Doug Loudenback
“The principal focus of this blog is Oklahoma City history, past, present & future, including the city’s NBA teams, as well as anything else I decide to write about from time to time. – Doug Loudenback
From 2006 to 2014, Doug did just that. As a lawyer turned city historian and author, Doug meticulously researched city history and provided an important resource for those wanting to learn more about our community. Doug, a founding member of Retro Metro OKC, died on September 12, 2021 after an extensive illness. His writings are preserved for future generations.
The Three Amigos
Or, "How Oklahoma City Became An NBA City" In 1992, Oklahoma City not only had no arena capable of being the home to a National Basketball Association team, it had no funded plans for having one or anything like it. None. That's only 16 years ago, small tick-tocks on...
Council Grove
Although Council Grove in western Oklahoma County has a venerable history and tradition much older than Oklahoma City, it's not often mentioned as part of our early-day legacy. The above image from Charles Robert Goins and Danney Gobles' Historical Atlas of Oklahoma,...
1892 Oklahoma Map
In addition to the 1905 Oklahoma Map by Geographical Publishing Company of Chicago, another very high resolution map located in the Library of Congress map files is the 1892 Oklahoma and Indian Territories map made by Rand, McNally & Company, also of Chicago. This map...
1905 Oklahoma Map & Gazetter
Every now and then, one runs across something really special on the internet, something you've not seen before and just gotta have. When browsing through the Library of Congress stuff this past weekend, I ran across just such a thing, a marvelous high resolution map...
Let’s Go Downtown To The Movies
This article received a major revision on 6/11/2008 to add several new pics and newspaper articles on downtown theaters gone by. It was earlier updated on 11/5/2006; 4/28/2007 (added links and some Midwest images); and 9/24/2007, a major revision which replaced many...
The Reinhart Legacy – Part II
Click on the image for a larger view Introduction. As said in The Reinhart Legacy – Part 1, this series of articles focuses generally on the Reinhart Family's contributions to Oklahoma City, but, most particularly, upon Martin John Reinhart and the more subtle...