WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:04.960 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome, 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:07.759 And it's time now for our community connection right here on Gay one, 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:11.400 the one you trust, and we're gonna get a little bit of a history 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.720 lesson today and we're gonna find out how to preserve a little bit of history 5 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:18.960 here too, because we have Joe Sears and Ron Adams and both of them 6 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:23.920 are here on behalf of the Dewey Hotel Museum. And welcome gentlemen. First 7 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:26.800 of all, thank you Tom, good more of you Donald. All right, 8 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.359 Well, you know, Ron, I understand we got a little bit 9 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:34.520 of a fundraiser for the hotel, but it's a very specific project, that's 10 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:40.000 right. We're we're looking to try to raise about sixty thousand, sixty thousand, 11 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:45.920 sixty five thousand dollars to paint the old Grand Old Lady of the Grand 12 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:52.399 Prairie, the big Dewey Hotel where we do the Christmas paride from every years. 13 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:56.479 Right now, now, Joe, that's a pretty what kind of paint 14 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:03.200 y'all use it? Well, they're Dewey Tel Museum is a National Register of 15 00:01:03.319 --> 00:01:11.439 Historic Places. Yeah, along with that come all kinds of stipulations to preserve 16 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.920 these things. If if you're going to get grants to help preserve these things, 17 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.040 that you have to follow their directions and they want it done precisely so 18 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.120 that you know, it doesn't have to be done for another decade. So 19 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:29.239 it is expensive. It's more much more expensive for a historical place. And 20 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:33.000 that's what we're looking at. You know, We've got thirty thirty one rooms 21 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:38.480 with all the windows there's that have to be foamed and if there's any standing 22 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.840 that takes place, it has to be done right. So expensive, Yeah, 23 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:48.159 labor intense. Oh yeah, man, well you just imagine too. 24 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.040 You gotta you gotta prime. It's great, primate and in paint, you 25 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.760 know, yeah, I mean it's just not it's like any other house, 26 00:01:55.959 --> 00:02:00.239 you know. But the size of it is what makes a job, I 27 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:06.359 mean huge. And the shape. The shape. It's the first. It's 28 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:10.319 a Victorian New England Victorian structure. It's the only structure of its kind in 29 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:16.520 Oklahoma. It was the first structure to receive electricity in Indian Territory and it 30 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.680 was going to be torn down in the mid sixties. I was a teenager 31 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:27.719 getting ready to head off to college about that time, and they decided to 32 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:31.120 turn it into a museum and they wouldn't tear it down, but a group 33 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:36.400 of Dewey citizens saved it. Yea, and thank goodness because it's it's really 34 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.639 the cradle of a lot of our history in the area. Jake Bartles built 35 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:45.039 it, and he was originally a New jerseyman who came to Kansas to test 36 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:50.400 out the prairie. His family were big agricultural people, you know, and 37 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:53.560 he went. He heard Kansas was very fertile. But while he was there 38 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.719 in Kansas, the Civil War started and he joined the Union, and he 39 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:02.840 was Kansas was a new neutral state. The Confederacy had told the five civilized 40 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.319 tribes, you're either with us or against us. You better join us because 41 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:12.680 we're not going to tolerate an invasion from Kansas to Texas and Arkansas. So 42 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.919 they placed troops up in here, and mister Bardell's was a part of the 43 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:20.520 Union forces that came down here to work their nerve and just let them know 44 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:27.439 you don't have complete control of Indian territory. So this area here, interestingly, 45 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:32.479 Highway sixty was called the California Highway, the California Yeah, and it 46 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:38.680 hugged Kansas still does, but it kept the white people out of the middle 47 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.439 of the Indian nations because there was really no law to protect white people. 48 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:46.400 Those were Indian nations and you had no business being in there unless you were 49 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.840 a US marshal. I think Texas Rangers were allowed to go in there. 50 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:55.479 And the laws that governed Indian territory were out of Fort Smith and the Hanging 51 00:03:55.639 --> 00:04:03.759 Judge, Judge Parker. It was tough times at Ridgemont highm Now you know 52 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:10.080 why they call us the porch Stokers. Yeah, but there's a lot of 53 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:15.759 history to the Dewey Hotel and Jake Bartle's and we just happened to be board 54 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:20.079 members and working for the you know, we're of the generation the historic the 55 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:26.560 Washington County Historical Society saved the old hotel back in the mid sixties. Yeah, 56 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:30.720 and it takes fundraising. So we're having a big buffet on October the 57 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.279 seventh. Yea and Ron, where are we holding this thing? I'm sorry, 58 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.319 where are we holding this buffet? All at the Barsville Masonic Lads? 59 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:42.319 Oh, you know a lot of great meals have been half Yeah, and 60 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.759 we've had and you know, of course I'm a I belong to the Masonic 61 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:50.839 laws. So we've helped a lot of nonprofit organizations with our breakfast that we've 62 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:55.920 had out there, and uh, you know, that was something that we've 63 00:04:55.959 --> 00:05:00.800 always taken pride of being as charity, you know, and I'm glad that 64 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.600 we've done so much to help the different organizations here in town. Well how 65 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.519 much does it cost to slap on a bib and enjoy some good food? 66 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:13.639 Well advanced tickets. We got him on himself for eight dollars and then at 67 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.680 the door it's ten. And it's quite a feed for that much money. 