Comments on: Getting Braum's Attention

By: Don Liston

Don Liston — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:38:53 +0000

I returned to Oklahoma very recently. I wanted to visit relative and friends there and put flowers on the grave of my 104 year old uncle who died two years ago in Henryetta. I had visited him several times and took him over to Braum’s for lunch or dinner. That was my first experience with their business.
On this trip through a lot of Oklahoma, my daughter and I stopped at every Braum’s until she realized that she might just as well stop before I even asked. It all began in the 1930′s when my father managed the filling station directly inside of the stockyard gate. I would go to see him at work and he would give me enough money to buy us a chocolate sundae or chocolate malt at the drugstore just outside of the gate. Until he died and until my Uncle Woodie died in Henryetta, I would take them to the best ice cream parlor for a chocolate malt, etc.
I live in Alaska now and we no longer have a dairy operating here. Every drop of milk and almost all farm produce is brought in by barge or airplane. I’m 81 now so I don’t imagine that I will live to see a Braum’s or other place operating here. We do have the franchise places that charge about $2.00 per dip of ice cream which we happily pay.
As much as I love the beauty and land that is Alaska, I do think for a few moments about returning to the state of my birth.

By: Nick Roberts

Nick Roberts — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:45:18 +0000

Jay, you just copy + pasted the same comment for all of the Braums posts. I’m starting to think you hate Braums. How could you?!?

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:34:20 +0000

The lack of a large grocery store is old news and is not required for successful living conditions in the Downtown area. Downtown Dallas has very limited grocery availability and the population living downtown is much larger and continues to grow.

Downtown Oklahoma City is looking great and it only needs more affordable housing for the younger people whom would like to live there. Living in the inner city is much more about housing prices, product, and entertainment than a full service grocery. Three of my four children live in the inner city of Dallas and Chicago and they live there because they like it and the life style it offers them.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:09:21 +0000

I guess I could hope we get one of those Wal-Mart Marketside. But I should wouldn’t shop there– it’s a Wal-Mart. I don’t like how they do business, and I refuse to shop there, no matter how convenient they are.

But, we should be working to get any and all of HEB Central Market, Whole Foods, Marketside, Trader Joe’s, Braum’s, etc. in downtown.

By: Steve Lackmeyer

Steve Lackmeyer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:10:57 +0000

OK Lost Ogle, you must admit, my visitor comments are far more out there today than anything you can garner on a post admiring Look@OKC’s swimsuit issue.

By: LusciousHippie

LusciousHippie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:04:00 +0000

People of Oklahoma unite….All Urban Dweller’s light your torches, retrieve your pitchforks. Today we march. Mr. Lackmeyer, might I scoff in your face. How dare you force the likes of Robert Crissinger upon the good people of our fair city. He and his ruinous ways. Steve, I see why you chose the likes of Robert. The eyes alone make my heart flutter in a manly sort of way. But we should all take heed to the verbal brilliance of Mr. Dweller and “Man-Up.” Dweller, I am here for you. I feel your inner turmoil. David Hyde Pierce did it, and you can to. Shout from the rooftops your man crush for Rob. I have an article of Mr. Lackmeyer’s in my briefcase from 05 that still fills me with joy. We are out there….and we hear your cries.

By: @rcrissinger

@rcrissinger — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:58:42 +0000

Watch it TLO. Troll Dolls are a client.

By: TheLostOgle

TheLostOgle — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:55:03 +0000

We’ve heard that Steve and Rob Crissinger both collect Troll Dolls. And I don’t think it’s any coincidence that a big Troll Doll convention is coming downtown. Also, many Trolls work at Braum’s, and that’s why they always mess up your order. Coincidence? We don’t think so…

By: @rcrissinger

@rcrissinger — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:24:56 +0000

Wow. I just read the comments by Urban Dweller and have to say, thank you for the ego boost! Now that I’m a big time money man, I promise I won’t forget the little people who made it possible : )

Oh yeah, it should be noted that public relations and advertising are not the same thing.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:28:47 +0000

Yea the WM is nice, but its not that Homeland is gross or unsafe…it’s just old. I shop there alot.