Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Fidelity Bank

fidelty01.jpgOn a fine Sunday afternoon (7/22/2007), I ventured to Antique Avenue Market at 5219 N. Western (immediately west of Bishop McGuiness School) to visit Doug Hamilton and his "booth" there. I was looking for some "vintage" maps ... which I got, plus the neat little book described here, as well!

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Doug H. is a good friend and an Okc history benefactor of mine (from him, I got my copies of Born Grown, Vanished Spendor, Vols. I, II, III, and And Satan Came Also, among other things (he'll also sell you some fru-fru stuff like Okc vintage matchbooks, Beverly's "finger bowls," etc., if you'll let him!). Not for me! I just want "hard history!"

But, if "hard history" is to be found, I'm a sucker!

I did find a pair of neat old maps (1913 and 1957 city maps -- they are a work in progress for later Doug Dawgz Blog posts but will soon arrive). Of course, I had to buy a few postcards that I didn't have!

But, the small jewell that I picked up from Doug is the book described in this post, The Life of a Successful Bank, 1908-1978, the story of Fidelity Bank, Oklahoma City, and it may have been my best "find" of the day (even if I paid more for the other items I purchased)!

The book isn't large (88 pages including the index) and its paper is not glossy (and so the images could be better), but it does contain information I'd not yet learned from any other source. The book was published in commemoration of the bank's 70th birthday, 1978. Even though the bank has now been absorbed by Tulsa-based Bank of Oklahoma, it is a good thing to remember Fidelity Bank and its contribution to Oklahoma City's legacy.

At the time it was written, its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer was Jack T. Conn ... as in "Father of the Conncourse" which has recentely been renovated and renamed, "The Underground." But, Conn was the guy that got that done in the 1st place.

For Most Images Below, Click On A Pic For A Larger View
Except As Noted, All Are From The Book


I hadn't realized that "Fidelity Bank" owed its origins to the "First State Bank." The 1st home of "First State Bank" was the "Lee Building" in April 1908 (now called the Oil & Gas Building) at the northeast corner of Main & Robinson. Then, the Lee Building looked like this:


Both Fidelity and Liberty Banks weathered the financial panic of 1907 and survived for quite a long while ... even though 6 Oklahoma City banks failed during 1911-1912. In 1913, new investors moved the First State Bank to the Colcord Building. While there, an interesting anecdotal story in the book reads,

Banking in those days was not solely a matter of high finance. In January of 1916, for example, the direcotors met for an entire afternoon to examine notes carried by the Bank and charged off five notes -- three for ten dollars, one for seven dollars, and one for eight dollars. Later that year the board voted to charge off the remainder of a note after the debtor signed over to the Bank a valuable stallion in part payment.
In 1921, the bank went "national" and assumed its new name, "Fidelity Bank." And, in 1923, it also found a new home ... the Baum Building. The image, below, of the Baum Building, is the very best that I've personally seen.



From the Oklahoman's Archives, August 16, 1986
Larger Image Not Available


The caption above the August 16, 1986, Oklahoman article reads, "The majestic interior of the banking floor in the Baum Building helped create the popular opinion that the bank had the most beautiful office in downtown Oklahoma City."

As the post-World War II environs of the bank expanded, the gorgeous Baum Building was no longer adequate to handle the bank's needs ... and so it built the 1st "skysraper" in Oklahoma City following World War II, finished in 1957 ...


After Fidelity Bank established its new quarters in the newer still building shown in the cover (above, top), its 1957 structure, above, became known as the "Park Harvey Center," which served for many years as an office building before being converted to an apartment building in this day. This building was my office home for more than 12 years.

Mr. Conn was very much into Oklahoma City history ... hence, the tunnel's name "Conncourse." In that subterranean walkway dedicated in 1974, he stuck a little piece of history into it ...


While not failing as many Oklahoma banks did in the "Penn Square Bank/Oil Bust" miseries of the time, the bank did suffer and, with a new multibank law in effect, Fidelity merged with Tulsa based BankOklahoma Corp. In 1983, when the merger offer was initially presented, Bank of Oklahoma was Tulsa's largest bank with assets of $1.5 billion and Fidelity was Okc's 3rd largest bank with assets of $765.8 million. At that time, the Tulsa based bank had already acquired 9 banks in the Tulsa area.

