Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for part two of our community
Speaker 1: connection right here on K one, the one you trust.
Speaker 2: Are you ready for the movies?
Speaker 3: Jose, here's how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine. Good morning.
Speaker 1: We've got the Dewey Hotel and Museum. We've got the
Speaker 1: hotel Family Film Festival get ready to kick off for
Speaker 1: its second year. That first year was pretty darn good.
Speaker 4: It did, it did well. We had a good successful
Speaker 4: run of that. Uh we did hocus Pocus and oh Man,
Speaker 4: family friendly movies that we started with. You know, museums,
Speaker 4: there's they're so versatile. There's one in Tulsa that does
Speaker 4: a family film festival and we didn't know about it.
Speaker 4: We found out later that they do one also, but Austin, Texas,
Speaker 4: places other places.
Speaker 2: Things happen in museums.
Speaker 4: And so the board decided that, you know, we need
Speaker 4: to put the hotel back on the map again. Yes,
Speaker 4: And one way is reassuring the public that we're going
Speaker 4: to step into the role we used to have promoting
Speaker 4: promoting the community and the people, the culture that you
Speaker 4: live in. I mean, Dewey is a small town. I
Speaker 4: love the it is so small, and it's always been
Speaker 4: separated from Bartlesville. It's not like Broken Arrow or Sand Springs.
Speaker 4: I mean Dewey. Jake Bartles created Dewey. He moved his
Speaker 4: store up there, five miles on rollers. I tell the
Speaker 4: story every time. I'd probably get boring with.
Speaker 1: It, but the thing is, it's kind of funny. He
Speaker 1: didn't like the town that was named after him, so
Speaker 1: I moved up and made another way.
Speaker 4: Well, Peter and Johnstone worked for him, Yeah, and they
Speaker 4: learned everything they know from him, and then they started
Speaker 4: their own business promoted Bartlesville. But mister Bartles didn't hold
Speaker 4: a grudge. He said, that's ye boys, I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: move of our number one store five miles north right
Speaker 4: to the railway.
Speaker 2: Yes he did.
Speaker 4: When he put his store down, he was just a
Speaker 4: half a block from a railroad stop, and he helped
Speaker 4: bring the railroad through. But the railroad was supposed to
Speaker 4: come through down here where our new bridge is somewhere
Speaker 4: along in there. The new bridge, I believe is at
Speaker 4: the original ford in the Caney River. The one we
Speaker 4: tore down was a few feet up, but we're now
Speaker 4: in the original ford, and that's back into the eighteen
Speaker 4: nineties when Bartleswoll became a city, but mister Bartles moved
Speaker 4: his store up there and he started a whole new
Speaker 4: culture of working class people. And now we have all
Speaker 4: kinds of activities to promote that community. At Christmas of
Speaker 4: the hotel, we call it celebrating the small town Christmas.
Speaker 4: We house Santa. The city council always sends us, you know,
Speaker 4: a Santa Claus and wet G's so comfortable and it's
Speaker 4: just a great you come up.
Speaker 2: There, you do your radio.
Speaker 4: So we came up with the idea to do a
Speaker 4: film festival outside the hotel. We have a beautiful area
Speaker 4: right out between the Hitching Post Bar, which also was
Speaker 4: famous in Dewey. It is between Dewey Bar, the hotel
Speaker 4: and the bar is a nice little area, a lot
Speaker 4: and it's got a real nice smooth slab. You know,
Speaker 4: Dewey used to be the mecca for slabs cement, but
Speaker 4: you know, they're perfect, there's not a crack in it.
Speaker 4: So we kind of nicknamed it the slab Theater. You know,
Speaker 4: it's the old sixties, but we do so many presentations
Speaker 4: out there for the public that are free, and the
Speaker 4: film festival we have a big screen. It's not a
Speaker 4: little one, it's a big one, a great sound system,
Speaker 4: and we do these classic films to promote the family,
Speaker 4: but we try to put a creative touch to that.
Speaker 4: I've been pushing for a baby boomers night. Okay, baby
Speaker 4: boomers to a date night for baby boomers.
Speaker 2: They bring their grandkids.
Speaker 4: To see movie, a movie that was was an icon
Speaker 4: movie for the baby boomers when when we were kids.
Speaker 4: And so we have selected Swiss family Robinson, you know,
Speaker 4: and and they go, what what's that?
Speaker 2: You gotta say it? It's a lot of fun. You know.
Speaker 4: That's the one where the pirates come after the ship
Speaker 4: direcked people on an island and they find ways to
Speaker 4: creative ways to defend themselves.
Speaker 2: It's just a wonderful film, Walt Disney.
Speaker 4: And then we want to do a millennium night, films
Speaker 4: that are important to those generations. Just anything to get
Speaker 4: people to come out on us summer evening.
