In 1939 the 1st National Bank published an excellent 64 page booklet called Fifty Years Forward which not only commemorated its 50th anniversary as an Oklahoma City banking institution but also contained lengthy excerpts from “Bunky’s” The First...
Other than the Model-T Ford plant downtown (1916), did you know that Oklahoma City was also the venue for producing other automobiles and trucks during World War I and after? We were, both during and after World War I. While the Great War lasted, it appeared possible...
Click here to skip the introduction & go to the photos (The full article needs to be open for the link to work.) About That Man Stone. One who looks around very much at very early day photographs of Oklahoma City and its environs cannot fail to notice that the...
In the Oklahoma City history vernacular, the “Civic Center” phrase means the public buildings owned by Oklahoma City and/or County and their attending accouterments built between 1935 and 1937 in the area flanked by Harvey and Shartel (on the east and...
As described in this article, Oklahoma City became Oklahoma’s capitol city in 1913 … but it took awhile for the new State Capitol Building to get done. Until then, various elements of Oklahoma government met in various locations, most notable of those...
