Century Center Mall, 1984

Truly aa elegant place in a vibrant downtown trying to hold onto its identity in the gray days after Urban Renewal.
One minor point – the FAO Schwartz store in Tulsa’s Utica Square was large and well-stocked with incredible toys for any of us, children included if necessary. Toy soldiers, toy roadsters with flaring fenders and tiny straight 8 engines under hoods you could actually open up. It was there 10 or 12 years.

Archive editor note (not part of the original article): Related History Archive stories: The I.M. Pei Plan; C.G. Jones and the Mill Stone. More Oklahoma City history photography at Retro Metro OKC.