In 1987, the once-fine Whitehall Club which occupied the top 2 stories of the building closed due to dwindling membership. Opening in 1972, a July 9, 1972 Oklahoman article said that it was modeled after a famous English residence of kings and that Jack Conn was the "guiding light" for the project. A June 20, 1987, Oklahoman article notes the auctioning of numerous Whitehall Club items, such as a Louis XIV (14) commode, topped by a gray marble lid. Before the auction, the article quoted the auctioneer as saying that, "This is one of the largest and most elegant restaurant sales we ever made in the state," he noting that about 115 red velvet chairs in excellent conditon were in the offerings.

Not mentioned in the book is the fact that state and federal judges were offered free membership in the club. A December 16, 1981, Oklahoman article titled, "Judges See Nothing Wrong With Free Club Membership," noted that about 20 Oklahoma County and Federal judges received club priveleges without having to pay the $400 enrollment and $25 monthly membership fee. Right! Wrong! The article names names and quotes quotes but I'll not do that here, but what a hoot since the article notes that the bank was a party ligitant in more than 50 county-court casees during the 2 years before the article was written!

I will add one quote from the same article which will do no disredit to the others since I've not mentioned them by name ... and the quote that I will add from the aricle is from a local district court judge that some lawyers came to dislike because of his bad-courtroom-manners ... to lawyers and/or to litigants ... but I haven't ever heard of him being faulted because he was not even-handed about the law or the facts presented to him. That man is Jack R. Parr, District Judge, Oklahoma County, at the time. The article reads,

"I don't accept that sort of thing," Parr said. "Somebody might give me a Cadillac and keys and I wouldn't accept that either. I don't think it's proper for a judge to accept any sort of free gifts or memberships," Parr said. "One thing is just like another."
In days long gone, Doug Dawgz got his whippings for doing things I've since forgotten before Judge Parr ... but ... everyone else got them, too. Judge Parr was consistently the same to everyone in his courtroom and so the impoliteness he could present could cut everyone to the quick. But, as to the law, everyone (lawyers, at least) knew that he would read, and apply, the law as it was written to the facts before him decide. I've never heard a criticism about him in that respect, ever.

As regards the issue and the above article, Judge Parr was certainly "in the right," in my opinion.

Of course, the above stuff occurred after this small and perhaps "self-serving" book was written. Still, this little book is quite a charmer, containing more history than I've said here. It's a good find!

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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Saint Anthony's Hospital

Saints, St. Ann's, St. Anthony's, Saint A's, whatever you want to call it, was established in Oklahoma City in 1898, 9 years after the Land Run. Its first "permanent" home, finished in 1899, is shown below, at 1000 N. Lee, then outside Oklahoma City's limits.

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Credit Vanished Spendor by Jim Edwards & Hal Ottaway
(Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1982)


It was Oklahoma City's first "permanent" hospital and was located near downtown in the area called "Midtown" today as is shown in the Oklahoma County Assessor's 2005 aerial view shown below. Plaza Court, Kaisers (Grateful Bean), and the Federal Campus are shown for reference.

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Modest Beginnings. How did it get started? A pair of Roman Catholic Franciscan nuns (Sisters Beata Vinson and Clara Schaff) traveled to Oklahoma City from Missouri in the spring of 1898. They were looking to raise funds here for a hospital there (in Maryville, Missouri), apparently thinking that 9 years after the Land Run they'ed find some benefactors here, and they sought permission from the local priest, Rev. D.I. Landslots, to solicit funds for that purpose. Whether he gave permission or not I don't know, but, at the least, he requested and charged the Sisters to go back to Maryville and carry a request that the Order to establish a permanent hospital here ... none existed at the time in the city or even in Oklahoma Territory, according to an April 26, 1998, Oklahoman article.

It worked. In July 1898, 4 Sisters returned and rented a pair of houses on NW 4th (one a residence, the other a temporary hospital ... which would later become the location of the Murrah Building ... so the ties between the Order and the later Murrah Building were/are longstanding).

When the initial hospital opened, it had no electricity, sewage, running water (water had to be hauled by the nuns from 4 blocks away) or natural gas. In fact, it had to close in November 1898 because of those problems.

