Did you know... For Eskimo Joe’s 10th Anniversary, Stan recorded 2 songs, Last Night at Joe’s and The Juke Joint Shuffle, which were released on a double-sided 45 vinyl record. This record created quite an unusual promotional gimmick and was aired in OKC, Tulsa and on 14 radio stations across Oklahoma and Kansas. This drew a lot of attention to Eskimo Joe’s 10th anniversary celebration held in July of 1985, when for the first time, the celebration spilled onto Elm Street, marking the beginning of “Joe’s Week,” a huge street party that would become the largest single attraction to Stillwater except OSU football. The size of the anniversary celebration became so significant that it became a media event, covered by most all of the television stations in Oklahoma, literally making Eskimo Joe’s a household word between 1985 and 1993. The last major street party celebrated Joe’s eighteenth anniversary in July 1993, attracting approximately 67,000 revelers over three nights.
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