The Red Andrews Christmas Dinner
Metropolitan Library System Podcast
English - December 15, 2023 12:30 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHistory Education oklahoma influentialoklahomans metro metrolibrary metropolitanlibrarysystem oklahomaarts oklahomaauthors oklahomacity oklahomacounty oklahomaculture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Over 70 years ago in Oklahoma City a fight promoter/state legislator named Red Andrews started inviting people to an annual Christmas dinner that has gone on every year since, and has grown to a crowd of nearly 6,000 people annually. In this episode of the podcast Mary Blankenship-Pointer from the Red Andrews Christmas Dinner foundation talks with us about who Red Andrews was, and the history of this Oklahoma City Christmas tradition.