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...
The Renaissance Neighborhood is defined by 11th Street on the North, 15th Street on the South, Lewis Avenue on the West and Harvard Avenue on the East. This is the heart of midtown Tulsa.