by Lynne Rostochil. While the creations from Frankoma get most of the acclaim and glory in these parts, several other pottery companies called Oklahoma home in the post-war years and produced some pretty impressive lines. My favorite of all is Tamac, a small company located in Perry that was founded by two couples, Leonard and Marjorie Tate and […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil It’s very rare when a mid-century dream home in the perfect neighborhood, with close proximity to downtown and all of the hip districts, comes on the market, but that’s just what happened this week with this beauty in Edgemere Heights: Visitors touring the open house last night found themselves […]
by Lynne Rostochil With all of the frenzied shopping, food buying and preparation, and dealing with crazy family members who we dread seeing every year, we should all take a step back and think about the what the yuletide season is really all about … getting hilariously bad holiday cards and taking photos of drunken family members that you can […]
After seeing the brochure I have about the Lake View Country Club when it was newly built, Retro Metro OKC member, Norman Thompson, sent me his fascinating collection of ephemera from the club that dates to the 60′s and 70′s. Here’s a brief recap of some of the images in the brochure (you can find […]
by Lynne Rostochil Back in 1961, newly appointed FCC chairman, Newton N. Minow, famously declared in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters that American commercial TV was a “vast wasteland,” filled with “game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good […]
Today, we wrap up our series showcasing Mike Brown’s uber cool collection of vintage negatives that he picked up at a local estate sale awhile back. Let’s begin with a rare color shot of the newly-built Norman High School (designed by Caudill, Rowlett & Scott and completed in 1957). The innovative building was named “America’s […]