A very nice summary of history is gleaned from the April 28, 1998, Oklahoman article mentioned above ... it commemorated St. Anthony's 100th anniversary. Click the image below for a readable version.


The main article says that phones were installed in 1900, electricity in 1902, and natural gas in 1904, and that the hospital's entrance faced NW 9th.


The same article notes that the St. Anthony School of Nursing was established in 1908, the first graduating (1911) class being shown below.


The Sisters had been instructed by their Mother Superior Augustine in her August 1, 1898 mandate, "Turn no one away." In the aftermath of the Murrah Building bombing, much beyond the death of Sister Augustine, 300 of the people injured in the 1995 Murrah bombing were brought to Saint Anthony's, the hospital nearest to the Murrah Building, and many were treated without charge. During the Great Depression, hospital Sisters served more than 2,000,000 free meals to the hungry. The hospital's bank balance was $19.07 on January 1, 1931 ... four years later, it was in debt by $331,060.

But, I digress! St. Ann's continued to grow after its 1899 facility was constructed. Below, images from my postcard collection show what Saint A looked like in the 1940s.

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The card below bears a 1946 postmark

The above is Doug Dawgz hospital of birth in 1943! Hooahh! (Sorry ... had to do that.)

The Competition. Although St. Anthony's was the first, other hospitals came to occupy what we now consider "close-in" space. Some are shown below.

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Credit Vanished Spendor by Jim Edwards & Hal Ottaway
(Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1982)
Rolater Hospital, 325 NE 4th, circa early 1900s


Wesley Hospital, 12th & Harvey (1911)


Credit Vanished Spendor III by Jim Edwards, Hal Ottaway & Mitchell Oliphant
(Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1985)
The 1927 Wesley Hospital, 12th & Harvey
Became the Presbyterian Medical Center in 1964


City Hospital, 401 NE 2nd, 1912, apparently intended for charity,
later called "Post-Graduate Hospital", later used by the Dept. of
Health for laboratory space, in the 1940s the Stiles Community Center


Credit Vanished Spendor II by Jim Edwards & Hal Ottaway
(Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1983)
Originally the State Baptist Hospital (1916), it
became Oklahoma General Hospital in 1922, Mercy
Hospital in 1947. Before Mercy moved in 1974, it
occupied the block between Dewey & Walker, NW 13 & NW 12


From My PostCard Collection

University Hospital on NE 13th (1919)


Polyclinic Hospital, NW Corner of 13th & Robinson (1929)
Later (?), the building was demolished and a newer facility
was built which has gone by various names, now Kindred Hospital

St. Ann Continues To Grow. St. Anthony's continued to grow over the years. The pic below is a rendering appearing in the March 16, 1958, Oklahoman showing then existing plans.

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Not counting clinics (e.g., the McBride Clinic) and smaller hospitals (Kindred Hospital), St. Anthony's became the sole surviving major hospital in the city-center area. "Presbyterian" moved to NE 13th & Lincoln and is now part of the University of Oklahoma health care complex. Mercy moved to the far northwest on Memorial Road in 1974. Also moving or closing were many businesses, shops, etc., and the area around St. Anthony's became something less than desirable.

In 2002-early 2003, talk was that St. Anthony's might be moving also (I seem to recall that it might relocate to the north Moore area or something in that general vicinity which would not only remove the remaining major hospital from city-center but would leave yet another empty structure in the Midtown area, and a huge one at that.

But, that didn't happen. An August 1, 2003, Oklahoman article by Steve Lackmeyer reported a deal being offered to keep St. Anthony's downtown.

An October 25, 2003, Oklahoman article by Bryan Dean reported the good news:

Hospital staying downtown

St. Anthony Hospital and local government officials signed a deal Friday that could trigger more than $200 million of investment in the MidTown area and bring cutting edge cancer technology to the state.

The agreement to keep St. Anthony at its downtown location was signed less than four months after the hospital said it would either renovate its campus at NW 10 and Lee Avenue or move to another part of town.

"You cannot stress too much the importance of this day," County Commissioner Stan Inman said. "We have actually avoided a financial disaster for downtown Oklahoma City and this entire county, if not the whole state of Oklahoma."

The hospital’s main concerns were highway access, crime and blight in the area and a state Medicaid reimbursement formula that penalizes older hospitals.

Local officials have promised to correct neighborhood issues and will ask the state Transportation Department to help with highway access.

