The Renaissance Neighborhood History Project

  Written by a neighbor on our community facebook page which started a thread of sharing.  In order to further preserve this mosaic of memories- the History Project Blog will serve as keeper of the memories. ***** Just a thought. How about a piece of human history? Those of us old farts that have been here for however-many years (maybe 20/25 or so)? You know, our childhood/first/only home, why here, changes, old friends. Through a recent post, I've come to realize that I'm not the only one. PS- Every post needs an attention-getting photo so here's my house when I bought it in '85... I felt like Cinderella the first time I looked at it. And Impressions was right around the corner... Stella A. There's SO much that all of us can comment upon living in our old houses! For instance, -all of the rock on our house is from the Keystone Lake area. I've hauled tons of rock from around Keystone to do our gardens. The 'notch' on our chimney was empty. I carved a li...

A couple named Walt and Virginia Logan lived in the Renaissance Neighborhood at the house pictured above. They were very nice people and well liked by folks in the neighborhood.  Walt had a confection business called “Logan Concession Supply” at 326 E. 1st Street downtown. He was known for selling “Walt’s Awful Fresh Goobers,” (popcorn and hot peanuts) at high school ball games and at Skelly Stadium.  His wife, Virginia, was a school teacher. Logan owned a grouping of buildings on 1st Street between Detroit and Elgin Avenues in downtown Tulsa. His primary building held the main office and showroom. Another held the peanut roaster room and storage for some 40,000 pounds of peanuts. A third building was used to manufacture snow cone syrup and make caramel candy at Christmas time. Logan rented the upstairs of one his buildings to Ms. Pauline Lambert.  Her business operated out of the second floor from 1936 through 1979:  Tulsa's May Rooms. Pauline was a...

Juanita and Russell Bennett lived here.  The Bennetts were self taught musicians.  In the evenings when the weather was nice they'd be sitting with folks on the porch playing guitars.  And Juanita would be jig dancing.  References:  Holderman, J. (2019, October 5). Personal interview. Also present were C. Holderman and P. C. Morgan.