Tag: carlyle-motel

In Memoriam: Buildings We Lost in 2018 … and a few saves

text by Lynne Rostochil.  Photos by Lynne Rostochil, Sunshine Gadbury, Bob Bowlby and courtesy of KFOR and the Oklahoma History Center. It seemed that the wrecking ball in the metro area was pretty quiet for most of 2018, but when it started swinging in the fall, one iconic Oklahoma City structure after another toppled, leaving […]

Signs and Asides, Part 2

text, vintage postcards, and present-day photos by Lynne Rostochil.  Other vintage photos credited within the text.   Let’s pick up where we left off last week by taking a look at more of Oklahoma City’s lost signs. What a sad day it was when the iconic Carlyle Motel sign along old Route 66 came down earlier […]