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Sapulpa Historic Preservation Commission: The
Home of Dr. Harry R. Haas and his wife Rose.
Dr. Harry Haas was the first eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Sapulpa. He bought this property in 1923 and had the house build soon afterwards. In addition to being a physician, he was the first commercial manufacturer of bass fishing plugs in Oklahoma. His pattent for “LIV-MINNOW” was granted on July 16, 1935. HAAS TACKLE COMPANY was located in a building in the back yard. His plugs, marketed nationwide from 1933-1939 are now collectors items. In his retirement years, Dr. Haas experimented making plugs frome peanuts, almonds, Pennsylvania butter nuts, native pecans and English walnuts. Dr. Haas died in 1964 and is buried in Sapulpa’s South Heights Cemetery.