by Lynne Rostochil Remember when I started the Southwest Sweepstakes blog and stated that I couldn’t think of anything to tie it to our preferred mid century era? Well, I thought of a kinda connection. A couple of years ago, I found a collection of photos of motorcycle events around Oklahoma that took place in […]
by Debbie Ellis and Lynne Rostochil. Photos by Jared Kinley. The Flashback Fashion Show has become such a huge part of the Oklahoma Modernism Weekend that we feel it deserves its own Mod Blog, especially when there are so many people taking photos of all of the lovely models and the fabulous vintage fashions. This […]
by Lynne Rostochil. I’m so excited for the Flashback Fashion Show during the Oklahoma Modernism Weekend, which begins this Friday! To celebrate, I thought I’d cull through some of the vintage fashion photos I’ve accumulated from the Oklahoman archives. On this Mod Blog, we’re going to focus on 1950s fashions — let’s get started! 1950: […]
by Lynne Rostochil Thanks to all of you out in Mod Squad land for making this year’s Oklahoma Modernism Weekend such a great success! Here’s a little photo recap of all of the fun on Friday and Saturday — I’ve “borrowed” some of the photos that I’ve seen on Facebook and will credit the photographers of […]
by Lynne Rostochil I spend a lot … I mean A LOT … of time trolling through the Oklahoman archives and doing research about buildings, architects, etc., but one of my very favorite things to do is lust over all of the great ads from old editions. I really love the holiday ads for everything […]
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 […]