurer, was on North Main Street (Editor: across from Sandusky Chevrolet, which, in turn, was next door south of Crandall and Sanders plumbing.)

Kingfisher Hotel on Robberts, across the street south of the present Pioneer Telephone office building. It was torn down to make a parking lot.

Bill Pierson's Barber Shop on East Robberts. He also ran a pool hall next door. I got my hair cut with Bill several times when shop was too busy to take care of me or I was in too big of a hurry to wait my turn. Bill didn't seem to have that big of a crowd at his shop.

Logan-Ames Company, just to the north of Peoples' National Bank on the NW corner of Main and Admire. Berry & Marley Grocery Store, just north of Logan-Ames . Henry Hukill's Meat Market, just south of the Times & Free Press office. John Hanner, Clella Ruth's brother, worked as a butcher for Henry. The folks bought their meat at this meat store, but I never did get acquainted with John at that time, I knew that he was really friendly to everyone. I think that at the same time, Henry ran the locker plant, down by Kingfisher Park. We had several steers butchered and put into the locker. You see we did not have deep freezes at that time. We would stop by the locker on Sundays and pick up enough meat for the week. If we wanted to make home made ice cream, we would also pick up 50 # of ice and put it in the trunk. We would wrap it in a blanket to try and keep it from melting on the way home.

I mentioned Paul's Yum - Yum Ice Cream Parlor, just to the east of McNaught's Jewelry Store on Admire St. in another memory about John Francis, our rural mail carrier.

IGA Grocery Store next door north of Piggley Wiggley.

McGeehe's Drug Store next door north of IGA Grocery Store.

Orr's Texaco Station at the northwest corner of Main and Broadway. It was owned by Hugh Orr. They had the best car wash man in the town. If you wanted a really clean car you took it to them.

Abercombie's Hardware and International Tractor dealer at the northeast corner of Main & Broadway. He was also the Maytag Appliance dealer. Clella Ruth and I bought our first cook stove from them. We got the best model stove they had. When we remodeled the old farm house in 1971, we gave the stove to Clella Ruth's mother. Later, when Abercombie's moved to their new building at 1111 S. Main, we bought our first Maytag washer and dryer from them. Their service man went to my veteran's farm school after I got out of the service in February of 1954. His name was Clyde Moss. He worked on our machine several times. He had a great line of hardware goods.

Gooden Hardware store in the third block north of Broadway. Josiah Gooden is the founder of the store. When we were dealing with them, Francis, his son, was the manager. He was also the John Deere dealer, who later built the new John Deere store that now houses the 4-t's IGA store. Francis, had two sons, George and Bill. George later took over the management of the store. He also had two sons, Jim and Dale and a sister Ruthie, Jim later rented the store from George. The economy was bad and he had to give up the store. Dale was a boy scout when I was the assistant boy scout leader. He went on the outing to Joe Blair's farm.

Jim later put in the Ace Hardware Store on the corner of 6th & Miles, where the old Post Motor Company was located. That was the Ford dealer in Kingfisher for many years. I bought my first car from them, it was a 1946 Ford 4-door. Glen Johnson, the feed mill owner, owned it before I bought it.

Blair's John Deere dealership started in the old Kingfisher Oil Company, at the present location of O'Reilly's parts store at 115 E. Robberts. He came here from Okeene, OK. It was not long before he had a thriving business. John Deere had decided to quit the two cylinder tractor in order to compete with all the other four cylinder tractors on the market. Joe did a great job of selling the line of machinery. He also had a very good service department. They took care of all the customers. He later moved out to the old Abercombie Building, where Bausterts Dealership is located now. This gave him a large service department. I bought my first John Deere tractor and plow from Joe in 1964. I got a 4020 that was on propane and the plow was a 5 bottom semi mounted 5-16.

E.P. Johnson & Sons had the Allis Chalmers dealership at 6th and Miles on the northwest corner. They were also the Studebaker car dealer. Dad bought a new WD tractor from them along with a new round baler and power take-off driven side delivery rake. The baler never did go over with the farmers too well. The bales were too unhandy to handle. No one ever came up with an easy way to handle them. E. P. had two sons, Don and Cloise. When E. P. died, they took over the management. They ordered the tracks and rollers for our bulldozer back in 1957. George Mosher started working on radiators at their shop. He had worked at the Burrus Mill as a flour sacker until the mill blew up because of a collection of dust. In 1960 they moved to a new building at 1009 South Main. The Johnson's owned this block of land and already had a round top barn on the back part of the lot at that location.

