by Lynne Rostochil. After the war, developers of suburban neighborhoods began gobbling up farmland far from the city center and churning it into sapling-lined streets packed with picturesque homes for veterans eager to spend their hard-earned GI Bill money. As more people moved away from the hubbub of the inner city, shopping centers, restaurants, and […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos from the Oklahoma History Center and the Vanished Splendor books. Menu and newer images from Lynne’s collection. At the same sale where I found the KWTV programming schedule I shared with you a couple of weeks ago, I found a cute kids’ menu from the famed and long-gone Glen’s Hik’ry […]
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 […]
by Lynne Rostochil It’s hard to believe that we’re at the end of another year, but here we are and that means it’s time to take a look back and recap our favorite Mod Blogs of 2018. Here we go! 1964: The Year of the Sonic Boom This post was certainly one of the most […]
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 […]
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. If you’ve missed previous installments, click a link to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. In the last installment of our trek down 23rd from Lake Overholser […]