Dec 21, 2009
Updated December 21, 2009 JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! (Click the above image for large view or here for larger still) Steve Lackmeyer & Jack Money’s new book, Skirvin, had its public debut at a book signing event yesterday evening, December 9, at (where...
Oct 10, 2009
Below, two thumbnail images compare what is now called the Oklahoma River, earlier the North Canadian. At left is a photograph contained in Photographing Oklahoma 1889/1991 by Mark Klett (Oklahoma City Art Museum 1991) showing the then North Canadian River near Wiley...
Sep 2, 2009
Started on September 2, 2009; completed September 14, 2009. Credit for the above: okctower.com Why many vintage movie houses called themselves, “theatRES,” instead of ordinary American English, “theatERS,” I don’t know, but the reason...
Aug 8, 2009
When researching What Became of the Downtown USO?, in the same Sunday Oklahoman issue which described the opening of the Bass Furniture & Carpet Building, June 29, 1930, I happened across the full page collage below, buried on page 14 of Section C. I’ve now...
Aug 5, 2009
THE USO YEARS. Credit for the above postcard goes to Jim Edwards & Hal Ottaway’s Vanished Splendor II (Abalache Book Shop Publishing 1983). During World War II, downtown’s USO (United Services Organization) Club located at 431 West Main was said to...
