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Speaker 2: I've got Joe Sears in here, and we must be
Speaker 2: talking about things happening around doing in the hotel in
Speaker 2: the museum.
Speaker 3: Yes, on the fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my goodness, sakes, we got a lot going on.
Speaker 2: First of all, congratulations for the Bartle's celebration that we.
Speaker 3: Had Cake Bartle's Day birthday. Yeah, that was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that performance. You had pretty good little lackers out there.
Speaker 3: Yes, there was from the acting community here in Bartlesville.
Speaker 3: They came out and volunteered put on a good show.
Speaker 3: We had about one hundred and forty people. It was
Speaker 3: a really good showing. The hotel was very pleased, and
Speaker 3: we're thinking of doing it every year on Jake Bartle's Day.
Speaker 3: You should, well, I think, so change up the script
Speaker 3: a little and have a talent show. We're going to
Speaker 3: extend it next year to Washington County's got talent so
Speaker 3: that the more of the area people can participate. But
Speaker 3: our initial year, we thought we'd better start off with
Speaker 3: Dewey and thank you for being a judge.
Speaker 1: Oh, I had a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great, and you got an opportunity to sing,
Speaker 3: you know, as a time filler. You did very well.
Speaker 1: Always should throw up the ham, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then there was that lady who said I
Speaker 3: got some jokes. Boy, she did, and she did. I
Speaker 3: said you could do five jokes. They were fun jokes.
Speaker 1: They were fun, all clean. Yeah again funny. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When you give someone permission to do something like that,
Speaker 3: you keep your fingers crossed. I can imagine how you
Speaker 3: guys on the radio feel about those things.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we just see Joe's coming. No, I'm
Speaker 2: only kidding now, Joe, you brought friends today.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have a guest. This is Diane Fallis and
Speaker 3: she's our storyteller at the hotel. She several times a
Speaker 3: year during the holiday she comes in with special stories Valentine's, Christmas,
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving with stories of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. And she's
Speaker 3: going to I'll let her tell you about it. But
Speaker 3: she's our Fourth of July. On Friday the fourth, at
Speaker 3: eleven am, Diane does a short program of stories with
Speaker 3: the Fourth of July. And so, Diane, thank you for
Speaker 3: coming today.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you I'm originally from Boston and I was
Speaker 4: a teacher librarian there and I met my husband online
Speaker 4: and moved out here twenty three years ago.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: And I've been telling stories here since two thousand and three.
Speaker 4: But I decided to research the fourth of July in Oklahoma,
Speaker 4: and it's amazing. We had one hundred and four turtle races.
Speaker 4: We had we had one snake race, and then we
Speaker 4: had a couple of.
Speaker 5: Armadillo races.
Speaker 4: A snake race, yes, they only did it once because
Speaker 4: they didn't all the directions on.
Speaker 1: Top of that paint a number on.
Speaker 4: Well, the turtles, they just put a fish in the
Speaker 4: middle and then they put the numbers on their back
Speaker 4: and whoever gets there first gets the first hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well that's I'm just snapping turtle and box turtles,
Speaker 3: every kind of turtle.
Speaker 5: Any kind of turtle, right, gosh and else.
Speaker 4: Then we have the cow chip Capital of Oklahoma in Beaver, Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: When you come to Beaver, you see Bucky Beaver. He's
Speaker 4: eighteen feet tall and he's always there. And they've been
Speaker 4: running this up cow Chip since the fifties and it's
Speaker 4: still going on even today. Anybody can join in.
Speaker 3: And at one time, wasn't that the cow chip wasn't
Speaker 3: just a woman's activity, or is it now open every
Speaker 3: it's it's open to everybody, everybody else. I thought originally
Speaker 3: that had been a woman's competition because they used the
Speaker 3: buffalo chips to cook with as pioneer women. Yeah, on
Speaker 3: the Oregon Trail.
Speaker 4: And well they got fancier when they the first turtle
Speaker 4: race was at the one on One Ranch and we
Speaker 4: had all kinds of people come out of one of Tom.
Speaker 5: Mix Will Rogers, Annie Oakley.
Speaker 3: But that was Annie Oakley from Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: No, okay, no, she was She was deserted her family
Speaker 4: because they were beating her, and so she, at the
Speaker 4: age of fourteen, she started her first competition and she
Speaker 4: was up against this other fellow and she kept beating them.
Speaker 5: So the husband he became the husband.
Speaker 3: So what about the Armadello races?
Speaker 4: Oh, the Armadello races were popular because they would tell everybody,
Speaker 4: don't run over them, just try to catch them. And
Speaker 4: they'd put two fish in the circle, and of course
Speaker 4: the first bunch had to be trained to go this way,
Speaker 4: and towards the end of the they did that for
Speaker 4: about four years and then what for whatever reason, they
Speaker 4: got up, they started dying off so they couldn't.
Speaker 5: Do the race anymore.
Speaker 4: They started raising their own but even then they just
Speaker 4: didn't didn't work out.
