A Tribute To Your Vision — St. Luke’s
During one of her many estate sale rummagings, Robyn stumbled across this rare and beautifully illustrated St. Luke’s booklet. Distributed just a year after the new, lushly modern sanctuary was […]
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Citizens State Bank: Design for Convenient Banking
by Lynne Rostochil, brochure from Mike Brown’s collection Awhile back, Mike showed me this great booklet from 1958 celebrating the opening of the iconic Citizens State Bank at NW 23rd and Classen, […]
A Real Southwestern Welcome Awaits You at the Thunderbird Inn
by Lynne Rostochil At one time, there were dozens of Thunderbird Motels around the country — here’s one I found in Treasure Island, FL a few years ago: In […]
The Capri Motel: To Please the Most Discriminating Guest
by Lynne Rostochil, brochure and postcard of Voyager Inn from her collection, photos of signs from the Oklahoma History Center’s OPUBCO collection In the mid-’50s, the crossroads of the newly […]
Tropicana Village: Your “Oasis in the City”
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil In early 1960, builder Royce Brown began advertising a new development in the burgeoning suburb of Bethany called Tropicana Village: Located at NW […]
OU School of Architecture: Style is the Ultimate Morality of the Mind, part 2
by Lynne Rostochil Last week, you caught a glimpse of some of the goodies in a small-but-gorgeous brochure produced by the OU School of Architecture for prospective architectural students. We wrap […]