Steve Hunter, president and chief operating officer of SSM Healthcare, the hospital’s parent company, said he was surprised by the quick reaction of local officials.

"My expectation was that this thing was going to take forever," Hunter said. "To have this thing basically done in less than six months, I think shows a commitment by a lot of people."

State officials said they may have a solution to the Medicaid reimbursement issue.

Under the current formula, older hospitals tend to receive lower reimbursements because of a longer history with the Medicaid program, which is overseen locally by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.

St. Anthony officials complained that the formula was discriminatory.

Nico Gomez, spokesman for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, said a proposal before the authority’s board would raise all hospitals’ reimbursement rates to the state median before giving an across the board increase of 2 percent.

With most of its concerns addressed, the hospital plans to invest $200 million into its campus. City and county initiatives will improve the look of the area surrounding the hospital.
The deal struck was obviously a community-wide deal ... the pic below (taken by Paul Hellstern of the Oklahoman shows the agreement's signators to be (left to right): Fred Hall, board chairmen of Downtown Oklahoma City, Inc.; Stanton Youg, chairman of the Urban Renewal Authority; Roy Williams, executive VP of the Okc Chamger of Commerce; Steve Hunger, president of St. Anthony Hospital; Stan Inman, Oklahoma County Commissioner; and Okc Mayor Kirk Humphreys.


Midtown Resurgence. It certainly did no harm that Greg Banta became the primary mover and shaker in the Midtown area, together with the guy bankrolling many of the Banta Group's Midtown projects. Largely, that's another story for another day.

But it certainly does no harm that the Banta Group is restoring the historic Plaza Court, Oklahoma City's first shopping center, immediately northeast of the hospital's plaza. The images below were taken on July 20, 2007. Click any pic for a larger view.

Looking Northeast From Walker & NW 10th


Looking Southwest From Walker & NW 10th

The historic Kaiser's is now the Grateful Bean owned by Peter Schaeffer. It closed for a time in October 2004 because of construction of the traffic circle (aka "roundabout") ... but it did reopen. The building is more than 90 years old, and for decades was home to Kaisers Ice Cream. Schaffer bought the building in 1992, remodeled it, and got it listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He turned the landmark into a nonprofit restaurant that hired people who were either marginally employed or chronically unemployed. Though he feared it might not reopen, as you can plainly see, it did! Good for St. Anthony's, Peter's project, and for all of us.

Around NW 9th Looking West At New Construction


A Closer View


A Parking Garage on the South Side


On the West Side Looking Southeast



And, Of Course, St. Francis Himself,
Patron Saint of the Religious Order
That Started St. Anthony's in 1898


Today, St. Anthony's is reported to be Oklahoma City's largest hospital. I'm glad that I live nearby!

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Sunday, July 15, 2007

Happy Birthday To Me

Doug Dawgz Blog is one year old today!

Yea!
When I started this Oklahoma City History blog on July 15, 2006, I knew that it would be fun for me, but I had no clue whether it would be an inviting place for others.

I've posted 65 times so far which is about 5 & 1/2 posts per month on the average.
In the past 365 days, the blog has had 19,725 visits which include during those visits various posts being opened 39,597 times. I'm quite pleased with the measure of interest and I take that as a good indicator that at least some of what I've put together has been interesting to many.

This post traces a few "high points" during the 1st year, and solicits any comments about desired topics in the year to come.

  • Traffic. Traffic has been global, though, as expected, most comes from the United States and most of that comes from in or near Oklahoma. I only recently "upgraded" my Sitemeter account from a "free" to a "premium" one (meaning that I now pay a few dollars for added features) and it tracks more closely the past 500 visitors. Since I upgraded on July 11, there haven't been 500 visitors. But the USA map below shows the past 363 hits in this country (without zooming, several "hits" overlap each other, so don't bother counting) ...



  • Increased Blog "Circulation." The mere mention of Doug Dawgz Blog by Steve Lackmeyer in the February 25, 2007, Sunday Oklahoman, in an article anticipating the next day's opening of the Skirvin Hilton, changed the "visibility" of the blog.


    Steve's article said,

    Doug Loudenback was one of the lucky ones. The downtown attorney’s Web site, dedicated to city history, caught the attention of the Skirvin Hilton’s publicist. Loudenback was invited for a private tour.

