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Dolores Restaurant PDF Print E-mail
Written by Steve Lackmeyer   
Sunday, 07 February 2010 18:51

Dolores Restaurant, 33 NE 23 - a legendary Oklahoma City Route 66 restraurant.

(Rendering from Boulevard Cafeteria collection) 

For Oklahoma City, Dolores Restaurant is just a memory – another great restaurant that faded away after being a local favorite for decades. But for Los Angeles, the legend continues.

Confused?

This story starts back when drive-through restaurants were brand new - an innovation prompted by the sudden explosion of cross country automobile travel.

 

Last Updated on Sunday, 07 February 2010 22:23
 
Getting Across the East Side Viaduct PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jack Money   
Saturday, 30 January 2010 23:14

The Central Avenue Viaduct today.

 

JANUARY 30, 2010 - Trying to get to the Central Avenue Bridge today is not the easiest of exercises, given the ongoing construction of the re-aligned Crosstown Expressway.

But finding a way across the Oklahoma River during the 1920s was even more difficult, and traffic traveling along Highways 77 and 66 routinely clogged Oklahoma City’s downtown business district.

It should be no surprise, then, that the inclusion of an East Side Viaduct into a plan rerouting the highway traffic through Oklahoma City away from downtown made news this week in 1930.

S. Herbert Hare, a planning consultant hired by the city, recommended bringing the traffic south through the city along Lincoln Boulevard to NE 12, then building a new street swinging the traffic west over to Stiles Avenue.

Then, designs called for a long bridge to carry the traffic across the Rock Island line north of Bricktown, across an existing Riverside Park and the Katy Railroad lines south of Bricktown, then across the river and another set of tracks owned by the Frisco Railroad before returning back to ground level on Central Avenue, north of SE 15. (1)

But designing a plan calling for such a project would be one thing. Getting it built would be something else lasting the next 20-plus years.

 

 
TV Memories - Linda Soundtrak PDF Print E-mail
Written by Steve Lackmeyer   
Monday, 23 February 2009 03:11

NEW VIDEOS! AND YES, LINDA IS BACK!

Oh Linda, oh Linda, you were once always just a remote click away. We took you for granted. And then you were gone, replaced by a bunch of souless big box operators. You were funny, you were short, you graciously signed an autograph for me while my family visited Santa Claus at North Park Mall so very long ago.

 

Last Updated on Sunday, 07 February 2010 22:10