Tulsa Route 66 (E. 11th St.), 1994, summer evening drive.
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- A nostalgic, westbound, sunset trip in a 1988 Mercury Cougar down E. 11th St. in Tulsa, OK recorded in June 1994. In an earlier period, 11th street was Oklahoma U.S. 66 through town. Interesting to note how fewer SUVs and pickup trucks were on the road back then.
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This video, the commercials, the music... It makes me feel so emotional. Times were so different back then as a kid.
Damn this makes me homesick. Grew up in Tulsa all my life and moved out to NYC 3 years ago. Haven't been able to find the time to visit since.
I’d rather be in nyc then here In Tulsa any day
On behalf of Tulsa, id like to propose a trade... 😆
Next time you go drive around in '94 take me with you
Preservation at its finest, not sure why you decided to record a video like this back then, but sure glad you did.
I recorded this part of Rt 66 in Tulsa due to the old buildings and businesses that were still operating (many now long gone and demolished since this was video taped).
Tulsa Oklahoma came along way since then in 2023 the city is nice now I love my city 😍
Under Tornado watch (says Radio) ...Not much has changed. I've been here since 1975. I love Tulsa!
I’m sure I was on my way to my girlfriends house about that time just graduated. Love the Vince gill song btw we had a garage band at that time and this song was one of the ones we played. Brought back major memories. Thank you!
Sigh. I miss home
This is awesome.
Thank you for this.
Fellow Tulsan here. This was awesome to see! One year after I was born actually lol.
Wow i dont even remember the Arbys on the northwest corner of 11th and Harvard at all... Lived here all my life...
The Arby's was demolished, due to expansion of the University, and a new one was built a few blocks west on the south side of the street at the corner of 11th St. and Tucker. Interestingly, the vintage Arby's sign is still in use with the new building.
@@WAL_DC-6B i do remember the Metro Diner a few blocks west of Harvard tho.. Miss that place
@@JoeSmith-ue1gm I never went to the Metro Diner in Tulsa. I'm sure it was a nice place recreating a vintage 1940s/50s diner. Perhaps the food was really good too. But to me it wasn't the kind of restaurant establishment that would be typical of Tulsa. The Metro Diner was more of the type of place you still find in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, etc. In other words, an east coast diner that wouldn't be found anywhere on route 66 back in the day.
Before the “monster ate 11th street” like starship commercials used to say
🎶 Coney-I-Lander to the left of me, Metro Diner to the right - here I am… 🎶
This is excellent! Thank you for sharing. We've come a long way. I'm a member of the Tulsa Route 66 Commission and will happily share this to our FB page.
RIP Metro Diner
I've been a member of the Illinois Rt 66 Association since 1989. Glad you like this video and thanks for sharing on your FB page!
This is very cool. I lived and worked on this little stretch of road for years and it definitely gave me the nostalgia seeing things how they used to be
Thanks for your comment! Someone uploaded to RUclips a more recent video of Route 66 through Tulsa and it includes the part of the highway I videoed here. It's really something to see all the businesses that are now gone as well as new ones that have sprung up or replaced another one using the same building.
I was 4 years old, home sweet home. 📍
My mom and dad bought one of those conversion vans from Keystone Chevrolet that year.
Wow! Your mom and dad did their part in 1994 to help Keystone Chevrolet, GEO in Sand Springs achieve that goal of selling "one thousand cars, trucks and vans."
i’m looking at everything and not many things have changed but at the same time a lot as changed
U DRIVE RIGHT PAST WHERE MY OLD HOUSE WAS AS A KID IN THE MID AND LATE 1960s...ON 11TH ST A FEW BLOCKS BACK EAST OF SKELLEY STADIUM...ALSO THE CAR LOT MY DAD WORKED AT FOR A FEW YEARS,AND THE OLD SERVICE STATION HE OWNED!....MAN O MAN THE MEMORIES!!
I started school in Tulsa in 1995. I'm here for the nostalgia.💙 My brothers and sisters went to Eugene Field Elementary, which was one of the best Elementary Schools ever. I remember having to cross this cute little bridge on the way to school...also had our first tornado scare there. I miss Tulsa so much. 😭
Edit: I wasn't born in Tulsa, was actually born in Phoenix but the family moved to Tulsa from Phoenix back in 95. We stayed in Tulsa from 95-96 then moved here to slimy Florida. (Which I cannot stand.)
I had just graduated High School that Summer and was about to start dating my Husband. About 7 years later we bought a house down the Street from TU and frequented this street all the time. Good memories 😊
I’m just now seein there was a McDonald’s there and qt race bell and taco Bueno and burger are all in the exact same spot and tu just took over that whole section Arby’s is on the left now
Sure brings back memories. This would have been the summer before 7th grade for me. It’s fun to look at the old signage and how much everything has changed. I forgot that we still had Circle K gas stations then. Nice to see Metro Diner too. Even the radio (KVOO?) was better back then…although I would have been listening to 104.5 at this time, or oldies on 106.1. Tulsa has really changed in the last 15 years or so…I live in NYC now, but spent most of my life in Tulsa. I hardly recognize it when I go back to visit. I wish that more of the institutions could have stuck around.
