Take a look at these vintage photos that captured Downtown Oklahoma City in the 1940s to see the changing of the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma after more than 70 years.
(Photos from Oklahoma Historical Society)
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| 1st Street (Park Ave) and Broadway, 1946 |
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| 1st Street (Park Ave.), 1946 |
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| American National Building, January 11, 1946 |
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| Baltimore Building, Oct. 1944 |
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| Broadway Avenue, October 4, 1947 |
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| Campbell Building in Oct. 1942 |
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| Colcord Building and Beverly's Chicken in the rough, Sept. 1944 |
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| Elks Lodge Building (Key Building, Oklahoma Natural Gas Building), Sept. 1944 |
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| Frank Clark, May 1946 |
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| Gene Jones Motor Co., 1946 |
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| Hales Building in July 1941 |
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| Harbour-Longmire Furniture Co., 1947 |
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| Home State Theater, Sept. 1947 |
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| Hotel Black, June 1947 |
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| Katz drug store, Oct. 1944 |
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| Kress in 218 W. Main St., Nov. 1948 |
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| Masonic Temple, April 1941 |
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| May Theater in 1946 |
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| NW 1st St (Park Ave), Oct. 1942 |
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| OK Transfer, April 11, 1945 |
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| Oklahoma City in Sept. 1944 |
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| Oklahoma County Courthouse, Sept. 1944 |
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| O'Mealey's Cafeteria in August 1946 |
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| Parade on Broadway, April 1948 |
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| Parade on Main Street, May 1949 |
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| Petroleum Building in 1946 |
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| Plaza Court, ca. 1940 |
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| Rialto Theater in 1946 |
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| Santa Fe Railroad Depot, April 1944 |
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| Store Interior, April 1949 |
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| Wonder Bread Blimp, Nov. 1947 |
(Photos from Oklahoma Historical Society)
I really enjoy seeing these photos of some of the old buildings tht no longer exist. Maybe the people labeling the photos diddn't know where these buildings were located but it would have been nice if the intersections, at east, had been identified.
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