History
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: 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.
This Week in Sapulpa History: Frankoma Opens in Sapulpa
How do you define "Frankoma?" More than the pottery, more than the man who created them—Frankoma means family, hardship, reconstruction, and Sapulpa history. Read more inside.
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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…
This Week in Sapulpa History: School Song Sings On
Often in yearbooks, there are more than just images of classmates, there are notes, letters, and signatures from friends and teachers; there are pages of calendar events of what happened that year at school. There are pages of history and acknowledgments of yesterdays. The 1932 and 1932 Sapulpa High School Yearbooks had all of those,…
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