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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8245]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First Joint In Atoka-Oklahoma City Pipline goes into the ground at the South Canadian River near Konawa. R. Lewis Barton, chairman of the $65 million trust handling construction breaks the paper plug in the first joint during Wednesday's ceremonies. About 200 citizens from communities between Oklahoma City and Atoka toured the project and visited the Lock Joint Pipe Co. plant at Ada where the 20-foot section are made. the pipeline will bring water 100 miles from Lake Atoka. Completion is scheduled early in 1964."
Date:
August 2, 1961
Creator:
Matheson, Mandell
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0669]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The new $320,000 army reserve armory at NE 36 and Lincoln is one of six built by the army in the entire country. For the first time in the history of the army reserve corps, reservists in Oklahoma City have an armory build for their exlusive use. The Oklahoma City reserve armory is one of six which the army is building over the country. Two of them have been built in Oklahoma, one here and the other in Tulsa. Lt. Gen. LeRoy Lutes, commander of the Fourth army with headquarter at Fort Sam Houston, will dedicate the armory Friday Friday night. The high ranking general will arrive at Tinker field before noon. He will attend a luncheon Friday at the Oklahoma club. The dedication dinner Friday night at the armory will start at 6:30 p.m. Gen. Lutes will make the dedication speech about 7:30 p.m............Col. William H. Craig, chief of the Oklahoma military district, will officialy turn the armory over to Major Roger H. Craddock, senior unit instructor at the armory. Col. Craig said therehas long been a need for armories for army reservists. Heretofore they have trained in …
Date:
August 2, 1951
Creator:
Peterson, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8287]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Size was the order of the day as Oklahoma City civic leaders saw Atoka water project under construction. At left is the huge ditch in which a 48-inch cast iron line is being laid to carry treated water from the Elm Creek Reservoir into the southside of the Oklahoma City distribution system. Desite its size, this pipe was the smallest seen by 125 city people on their inspection tour of the Atoka project Wednesday. Above are three of the four buses rolling down the dusty road which eventually will be under 90 feet of water. this is the caravan crossing the floor what will be the Elm Creek Terminal Reservoir, which will hold as much stored water as Lakes Overholse and Hefner combined when finished."
Date:
August 2, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5351]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Down comes building to make way for the new capitol office structures. This one is Sussy's on NE 23 where the murals, on left wall, were a familiar sight to diners for years. Gleaming white building in back is one of the two new structures."
Date:
August 2, 1961
Creator:
King, Cliff
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3907]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Photo within the auditorium(?) with the band on stage playing, the crowd is seated, and more.)"
Date:
August 2, 1940
Creator:
Thomas, Gene
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7868]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hundreds of relatives, friends and neighbors came to Union Station Wednesday to bid farewell to the marines - Oklahoma City's first group going off to the Korean war. The band played, important people made speeches. And hundreds of faces were tear-stained as the train pulled out. And (at left) small Patti Gail Vetoyants, 9 months, sleeps quietly as hundred throng around her. She was still sleeping when her father, M/Sgt. Chris Vetoyanis, 3111 N Western and points west, kissed her goodbye. (O-7-15-65) Country's Call for the Oklahoma reservists back in 1950 was recalled Wednesday as Washington reports indicated some guard and reserve units will be needed for the Viet Nam struggle. This was the scene Aug. 3, 1950, when the 20th Marine Infantry Reserve Battalion headed for Korea from Oklahoma City's Union Station. Thunderbirds of the 45th Division were mobilized Sept. 1, 1950."
Date:
August 2, 1950
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4653]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Overpasses on the Raymond Gary expressway, under construction east of Oklahoma City, present an unusual picture in this aerial photoraph by Times photographer Jim Lucas. Construction is progessing rapidly on the new freeway. At left is the northeast leg of the bypass, while running vertically through the picture at right is NE 63."
Date:
August 2, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5430]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Off with the old and on with the new was the feature attraction at Oklahoma's state capitol Thursday night as the grand old dame of politics put on new makeup in the form of a perimeter of light. Prior to the installation of 76 mercury vapor lights of 1,000 watts each, the capitol had a dark nighttime complexion, left, Gov. Edmondson threw the switch providing the latest new look in an over-all beautification project."
