Casa Bonita started in OKC

[1911Sooner]

Crystals pizza had awesome games and the cartoon room to eat in.

Anyone remember Stampedes on 63rd and May? They had that huge slide and mechanical bull.

 

[druryj]

I used to about wear that flag at Casa Bonita OUT!

 

[Glock 'em down]

I used to about wear that flag at Casa Bonita OUT!

Yeah, they got sick of me hoisting the flag over and over as well. Remember the sopapillas? Melt in your mouth!

 

[Snattlerake]

Being a farm boy in NW Oklahoma I never heard of Casa Bonita until we went to the second state fair in Tulsa while in FFA. Our Ag teacher took us to it one night. He ordered a sopapilla and instead of waiting for it to cool or cutting it he grabbed it and bit into it. He then proceeded to scream, "GD that's hot!" We didn't know whether to laugh or crawl under the table as we all had our FFA jackets on with the name of our school on the back.

Mr. Harp was fanning his tongue when it all calmed down.

 

[Jestik]

That was Molly Murphys.

Did I really confuse the two that bad?

In my defense I grew up in Ardmore and Tulsa after 1998.

 

[jakeman]

I never went there but my FIL always talked about going there and getting caught in the "potty" line if you asked where the bathroom way...or something along those lines.

It was an OKC institution and the owner wrote a book about it, though for life of me I cannot remember the title of it.

I don't think that was Casa Bonita', at least I never saw that there.

Where I saw that was at Molly Muphy's down on Meridian.


edit - should have read all the way thru before posting. My bad.

 

[SPDguns]

casa bonita the zider zee and der dutchman. what was the name of that fancy place in the tower that rotated? anybody remember the hong kong express?

It was called Chandelle, Eagles Nest and finally Nicz

 

[SPDguns]

We frequented the one in Lakewood up until COVID shut them down last year. The place was nasty, I'm pretty sure it was the real epicenter of COVID! It hadn't changed in 30 years but the grandkids loved the cliff diver and the arcade. The food was decent and since the kids loved it we went every chance we could. I wouldn't travel through Lakewood without a gun, Colfax on the west side is a den of hookers, homeless and crackheads. I'd go back in an instant but the grandkids moved.

 

[AKguy1985]

I wonder if Chef is going to be the cook?

chef is gone unfortunately. R.I.P. Chef

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes

 

[Roadking Larry]

Ate at the Denver location in the 70s and later in OKC and Tulsa. My kids thought it was the greatest place in the world.

Dad was stationed at Lowery AFB in the early '70s, we ate at Casa Bonita several times while we were there. Ate at the Tulsa location both in the late '70s and early '90s