Yeah, that Aloft is a really great addition. I wish we could have seen the proposed Candy Lofts (or whatever it was called) developed on that parking lot. That would've been great too.

I like this recent shot from Will:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3713/9013984710_c1c10fe286_h.jpg

It makes me happy when I look at it. Probaby due to the bright sunshine, clear skies, and leafy trees.

But it's also a nice composition. The juxtaposition of the different styles of buildings from different eras works very well. It's very urban, and yet has a quiet, residential feel. Even the roses are blooming.

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Nice view from overhead Deep Deuce looking south.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1026147_325874137543010_875473648_o.jpg?dl=1

I think it's fairly recent. Certain progress markers, like Aloft or HGI are off screen, so that makes it harder to figure out. But the Holiday Inn Express lot is clear, so I'd say it was taken not too long ago.

Source: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=325874137543010&set=a.239518672845224.58378.209274295869662&type=1

3848Quite a difference from 40 years ago. I found this while going through some old negatives. It was taken from approsimately SW 8th, atop the fill and looking north. I'm the center one of the three people at left; my wife took the picture in 1973.

3848Quite a difference from 40 years ago. I found this while going through some old negatives. It was taken from approsimately SW 8th, atop the fill and looking north. I'm the center one of the three people at left; my wife took the picture in 1973.

That pic makes me want to go snap one from the same vantage point!

That pic makes me want to go snap one from the same vantage point!

Go for it! I would love to see that comparison.

Looks like that was about 4 years before the Biltmore went bye bye.

http://cferguson.vsco.co/i/51c5cbff58680835720000a5?w=800&r=1 another from the iphone

3858Here's another of my very old photos, taken in the spring of 1956 from midway between NW 4 and NW 5 on Harrison, shortly after sunrise. At the time I was a copy editor for the Oklahoma City Times, working from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. and I parked on Harrison because there were no meters. I took the shot on the way to work one morning.

As I find more old photos, I'll post them.

Sure wish the old Petroleum Building still looked like it once did. It was really the first true skyscraper. Much taller than the Colcord.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Old%20Oklahoma%20City/1956harrison.jpg

3858Here's another of my very old photos, taken in the spring of 1956 from midway between NW 4 and NW 5 on Harrison, shortly after sunrise. At the time I was a copy editor for the Oklahoma City Times, working from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. and I parked on Harrison because there were no meters. I took the shot on the way to work one morning.

As I find more old photos, I'll post them.

So cool! Thanks for sharing.

What are the buildings east and north of City Place?

The taller structure just to the right of City Place is what is now the Dowell Center, believe it or not.

The Dowell Center is the old Petroleum Building before they refaced the outside and added on to it towards the East.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Old%20Oklahoma%20City/Petroleum%20Building/petroleumbuilding1960-2.jpg

Building on the left it the one they just tore down to build the "amenities" building in the SandRidge thread.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Old%20Oklahoma%20City/Petroleum%20Building/petroleumbuilding1960.jpg

Dean A McGee & Robinson

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Old%20Oklahoma%20City/Petroleum%20Building/petroleumbuilding3.jpg

Braniff Building on the left background.

That's a great old skyline shot.

But dig that yellow car! I love it.

Actually that car was a pale green, which was a very popular color for GM vehicles in the late 40s and early 50s. The slide is pretty faded, and the automatic color restoration program didn't get all the colors correctly...

Actually that car was a pale green, which was a very popular color for GM vehicles in the late 40s and early 50s. The slide is pretty faded, and the automatic color restoration program didn't get all the colors correctly...

This might be a little closer

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Actually that car was a pale green, which was a very popular color for GM vehicles in the late 40s and early 50s. The slide is pretty faded, and the automatic color restoration program didn't get all the colors correctly...

Ok, dig that pale green car! :)

Like Snowman, I thought I'd try to edit the photo to see if I could get a greener looking car. I couldn't (without shifting the whole image to green).

But, then I thought I'd see if I could clean it up some (speck removal, etc.) Had a little more luck with that (and completely killed a couple of hours to boot). Here's what I got:

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ff2dfbas2dmo3ep/okc-1956-skyline-clean.jpg

Thanks very much! I spent an hour or two taking specks out of the sky area but gave up on the rest of the image. I was using the stamp tool in GIMP, with a very small brush and working at 400% zoom. You've done an excellent job! The only remaining blemish I can see is a spot on what I believe to be the old Coca-Cola building (just above the parked cars next to the Printing sugb) that's a darker red than its surroundings, and it's not at all obvious.

Thanks very much! I spent an hour or two taking specks out of the sky area but gave up on the rest of the image. I was using the stamp tool in GIMP, with a very small brush and working at 400% zoom. You've done an excellent job! The only remaining blemish I can see is a spot on what I believe to be the old Coca-Cola building (just above the parked cars next to the Printing sugb) that's a darker red than its surroundings, and it's not at all obvious.

