Storyteller: Shell, Harvey 2/12/2019

Interviewer: Bertalot, Lorretta

Date: 02/12/2019

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Harvey Shell loves history and has lots of stories from his youth in the Tulsa area. Harvey was born in 1923 at St. John and still lives in the home his parents moved into when he was four years old on 4320 W. 43rd Street. Here he tells stories of some infamous Tulsans. He helped build the model of the USS Tulsa which is now housed in the Tulsa Historical Museum. He worked on a spy ship, has written and published four books, has many hobbies, and loves to tell historical stories.

Subjects: Ship Builders' Club, Dave Wagoner, Parents from Oologah and Charles Page Blvd. (the Line), St. John Hospital, Boeing, Park School, Clinton Jr. HIgh, Webster High School, Billy Bruner, Opothleyahola Retreat (March from Tulsa to Kansas), Civil War, Round Mountain, Kenny Burgess, Green Peach War of 1881-82, High King Creek, Charlie Dickerson, Hanging Judge Parker, Tulsa's Hanging Tree, Indian crafts, scrimshaw and ivory, Joseph Harvey Sims, Tahlequah, Fort Gibson, Machine Gun Kelly (George Kelly Barnes), a sailor on spy ship, Beryl Ford, Jim Leak, Tony's Shoe Store, Red Fork, Crystal City, Bob Wills, Cains Ballroom, Tulsa Theater, Circle Theater, Whittier Quare, Bill's Hamburgers, Attwood Cave, Turkey Mountain, Pepsi Plant, Turkey Mountain Inscription symbols, Standing rock, railroad, 1909 underground river from Tulsa to Muscogee, Remington Stone at Remington Elementary School, archeology club, Mohawk Park.