LIfestyles

The Harris-Willis House

The Harris-Willis House

In 1923, H.C. Harris bought this lot in the Oil Boom days and built some kind of structure on the lot. In 1929, he and his wife, Eshter, took out a mechanic’s lien to remodel and to add a bath and sewer connection to the property. The Harris’s defaulted on the loan, and the building and loan acquired the property in in the trustee’s Sale. In 1933, Wright McClatchy (1889-1939) bought the property from the building and loan and used it as a rental property.

Vets helping vets

Vets helping vets

U.S. Air Force veteran Doug Magneson spends his Tuesdays and Wednesdays helping other veterans through another battlefield – the often-impenetrable bureaucracy of claiming benefits earned from serving as an active duty member of the U.S. military.

HOMES of OLNEY

HOMES of OLNEY

The lot on which this hot is situated began being traded in 1924, and you must recall that the oil boom started in 1923. Also, you must remember that housing was scarce and that some people may have lived on this bare lot with only a tent over their heads. You could have a wooden floor that you fit the tent over and have water and gas connections. The City did not make sewer connections mandatory until immediately after the end of World War II.

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