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 […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil unless otherwise noted. Riverside Studio photo by Tulsa People. Every year, Preservation Oklahoma (POK) releases its Most Endangered Places list and I’m both happy and sad to say that a lot of modern made the cut this year. It’s good because mod buildings are being recognized as valuable and […]
by Lynne Rostochil With 2017 nearly in the rearview mirror, it’s time to count down our top 10 blogs of the year. I hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as we did putting them together. Here they are in no particular order: 1. OKC’s Beatnik Hangouts: The Gourd and the Buddhi — An old menu from the […]
by Lynne Rostochil I recently toured a home in one of the prettiest neighborhoods in all of OKC — Wildewood — which is located off of NE 50th and Kelley: The neighborhood sprang to life in 1955 after brothers Lamar and Med Cashion bought up 220 acres of untamed woodlands in the northeast part […]
To me, there is nothing better than going out on a photography safari and stumbling upon an old sign with crazy angles and peppy typography that harkens back to the space race days when we really thought that the future was now. You can still find a smattering of these odes to the halcyon days of yesteryear […]