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March 15, 2018

Kress: A Mod Delight in Capitol Hill

by Lynne Rostochil. Photos from the Oklahoma History Center and Googlemaps. Who would have thought that this bland building in Capitol Hill … was once a very mod and gleaming Kress store with a funky zig zag roof: S.H. Kress started the five-and-dime chain in 1896 and by the time this building was constructed in […]

September 29, 2015

OKC’s Googie-licious (and Somewhat Stinky) North Penn Twin

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by Lynne Rostochil. Photos from the OPUBCO collection at The History Center. Oklahoma City was home to quite a few drive-in movie theaters during their mid-century heyday but none was more fantastically modern than the incredible North Penn Twin at NW 122nd and Pennsylvania. In 1961, the Bartons, who owned over a dozen indoor and […]

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