History
This Week in Sapulpa History: It Takes a Village
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.
This Week in Sapulpa History: Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Believe it or not, at least two tales from Sapulpa have made it into the bizarre series of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
This Week in Sapulpa History: Yale Theatre
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.
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This Week in Sapulpa History: A Reel-y Big Fire
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.
This Week in Sapulpa History: Busy July 1906
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.
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This Week in Sapulpa History: Chasing cars, bullets, and robbers
At 407 West McKinley, the Hotchkiss Grocery was closed for the night. Except it wasn’t empty; nor was it quiet, safe, and sound. The Hotchkiss Grocery store was robbed by two men.
This Week in Sapulpa History – Sapulpan graduates without a single absence or tardy
Edith Alice Cooper became the first person in recorded Sapulpa history to attend school and not miss a single day. As it turns out, it was a characteristic that runs in the family!
This Week in Sapulpa History: Sapulpa Businesses and Schools Baseball Showdown
Most locals will know that baseball has been a part of Sapulpa's pastime since the town began. But it wasn't just the high schoolers getting baseball championships—local businesses had their own teams as well. Here's a story of the two champion teams crowned this week in 1916.
This Week in Sapulpa History: Heavy Hitters From Class of 1921
Over the last year, we have discussed the lives and careers of Denver Grigsby and Frances Hutt, later Frances Hutt Dewey. These two lived different lives, one in baseball and one in singing. One returned to live in Sapulpa, one would become a First Lady of New York and could have been First Lady of…
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