August 14, 2024Sapulpa began as an end-of-the-tracks town for the railroad with a famous hotel and restaurant known as the Harvey House.…
August 9, 2024This month in Sapulpa history, in 1969, the concept for a senior home on West Taft began. The lot was…
July 31, 2024Believe it or not, at least two tales from Sapulpa have made it into the bizarre series of Ripley’s Believe…
July 27, 2024Seventy years ago this week in Sapulpa, we lost one of our downtown theaters: the Yale. Read the fascinating story…
July 20, 2024The 1960s in Sapulpa had not only buildings being torn down but buildings were being prepared for new businesses and…
July 7, 2024One of the more significant fires in downtown Sapulpa happened today in 1952, when the Reel Drug Store, and The…
June 28, 2024As Sapulpa went from June into July in 1906, the town was seeing a surge of new business, new oil…
June 22, 2024How do you define "Frankoma?" More than the pottery, more than the man who created them—Frankoma means family, hardship, reconstruction,…
June 6, 2024This week in history, Sapulpa's Lowdermilk Road—later part of the Ozark Trail and Route 66, opened up access to the…
June 1, 2024At 407 West McKinley, the Hotchkiss Grocery was closed for the night. Except it wasn’t empty; nor was it quiet,…