Lyon's Indian Store

If you're looking to spend a little of that Christmas cash on some fine American goods, then you'll be so glad you stuck around for more Explore Tulsa. You're right, CV. Lions Indian Store carries unique goods in the souvenirs exclusive to Oklahoma, and they've been a favorite stop for Tulsans and tourists since the 1960s. My wife and I, Janie, operate the store, own the store, and we kind of inherited it from my family. We have been working at it for about the last 20 years ourselves, and that the store goes back much, much further in its The store was originally founded at the corner of First of Boston in 1916, and it was there for a n I was actually four years old when my dad bought the store in 1951, so I literally grew up in the store. It was interesting. It was a great place to play. We could have the store have lots of places and lots of merchandise and stuff that we could always piddled with, but it was also a very much of a learning experience. Dad would always give us projects to do of packaging the materials or putting price tags on t One wintery morning, sleeting, raining, just ugly as it could be. You would think nobody, except the two of us, would be out on a day So I kind of moved up to the front of the store and kind of greeted In kind of a terse voice, and he kind of stepped back a little bit and said, well I just wanted to come in and look around a little bit, and I thought, that voice, there'somet He said come on in, so we started working and working, and he started picking out some stuff and all that, and the more he talked, the more I became pretty sure I knew who it was, but then after it was all said and done, and he gave me a credit card to pay for Cash was on the credit card, and he signed that credit card receipt, John R. Cash, and I knew then right for sure who it was, so Johnny Cash was a customer at that time and kind of one of those interesting stories. We're excited about all that's happening down here. One of the greatest t We're the old people in t