From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Mar 13 07:51:16 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2DEpGjb024277; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:51:16 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2DEpFY9004127 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:51:16 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2DCKmFI013299 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:20:48 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k2DCKmq4013298 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:20:48 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k2DCEIFI013224 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:14:18 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k2DEiYhG021565 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:44:34 -0700 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Mon Mar 13 07:44:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2DEiXjb021554 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:44:33 -0700 Received: from web60924.mail.yahoo.com (web60924.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.252]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k2DEiVnK031835 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:44:32 -0700 Received: (qmail 36515 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Mar 2006 14:44:27 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=AJA2vCZhyIouBC4yyluspBblnZoC4RFNj/QdyeCuAduSHaBE+OaBSpBY+eawcDc5EP8lIQqFw5q34txZoLQlGjJcTvaupGHKl8iFIxAAHFbthEuSdHqEvFzqRyZeyyp2BS78qndCTEsH2grrxJejIa9vWpVmQicWeUQoSaphE/g= ; Message-ID: <20060313144427.36513.qmail@web60924.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60924.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:44:27 PST Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:44:27 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k2DEiYhG021565 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k2DCEIFI013224 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Saturday Night In The Big Town Saturday Night In The Big Town In the 1940¡¯S Yukon, Oklahoma had a population of from 800 -1200 friendly, hard working folks. The East Edge of town ended on what is now Cornwell Street. In those days it was a narrow two lane dirt road with deep bar ditches on each side of the road and it was known as Czech Hall Road. The South end of town ended on old Czech Hall Road just after you crossed the railroad track. If it rained very hard you could not drive down that muddy road. If you lived in Yukon back in those days and it rained real hard on Saturday night, that means the dance at Czech Hall was rained out and if you were a teen agar as I was your life was just ruined! Czech Hall has always been a Family oriented place to go to dance to Czech Folk Music. You could see fathers and mothers dancing with their baby in their arms, and you could see babies lying in the middle of the table with the grandparents taking turns dancing and watching the baby. Children three years old and older could be seen dancing the polka or the Flying Dutchman In those days it was JOE & MILO BELSKY¡¯S Band that was playing every Saturday night. Their brother CHARLEY BELSKY played in the Band also. The Belskys were all wonderful people. CHARLEY had his own band that played music of "THE BIG BAND SOUND." When I was a teen agar I was smitten with one of Charlie¡¯S twins daughters BEVERLY. Beverly¡¯s grandparents, her dad, and Uncles use to take BEVERLY, CHARLOTTE, and their Aunt LILLY & I to Polka dances all over the state. When I was about 11 years old until I was old enough to drive, I went to the Czech Hall on Saturday night with my best friend EARL ED NOVAK, and his mother FRANCES NOVAK. Sometimes EARL¡¯S sister DORIS and her then boyfriend BILL CORNWELL would go with us. Those were fun times. You could count on seeing all your friends & their parents at the Saturday night dance. DORIS married our Football Captain Bill Cornwell. Her mother a widow married the handsome BEN YANDA, and lived happily ever after. I have many fond memories of Saturday night polka dancing to the BELSKY BAND with the beautiful Belsky girls and many other pretty Czech and German girls. The old mud road is now a four lane paved street named after BILL CORNWELLS Dad. In those days there was always GOOD FOLKS and GOOD THINGS HAPPENING in YUKON, OKLAHOMA at the CZECH HALL. Many of my friends met and married folks that they grew up dancing with at CZECH HALL. And the dance always ended early enough That no one had an excuse to miss Sunday school and Church the next morning. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.