Thanks for your comments on Tulsa and the changes that have taken place over the years. There is one video on RUclips that was relatively, recently recorded over this same trip down OK U.S. 66 in "T-town." When viewing it you see a lot of noticeable changes from when I made my recording seen here. A lot of places are indeed now gone.
Miss that metro diner
This is awesome!!! Thanks for finding and putting this up!
I miss KVOO. The Bull, or whatever they're calling 98.5, just isn't the same.
Home, just as I remember!
Dude this made me tear up!!! I was 14 with all the hope in the world …. #GenX.
Git N Go! The Metro Diner! Meadow Gold! Even saw Roadkill Heaven (before it was Roadkill lol).
I was born in 9/94 so wow I don't remember the 90s at all wish I could remember it
It hasn't changed dramatically since '94. I remembered the McDonald's before you got to Harvard, but had forgotten about the KFC on the south side of the street. Probably the biggest changes here were the restaurants on the north side that were torn down when TU bought the streetside properties. .
Now if somebody had done this in 1974 or better yet 1954, it would really be fascinating!
I'd love to see what it looked like in 1954 (two years before the beginning of the interstate highway system).
Businesses are doing better and I didn’t see anyone begging for money.
Where as today you see multiple people begging for money even on 71st street. Great song choice too! I was born in 1992, I was only 2 years old when this video was filmed. The 90’s were the best!
#Sad
#VanceTrump2024
Thanks for your comments! Unfortunately, you see a fair amount of folks panhandling these days in larger cities. I had gone down 11st in Tulsa a few weeks ago and I saw that the road still retains many of the old buildings as seen here in 1994.
1:36 It’s crazy that I can still remember the McDonald’s at E 11th St and Pittsburgh Ave. Sadly, from what I’ve heard… they closed it back down in 2007 due to health code violations. And now 11th St. is only two lanes with bicycle trails. And also the Phillips 66 to the left used to be a Git N Go before Kum & Go bought them out in 2000. It’s crazy how things have changed and to see how all the Cox cable lines so overloaded with fiber optic cables all stung all over the place and every QT third gen store is at every street corner. Lol
Pretty amazing that a McDonald's was closed due to health code violations. Didn't realize that 11th St. (Rt 66) is now part of a bike trail. Thanks for updating what's seen here!
@@WAL_DC-6B Yeah np, but it’s crazy how much Tulsa has changed in the last 27 years. I have old maps of Oklahoma and even Tulsa were even Hwy 169 ended at 51st st back in 1985. But yeah it’s crazy that 11th st is 2 lanes once again with bicycle lanes where the outside lanes once were. But yeah, I had a coworker who worked at that McDonald’s right before they closed and that’s what they said. It was turned into a Chinese restaurant but they close down here permanently.
@@hedga001 The Total gas station (Hudson before that) seen for a couple of seconds on the right at the beginning of my video is gone too. I could go on forever on how things have changed along the roadways over the past 60 years here in the Chicago area!
so awesome
Damn it looks like they actaully cared about this side of town back then.
Indeed, a lot of businesses seen here are now gone.
This is a fun video, however it looks better in 2024 than it did in 1994 / it’s more Route 66 oriented now with new businesses everywhere, the new entrance to TU is off of 11th St. and the intersection of 11th and Lewis has been completely redone and new businesses, such as the mother road market, new cool apartments, LED and neon lighting Reinstalled on many of the businesses both old and new // Chapman Field at Skelly Stadium has been renovated
I just drove down 11th St. in Tulsa a few weeks ago (I live in the Chicago area) and based on this recent drive you do bring up some good points on how things are a little better now than in the past. Thankfully the street improvements that I witnessed a few years ago apparently are all also completed. Thanks for your comment!
Spmeone needs to make this same video today and play the same song
Someone either last year or the year before (2019) made a Tulsa Rt 66 recording that includes the same 11th St. mileage I have here. Quite a contrast from about twenty five years earlier especially in businesses that have sprung up and ones that are now long gone.
@0:55 "We've done ALL we can do...BUT we're willing to do more..." Sir, What?! Man miss all those over the top ad promises. Always hearing the despiration of the salemen like they risk loosing their job by the end of the message. Growing up in that era myself. Like old Monster Truck expo ads... "Kids under 12 get in free! You'll pay for the whole seat, but you ONLY need THEEE EDDDGGEEEEE..."
How sure are you it was June 1994 and not July ? A tornadic storm caused problems near Hillcrest near this timeline.
Earlier in the recording, edited out, I superimposed the date on the tape itself.
Circle K, Git n' Go, before QT took over completely.
"Sigh"
Who made this video?
I did.
It's cool you should make one now playing the same song.
@@joshsmith3680 Something to consider on my next trip to T-town!
@WAL_DC-6B ah you don't live here?
@@joshsmith3680 No, Chicago area.