68 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:24.399 My goodness, as that's a great proces. Yeah. Price the old fashioned 69 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:27.920 Mika markets, the break caters, Yeah, we got the good we went 70 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:32.879 first class. We're sure dead and uh boy, I mean we've got like 71 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:39.160 Hammond beans and corn bread and bit red vegetable beak stews, chili chili. 72 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.240 If you want a Freedo chili pie or a hot dog, we've even got 73 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.759 that. I'm gonna line up for the Freedo pot. Yeah. And then 74 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:53.279 we got the BlackBerry copper and Jerry copper yeah, and afforded cookies. Yeah. 75 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:57.199 And the community has come out, I mean, the merchants are we're 76 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.800 having a silent auction. Now you don't have to be there to win, 77 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:04.240 okay, but we're the lots of merchants are coming through and what they don't 78 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:10.279 do a silent auction. They're giving rang money. And it's amazing how people 79 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:15.639 want to help the old Dewey Hotel. And well, it's just it's one 80 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:17.839 of the icons of the area. We can go to Dewey there it is, 81 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:23.160 you know, and tourism. We know how important tourism is. You 82 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:27.560 guys see a lot of folks. Well, yeah, surprisingly, you know, 83 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.879 I for a long time I wondered about that, and we looked at 84 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.839 our register. There's people from all over the United States and even some foreign 85 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:39.959 countries that I had a land from Turkey the other day. I sure did. 86 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:42.720 Yeah. So you guys, you're talking about being ports talker. You 87 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:46.879 guys are actually kind of guides there at the hotel. Yeah, but we 88 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:55.680 got our rocking cheers out character. We're part of the character of that court. 89 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:59.879 We can sure come up with some story too. Well. I tell 90 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.720 tours when they come in that this lobby is pretty much what it originally looked 91 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:12.160 like. But all the history that the hotel opened in nineteen hundred and all 92 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:16.839 the history events that have taken place between nineteen hundred and now we're announced in 93 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:23.519 that lobby and discussed in that lobby, and both sides of all three party, 94 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:29.160 the Whigs, the Republicans. It's always faced a controversy and discussion and 95 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:34.079 it's still I am amazed at something will happen and the people the discussions of 96 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:36.959 it in the lobby, and I sit there thinking this is what it's all 97 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.639 about. For a hundred years, this old lobby has you heard our American 98 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:47.079 history and discussed it pros and cons and probably kicked off the porch. We 99 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.319 have a poker room up there where one is always going to ask about that. 100 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.560 They told me about that that time it came up there with the TV 101 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:59.439 camera they had up there. Two men have been shot in that poker room, 102 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.720 one and drug out to die on the law. But it was built 103 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:09.319 as a poker room. There's an outside room and nobody goes into the poker 104 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:15.319 room until somebody comes out. And there's lots of famous people from John Wayne 105 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.079 Lodgers, and they've even got a bed at Beair in case the old boys 106 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:22.920 would get hired. They let him take an that's right, They wouldn't let 107 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.279 them. Can't leave yet, you know. And then they got another private 108 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:35.000 bedroom a pair that they had the backstairs for for the evening round. I 109 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.840 guess you like you know nanny who helped build that hotel. She was a 110 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.559 chief's daughter of the Delaware Nation. She was educated and had money and it 111 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.639 was her land alotment. And when they bring up the idea of there being 112 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.679 you know, hanky panky going on, you gotta remember this lady started the 113 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:56.320 first Baptist church in the area. Okay, I doubt seriously she tolerated the 114 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:01.480 backstair. But then again other people will say, well, she was a 115 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:09.960 business wal her and Jake well and then tulor their son Joe became I meant, 116 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:15.200 really a prominent you know person two with starting to do around that he 117 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:20.200 did, which became the third largest rodeo in the United States attached in North 118 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.120 America. Yeah, yeah, and just hard to mission. You look at 119 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:31.279 those pictures up there that round up the fair grounds was huge and the number 120 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.879 of people there was one picture there I think it's for forty some a thousand 121 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:39.960 people come to that rodeo. They had forty thousand people over a three day 122 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:45.320 period for three rodeo in one hotel. Yeah. Well the hotel was really 123 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:50.799 exotic. They had they served a wild game. They had two bakeries going 124 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:56.240 twenty four hours a day. Oh my goodness for bread. They just they 125 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:00.759 had a store up there that was like a Reezers store of it's from a 126 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:05.000 pretty high end for Indian territory. And it used to be in Bartlesville. 