Klingsick had his machine shop at 1107 South Main, just to the south of Johnson's. He had started his blacksmith business down in the flood district. After the flood, he moved up to this new location. Louis Klingsick was the owner and his son Clyde. Clyde was in the service during WWII He was a machinist in the service. After the war he worked in a plant on the east coast. Finally he returned to take over his father's shop. Louis made his own large lathe at his shop down in the flood district. He also sharpened many a plow share in his forge. He also made his own trip hammer that he used to sharpen the red hot plow shares. When Clyde died, they sold the machine shop to Ora Yoder, He does machine work and welding. He also makes the famous Kountry Kooker, which is an outdoor barbecue grill. He also makes picnic tables, windmills, and four wheel heavy duty wagons for the yard.

Western Light and Telegraph was located on the southwest corner of Main & Robberts. That is where our country phone line came to. It is now the Peoples First Bank.

Ash Brothers Lumber Yard was at 5th & Admire on the northeast corner. Clella Ruth's brother, Nathan was the manager when he came back after WW II was over. He started working for the brothers as a book keeper. They kept his job until he got out of the service. One of the brothers was Jim and the other one was Bill. They were very likable people, you felt like they were always trying to help with any project that you were working on. When I got laid off at Gulfstream, Nathan gave me a part time job. It was fun working with the lumber business. All his customers were great to work with.

Nathan had made a deal with Pioneer Telephone before he passed away. Pioneer Telephone would buy the property from the estate for their expansion. They are in the process of building a new building on the lot now, 3 20-1998. The corner will never look the same.

Long-Bell had a lumber yard at 6th and Admire, on the south east corner. That lumber yard had been there a long time also.

J. C. Penney company had a store in the second block north of Broadway, on the west side of Main. Mr. Virgil Hunt was the manager for the store. The folks always bought our clothes there. I always bought my overalls there until they closed. We also bought our shoes there. They had good merchandise and treated you well while you were shopping.

Virgil had three sons, Virgil, David and Jimmie. Dad invited him out to go duck hunting several times. Later, when David and Jimmie were old enough, Vrgil brought them along to hunt the pond up in the hills. They really seemed to enjoy the time out in the country, even though they didn't get a chance to shoot any ducks. When they were lucky enough to shoot some ducks, you could tell it made their day.

Mr. Finnis Lee was our barber. Dad liked him and he was a very friendly person to be around for the twenty minutes it took to get my hair cut. He always had a story or two to tell, also. His shop was located just to the east of the Wardrobe Cleaners, on Miles.

Wardrobe Cleaners was on the corner of Main & Miles. Wardrobe owners sold the cleaners to Dale Clark and his wife. They ran the cleaners for several years. Then the Clark's sold the building to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge, who now own the building.

Ogden Cleaners were next door south of Wardrobe Cleaners.

Vail's 5 & 10 Variety Store.

Western Auto Sore, owned by Lee Conn, was in the building now occupied by Classic Cable on North Main. Mr. Conn married Flossie Wickmiller. Clella's mother did the washing and house cleaning for the Conn's. Jolee told me that she had to help her mother scrub the clothes on a wash board.

Wickmiller Drug Store, located on the second block of North Main, east side of the street. Ralph Enix was the pharmacist and bought the store after Mr. Wickmiller died. We bought most of our prescriptions from him. I bought all of my movie film there, also. Ralph took the pictures for the article in the Farmer Stockman, about my 4-H projects back in the 1940's.

Barney Morrow worked in a barber shop next door to the south of the Wickmiller's Drug Store. After Mr. Lee passed away, we had Barney cut our hair. When the owner passed away, Barney took over the shop. He got Bob Westfal as one of his barbers. Barney moved the shop to a smaller store about a block south on Main. When Barney passed away, Bob Westfal started his own shop on West Miles. He has been my barber since Barney passed away.

Kingfisher Hatchery on North Main, west side, north of post office

Knox Auto Store and service station, just to the south of the Kingfisher Hatchery. They sold gasoline in the west alley. Along with Western Auto they were the first auto repair parts stores in Kingfisher.

Oklahoma Tire and Supply to the south of the J. C. Penney store on North Main Street.

