Photograph of 39th St and May AVE in OKC, OK on December 31, 1953 before the construction of the US 66 Urban Bypass.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Pvt. Homer H. Cox ,right, Oklahoma City soldier, shakes hands with Leland Towers, San Francisco , with whom he was released from a Russian prison camp."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THIS NEW GOLD MEDAL HOME is typical of the houses in Grady Musgrave's lakeside addition."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fourteen years in one place is time enough to gain more friends than Beverly Ruth Mason, 701 NE 15, realized until Thursday when she checked out as operator of the state capitol branch of Western Union."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The marvels of modern communications didn't impress Mrs. Edith Spencer much."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "B. Wags, who joined the highway pareol in 1940 and has served in the Claremore, Lawton and Oklahoma City districts Friday was named supervisor of this area including Oklahoma, Pottawatomie, McClain, Lincoln and Cleveland counties."

Photograph of the view looking east-north-east at Northwest 39th Street across North May Avenue before the construction of the U.S. Highway 66 urban bypass.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ed Ersland, 2915 N Hudson - A poor attitude usually based in selfish and a lack if regard for the rights of others."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ollie Long, City, State Dept. of Public Safety, Driver License Examiner"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Marian Macaulay, nursing supervisor of the Research Foundation, talks through the new station partition with Rainbow Girls Beverly Thomas, 1501 NE 39, worthy adviser, and Beverly Dawson, 1930 NW 15, charity."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Eldon McCumber, 2141 NW 12-"Many of them fail because they did not study the driver's manual."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Disielee Annette barman, Municipal auditorium bookkeeper and secretary, resigned her job Tuesday as city councilmen were told of a lag in turning auditorium money to the city treasurer."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Lillian Spencer of Oklahoma City, mother of the Houston doctor."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Three persons were injured, one critically, early Tuesday when their car struck a curbing at SE 30 and Shields and overturned three times. In the top picture one of the passengers, Peggy Delores Kesner, 19, of 833 SE 23, is shown being loaded into an ambulance. Another passenger, Clifford Arthur Gafford, 37, of 427 SE 17, is in Mercy hospital injured critically from a skull fracture. The driver, Preston Gilbert Davis, 31, of 405SE 28, is in serious condition from possible skull fracture. In the bottom picture, D.M. Vaughn and J.C. Crite, radio patrol policemen, survey the wreckage."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 19 year old Norman resident, George Belmore Wiley, was admitted to Mercy hospital early Tuesday suffering a head injury and shock after his car collided with a semi-trailer truck at SW 29 and Western."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miss Frances Byers (left), received the scholarship awarded each year by the Seven-College Club of Oklahoma City when the group held its holiday vacation luncheon at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club Tuesday."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Police late Tuesday raided a teen age hangout near Central highschool, arresting 16 persons."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Spending the week in Oklahoma City is David Thayer Rich (standing), Newton, Mass."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The occasionally strained relations between the United States and Great Britain can be greatly eased and improved by an exchange program for ministers. So says Rev. J. Sutherland Logan, of London, England, who is something of an exchange preacher himself. Logan is in Oklahoma City through Sunday to speak at the Pennsylvania Avenue Church of the Nazarene."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "For relaxing hippo's hips there's nothing like a hot bath."