Jamboree Takes Over Antique Business

If you closed your antique business, what would you do with the building?  Why not turn it into a music hall?  The News On 6's Rick Wells reports that's just what Doyle Beaver did, and his Crescent Valley Jamboree, near Ft. Gibson, has been hosting country music shows for 10 years.

Doyle Beaver operates the Crescent Valley Jamboree.  Leslie Parnell plays and sings in the house band.  For 10 years, on two Saturday nights a month, the Crescent Valley Jamboree has a country music show.

"We had an antique store in here at one time," said Doyle Beaver.

He sold everything that wasn't hanging on the walls, bought some theater seats and started the jamboree.  He's still got lots of stuff:  a beautiful 34 Ford Coupe, dozens of those old porcelain gas station signs, and a Polarine Oil can.

He's got a whole case full of stuff he calls not good enough to keep, but too good to throw away.

"I don't buy things 'cause I think they are valuable, I just buy what I like," said Doyle Beaver.

What he likes right now is country music a couple of times a month.  He says he's got some regulars who come in for every show.  They've got their favorite seats so he reserves them for them.

He says every now and then on a Saturday night, he'll pull one of his guitars down and play a little.

It's probably a lot more fun than the antique business.

The next Crescent Valley Jamboree is Saturday night at 7p.m. The theater is nine miles east of Ft. Gibson on Highway 62.