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Ed Wright

Mr. Ed Wright lived in the Renaissance Neighborhood in this house:

He owned and operated the Ed Wright Tire Company on Fifteenth Street and Florence Place, just south of Route 66. According to a book called Portrait of Route 66: Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives, Mr. Wright was well known around town for his “homespun, zany” radio advertisements. His establishment fixed flats, installed new fuel storage tanks and pumps and sold gasoline and new tires. 

Mr. Wright snapped a picture of his service station and had six thousand black-and-white postcards printed up in 1950. In later years, he and his wife, Mamie, opened a dude ranch south of Tulsa which served disadvantaged Tulsa youths. Mr. Wright was also instrumental in the founding of Snug Harbor on Fort Gibson Lake, where he boasted “the largest fishing dock in the world.”

Photograph from Curt Teich Postcard Archives.

     Photograph by A. Mueller, 10/26/2019.
References:
Baker, Lindsay T. (2016) Portrait of Route 66: Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
Holderman, J. (2019, October 5). Personal interview. Also present were C. Holderman and P. C. Morgan.



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