What Have We Been Up To This Month?

We have added the travel exhibit "Votes for Women" to our displays when it arrived November 4th. It will be available to tour until we close for the Winter Break (now until December 19th). Come check it out soon!

In addition, we may be closed during the holiday season, but we wanted to share our holiday cheer! We had picked a 1920s theme this year. Unfortunately, we will not be having our Open House to celebrate the history of the 1920s, but we still had a great time decorating for the season!

Did You Know...?

The Euchee football team beat Nuyaka football team 129-to-0. This was for 110-lbs-and-under team. The Euchee boys were better organized, trained, and faster; even though the Nuyaka team was at least 4 lbs heavier on average. (Sapulpa Herald, November 23, 1914)

Artifact of the Month:

Election time is upon us. Here is a representative coin for John Frank, 1962.

"Representative, honest, capable, fair John Frank 1962" and embossed face with the lettering on the front.
"Oklahoma's deserve outstanding leadership for statesman" embossed lettering and outline of Oklahoma state on the back.

What Have We Been Up to This Month...

The museum is getting ready for the holiday seasons! We have projects we are currently working on, and some we can even show you. For instance,

• The new exhibition room for Local Artists is now open!
• A travel exhibit from Oklahoma Historical Society will arrive nearly 2 weeks from now - "Votes for Women: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage" Nov 4, 2020 - Jan 4, 2021.
• We will be having Christmas Open House on Thursday, December 10, from 5pm-7pm.
  • It is a 1920s theme night!

Tourism:
Tourism has picked up due to the Oklahoma Passport. Thank you, passport users! You can pick up one free, here at the museum.
The furthest tourists are from:

• In Oklahoma: Mustang, OK (approx. 113 miles away)
• In State: New York City, NY (approx. 1,400 miles away)

Then and Now Images of Sapulpa:

Do you know where this is located?

• (Then) Wafuls Millinery* at this location from 1907-1914;
  • *Bonus* Thomas Wills and his daughters in front of the building
    
• (Now) Union Creek Abstract

Answer: located at 26 E Dewey

Did You Know...

The Booker T. Washington High School football team played its first night game at Holmes Field on Thursday, October 22nd, 1931. This was the first night game which an African-American team played at the Holmes park gridiron. (Sapulpa Herald, October 21, 22, 23, 1931)

Artifact(s) of the Month:

1. 'Daisy Mona Lisa' (1950) by Richard "Dick" Ruhl,
2. 'Donald Duck Sketch' (1960) by Richard "Dick" Ruhl.

James Richard “Dick” Ruhl was born in Sapulpa in 1926. He want to Sapulpa High School, and graduated at age of 16 in 1943. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation, where he became an animator for Walt Disney Studios. He drew characters such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse during Disney’s famed “Golden Age” and retired in 1960.

What Have We Done This Month:

• We have a new mural in the Fire Museum (October)
• We have a new exhibition in the main Museum - the Local Artists Room (October)
• We are working on our plans for the Holidays & Open House
• Our Museum Director, Mike Jeffries, and the Waite Phillips Station was featured on "On the Road with Jim Jeffries" News 6. See below for the link.

Would You Like to Be More Involved:
We are reaching out to find more volunteers who love Sapulpa, and want to share its history, not only to the community but to all visitors. The shifts are:

• Thursday, 10 AM-12:30PM; 12:30 PM-3PM
• Friday, 10 AM-12:30PM
• Saturday, 10 AM-12:30PM; 12:30 PM-3PM

Tourism:
The furthest visitor outside of Sapulpa (for this month):

• In Oklahoma:  Stillwater (approx. 63 miles away),
• In U.S.: Sarasota, Florida (approx. 500 miles away).

Then and Now Images of Sapulpa

On the corner of Lee and Oak:

• (Then) First Cadillac ambulance in Sapulpa, in front of Buffington Brothers Funeral Home (later Smith Funeral Home), Presbyterian Church, circa 1920s
• (Now) First Presbyterian Church, 2019.