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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5253]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of a bridge under construction, train tracks on the left, housing and buildings in background, and more. Backside handwriting: "Shields Bridge at N. Canadian)"
Date:
April 14, 1978
Creator:
McLaughlin, Al
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4954]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Out-of-order elevator in Central State Hospital's 3-story medical and surgical building means using the stairs. Psychiatric aides, Tommy Reece, right, and Omer Warren, left, and nurse technician Waverly Cupp, at rear, demonstrate that getting a litter up the narrow stairway is next to impossible. So they'll have to carry the patient up to the third floor."
Date:
April 14, 1965
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1867]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Awaiting pistol shooting (?) word are, from left, Hershel Hodges, Bob Wilder, Tom Bear, Jack Garrett, Phil Kennedy and C. C. Walker. Six Oklahoma City police pistol team members are anxiously awaiting the results of a special department-wide balloting Friday to see if they will get to attend a national pistol shooting school in June. Sgt. C. C. Wlaker, police weapons instructor, said more than $900 has been contributed by public spirted merchants and individuals toward expences of the National Rifle Association's match and school at Bloomington, Ill., June 11-20."
Date:
April 14, 1964
Creator:
Albright, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10227]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This big mechanical monster is a washing machine that cleans some eight million pounds of metal a year at the Western Electric Works."
Date:
April 14, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7607]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Mothers who think it's a chore preparing a dozen bottles of baby formula for the ice box each day can take heart from this assembly-line processing. At St. Anthony hospital, where more babies are born each day than in any other hospital in town, laboratory technicians spend a couple of hours each morning preparing between 400 and 500 bottles. Shown here at the daily task are Robert Walser, left, supervisor; Mary Agnes Roy, upper right; dietetic interne, and Fustina Satepeahtaw, student nurse."
Date:
April 14, 1953
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6311]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tornado Threatening clouds menaced the Oklahoma City area early Wednesday night, but only one appearntly harmless funnel was spotted. Thunderstorms and heavy showes were general over the city area and a tornado warning was in effect until midnight. The tornado funnel was sighted over Lake Hefner by a lake ranger, but there were no reports of damage. Showers dumped more than an inch of rain in Midwest City, Del City and the city area."
Date:
April 14, 1965
Creator:
Heaton, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7318]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo outside of a home/nursing home in the background, people within the walls of the house/nursing home, roofing/siding and debris scattered on the ground, and more)"
Date:
April 14, 1968
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3661]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Major link between north and south Oklahoma City is the Shields Extension, which will tie Shields Boulevard, a major southside roadway which ends at SE 25, into E.K. Gaylord Boulevard near Myriad Convention Center. Aerial photo, looking north toward downtown, shows construction work on the $5.6 million Shields bridge over the North Canadian River."
Date:
April 14, 1978
Creator:
McLaughlin, Al
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10976]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a road at night, lightning coming from the clouds at right middle, cars at with their lights on, and more.)"
Date:
April 14, 1965
Creator:
Heaton, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8206]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of the insides of a treatment plant section, left side has raised floor with slots, along the raised floor wall is instrunments on small tables, man wearing a hat at a table, middle is an open floor, and more)"
Date:
April 14, 1954
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10228]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It takes an hour and a half to hike through the sprawling Western Electric plant at 6655 W Reno. And even then, you might not see it all. It's like a visit to a small planet - 20 minutes from downtown Oklahoma City. Some 40,000 Persons took the trip this week as Western Electric threw open its many doors for the first time since the operation started in a downtown bank-building in August,1957, and then moved into its present plant almost a year ago. In a series of "open house" programs, the public was treated to its first big look-see at what lies behind the walls of one of the city's greatest industrial developments. What did they see after taking 3,960 man-sized steps over the 1,300,000 square feet of floor space? First there were people-2,770 of them-enough to populate a small Oklahoma town. they work at a building incredibly intricate long-distance dialing equipment, and 90 percent of the employes were hired in Oklahoma City.........And if you're wondering what happens inside: More than 44,000 crossbar switches were assembled there in 1960. And last year, 123,600 miles of multi-colored wire …
Date:
April 14, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10468]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An old stage coach trunk had no home, but it seemed logical that it ought to go to Oklahoma City's Frontier City. Cecil Hart of Railroad Express, left, helps park engineer raymond unload the old truck while make-believe mashall Doc Holloday looks fierce. When the chest was put in its new place at the park, it was opened and an unexpected bonus was discovered."
