Retro Metro OKC is dedicated to educating the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving, displaying and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of Oklahoma City.

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Welcome to Retro Metro OKC 2.0

It’s a tribute to the website’s original creator, Justin Tyler Moore, that we were able to cruise along for so long with a site that first debuted in 2010. The site reflected its founders, a group of people with assorted backgrounds but a shared interest in making our...

Ghosts of Oklahoma City

text and photos by Lynne Rostochil As a photographer, I love to snap all kinds of things -- people, architecture, abandonment, old cars -- but perhaps most of all I love to photograph old and weathered painted signs that grace mostly brick buildings.  These...