    Loudenback previously posted historic Skirvin photos on his blog, www.dougdawg.blogspot.com, and even took extensive new photos of exterior renovations.

    He didn’t restrain his glee at adding photos from his Jan. 26 tour: “The official opening of the Skirvin Hilton is scheduled for Monday, February 26, 2007!!! YEA!!! YEA!!! YEA!!! HOOAHH!!!”
    On that day and for several days following, Doug Dawgz Blog received a serious spike in visitors ... see the chart below (yellow is # of visitors, orange + yellow is # of opened pages by the visitors).



  • HOOAHH is right! I was ecstatic with the blog's increased attention (as well, of course, with the grand reopening of the Skirvin)!

  • Oklahoma Rising. The Vince Gill & Jimmy Webb Centennial Anthem, mixed in with rotating Oklahoma images but mostly from Oklahoma City, was and remains a hit!


    The post which has generated the most personal e-mail as well as telephone calls has been the December 2006 Oklahoma Rising flash files post (since modified several times). The post contains instructions about how to save the file to and play it on your own computer without being connected to the internet. I've been gratified that several organizations (schools, cub scout troops, others) have requested permission to use the flash files in presentations for their students, etc. However, I've gotta say that the most touching such request was from a squad leader stationed in Iraq ... the Sergeant wanted permission to play the flash file for his squad ... tell me that that didn't bring tears to Doug Dawgz eyes!


  • Beverlys Chicken-In-The-Rough. Old Doug Dawg was just waxing nostalgic when making this post. Little did I know that people from all over the country were interested, as well.


    Not too many comment in the blog anymore (since I started moderating comments after some ugly and distasteful comments related to Okc & the NBA), and that's too bad. The Beverlys post tops the number of comments to a single post at 20. People all over the country, even the world, seem to want to know about Beverly's Chicken-In-The-Rough! It has persistenly been one of the most frequented posts since it was originally posted in July 2006.


  • Skirvin Posts. Ahhh ... Doug Dawg loved to follow this most excellent development in and for Oklahoma City! And, thanks to Dan Mahoney, publicist for the Skirvin Hilton, some great "inside" pics were had and posted here.


    As popular as the Beverlys post were the 4 Skirvin posts. The 1st drew 5 comments; 14 commented on the 2nd (the January inside tour); and the 4th, grand opening post, had 1, for a total of 20 comments.


  • Springlake. Everyone old enough to do so remembers Springlake. But, it was Norman Thompson, who gratuitously made several hundred images available, that made this excellent post possible.


    While not drawing as many comments (4), the Springlake post may outrank all others in terms of recorded "hits." My Sitemeter account tells me that there have been 108 "Entry Page" hits to the Springlake post since its initial posting on April 2, 2007, and that ain't too shabby. After the post here, OETA picked up several of Norman's pics posted in Doug Dawgz Blog and largely based one of their Centennial video clips on those pics. See OETA's Springlake video clip.


  • OKC & NBA Posts. It's no secret that Doug Dawg is a Hornets Fan! See my "picture" at the top of this post ... a drawing made in the Ford Center at either a preseason game or the 1st regular season game in 2005.


    Responses (comments) to these posts caused me to change my "Comment" policy ... 1 or 2 posters can't seem to tolerate the joy and pride and pleasure we in Okc take about hosting the Hornets for 2 seasons and/or being a candidate for the Supersonics & Storm should those teams move from Seattle. While their infantile comments have been deleted here, those comments led to my current policy of moderating all comments before they appear here, and I regret that. Of these Okc-NBA posts, the one which gave me the greatest personal pleasure was the 2 year Hornets Retrospective flash file post ... the flash file linked there takes about 9 minutes to run.


  • The Dust Bowl. This post picked up a lot of attention, too. Where did the term "Okie" come from? It came from this era as scores of thousands of hard-hit farmers and others migrated to points west, usually California.


    Interest in the "Dust Bowl" continues to be a topic of interest. Other websites found the post to be of sufficient interest to link to the Dustbowl post. It was in this era that "Okies" came to be a derrogatory term, even if most of us now relish and take pride in referring to ourselves as "Okies."


  • Asian District & Chinese Underground. This post, too, continues to draw attention from around the country.


