The Ultimate Deep Deuce Collection

Welcome to the Ultimate Deep Deuce Collection!
Enjoy your visit. I welcome any feedback.
Click a button for where you want to go (the full article needs to be open).
FLASH MAP. Move your mouse over the map to open pages. I recommend that you press F11 for full screen view. This should eliminate the need for vertical scrolling to see the full flash file on your display. Press F11 again to return to your regular display. If the map "locks up", press F5 to refresh the map. To use the longer list of main articles instead of the map, click here.


ARTICLE LIST. They are these and more will be added as knowledge and time allows:

310-314 E. 2nd Aldridge Theater Apartments on Central Avery Chapel AME Church Baptist Sanitarium Bethany Presbyterian Church Black Dispatch (1 & 2) Board of Education Bryant/Inman Page School Calvary Baptist Church City Hospital/YWCA Cleaves Memorial CME Church Deep Deuce Aerial Photos Douglass School on High Douglass School on Reno Dunbar Library Finley Building

Hall Building Haywood Building Irving School Index of All Articles Jim Crow Laws in OKC Littlepage Building Lodge Hall/Ruby's Grill Luster, Melvin Home Monarch/Canton Hotel NE 2nd, generally Rolater Hospital Slaughter Building St. John's Baptist Church Tabernacle Baptist Church Utopia Hospital (1 & 2) Walnut/Finley Bridge YMCA - Eastside

ABOUT THE COLLECTION. What a presumptuous title! Why "ultimate" and why is my chosen title so damn vain? Well, it contains the most, and most accurate, Deep Deuce content you will find anywhere on the web. Anywhere. It collects and compares, sometimes corrects, written press media and book information previously published, and if the assembled information is ambiguous, in error, or contradictory, and if I know that, this collection says so. A good bit of what's been published states things as "fact" which statements are either erroneous or are not necessarily so. This is also true for some of the articles contained in the generally nice collection of history articles in OHS's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. I'm not at all saying that the project isn't a good one, it is a very good one, particularly in its concept and breath. But, it would be a mistake to assume that all of the content you read there is correct, because it is not. To use that resources' search engine, click here.

While the chosen title of this collection is somewhat immodest, I am, nonetheless humbled by the very generous comments received from two of the best Oklahoma City history buffs and bloggers that there are, Steve Lackmeyer in his OKC Central and Charles G. Hill of Dustbury fame (at this moment, 1,757,021 hits and counting), and to each of them I extend my thanks and appreciation.

I also add that this should be considered a work-in-progress. For example, as a spin-off, it includes a 18-19 page article telling the story of Oklahoma City's Jim Crow laws and this city's attempt to avoid the edicts of the United States Supreme Court and simultaneously placate a bigoted and heavy-handed Governor, Alfalfa Bill Murray, both of which endeavors ended in failure though it was a long time coming. That article is here.

This collection contains two parts: (1) the flash file which appears near the top of this page -- it provides a quick glance at Deep Deuce; and (2) a list of the much larger and more substantive articles which are linked directly to articles below the flash map -- those articles are also accessible through the flash map.

In all, 36 items are presently shown in the map -- I expect that the number will grow. Most are buildings but 4 are areas -- Walnut/Finley Bridge, NE 2nd street Street & Map views, Riverside Park, and Aerial views.

An example page is shown below:


A rounded rectangle appears in the map to show a building's location, together with a transparent red arrow. Click within the rounded rectangle and a web-html page will open which contains more and larger pictures as well as historical information.

Despite my claim for "ultimacy," if I've made mistakes, I want to know so that I can make corrections, so please comment as needed.

Enjoy!