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Oklahoma Preservation Conference: Mid-Century Modern Successes and Failures

by Lynne Rostochil   Last week, I got to speak about Oklahoma’s mid-century modern architecture at the annual Oklahoma Preservation conference, which was held in lovely Enid this year.  My topic was MCM Preservation Successes and Failures — fun stuff, except when I had to talk about the failures, of course.  Here’s the presentation:   […]

Adieu, Stage Center: The Long, Often Sad History of an American Icon

by Robyn Arn and Lynne Rostochil.  Current-day photos by Lynne Rostochil, vintage photos as marked.   The Mummers Theater troupe was formed in 1949 by eight recent college graduates and military veterans with ambitions of leaving Oklahoma City for the stages of New York City but with little funds to go much beyond the city limits.  To […]

Endangered Mod

          photos and text by Lynne Rostochil After years of bust and stagnation, Oklahoma City has revitalized itself in a way that has made it the envy of many other urban areas throughout the country and has made this Heartland town one exciting place in which to live.  One of the […]