Skip to content

Tag: drexel-cleaners

Oklahoma’s Existing Route 66 Signs

by Lynne Rostochil.  Photos by Lynne Rostochil unless otherwise stated. Recently, I was hunting around the internet looking for a comprehensive list of all of Oklahoma’s Route 66 signs and was very surprised to find absolutely nothing.  Nada.  Zilch. What do you do in that case?  Well, you make a list, of course.  So that’s […]

Travelling Through Time Along 23rd Street, Part 2

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. I was hoping to get this series finished before the Oklahoma Modernism Weekend, but since that didn’t happen, we’re continuing it now.  If you need a refresher for the […]

Mac Teague, the Sign Master

by Lynne Rostochil.  Photos from Martin Treu’s collection, by Lynne Rostochil, by Bob Bowlby, and from the Mac’s Sign Shop collection. Oklahoma City lost one of its most iconic and prolific artists last month with the passing of Mac Teague, sign creator extraordinaire.  We’ve talked a bit about Mac’s Sign Shop on the Mod Blog […]