A little bar in the middle of an Owasso cow pasture closes Friday - Tulsa World
“I’ve done cried,” owner Carol Moore said. Black Friday will be a dark Friday at the Kow Pasture Lounge. The beer joint (let’s call it like it is) opened on the western outskirts of Owasso in 1958 and is going out of business. The counter and six barstools will get a new home because they were sold to Tommy McLaughlin, a customer since 1968. He didn’t want to say what he paid for the counter, but he’s willing to say why. The Kow Pasture was cozy enough (capacity is 48) and quiet enough (the “Internet juke box” was silent) for others in the bar to hear McLaughlin’s words, so he got a big laugh. But the Kow Pasture is his place because. “I think it’s the people I know and the friends I’ve got that I visit with,” he said. Said Moore, who has owned the bar for four years: “You walk in and everybody knows your name. So, it’s like Cheers, except that it’s the opposite of a city bar and the guy holding court isn’t Sam Malone. It’s Mark Brown, who says he owned the bar from 1985-2005. Brown started visiting in 1963, when he was “about 17. ”. Brown said he was told by one of the original owners that everybody thought the Kow Pasture was going to be a dairy barn when the... The Kow Pasture, isolated at 9600 N. Memorial Drive, is so far removed from city streets that its existence has been called into question. Source: www.tulsaworld.com
