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This 1930s Christmas ad from Sears shows what it was like downtown, the center of the known universe for Tulsans -- and especially at Christmas, where ten bucks would get enough presents to please the entire family! Clark's, Harrington's, Renberg's, Woolworth's . . . . and nothing was more fun than Christmas shopping in downtown Tulsa, until the early 1960s, when all the major stores began to disappear to the suburbs. A favorite was the Brown-Dunkin Department store, formerly Brown Dunkin Dry Goods. Later, it became J.A. Brown, and eventually Dillard's. Seeing all the great toy pictures in the Brown-Dunkin catalog (below) was almost as much fun as getting the toys.
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