by Lynne Rostochil When Penn Square Mall opened in 1960, developers Jay Hickox, Jim Milligan, and Sidney Davidoff saw a golden opportunity to capitalize on all of the traffic streaming in from around the state and opened a motel within walking distance to encourage weary shoppers to rest a spell before returning home. The $750,000, 93-room […]
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, […]
by Robyn Arn, vintage photos from Kynda’s Fritzler-Knoblock brochure (taken by Bob Bowlby), current-day photos by Lynne Rostochil Last year I had the good fortune to find Kynda Knoblock Houara through social networking. She’s the daughter of Robert C. Knoblock who, with Donald Lee Fritzler, opened the fabulously creative firm Fritzler-Knoblock and Associates in […]