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Meridian Golf Course
Photo of the former Meridian Golf Course. The photo was taken looking to the north. The north-south street on the right in the photo is N. Meridian Ave. The east-west street in the photo is N.W. 30th St., it intersects and dead ends at Meridian. The golf course opened in 1941 and closed in 1961. The Windsor Hills housing development was built on the golf course property. Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
July 25, 1949
Creator:
East, Bob
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0430]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "MOTORCYCLE CRUSHED IN COLLISION WITH TRUCK; RIDER LANDS IN HOSPITAL; A truck-motorcycle collision Tuesday morning at NW 21 and Western injured one man and made mincemeat out of his motorcycle. Police said the cycle was jammed beneath the rear wheels of the truck and carried 25 feet across the intersection. Hank Schmidt, police accident investigator, is shown examining the wreckage. The cycle rider, Joseph Wright, 29, of 1110 1/2 NW 42 was thrown clear in the crash, but Mercy hospital attendants said he received facial lacerations and possible fractures of both legs. The truck was driven by Arthur Cecil Chew, 34, of 16 SW 11."
Date:
April 26, 1949
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0431]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
April 26, 1949
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0478]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Motorcycle officer is injured. SW 23 and Robinson. E.W. Lawson, motorcycle officer, chasing a blue ford north on Robinson, Lommie Ray Campbell, 16, of Duncan, OK (and says he is staying at 2314 NW 1st) ran a stop line at SW 23 and Robinson, Lawson hit the side of his car and throwing Lawson over the car wrecking his motorcycle. Lawson was taken to Mercy Hospital where it was found he had bruised left shoulder, both legs, but wasn't seriously hurt, Lommie Ray Campbell was booked for failure to yield the right of way and no state drivers license and investigation."
Date:
October 28, 1949
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0483]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sunday Greeting A greeting to a friend on another motorcycle ended Sunday with Gerald Donald Wiederman, 36, of 2513 NW 40, in this position. He was treated at Mercy hospital for bruises and abrasions then released. He told F.C. Daneils,police scout car officer, he was traveling north on Walker and NW 2 when he turned to wave at a cyclist going south. He ran into the left front fender of a car driven by Sal Dimor, 27, of 3514 S Walker, as Dimor also going north, prepared to make a turn"
Date:
December 19, 1949
Creator:
Mitchell, George T.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0710]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Scooter Rider Hurt in Crash: An automobile struck a motor scooter at NW 10 and Portland early Thursday, critically injuring the scooter rider, C.L. Echols, 47, of 6900 NW 10. At left is his mangled scooter. Mercy hospital attendants said Echols is suffering from internal hemorrhages and has "One change in a hundred of pulling through," police reported. Officers charged the motorist, C. A. Mobley, 27, of the 1700 block Exchange, with driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor."
Date:
May 12, 1949
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0870]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "RIFLE FOUND 8 BLOCKS FROM CITY CROSSING CRASH, Jimmy Kimray, 14, of 340 SE 38, examines the remains of a Springfield rifle found with other wreckage at the SE 36 Santa Fe crossing after a fast train hit a car at the SE 44 crossing and ground E. F. Lucius, 2805 NW 21, to death. The driver and car were scattered 10 blocks along the tracks from the crash scene."
Date:
January 10, 1949
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1039]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The trailer, below and right, overturned. The fireman in the trailer is Lieut. J. C. Huffman."
Date:
April 18, 1949
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1040]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "School Bus Escapes Disaster in Truck Crash A bus load of school children and an El Reno truck driver escaped injury Monday morning when a trailer-truck crashed into a power pole, shown above, in the 6100 block NW 10. Lewis Luttrell, 29, the truck driver, climbed out of the cab as it burst into flames."
Date:
April 18, 1949
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1126]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ROUGH? YOU BET!-- Jarrel Wade, 16, of 916 NW 49, sat on the curb and told the police all about it Wednesday. His motor scooter had collided with a bread truck and skidded across the street at NW 24 and Harvey, Jarrell suffered pavement burns and bruises and will go to the family doctor for a check-up Thursday. Left to right are W. A. Williams, H. L. Loyd. police accident investigator and V. L. Connell, scout car officer. The bread truck driver, Leland T."
Date:
May 11, 1949
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0035]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This is Buttram's hat. Police say it is on the opposite side, where the accident occurred. No one knows how it got there."
Date:
October 20, 1949
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0036]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The front of the Santa Fe's Texas Chief was damaged Thursday when it crashed into the truck carrying a heavy load of pipe."
Date:
October 20, 1949
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0037]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This train-truck crash Thursday critically injured the truck driver, J. E. Buttram, at SE 29 and Shields."
Date:
October 20, 1949
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0700]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A huge truck apparently ownerless, rolled down a slight incline early Tuesday and plowed into the front of the Oklahoma Chemical Co., 2311 S walker."
Date:
February 8, 1949
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0701]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Even as state leaders put Oklahoma's entry in the annual national traffic safety contest Friday afternoon, a three- truck collision in the 2400 block NW 39 sent one man to Wesley hospital and another to the city jail for drunken driving."
Date:
March 12, 1949
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0705]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In spite the wreckage caused by two trucks colliding Wednesday morning in the 4300 block N Lincoln, only one man was injured."
Date:
August 3, 1949
Creator:
McLaughlin, Al
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0706]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Despite the wreckage caused by two trucks colliding Wednesday morning in the 4300 block N Lincoln, only one man was injured."
Date:
August 3, 1949
Creator:
McLaughlin, Al
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0849]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two men were killed in this pickup truck Saturday when it crashed into a semi-trailer truck near Orlando, Logan county, on U.S. 77. Killed instantly was Cecil Humphrey, 2020 NE 16 Terrace. Murray J. Thornton, Albuquerque, NM., his passenger, died shortly after the accident in Perry General Hospital."
Date:
January 15, 1949
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0853]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Clarence Andrews, an Oklahoma City truck driver, is in a critical condition in a Sulphur hospital of burns suffered in a three truck crash near Davis about midnight which also burned six members of the Davis fire department. The firemen were treated at the Sulphur hospital but their burns are not believed serious."
Date:
September 27, 1949
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0860]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Robert L. McCormick, 33, Sperry, was killed Thursday in the cab of his truck, left, when it crashed into a pipe-laden truck, right, on the Washita river bridge on U.S. 81, three miles north of Chickasha. A truck, driven by James D. Stewart, 29, of 3401 S Shields, stopped at the bridge approach to allow McCormick's truck to cross the bridge, and William Louis Hudler, 24, of 1241 SE 17, driving the pipe-laden truck, was unable to stop. McCormick was trapped inside the cab."
Date:
November 4, 1949
Creator:
Dresser, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0895]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, Retd., accompanied by his Chinese wife, is shown leaving airliner following arrival here today. They are enroute to Chennault's Louisiana home where he hopes to rest for six weeks, then return to China. He said he doubted the Communists "will do any better than the Japanese" did in China."
Date:
April 24, 1949
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1003]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The new Church of the Nazarene building at Cherokee will be dedicated on November 27 under present plans of Rev. Lloyd Hern, pastor."
Date:
October 27, 1949
Creator:
Killian, Thomas F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0070.0022]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
September 30, 1949
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0070.0023]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. Lewis Barton, county chairman for the infantile paralysis fund drive, left, accepts a check for $2,090.13 from Victor Alessandro director of Oklahoma Symphony."
Date:
January 28, 1949
Creator:
Owen, A. Y.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History