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The Oklahoma City/County Historical Society tours the Sundial estate
June 25, 2024 The Sundial estate at 4000 N Kelley Avenue is among the most historic homes in Oklahoma City and its current owner, Keena Oden, hosted the Oklahoma City/County Historical Society on a tour on June 24. Keena has spent several years renovating and...
Merger set for Retro Metro OKC and the Oklahoma City/County Historical Society
February 20, 2024 It's taken longer than I ever expected, but the merger between Retro Metro OKC and the Oklahoma City/County Historical Society is almost complete. I'm genuinely excited about the prospects for both organizations. The historical society has seen a...
Message to Retro Metro OKC members and supporters: changes ahead
March 12, 2023, Greetings to all Retro Metro OKC members and supporters! Over the past year I’ve been looking at what direction our group should take moving forward. When we organized in 2009, it was because the founders of our group did not feel like the existing...
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...
Century Chest Then and Now
by Lynne Rostochil Last week, members of Retro Metro OKC got a sneak peek at some of the Century Chest goodies that were excavated recently from the First Lutheran Church downtown. Among the items that were so carefully packed in the chest back in 1913 were 50 copies...