Anyone remember old Tulsa restaurant

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This message is for jb books. I was gooling "the stables lounge" and ran across this sight and your post. I have many questions regarding a man that may have ran this club during this time. His name was john bekin....do you know of him?
I did not know him. However I did know a later owner named Stoney Roach. I went in stables occasionally. My aunt waited tables there before I was born. My dad owned and managed Lady Godiva's. It was on Peoria before moving to Sheridan.
 

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Since our Fearless Leader, Mr. JB brought up the Stables lounge, that made me thing of the Stables and the Stables Lounge 2nd edition. JB did not depict whether he was referring to the world known Stables Lounge Rock and Roll Joint or the Stables lounge, world known strip joint. Because I am an old guy, I started thinking about both and they started to merge together with Ron's Playgirl lounge, the Keg on 11th street, and the joint I can not remember the name of at 4th and Memorial, P J's Club at 41 and Peoria, and the Brass Rail where a friend took me into and a lady dancer by the name of Patti Ann caused me to drink my first beer. Damn that has cost me a lot of money as I am sitting here and sipping on my 9th beer of the evening. She did know what was good for me.

This post and thoughts brought up things from 40 years ago in my mind of Tulsa night spots of things I had totally forgotten about.

I know the OP of this thread was relating to the uniqueness of the phone ordering system at Ma Bells to order your food which I have done, and I do not want to take away from that uniqueness, however --- --- Here is a old memory that will be unique to the ones that had ever seen it, you will know.

In the early days before strip joints they were basically called Go-Go joints. The ladies danced with very skimpy costumes but there were small spots that had to be covered, no differential in color was allowed, so depending on the individual lady, it depicted how she was formed, that depicted how big the covering had to be. The cover could protrude, but all had to be one color, and usually had tassels. Some lady's were very adapt at putting on a show with them, twirling in unique directions with the music.

My question is does anyone here remember this? If you ever saw it, you will remember.

There was a joint on North Sheridan called The Brass Rail. There was a lady there that took a different approach to "keeping covered". She used a bed sheet.

During a whole set of songs she could flip it up, down sideways, in, out, everything to the music dragging over her stuff making impressions very visible (not illegal as long as was "covered")
She really put on a show, without showing you anything, but you wanted to see more and you would sit and drink waiting for her turn to come around again just in case of a malfunction. It never happened while I was watching.

Were any of you there?
Some of these were before my time but I do remember Ron's Playgirl Lounge at 16th and Sheridan. I remember the owner Ron Wormuth well. My father owned and managed Lady Godiva's until he recently sold it. It was on Peoria before moving to Sheridan. I also remember a dancer at Ron's who went by Lucy, she was an artist with the tassels.
 

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ok I don't remember that one, this means I'm confused and may have been confused for quite a few years...
This, JB, is not a suprise to me, I am normally confused...

if you're going south on Sheridan ( I think is there a denny's there just across the highway?) you get to the intersection of admiral and turn east... down about a block on the south side of admiral there was a restaurant there that I remember from when I was a kid. I thought it was Ma Bells. I may have gotten them all confused, I was young when they closed.

I definately remember Ma Bells itself, ordering with the telephones etc...

The restaurant I'm talking about was named something weird, before "I thought" it changed to Ma Bells...

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I remember going there as a child, I always thought that it was a strange coincidence that it was located across the street from the Southwestern Bell/ATT office (still there).
 

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Ma Bell's on Admiral. I had a buddy that worked there when we were in high school. They used to stock Heineken beer in a big cooler near the southeast door. We used to relieve them of a ton of it back in the day.

As for old strip joints, anyone remember JR's Red Carpet Lounge on 15th? That was back when topless was ok, but the door guy would look outside and if the coast was clear on the third song it all came off. Saw some pretty wild stuff there in the early 80s, including a mother/daughter team that crushed any fantasies one might have about such a situation. Just freaking gross. I saw more weird crap going on in that place than you can shake a stick at, lol. Very pregnant, cigarette smoking dancers anyone? How about a gal that can move your longneck bottle from one side of the stage to the other without using her hands?

My buddy's aunt owned the joint next to it, I pretty well came of age hanging out down there.

BTW, remember your mom telling you not to put money in your mouth, you don't know where it's been? There's a reason for that.
 

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Ron's Playgirl had nifty Budwiser 2 lamp fluorescent 4ft fixtures hanging over their pool tables that plugged into receps in the ceiling and hung by short chains. Guess one of the lamps burned out one night and they just quickly replaced the whole fixture and sat the old one outside the door by the trash bin where I happened to pull up to park one night. It still makes a unique light over my shop workbench today. One mans trash is sometimes another mans treasure. Ha Ha
 

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