Oklahoma O.K.!

The winds swept us down the plain to Guthrie, Oklahoma on Friday afternoon. David's dad was from Guthrie and one of his aunts lives there now. His Dallas family was in town, so we headed down for a fun family dinner. His uncle Bubs is quite a story teller, and we always get to hear a new-old family tale when we see him.

Guthrie was settled in a land rush in 1889 and was the first capitol of Oklahoma. It has a beautiful downtown with lots of old brick buildings. We enjoyed walking around downtown Saturday morning. David's dad used to have a cafe downtown in an old bank building. It was next to a movie theater - Melba Theater. The cafe was called Glenn's Melba Cafe. I'm not sure of the time period, but I think it would have been the late 1940's or early 50's. Today the building is the Pollard Inn and the theater no longer shows movies, but is a popular place in Guthrie for live performance. Glenn's Melba Cafe was in the corner building in the picture below.