Speaker 2: Uh and and even in a cool night.
Speaker 4: We have big heaters like you see down at the
Speaker 4: downtown restaurant. Oh yes, yeah, they put out nice heat
Speaker 4: they do, and they make it up.
Speaker 2: We provide the seats. It's all free.
Speaker 4: We do take donations and we have pop We sell popcorn, okay,
Speaker 4: And I thought for the Irish movie. This new this
Speaker 4: film coming up Saturday is called The Luck of the
Speaker 4: Irish and it's also a Disney film that was filmed
Speaker 4: in two thousand and one, and there's a Leprechawn basketball
Speaker 4: there's a basketball team involved in this film, and one
Speaker 4: of the leads in the movie has access to a
Speaker 4: family of there's a Leprechaun in the works. So it's
Speaker 4: a lot of fun. But it's specifically made as a
Speaker 4: Saint Patrick's Day film and that's really cool. We try
Speaker 4: to hit all the holidays with our family film festival,
Speaker 4: and we've got other plans. We have a young man
Speaker 4: who handles. He's only twenty one years old. He is
Speaker 4: an absolute movie buff. He knows everything about movies and
Speaker 4: he's just he's real smart, you know. He's one of
Speaker 4: the kids in Bartles actually from Posca. You're smart Pasca people,
Speaker 4: but they live over here now. But he runs our
Speaker 4: film festival and he gets up and talks to everybody
Speaker 4: about the film like he's the you know, American movie classics.
Speaker 4: And then the film begins and people bring their we
Speaker 4: have charriots, but they bring their blankets and uh, we
Speaker 4: have restrooms. You know, the hotel stays open so you
Speaker 4: can come in and use the restroom and it's just nice.
Speaker 4: We've considered doing live plays out on the slab.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: It real conducive to doing the classic The Miracle Worker,
Speaker 4: the story of Helen Keller. There's a big tree, a
Speaker 4: beautiful elm tree that takes place in the play. There's
Speaker 4: a water water well. We have all of the setting
Speaker 4: for the Miracle Worker. Plus the building itself looks like
Speaker 4: the Keller home. It does and it's just perfect for
Speaker 4: the Miracle Worker. Now they come up with do you
Speaker 4: finding a Helen Keller and an Annie Sullivan to do
Speaker 4: the Big leads? Well, you can go to Dewey Middle School.
Speaker 4: We always start with Dewey since it's that's our main contraction.
Speaker 4: But you go to the Dewey and hold auditions for
Speaker 4: you know, an eight year old girl, you're gonna find one.
Speaker 4: There's there's a little talented girls out there who have
Speaker 4: that bug. So I'm very confident we could find a
Speaker 4: good little Helen Keller. And boy, they tear the stage up.
Speaker 4: Patty Duke did the Broadway and and uh and Bankrupt
Speaker 4: did the Annie on broad both of them won Tonys.
Speaker 4: Then they go and did the film and both of
Speaker 4: them won Oscars. So it's a very popular film about
Speaker 4: the popular play. And uh so we're considering that. And
Speaker 4: Shelby Brammer, the big theater director here.
Speaker 3: In movies and everything.
Speaker 4: Yes, she has she has every places in the heart,
Speaker 4: so she's wanting to direct it. We have other activities planned.
Speaker 4: We've got we're trying to do a Chake Bartles Day
Speaker 4: in June on Flag Day. They used to celebrate Jake
Speaker 4: Bartle's birthday in Dewey with a big parade and events,
Speaker 4: and so we're going to try to recreate that.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about a talent show.
Speaker 4: They're saying, well, we should we have auditions ahead of
Speaker 4: time and then narrow it down to the top twelve.
Speaker 4: And most of us are saying, it's more fun to
Speaker 4: watch the raw talent show up.
Speaker 3: Oh, you never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's part of the fun, so.
Speaker 4: You know, but how wonderful she's up there at least
Speaker 4: in front of people. So I think that's going to
Speaker 4: be fun and we want to do that on the
Speaker 4: same day, so we've got lots of activities planned for that.
Speaker 4: We're also approaching the Dewey Elementary schools. They used to
Speaker 4: bring the kids down in the spring, walk them down
Speaker 4: the street to the hotel, and they would tour the
Speaker 4: hotel find out how Dewey got its name. So we're
Speaker 4: trying to restart that.
Speaker 2: That's just a wonderful thing.
Speaker 4: When I first started working for the hotel, the kids
Speaker 4: were coming down there and restoring that tradition of bringing
Speaker 4: the elementary kids down to enjoy their hotel.
Speaker 2: And learn their history.
