Storyteller: Donna Lee Savage

Interviewer: Lorretta Bertalot

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Donna tells about growing up in West Tulsa in a shotgun house with her grandparents. Close by were the Arkansas levee and the refinery trains. Her Granddad worked on the Frisco Railroad and she attended Webster High School. Donna describes the Rt 66 Historical Village and the businesses she remembers before urban renewal changed the face of West Tulsa.

Subjects: Morningside Hospital, a Shotgun house, Arkansas Flood of 1923, Sounds of the trains, Living on Olympia Street, the Rt 66 Historical Village, Rainbow Girls, neighbors using their alleys, the Cosden Trains and the Arkansas River flood before the levy development.

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