Tag: spring

Spring Festival of Homes Brochure, 1961 — Part 1

by Lynne Rostochil.  Brochure from her collection, “now” photos from the Oklahoma County Tax Assessor website.   In 1961, the Oklahoma City Builders Association hosted the first-ever Spring Festival of Homes, a week-long event in which 56 new homes were opened to the public for review.  Homes were located in OKC, Edmond, Yukon, Moore, and […]

Ideas for Modding Up Your Outdoor Space

by Lynne Rostochil   In case you don’t know it by now, one of my very favorite mid century publications is Living For Young Homemakers magazine, which was always full of great architecture and design and which was around all through the 1950s but sadly folded into the much less sassy McCall’s in 1961. While looking […]