Date:
April 14, 1964
Creator:
Traverse, Austin
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7989]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Giant-sized piggy-back ride from Seattle, Wash., to Oklahoma City was provided the 56,000-pound oilfield rig-up truck shown on the bed of the carry truck with a gross vehicle capacity of 95,000 pounds. Both trucks were purchased by Bill Hodges Truck Co., Oklahoma City. Stan Deffenbaugh, vice president of Oklahoma Kenworth, termed the carry truck - 8 feet wide at the front and 9 feet wide at the rear tires - the largest of its type to come into the Oklahoma oilfield. At the cab of the carry truck is Jack Hodges, president of Hodges trucking firm, while John T. Burns Jr., sales engineer for Oklahoma Kenworth, is at the cab of the smaller truck."
Date:
April 14, 1970
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7013]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "On the Cover: The kitchen of Cindy Stevenson's three section manufactured home looks quite similar to one in a conventinal home. She and her husband Bobby are among a growing number of people electing to live in manufactured houses instead of a site-built home."
Date:
April 14, 1995
Creator:
Sisney, Steve
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10229]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Intricate, expensive machines get an adjusting from one of the 2,770 employes in the huge ultra modern Western Electric plant."
Date:
April 14, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5969]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Flames are shown eating through the roof in a three-alarm fire at the Folding Carrier Co., 1248 W Main, early Wednesday. Two workers fighting the blaze were killed. The plant, a subsidiary of the Standard and Humpty-Dumpty grocery chain, manufactured basket carriers for food shoppers."
Date:
April 14, 1948
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6320]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of rain clouds on the right with pretty clear sky on the left, a car and a water tower in the foreground, downtown Oklahoma City and oil rigs in the background. And more)"
Date:
April 14, 1965
Creator:
Heaton, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4112]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "First step was taken Wednesday toward construction of a multi-million-dollar office building and apartment house complex on the banks and an island of Belle Isle Lake. An option forstudy and development was signed between Amderson-Roomey Co., owners and operators of Penn Square, and the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. Foundation, owners of about 13 acres in the tract. W. A. Anderson, president of Anderson-Roomey, estimated the 9-story office building, 20-story apartment and clinic building will cost "somewhere between $8 million and $10 million, depending upon the final plans." "It won't come tommorow. We're still in the process of study and planning. But we are far enough along that we can make a deal, get the idea out in the open and start writing definite contracts.....The project has been under study for some months. Coston-Frankfurt-Short, Oklahjoma City architecural firm that specializes in large commercial developments, submitted the proposals..........Anderson-Roomey is owned jointly by W. A. Anderson and the Rooney Brothers John E. Rooney and L. F. Rooney jr."
Date:
April 14, 1962
Creator:
Jacoby, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10978]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of lightning from the right middle all across to the far left middle, road and cars with lights on at bottom left, and more.)"
Date:
April 14, 1965
Creator:
Heaton, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8205]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of the insides of a treatment plant section, right side has raised floor with slots, middle is an open floor, along the raised floor wall is instrunments on small tables, and more)"
Date:
April 14, 1954
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3684]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Motorists move in one lane while construction crews complete surface repairs on the Crosstwon Espressway.Aerial view, looking east, shows I-40 as it snakes south of downtown Oklahoma City. Partial reopening of the expressway will begin Wednesday."
Date:
April 14, 1978
Creator:
McLaughlin, Al
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4111]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Location Of A New Office Building and apartment house complex at Belle Isle Lake is shown here, with the office building just to the east of Penn Square and extending out to what is now a small island, with the apartment house on an island just east of that building. Both buildings would be reached by a scenic bridge from a building now designed as a new medical clinic structure. Contracts have been signed for study and development of final plans for the structure on land owned by Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company Foundation, by Anderson-Rooney and Manhattan Construction Co., of Tulsa."
Date:
April 14, 1962
Creator:
Jacoby, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6321]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo at dusk, following the roads with clouds both above and in the background, the cloud on the middle right raining, and more)"
Date:
April 14, 1965
Creator:
Heaton, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6318]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of road barriers saying "bridge out," "detour," "One Mile To Penn.," and more. Backside handwriting: "May Ave & Hefner Rd looking NW.")"
Date:
April 14, 1965
Creator:
Brown, Don
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History