Sapulpa Historical Society

Since the Village People came out with that catchy tune in 1978, everyone knows about the YMCA. This week in 1905, Sapulpa's YMCA opened to great fanfare.

The Bartlett Collins Glass Plant opened in 1915, but it wasn't long before upset employees went on strike.

This week in Sapulpa History, the Empress Theatre brought to life a William Shakespeare classic with an amazing new feature: sound!

Learn more about where Sapulpa is buried, and who the family members are buried with him, and how the Daughters of the American Revolution helped secure the location for preservation.

Billed as "modern and first-class in every details," the St. James Hotel stood for well over 50 years before demolished in the 1960s. Read about how it got built in "This Week in Sapulpa History."

This week in Sapulpa History, a new school board met and found that a single teacher had 104 students, necessitating the need for new schools and more teachers. Read the about how some of our earliest school buildings came to be.

This week in Sapulpa history, read the story about the mysterious blaze that took out the Wills Building and severely damaged the Mize Drugstore and the famous Max Meyer Outfitters store.

The story of how Sapulpa got its community Christmas Tree, which stood for 75 years until the ice storm of 2007.

The relocation of Sunflower Glass Co. to Sapulpa would give the town four glass companies, each with their own purpose. Sunflower was known for its hand-blown glass. But could it last?

On today, the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we look at some of our most memorable stories regarding the attack and its surprising connections to Sapulpa.