Our hotel overlooks the beautiful Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. Enclosed in the ball park is the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame. I enjoyed walking through it. I expected to see Jim Thorpe, Mickey Mantle, and Johny Bench. I was pleasantly surprised to see that among those educated into their Hall of Fame were two Ohio State Buckeyes, Malcolm Jenkins and Antoine Winfield. While at the stadium there was a charity softball game taking place. I stayed long enough to sit in the sun, watching a few innings, and enjoying a dog at the ball park. Good times.
Sandy and I then headed out to the “National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum”. This is more an art museum than a historical museum but it does tell the story of western native Americans and the life of the American cowboys. This story is told through pieces of art and displays. This museum is huge. I enjoyed the taped stories of life on the prairie with recreated villages, ranch houses and cattle drive camps. There were rooms dedicated to the cowboys in the movies, rodeos and Plains Indian Villages.
A gold star stop on route 66 is POPs. This is a new establishment on the Mother Road but it is definitely built in the spirit of old Route 66. A gas station, diner, convenience store with a giant neon soda bottle as a roadside landmark, art deco design and an endless supply of unique small batch sodas. I doubt if they will sell many of these sodas because each bottle costs about what I pay for a 12 pack of our soda back in Ohio. I suggested to Sandy that we just take pictures of the bottles as our souvenir. Below is a picture of the six bottles we bought. Note; I was not able to get a picture before the orange dreamcicle soda bottle was empty.
A little north of Oklahoma City is the town of Guthrie. It only has a population of 10,000 but is seems so much bigger. The Blue Belle Saloon is a place where Tom Mix (earlier post) tended bar. The town was the original territorial capital before the citizens of Oklahoma voted to move the seat of government to Oklahoma City. Guthrie is pretty much frozen in time from around the period of statehood (1907). While in Guthrie and on the advice of a local, we had dinner at The Stable Café. It specializes in Barbecue and that is what we had.
At Stables Café, note that Sandy's beer selecting process is a two person process requiring absolute concentration.
At the Stables Café
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.