Speaker 3: But it was a heck of a heck of a deal.
Speaker 3: Yes it was.
Speaker 4: And I'm from Massachusetts and I had never heard of
Speaker 4: maternal race, and you know.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't make sense in Massachusetts. Well, it probably Boston.
Speaker 4: And of course, of course there was a Dewey Hotel,
Speaker 4: the Dewey round Up and Will Rogers used to play
Speaker 4: there and it was always the third, fourth, and fifth.
Speaker 5: Of the month.
Speaker 4: And we still can't figure out how they got twenty
Speaker 4: thousand people and eventually fifty thousand people and dew we.
Speaker 3: And they camped. I understand there was a lot of
Speaker 3: camping had to be yeah, yeah, And I understand that
Speaker 3: that that popularity carries on to the Pahusca Cavalcade, that
Speaker 3: they liked to camp over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
Speaker 3: What a tradition in my goodness. Anyway, her show is Saturday,
Speaker 3: Friday morning, fourth of July at eleven am at the
Speaker 3: Hotel Lobby. It's it's donations only. Yeah, but she has
Speaker 3: a following. But we thought we would bring her on
Speaker 3: and get new audiences. You know, people have guests from
Speaker 3: out of town on the fourth. This is the perfect thing.
Speaker 2: So bring your family that's not been around for a
Speaker 2: little bit, or maybe their first time to open.
Speaker 3: Actually, we had a family show up at one of
Speaker 3: her storytellings. I remember that the family came in with like,
Speaker 3: you know, about two five kids. Yeah, they all just
Speaker 3: loved it. And that's what's fun about the Dewey Hotel
Speaker 3: as we're trying to have events that attract people to
Speaker 3: the history of the icon of the it's being painted
Speaker 3: right now. It's all sanded down and one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five years the building was celebrated one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five years. But Diane does several events during the
Speaker 3: year and Veterans Day included. We just looked for any
Speaker 3: excuse to do storytelling.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we got to bring you in.
Speaker 4: We did.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: I don't know any of the state that had turtle
Speaker 5: races and.
Speaker 4: Well maybe the couch hip was in other places, but
Speaker 4: Oklahoma was the only place I found that had all
Speaker 4: of this sneat stuff.
Speaker 1: My god, you pretty unique.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He was always on the fourth of July. Yes, that's
Speaker 3: so cool.
Speaker 4: In fact, it started back in eighteen eighty nine in
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City after the first land Run, and they wanted
Speaker 4: to get people to come, so they talked to the railroad,
Speaker 4: and the railroad made it cheap for them to home,
Speaker 4: and they had a grand stand and ten thousand people.
Speaker 4: But the day before it started, the grand stand fellow.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, Well that's what happened eventually to the Dewey
Speaker 3: round up. The grand steadon collapsed after a big rainstorm
Speaker 3: and a couple of clowns shot off guns and there
Speaker 3: were horses.
Speaker 1: These were real clowns, folks, not.
Speaker 3: Real clowns, but the horses bolted and started to shimmying
Speaker 3: effect and cause that stadium to collapse. Well, then on
Speaker 3: Saturday of the fourth of July weekend, we're doing the
Speaker 3: Family Film Festival. We're showing The Music Man.
Speaker 1: I was the music band in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3: Who did you play, Harold Hill? Oh my gosh, yeah,
Speaker 3: right here here city. Well, we googled Fourth of July
Speaker 3: movies and The Music Man was like number one in
Speaker 3: the nation for top fourth of July movies, and so
Speaker 3: nothing perfect for an outdoor showing, you know, and.
Speaker 1: Nice Iowa picnic.
Speaker 3: It's see ioa way. Yeah, it's a great music. Well,
Speaker 3: I remember when that came out as a kid, I
Speaker 3: was early Broadway. I just anything Broadway. I like music.
Speaker 3: But the movie I went and sell the movie over
Speaker 3: and over again, and it's just a great it's a
Speaker 3: baby boomer classic. And so anyway, that's going to happen
Speaker 3: at eight thirty on July fifth, Saturday night of the
Speaker 3: fourth of July weekend, and it's free, and there's a
Speaker 3: concession and we have chairs all set up and hopefully
Speaker 3: a beautiful summer evening there you go. So far it's
Speaker 3: staying pretty cool out there and no rain. My god,
Speaker 3: we've got plenty of rain.
Speaker 2: Now, these movies that we have outdoors, they've really been
Speaker 2: working well for the hotel, haven't they.
Speaker 4: They have.
Speaker 3: We've had to cancel a couple because of the weather.