Speaker 4: The hotel is the first structure in Indian Territory to
Speaker 4: have electricity, you know, it's so special. Then the Rodeo,
Speaker 4: of course started in nineteen oh three. It ended in
Speaker 4: forty nine and all the famous people.
Speaker 2: In Tom Mix right next door.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and for the birthday party, were trying to do
Speaker 4: a skit, a thirty minute little play, a pageant, a
Speaker 4: small town pageant of the history of Dewey. And that's
Speaker 4: shaping up nicely. But our film festival, we're kicking it
Speaker 4: off starting this Saturday at seven point thirty and it's
Speaker 4: going to be dark enough for our big screen.
Speaker 2: We were going to.
Speaker 4: Try to do green popcorn, but it turns out only
Speaker 4: the Colonel's turned green, so we're not going to do that.
Speaker 4: But it's going to be a great night to come
Speaker 4: out and just we have the chairs or bring your
Speaker 4: own chairs, and just at dusk at seven point thirty
Speaker 4: enjoy the Luck of the Irish, another Disney classic.
Speaker 1: And once again admission is absolutely free, but you're more
Speaker 1: than welcome to purchase popcorn and make a donation.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think, considering the politics of the day, donations
Speaker 4: for nonprofits is just going to be the rule of
Speaker 4: thumb for a while. We have to just get out
Speaker 4: there and dig for the money, and donations is a
Speaker 4: great way to do that when you enjoy something a
Speaker 4: dollar bill. I mean, last fall we did a haunted
Speaker 4: house for kids.
Speaker 2: Well it went very well.
Speaker 4: It was just for little kids and it wasn't a
Speaker 4: spook house. It was a walk through watch scenes in
Speaker 4: the front parlor. We had an older lady and Dewey
Speaker 4: playing the piano and at inner ghost recital and we
Speaker 4: had lady ghosts in the room and victorian dress and
Speaker 4: the kids would step in and watch the scene until
Speaker 4: the ghosts realized that they were being watched and then
Speaker 4: the ghost would show them out, so it was just
Speaker 4: a little glimpse and you moved to.
Speaker 2: The next room.
Speaker 4: Tom Mix was in there, and it really worked out.
Speaker 4: And we charged one dollar to go through, one dollar,
Speaker 4: and that makes it affordable when dad takes the kids
Speaker 4: down for trunk retreat, Dad, Dad, we want to go
Speaker 4: in now haunted house and huh, it's not an eight
Speaker 4: dollar ticket or ten dollars, it's one dollar. So families
Speaker 4: could afford it. And it took a lot of money
Speaker 4: to put it together, but it was sure worth it. Again,
Speaker 4: put in the emphasis back on the Dewey Hotel and
Speaker 4: the history of Dewey and the people who still live
Speaker 4: there and have that source of independence. It's from Bartlesville.
Speaker 4: I believe Bartle's will and do it. Used to play football,
Speaker 4: I was told, and that Dewey was a little tough
Speaker 4: on Bartlesville, the old kids versus the every days and
Speaker 4: Dewy and so they had to stop that. It just
Speaker 4: got two out of hand. That's all right, you know,
Speaker 4: No Water still plays them. No Water's a tough town too,
Speaker 4: old boy, are they?
Speaker 1: Yeah, But you know, I got to tell you this
Speaker 1: is great and we are going to do a little
Speaker 1: bit of a news story on this, So folks, if
Speaker 1: they missed a little bit of it, we've got it here.
Speaker 3: We're going to do a podcast.
Speaker 1: It's already recording, so probably within the hour of the
Speaker 1: podcast to be ready. And of course they can watch
Speaker 1: the Facebook live on this so that they don't miss
Speaker 1: a minute. That way they can go back and catch
Speaker 1: everything that we've been talking about today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, thanks for being in.
Speaker 4: Thank you Tom, all right, thank you for your contribution
Speaker 4: to this community.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I'll tell you what plan on dying here.
Speaker 3: You can't. That's a big compliment around these parts. You can't.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of folks who I'm going to
Speaker 1: be moving on someplace. I'm going to retire and go
Speaker 1: someplace else.
Speaker 3: Not me.
Speaker 4: Well, when I was a kid, Bartleville was a targeted
Speaker 4: retirement community.
Speaker 1: Well it's a it's a great place to live, and
Speaker 1: it's a great place to afterwards.
Speaker 4: I guess, well it is. You know, a memorial park
Speaker 4: is beautiful. My family's out there in White Rose. And
Speaker 4: then we've got Hillside down by Sky too. Lots of
Speaker 4: Barshons are buried down there.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can do a historic thing of the cemeteries
Speaker 1: one of these days too.
Speaker 3: But right now, let's go to the hotel.
Speaker 2: Let's stick with the hote, with the living folks.
Speaker 3: Thank you, do you