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Volunteers are needed to help Creek County’s first and second-graders improve their reading, writing, and basic math skills.

Sapulpa began as an end-of-the-tracks town for the railroad with a famous hotel and restaurant known as the Harvey House. This week, in 1930, they served their last dinners.

This month in Sapulpa history, in 1969, the concept for a senior home on West Taft began. The lot was purchased for Pleasant Manor Nursing Home. By November, the construction began.

Believe it or not, at least two tales from Sapulpa have made it into the bizarre series of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

Currently, guests can ride in a 1923 Packard and drive to Pretty Water Lake. A driver is provided and the car rides take place between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m., weather permitting. The rides will run through the end of September.

Seventy years ago this week in Sapulpa, we lost one of our downtown theaters: the Yale. Read the fascinating story of the immigrant family who started several of Sapulpa's theaters, harrowing account of the loss of one of Sapulpa's favorite historic buildings.

The 1960s in Sapulpa had not only buildings being torn down but buildings were being prepared for new businesses and expansions of old businesses or replacing older buildings with new ones.

Sapulpa received $6.3 million in funding through grants from the SITES program which the Department of Commerce operates, according to City Attorney David Widdoes. The industrial park would be on a 90-acre plot at 8701 Frankoma Road.

One of the more significant fires in downtown Sapulpa happened today in 1952, when the Reel Drug Store, and The Royal Cafe, buildings that had already caught fire once, erupted into flames again.

As Sapulpa went from June into July in 1906, the town was seeing a surge of new business, new oil strikes (and fires), and new entertainment. Read about what happened in Sapulpa this week in history.