Date:
August 2, 1962
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8241]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first joint of 60-inch concrete pipe in the Atoka pipeline was laid Wednesday in ceremonies attended by 200 civic leaders from Oklahoma City and other communities along the route. The yellow-painted concrete cylinder was lowered into an excavation at the north end of the South Canadian river crossing near Konawa to climax an all-day bus tour of the constuction project. About 125 Oklahoma City citizens aboard four buses first visited the Elm Creek Reservoir construction site south of Tinker Field. Then, in Ada they toured the Lock Joint Pipe Co. plant where production of pipe has been stepped up to 48 joints a day. When in fuull operation output will be 78 joints a day. (photo tag: Pipe is in place at South Canadian crossing near Konawa for a pleasing preview. Civic leaders attending Atoka project ceremonies Wednesday found the work ahead of schedule. Pipe began moving two weeks ago.)"
Date:
August 2, 1961
Creator:
Matheson, Mandell
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5859]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A wall of flame is attacked by firemen early Tuesday at a blaze in a vacant home."
Date:
August 2, 1965
Creator:
Brown, Don
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4060]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of downtown Oklahoma City, at bottom left is the "John A. Brown Co." building, at bottom right is the "Cravens Bldg" and the "Hales Bldg," at top right is the "City Nation Bank" building with the "Merchandise Mart" building just above it, and more.)"
Date:
August 2, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2950]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This aerial shot shows Midwest City's recently completed sewage disposal plant at NE 36 (which crosses rop of picture) a half a mile east of Air Depot. Costing $311,935 and constructed by the Blalock Construction Co. of Pauls valley, the plant provides service for 22,000 persons in addition to the 12,000 served by the old plant. Funds were part of a $677,000 bond issue voted by Midwest City residentssome time ago. Rest of the money will be used for outfall lines east and west."
Date:
August 2, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5816]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Charred Carpeting is shown stacked in National Carpet Service, 2428 SW 29, where it burned late Thursday. Arson experts have been called into investigate the fire's orgin."
Date:
August 2, 1963
Creator:
Frank, John E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5447]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All lit up Thursday night was the state capitol building when a new outdoor floodlighting system was turned on by Gov. Edmondson. A part of the current refurbishing of the capitol complex, the system consists of 76 mercury vapor lamps around the building and shrubs."
Date:
August 2, 1962
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3975]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of downtown Oklahoma City with the federal Murray Building in the foreground, and the main buildings in the middle and up.)"
Date:
August 2, 1983
Creator:
McLaughlin, Al
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6292]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two down and six to go. That's the story at the #13.5 million civil aeronautics administration training center here where the second of eight new buildings was accepted as complete Wednesday. Accepted was building No. 6, above, an air traffic control laboratory of 10,00 square feet. All eight are to be finishedby next July 1. All are under construction except No. 7, a radar laboratory of 2,500 sqaure feet. Huge No. 1 is a warehouse of 650,000 square feet. No. 3 is the administration building of 156,000 square feet. No. 4, a flight operations laboratory, which is to be finished sometime in September, has 40,000 square feet. No .5, an air navagation facilities laboratory, has 70,000 square feet. No. 8, a hangar, has 60,000 square feet. Training classes are continuing, amidst the construction, in the old frame buildings sprinkled through the area. They will be tor down when the other buildings are finished."
Date:
August 2, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9011]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Roy Turner and his wife, Mrs. Jessica Grimm Turner, and their 14-year-old twin children, Betty ad Bill, enjoy a picnic lunch at the ranch. The ranch home is in the background. This is headquarters of the 10,000 acres that sprawled over parts of Pontotoc, Murray and Johnston counties."
Date:
August 2, 1946
Creator:
Sparlin, Morris E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.11054]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo with the empire state-style building at center, many other multi-story buildings all around, "Hales Bldg." at bottom right along with "Cravens," streets all around, and more)"
Date:
August 2, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8289]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "(photo of four buses going down the grounds away from the camera)"
Date:
August 2, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0670]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This huge drill hall in the new army reserve armory is surrounded by offices and class rooms. The armory includes rifle range, showers, kitchen, toilets and vaults for armament."
Date:
August 2, 1951
Creator:
Peterson, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7865]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a large group of people in a street/alley, sign attached to building on the left of "D Storage," fence across the bottom, housing in the background, and more)"
Date:
August 2, 1950
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10670]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Nearing completion is this circular interchange on NE 23 that will link the street with the east bypass. NE 23, running from the top to bottom in the photo, will soon be open to two-way traffic across the bypass, which runs crossways of the phot. The bypass, presently under contract from NE 20 northward to the north bypass, is almost ready to be surfaced. Bids for grading and drainage on approximately 15 more blocks, south of NE 20, were accepted by the state highway department recently."
Date:
August 2, 1957
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0964.0298]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
August 2, 1982
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.1089]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Guess whose face will adorn the 1949 edition of the Illustrated Football annual, a 20-year-old publication which yearly scans the football prospects from coast to coast."
Date:
August 2, 1949
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History