Speaker 3: But you know, if that's what happens when you do
Speaker 3: outdoor events. So we're hoping that, you know, with now
Speaker 3: in the summertime, if it gets too hot, even the
Speaker 3: evening is too hot, but right now June is in
Speaker 3: July fourth it's too irresistible. And then then in the
Speaker 3: fall we have an event planning where we're doing. We're
Speaker 3: going to revive He'll Billy Heaven. You know, a few
Speaker 3: years ago we did that at the Heritage Theater in
Speaker 3: Dewey and it was a big hit and all the
Speaker 3: country western stars come out and sing their favorite songs,
Speaker 3: and it's it's a musical review. And we've got the
Speaker 3: original cast trying to commit, but we've got some new
Speaker 3: We finally found us a George Jones.
Speaker 1: That's a hard fit, yeah it is.
Speaker 3: He sings she stopped he Stopped Loving Her Today, which
Speaker 3: you know we were discussed. Now that's a hard one
Speaker 3: to sing because he has that's considered to be the
Speaker 3: number one country Western song ever written. But you know,
Speaker 3: we've got a guy who can do him. And we
Speaker 3: have a Tammy Wynette. In our last production she sang
Speaker 3: stand by Your Man. But in the Willie Neilson production,
Speaker 3: the first one. We've done this show several times, Willie's
Speaker 3: it was the first Tammy Wynette sang I don't want
Speaker 3: to play House and that was a big hit. So
Speaker 3: we've got a Kitty Wells, an older lady who sings
Speaker 3: Kitty Wells, and we've lost our Loretta Lynn. She had
Speaker 3: to go to work. We don't have a Mama cass
Speaker 3: Elliott anymore, so you know, we just we're looking for
Speaker 3: a Brenda Lee and we're gonna hold auditions throughout Don
Speaker 3: Tyler Park. David Valdez who runs a karaoke here in Bartlesville.
Speaker 3: He's going to have a series of karaoke sessions at
Speaker 3: the Pavilion and Don Tyler Park, and there's three of
Speaker 3: them schedule for the summer. And that gives people an
Speaker 3: opportunity to pick out the singers. We've asked you to
Speaker 3: show up and do Alroy Clark for us. Anyway, That's
Speaker 3: where we get our cast members is through the karaokes.
Speaker 3: It gives them a chance. That's where you find singers
Speaker 3: who can imitate the real artists. Some of them are
Speaker 3: professional band members and singers, but most of them are
Speaker 3: karaoke people and they sing really well. They won't have
Speaker 3: any theatrical experience. It's hard at first, it was hard
Speaker 3: to get to come to rehearsals. They're going, what's that.
Speaker 2: It's where we put the whole show together, sometimes in pieces,
Speaker 2: but it all comes together.
Speaker 3: They don't like to show up, have a cold beer,
Speaker 3: and when their turn comes they get up and sing,
Speaker 3: but they have a good time.
Speaker 1: Where do they think they are in Nashville?
Speaker 3: Karaoke is a great way. It's good for the mental health.
Speaker 3: It is it is to get out there and get
Speaker 3: up in front of people, no matter what the circumstances.
Speaker 3: It's always healthy to do that and keep the mind going.
Speaker 3: But you never know the talent. We did a revival
Speaker 3: of it. We tried to start one up in Independence.
Speaker 3: Didn't have any luck up in Independence putting a show together.
Speaker 3: But down here in the Bartletsfield area, well, we have
Speaker 3: lots of singers.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 3: So we've got that coming up through the summer and
Speaker 3: that's going to be the Western Heritage Day's weekend in
Speaker 3: the fall. Our Western Heritage Day is October the eleventh,
Speaker 3: and we're doing H'll be Heaven on the tenth in
Speaker 3: the twelfth and we're doing it outside between the hitching
Speaker 3: Post and the hotel. We have a nice slab out there.
Speaker 3: It's going to have lights in the stage and so
Speaker 3: we're looking forward to that. We're moving forward with the
Speaker 3: Dirty Dewey Hotel on doing more entertainment events and we're
Speaker 3: going to sell tickets to We're going to sell it
Speaker 3: for ten dollars a chair at stand around if you want,
Speaker 3: but if you want to sit and listen to the show.
Speaker 3: And so it's going to turn into a fundraiser. So
Speaker 3: we got a lot of events coming up.
Speaker 1: Well, this is going to be great, and of course
Speaker 1: don't miss it.
Speaker 2: We've got the storytelling coming up on the fourth and
Speaker 2: that's at eleven a m.
Speaker 3: The lobby at the hotel.
Speaker 2: Come in and enjoy the history of the lobby and
Speaker 2: then enjoy the history of the stories.
Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, I tell you why.
Speaker 2: Every time I come into that lobby I see something new, Yes,
Speaker 2: something old, but new new to me.
Speaker 1: Is it around a while?
Speaker 3: We had some people. We had a donation of Berlin
Speaker 3: Victorian furniture that we put in the parlor is just
Speaker 3: really really beautiful. It's a chaperone set, the chaperone set
Speaker 3: in the middle and the couple on the ends, and
Speaker 3: but sure looks nice and Nanny Bartell's parlor very good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you both for coming in and
Speaker 1: we'll see on the.
Speaker 3: Fourth, right, fourth of July.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Tom, You've been watching listening to
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