by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos, unless otherwise stated, courtesy of the Oklahoma History Center. “Now” images from Googlemaps, the OK County Tax Assessor, and Lynne Rostochil. If you’ve missed previous installments of this series, click a link to read Part 1 and Part 2. Today, we pick up our tour of NW 23rd at one […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos, unless otherwise stated, courtesy of the Oklahoma History Center. “Now” images from Googlemaps, the OK County Tax Assessor, and Lynne Rostochil. Have you ever driven down a busy inner core street and wondered what your surroundings must have looked like “back in the day”? Well, I have, too, so I […]
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 […]
by Lynne Rostochil Thanksgiving is over and the frenzy of holiday shopping has begun in earnest! If you’re still making your shopping list, here are a few gift ideas for the modern lover in your life. 1. Give the gift of Goff This year, former Bruce Goff student and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at OU, […]
by Lynne Rostochil, photos from the OPUBCO collection at the History Center, Oklahoma Historical Society, Kynda Houara, and Russell Pace, Jr. Ads from The Oklahoman archives. We’ve had such an interesting conversation on the Okie Mod Squad page on Facebook about Penn Square that I thought I’d put all of that info together with vintage […]
by Terri Sadler and Lynne Rostochil In separate trips, both Terri and Lynne recently hopped the short, direct flight from OKC to explore some of the sights our bustling neighbor to the northwest, Denver, has to offer. While Terri’s efforts were somewhat thwarted by a giant December snow storm and Lynne tooled around town when it was hotter […]