by Lynne Rostochil. Certainly one of the quirkiest pieces of OKC ephemera I’ve ever found is the subject of this week’s Mod Blog, a cat-alog for the 1957 Oklahoma Cat Club show. In 1957, the Oklahoma Cat Club was just two years old and this was just the second kitty event they ever hosted. From […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Photos from the OPUBCO collection at the History Center. About this time of year when I was a kid, I’d be counting down the days until I could escape the city and head to a far away land of magic and fun tucked into forested, rolling hills out in the country. In […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Since this is the closing weekend of the Masters Tournament, I thought I’d stick with the golf theme and show you one of my all-time favorite finds, a program from the 1965 Oklahoma City Open golf tournament, which was held at the then-new Quail Creek Country Club. The O.C. Open, as it […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil unless otherwise stated. Vintage photos from the Oklahoma History Center and Lynne’s collection. During the Oklahoma Modernism Weekend, I put together a presentation devoted to the surprising number of domed structures scattered throughout Oklahoma to go along with a tour of the always fabulous Gold Dome. I thought I’d […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Photos by Lynne Rostochil unless otherwise stated. Recently, I was hunting around the internet looking for a comprehensive list of all of Oklahoma’s Route 66 signs and was very surprised to find absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch. What do you do in that case? Well, you make a list, of course. So that’s […]
by Lynne Rostochil I had never heard of Faith & Form magazine until I came across a couple of issues at an estate sale awhile back. It was especially exciting to open this October 1969 issue and find an Oklahoma building inside and also to read an article by my favorite architectural photographer and pal, […]