Aug 7, 2006
In 2006, we are enjoying a booming Bricktown – a primary destination for people to have fun downtown. What did Okc guys and gals do downtown for fun a century ago? They went to Delmar Garden & Wheeler Park. SIZE AND LOCATION. Writers sometime state that...
Jul 27, 2006
Stepping away from the present-day NBA melodrama, I slide back into the sublime – this time reminiscing about the Toddle House (I don’t know about Seattle, but this popular nationwide chain was in New Orleans, also, according to...
Jul 22, 2006
On August 23, 1935, Wiley Hardeman Post was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, immediately east of Broadway, just south of Memorial Road. Earlier in the day, at the First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City at the most attended funeral in the city’s history, said,...
Jul 19, 2006
Ed. Note 7/11/2008: I’ve just noticed that the links to the many images previously posted, from www.wileypost.com, no longer work. The organization’s website is now here, but unfortunately the diversity of photos is not presently there. I’ve supplied...
Jul 16, 2006
She and her husband, Dr. Joseph Phelan, moved to Oklahoma City from Missouri in 1901. As is more fully stated by Linda D. Wilson at http://www.okhistory.org/enc/phelan.htm , Around 1927 she decided to make a quilt portraying Oklahoma history from 1541 the year of...
