Wednesday Postcard Blogging

Today's postcard:


The caption on the back:

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Main entrance to the mall at Penn Square. This beautiful entrance is accented by clusters of tall pedestal canopies which look like huge mushrooms or inverted umbrellas. Penn Square is Oklahoma's largest shopping center--it covers more than 580,000 square feet of shopping area.

(This is the entrance on the east side of the mall. The store on the right was John A. Brown's, which would eventually become Dillard's.)

When my brother and I were much younger (back in the early 1960s), our parents used to take us to Penn Square on Sunday afternoons after church for some window shopping. (This was back when everything was closed on Sundays and window shopping was about the only kind of shopping you could do.) The only two places that were open were Val Gene's cafeteria, which was just east of where the center court is now, and the Humpty Dumpty supermarket, which was north of the center court--roughly where Macy's is at now, but a little closer to the main part of the mall.

Anniversary Greetings and Sunday Photo Blogging

Happy Anniversary to my brother Tom and my sister-in-law Charlotte, who are celebrating seven years of marriage today.

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Today's pictures are some that I took in my yard, just for fun.

The first two are of some of my daylilies:



The third is of one of my white crepe myrtles, which just bloomed for the first time this year:


The last is of my poor overloaded peach tree:


Some of the peaches are finally getting ripe enough to be picked, so I'm hoping it won't look this way too much longer.

Wednesday Postcard Blogging

Today's postcard:


The caption on the back:

DODSON'S CAFETERIA
4101 S. Western, Oklahoma City 9
Continuous Service 11 A.M. to 8 P.M.
7 Days a Week
"Our Best Advertising is Not Written . . . It's Eaten."

(Not sure what the "9" after the address means, but that's what's printed on the card.)

This is the Dodson's that used to be at the Reding Shopping Center at SW 44th and S. Western, which was torn down quite some time ago to make room for expansion of the parking lot and facilities at Integris Southwest Medical Center. There was a second Dodson's at the Hillcrest Shopping Center at SW 59th and S. Pennsylvania, but that one is gone as well.

I have very fond memories of eating at both locations because the food was incredibly good--I really liked the fried chicken, green beans and devil's food cake, which is what I usually got. (I especially enjoyed going there on my birthday because it meant getting a complimentary cake, and they had the best birthday cake I've ever tasted.)

Birthday Greetings and New SoonerCon Link

Happy Birthday to my sister-in-law Charlotte (hope the card I sent got to you on time).

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I found out a few days ago that SoonerCon has opened an online store where they're going to be selling t-shirts, caps, posters, coffee mugs, tote bags, and maybe some other stuff later on. Scooter says check it out. (I've added it to my list of local science fiction links in case anyone needs to find it later.)

Holiday Greetings and More SoonerCon Photos

Happy Fourth of July! I hope everybody has had/is having/is going to have a safe and fun holiday. (Nothing special going on here . . . I was invited to join some friends for dinner and a trip to a local park to watch the fireworks from downtown Okla. City, but I decided to stay home and try to catch up on some rest since I haven't been sleeping well for the past few nights.)

I've been intending to mention (and kept forgetting until tonight) that JediOKC has seven pages of SoonerCon 2007 photos posted on their site, including some good ones from the charity dinner and show on Friday night and the costume contest on Saturday night. Just go to the main page of their site and look for the photo album link on the left side of the page, under "Board Navigation."