127 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.799 And the railroad didn't come through the Bartlesville area where where mister bartles wanted it 128 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:13.480 to. So he just put his store on rollers and took it to do 129 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.639 it. Yeah, took him eighty eight days. It stayed open, and 130 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.240 I mean it was all intact. Yeah, we're talking about a two story 131 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:26.440 mercantile, that's right. Yeah. Wow, and used oxen and brought that 132 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.279 thing up. That's what blows my mind. Well, but when he put 133 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:33.720 that, he put the store down where the Tom Mix's Museum is now, 134 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.840 and now he was half a block from the railroad stuff. Yeah, so 135 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:45.840 he had one before Bartlesville did. But do you know that old dooy Is 136 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.279 has its own entity. It's always been its own little town. It's not 137 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.960 a part of Bartlesville. Oh, it's always it's always been its own little 138 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:58.039 special place. And at Christmas we celebrate the small town Christmas at the hotel. 139 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:01.559 Santa comes and I love so fun. And you know, I made 140 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.279 a mistake first time I was there. I asked the lead you at the 141 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:07.120 front desk, I said, I got some equipment here, y'all got an 142 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:16.120 elevator. School sir, this is a historic for my bad. Yeah, 143 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.799 I think. What's so fun an when people bring their children, Yeah, 144 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:26.240 and they see like their spit tunes, you know, you tell them what 145 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:30.000 it what it is, and then the chamber pots. Yeah, oh yeah, 146 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:31.799 yeah, they just kid. They flip out on it, so they 147 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.399 don't they have no idea that at one time people had to use chamber pots. 148 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.399 There was no modern plumbing in the hotel there until the thirties. But 149 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:46.639 somebody had every day, you know, clean and empty the chamber. Imagine 150 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:52.440 that job. Yeah, I hope they gave her minimum. Way, my 151 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:54.799 goodness, Well, we're getting kind of skinny on time. I want to 152 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.759 remind everybody that we do have the fundraiser here. It's for the painting for 153 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:03.879 the hotel. Then because of its historic registration, it's going to be done 154 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:07.759 in a specific way, so we need a race between fifty five and sixty 155 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:11.919 thousand dollars and we're doing. Boy, you're gonna be serving a lot of 156 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:13.720 meals at ten bucks up pop. Yeah, but if you get them early, 157 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.799 it's only eight bucks. And we're going to do that out at the 158 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:24.279 at what Sonic Lage Sonic lawge Fry, October the seventh. What time is 159 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.519 that? It's the evening. It's an evening five to eight eight. We 160 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.240 figured we figured that was going to be our best time to have it. 161 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:35.559 I'll be hungry by then. Yeah. Well and all of the there's a 162 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:41.720 raffle during the fifty fifty, but all of it. You don't have to 163 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:43.080 be there to win. That's a good part, Okay, good thing, 164 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:48.840 and we've got to carry out. It's available to read and beans for a 165 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:54.639 week. Math man or mister a Dan out there at prices beating. He 166 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.919 knows how to fix it. Oh beach is good. Now, how do 167 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.960 we get the tickets? Do we just stop by the hotel? You can 168 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.919 you can stop by the by the hotel and you also buy them online through 169 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:13.440 our website which is wc HS dot org or through fakesbook. Do we hit 170 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:18.039 do helptel museum that way, it's said up. Okay, so you do 171 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.960 that way too, could yeah, we might easy could come. Yeah. 172 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.279 And then there's there's a few of us that you know, do have some 173 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.080 sales ability, you know, and we're kind of floating around town, you 174 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.879 know, sell them out of pocket, you know. Well, I'm gonna 175 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.159 tell you they're gonna go fast at eight to ten dollars. Yea, and 176 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.600 little guys you don't have to worry about that. But well, this is 177 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:39.639 gonna be a lot of fun and it's gonna be you know, a great 178 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:43.440 cause. And you know, fellas stop buy here an each whole time. 179 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.559 You got a project. Okay, thank you, thank The door is always 180 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.919 open, and we'll see you around Christmas started. Yeah, we'll be up 181 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:54.120 there for the parade. It might even be up there for Heritage Days. 182 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.840 I think we put we go right there. Oh yeah, that's coming up 183 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.919 the poorteen. We watch out for the cost next weekend. Oh we don't 184 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:03.720 feed along word alright, take care