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Highlights from the 2019 AIA Tour

text and photos by Lynne Rostochil. I know, I know, the AIA tour was a few weeks ago and I’m very late in getting this blog posted, but we’ve had a couple of great MCM homes that have hit the market recently and wanted to chat about them first.  BTW, we hear that both homes […]

Highlights from the 2018 AIA Tour

text and photos by Lynne Rostochil. One of my very favorite days of the year is the annual AIA tour, where architecture lovers from all over the city get to meander through inspiring interiors of local homes and businesses designed by some of the state’s best architects.  Before the tour, I always think that this […]

OKC’s Beatnik Hangouts: The Gourd and Buddhi

by Lynne Rostochil.  Photos not credited came from doing internet searches.   Several years ago, my mom gave me a pile of ephemera from her high school and young married days in the early 1960s.  One piece of paper particularly interested me — a yellowed menu from a place called the Buddhi: (Lynne’s collection) I had […]

A Visit to Clyde’s, OKC’s First Supermarket

by Lynne Rostochil.  Vintage photos from Progressive Architecture, modern-day photos by Lynne Rostochil. I always thought that the popular OKC institution known as Brown’s Bakery was housed in an old Safeway but then found out that the building was constructed a full decade before that chain’s “marina” style came into being. It was built for Clyde’s […]