I received an e-mail Thursday afternoon from Randy Chevrier at Paintmaster Collision Center in Tulsa that the building that once housed Parkey’s Restaurant along 11th Street (aka Route 66) near Sheridan Road in Tulsa was being torn down.
I wasn’t able to track much down about the location online, but Chevrier provided informative tidbits, including that Parkey’s once hosted the Will Rogers 645 Toastmasters Club, plus a 1950s or early ’60s postcard you see below.
Also, a poster at Tulsa TV Memories said in 2009 that the building, which had become a nightclub, “bounced from bad country to karaoke to serious pool player crowds in just the past few years. It’s a hip-hop pool player hangout right now.”
Chevrier’s recollections were that Parkey’s stopped being a restaurant in the mid-1970s and was converted into a shooting range at one point.
“I’ve passed by this building every work day for just short of 30 years,” he wrote. “It wasn’t anything special, but it had history, and I’ll miss it.”
(Images courtesy of Randy Chevrier)