    Was there an underground Chinatown in downtown Oklahoma City? Absolutely! I just wish that we could know more about it.


  • Deep Deuce. The 3 part series on Deep Deuce history, beginning here, was one of my favorites to research and has been popular with readers.


    This important part of Oklahoma City's history was largely unknown to "the white man" in its heyday, during the days of forced segregation, during the days of the great jazz musicians and one great author that emerged from this geographically small part of the city. Too, it is the story of great-ness rising from greater-still adversity, and is part of our proud heritage.


  • Wiley Post. The pair of Wiley Post articles was one of the most fun to put together!


    If you don't know that Wiley hung his hat in Oklahoma City, that he was the first to circumvent the planet in an airplane (with a navigator), was the 1st to do so "solo," that he had ticker-tape parades in New York City, that he is buried in Oklahoma City, and lots of other stuff, you should!


  • Your Comments. That's my happy birthday post to me! I welcome comments about topics to cover during the next year, as well as any others, should you care to give them.

    Several items are on my "to do" list ... more "Cops & Robbers" posts, the Oklahoma Heritiage Association, restaurants gone by, and several others. Maybe I'll finish my long dormant project of making the revised "clickable" downtown Oklahoma City map! If you want, please post your comments in this thread about Okc History topics you would like to see explored during the next 12 months.

    Thanks for dropping by and for a great 1st year!
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  • Tuesday, July 10, 2007

    OkcHistory.com


    Thanks to Jack Money and Steve Lackmeyer (above, left to right), authors of the fantastic Urban Renewal-to-present-day history book, OKC - Second Time Around, as well as an upcoming book on the history of the Skirvin Hotel, a brand new Oklahoma City history website emerged on July 7, 2007 ... OkcHistory.com.

    Their new website has enormous promise to become the premier (second, of course, to the amazing Doug Dawgz Blog) website which is singularly devoted to all of Oklahoma City's history. Hopefully, it will become a "clearinghouse" for all who are interested in this city's fascinating history. These guys know their stuff. Jack and Steve are award-winning journalists at The Oklahoman. They anticipate expanding their site to include a "forum" (talk/chat) element in which anyone interested in Oklahoma City history can participate in the near future.

    Although less than a week old, they are off to a great start! This post shows you very little that you could not see on your own if you just go there (save and except for the last image in this post), but Doug Dawg will give you a quick tour, just the same!

    Click on an image for a larger view

    Home Page



    The sidebar in the left panel takes you to other elements ...

    Okc History Internet Links



    Current Events (News) relating to Okc History



    This Week in Okc History




    Okc Forgotten ... a Slide Show showing things gone by



    Books on Okc History ... I'm sure this will be expanded



    Featured History ... Serious Articles About Okc History ...
    (Note Doug Dawgz role in snagging Okc's 1st major
    league team is featured in a story 100 years later!)


    I confess to making up the above "featured history" story ... just wishful thinking on Doug Dawgz part!

    As I said, a "forum" is hoped for soon. For now, visit the website and let Steve and Jack know what you think in their "Guestbook." And, if they don't live up to their website's promise, give 'em some shit! If they do, give all praise that is surely their due!

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    Sunday, July 08, 2007

    Vintage Okc Collage

    Creative photographers didn't come to exist in the computer age ... as is evidenced by this creative and engaging "vintage" photograph I've run across ...

    Click the pic for a 1024 px wide view
    Click here for a still larger (2800 x 1953 px) image



    Lots of unanswered questions ... who put the collage together, and when? I'm studying further but one would suppose that it was before the 1st National and Ramsey Towers were completed in 1931, else they'd have been in the collage.

    While I'm in the process of trying to figure out all "the pieces," some might enjoy trying to do the same ... so ...

    TEST YOURSELF! Here's the pic with "numbers" I've placed on it to identify the various buildings shown ... 1 through 78 ... the numbers kinda-sorta run clockwise in a weird sort of way ... click on the image for a 1024 px wide image and one which will print better (I recommend that you print in "landscape" orientation) ...



    Test answers (to the extent that I can figure everything out) will follow in an edited post. See what you can come up with on your own, Okc history lovers! Go ahead! Give it your best shot!


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    OK OK! Compare your results to Doug Dawgz and others' best guesses so far!

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