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 […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Program from Lynne’s collection. Vintage photos courtesy of the Oklahoma History Center. While digging through a bunch of ephemera at a recent estate sale, I found an intriguing document: a program schedule from January 1955 for KWTV, now Channel 9. Let’s begin with a little history: The TV station was the brainchild […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Program from her collection. To get you in the spirit for this year’s annual standoff between OU and OSU, here’s a little treat I picked up at a flea market recently: a program from the 1973 game. It was produced by OSU, so there’s a lot more material about the Stillwater school, […]
by Lynne Rostochil This is the third of four installments about Kamphoefner’s career. To read the last installment, go here. In 1948, Henry L. Kamphoefner arrived at North Carolina State University ready to start work establishing an architecture school that would replace the architectural engineering curriculum that had been in place for decades. Before Kamphoefner accepted the job […]
Text and present-day photos by Lynne Rostochil, vintage magazine photos from Lynne’s collection The following is an article from the September 1956 issue of Living for Young Homemakers magazine, which sponsored a poor man’s Case Study House program for several years in the 50’s called the Electri-Living Program. Each year, the magazine selected 12 architects […]