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This Week in Sapulpa History: “The largest liquor and gambling crackdown in several years”

City, county and state officers raid two local spots known for illegal liquor and gambling: Paradise Lounge and the more famous Dixieland Club on Route 66.

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Sapulpa’s history on Tharp’s Modern Dairy comes to light on a special t-shirt

Sapulpa's character has been shaped by everything from railroads to oil, to brick and glass plants, trolley and transportation systems, even famous pottery. But what about milk?

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This Week in Sapulpa History: No More Dinners

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.

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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.

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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!

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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: Building and Expanding in the New Decade

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 – County Road, Infamous Highway

This week in history, Sapulpa's Lowdermilk Road—later part of the Ozark Trail and Route 66, opened up access to the communities west of Sapulpa.

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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.

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