text, current photos, matchcover, and playing cards by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage images by Bob Bowlby, Oklahoma History Center, and Julius Shulman. Today, the Okie Mod Squad group is mourning the loss of one of Oklahoma City’s most beloved buildings, the gloriously mod Founders National Bank located at May and United Founders Boulevard. It’s sickening to […]
by Lynne Rostochil Photo by Julius Shulman Rumors have been swirling for the last few years that the Founders National Bank building, which is now a Bank of America branch, is endangered. We’ve been keeping a close eye on things and feel that now is the time to make everyone aware that the threat to this […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photo of Herman’s from the History Center collection, vintage photo of the Medical Tower by Bob Bowlby. If you think that 2015 was a bad year our our city’s architectural icons, 2016 might be even worse. The dreaded “MW” (Midwest Wrecking) has been spray painted on several buildings […]
by Lynne Rostochil Photo of Bob Bowlby by Judi Russell (courtesy Friends of Kebyar) At the end of the 1950s, Northwest Expressway was a dusty, rural roadway with few buildings other than Baptist Hospital and the Northwest Hi-Way Drive-In calling it home. As the city continued to expand northward and the ‘50s became the ‘60s, […]