Category Archives: Signs

Signs – Morning Line Church

Spotted close to a huge Indian Casino in southern Oklahoma

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The chapel is not a gimmick nor is it the latest and greatest in “Name it, Claim it” Prosperity Gospel,  it houses a hard working chaplain for a local horse race track. It is part of The Race Track Chaplaincy of America a network of 62 chaplains all across America. As described in The Surebet Racing News:


“In addition to holding weekly services and prayer meetings, many racetrack Chaplains also perform marriages, officiate at funerals, and serve as marriage counselors, drug counselors. They are good listeners. Much as with your traditional Minister, they do whatever is needed. That is their calling.”

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Signs – Delacroix Corp.

I’ve been walking a lot around New Orleans the last couple days. I found a few caches and took lots of photographs.
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I noticed that on consecutive days I took photographs of this building, labelled Delacroix Corp.,

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I just love the building. First the green color. I love that green, and the big windows. Second the silvery letters for the sign with the two different fonts, part script and part block letters, and the rakish angle in the Delacroix. It’s written with flair, and then the down to earth Corp.

Third, the mysteriousness of it, Who knows what Delacroix does? I mean its not a restaurant, nor a tshirt shop. They don’t have a web site but they have a some sort of mysterious connection to the oil and gas business. The president of the firm is a third degree connection to me in Linked In. The ground floor windows are glass blocks.

What’s going on in there?

I just love the French Quarter. It has its secrets.

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Signs – Holy Joe’s Christian Nightspot

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Knocking around the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow Saturday night we happened upon Holy Joes’s Christian Nightspot in what looked to be an old feed store.

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The signage looked to be new and the porch lights were on but it wasn’t open. Maybe because it was the night before Easter.

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They had an old schoolbus with some major air conditioning and an old ambulance.

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Not much online about them and what is there is eight years old. A confusing story about how they gather up people from the homeless shelters and camps around town and bring them in to enjoy music and refreshments (non alcoholic) receive counseling and help in getting jobs as well as providing basic hygiene items like toothbrushes and toothpaste. All very good stuff.

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If you know anything about Holy Joe’s Christian Nightspot let the rest of us know.

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Signs – A Seasonal Moustache

Must Stash Store

Must Stash is a store across the street from my favorite bagel place. This morning I decided that I liked their window display. I love shopping at independent stores, especially those that take pride in their displays like this.

Have you got your green ready for Saint Patrick’s Day, or do you like getting pinched?

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Signs, Signs – Central Library

I’m a big fan of libraries. Tulsa has an excellent system of libraries scattered all over the City and County of Tulsa.
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Two views of the sign at the west door for Central Library of the Tulsa City County Library System.

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You’ll find me at lunch at the library two or three times a week using their free wifi to play Scrabble and Words with Friends on my ipod or actually checking out books. I’ve been doing that for about 20 years now.

My fellow patrons are in doing their homework, listening to music, reading newspapers and magazines. For some, they are getting a respite from the cold. Everybody is treated with respect. I love libraries.

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Occupy Tulsa

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I went out at lunch today to check out the Occupy Tulsa site at 6th and Boston today.

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There wasn’t a whole lot going on. If there was ever a peaceable assembly of people this would be it. There were more tents than people.

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Shoot, there were more spectators than participants.

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Their campsite looked more like geocaching campout site than a protest. It was neat and orderly, no litter around, everything put away. The tents were put up properly, they had to be since the wind had 28 mph gusts. Overall they do a neater job than most Boy Scout camps I’ve been around.

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Followup – Apparently Nine Protesters were arrested early (around 2 am) this morning by Tulsa Police. The Police used pepper spray on some of the people they arrested.