Copeland Sinclair across the street to the east. Copeland was the Sinclair bulk dealer, also.

Mr. Opie Bandy was the bulk delivery man for Conoco Petroleum Company. He made several rural deliveries to our farm under ground 500 gallon tank.

Ellyson's Conoco station across the street from the Boeckman Ford, on North Main.

Springer's Market on the west side of North Main, north of the Kingfisher Hatchery.

A blacksmith shop just to the north of Springer's.

Campbell's Buick dealer on west Robberts one block west of Main.

Campbell's Grocery store, north of the Logan Ames Company, dry goods store.

RA. Frakes Abstracting & Title Service. He also owned a farm 4 miles west on Highway 33, on the south side of the road. He had a half-section there to the south. Dad used him several times to do abstracting.

Solomon's Abstracting and Insurance. It is still the only abstracting service in town that I know of.

Copa Motel on South Main close to Will Rogers Drive. (Editor: Boulder filling station was in front of the motel. It and the motel were made of round stones about 6 inches in diameter, hence the name.)

Deluxe Cafe at 7th and West Broadway, owned and managed by Ernest Shafenberg. They also had the Broadway Motel just west of the cafe.

L & H Motors in the old Campbell's Buick dealership.

Motel ( Editor: All stucco, by the alley) at 7^th and Admire across the street from the Safeway Store. (Editor: L.D. Waller's dad had a dominoe parlor in the front of the motel after it closed.)

Mobil Service Station on the northeast corner of 7th & Admire by the motel. I always thought that the red flying horse logo was really neat. They even came out with a small one that you could put on top of your license tag. I bought some gas there and they gave me one. I kept it for a long time.

Mistletoe Express Agency in the same area. (Editor: Run by Charlie Miller, out of the service station. Earlier Mistletoe had been run by Bill Ritchie in a little building on the alley behind Boyd's Cafe. Ritchie and his wife lived in the Kingfisher Hotel.)

New Safeway store at 7th & Admire, later bought by Tom Edgar for his drug store named Tom's Drug.

Florist owned and managed by Mr. & Mrs. Rush, across street from the First Christian Church.

Florist across the street west of Memorial Hall, owned and managed by Al Ariens. (Editor: When this shop closed, Charlie Miller moved the Mistletoe Express Agency into the building.)

Kingfisher Public Library in Memorial Hall, first door on the left. Mrs. Lacey was the librarian. She was really strict. You did not dare to talk above a whisper while you were looking for a book. In other words, if you wanted to visit, you should go somewhere else.

Calavan Implement Co. On east Robberts. Spencer Calavan owned the business. They sold Case and Oliver farm implements and also a car dealership. Dorthea Wheeland was Spencers office manager. Dorthea was the mother of the now Roxie Struck. Spencer was a county commissioner for the 3rd District for several years before he opened the business. He had three sons, L. W., Roy and ???. They lived 2 miles north of the Omega School and 1 mile east, then about one fourth of a mile north on the west side of the road. Most all of the buildings are gone now.

L. W. was a senior when I was a freshman. Roy was a couple years younger than I. Spencer later moved over to eastern Oklahoma, close to Porum, Oklahoma. Roy took over the farming operation after his father died.

Pappe Motel on North Old Highway 81 before you crossed the old Kingfisher Creek bridge. Also the Pappe Service Station.

Hudson Garage, ran by Mr. Roy Hudson. He later got the new Hudson car dealership for Kingfisher. It was located across the street to the northeast of the Pappe Service Station.

Post Lee Implement Company on East Miles, west of the Post Motor Company. It was owned by Ray Lee who had to be related to Mr. Post. He was the dealer for the Ford tractor line of equipment when they first came out with a tractor back in the late 30's or early forties.

Harvey Brown Supply, located just to the west of Post Lee Implement Co. That is where dad bought a Mercury V-8 engine for the 1935 Ford truck. We had taken the engine out to have Harvey overhaul it. He found that it was not worth overhauling, so dad just had him order a new engine from Ford. I got to help make the brackets that had to be altered in order to make the new engine fit into the truck. It sure made a big difference in how the truck pulled a load.

Tony's Electric, just to the east of the old Safeway grocery store. His last name was Maehs. He later had a couple of younger guys help him with his work. We always took the starters and generators to him to repair. He was the best in the business and you could trust him to do what was needed to fix the problem. They later bought the shop and moved it to south main street.