Storyteller: Jim Inhofe

Interviewer: Lorretta Bertalot

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Jim Inhofe relives days in Red Fork and West Tulsa with his friend Bill Huffman. Jim delivered ice and worked at his dad's Phillips 66 service station in high school. He recounts businesses such as the Cole Theater, Safeway, Cotton Henry Salvage, and Weber's Root Beer Stand. As a young adult Jim worked at the Tulsa Bus Barn. Jim served in the Air National Guard and delivered supplies to Viet Nam as a helicopter loadmaster. He remembers when the army came to tell about his Uncle Billy being MIA during WWII in 1944.

Subjects: Morningside Hospital, Cotton Henry Salvage, Safeway, Bubble gum, Crown Drug, Phillips 66 gas station, Tulsa Bus Barn, Air National Guard, Viet Nam, Jim Cadieux, Crystal City, Johnny Lee Wills, Webers' Root Beer Stand, Douglas Aircraft, TU, A & D RV and Boat Storage Cole Theater, Uncle Billy was MIA in WW 11