Thanks! Yeah, I most definitely saw the dark stain on the red building -- that's about the point where I got tired and gave it a rest. Several hours of hand editing pixels gets old. Mostly using a blur tool with a small radius at high zoom. It does a marvelous job of rubbing out specks, but not so good at handling boundaries such as where the blue sky meets the buildings (that's the sloppiest part of my effort -- had to hand pick colors for many individual pixels to make it look reasonable).

It's a great shot of the old downtown. I wished I could step into the picture and mill about for awhile. :)

The closest thing I can do is watch this film, by the chamber, put out at around the same time as your photo:

City on the March: A Short Story of Oklahoma City. c.1950s. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UJvp_XNB5g)

In fact, I think I see the same model of car as the pale green special at the 2:54 mark (well, just the back end of it) in the parking lot of Park Estates Shopping Village.

Oh, and I just noticed that in that film, at the 3:00 mark, it shows the same view as in your photo. Here's a still:

http://dl.dropbox.com/s/541eu90lscb9pt3/50s-view.jpg

Just noticed? :) Thought you picked the video for that reason.

I caught that too. And in the opening title shots I saw an Olds88 in the same light green. My 46 Olds 76 convertible that I drove at OU and my first year of military service was that pale jade tint, which is part of why I remember it so well...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5347/9147574765_b3afbb7812_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vincefryhover/9147574765/in/pool-89888984@N00)

Photo by Vincent Fryhover (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vincefryhover)

Taken May 30, 2013 -- the day of downtown storm craziness.

That's awesome! I really wanted to get out for pics today...I spent 3 hours mowing and staring at the great clouds. But I had more chores and couldn't even get the camera out of the closet :(

Ah the biltmore... Darn it

July 1 2013

Construction crane up at the Holiday Inn Express site...

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2814/9187597496_eaead9fbb9_h.jpg

Awesome. Thanks Will!

I *love* the way the Aloft fills out Deep Deuce.

Once that hotel is open and gets cranking DD will really be cooking.

Awesome. Thanks Will!

I *love* the way the Aloft fills out Deep Deuce.

Once that hotel is open and gets cranking DD will really be cooking.

There's no doubt about it... the Aloft Hotel gives great skyline. :)

The only thing that would complete this photo is one or two more towers to the left side...

I think one a lil to the right and slightly behind the AT&T Phone Line building would be welcome too ;-)

Came across this amazing image on Aerial Oklahoma Inc (http://www.aerialok.com)!

http://www.aerialok.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_9665-OUHSC.jpg

Love it!

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/null.jpg

The Oklahoma City I want to see twenty years from now looks like this:

One or two new towers on the Stage Center site to the west, Devon Energy Center to the north, convention center with high rise to the south and residential towers to the east where the Cox Convention Center used to be. Making Myriad Gardens into a miniature Central Park like in NYC.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Old%20Oklahoma%20City/Skylines/RAC20100773-.jpg
Late 1930's

That has to be a Fred MacArthur photo; the hand-lettered title was his trademark. My very first job was working for Mister Mac as a retail salesman and general go-fer at Oklahoma Photo Supply, 315 N. Broadway, while I was still in high school. He originally had a drugstore in OKC, but was an avid amateur photographer and set up his darkroom to do photo finishing for the drugstore customers. That grew into MacArthur Photo Service, located on Linwood just west of Western, and that in turn gave birth to Oklahoma Photo which in the late 40s was the largest photo supply retailer and wholesaler in the state. After Mister Mac's death, Eastmak Kodak bought the firm and changed the name...

Many of the early OKC photos came from Mister Mac's postcard-size Kodak, with hand-lettered titles, and were actual photo prints processed by his photo service.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7307/8724866922_7270b921b3_b.jpg

I took this one this weekend. Not the greatest shot but I am still learning how to use my camera correctly.

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I have some shots from today but the site is not letting me transition the pics and I can't stand doing the little attach move...

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3726/9245477464_db9aeb2fb6_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/okcpics/9245477464/)
Oklahoma City Skyline (http://www.flickr.com/photos/okcpics/9245477464/) by racnokc (http://www.flickr.com/people/okcpics/), on Flickr

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3742/9242770933_bd9364b8e6_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/okcpics/9242770933/)
Oklahoma City Skyline (http://www.flickr.com/photos/okcpics/9242770933/) by racnokc (http://www.flickr.com/people/okcpics/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5497/9245732288_604404487c_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/okcpics/9245732288/)
Oklahoma City Skyline from Boathouse Row (http://www.flickr.com/photos/okcpics/9245732288/) by racnokc (http://www.flickr.com/people/okcpics/), on Flickr

July 5 2013

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3674/9243648411_d592b82b3a_b.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Old%20Oklahoma%20City/Skylines/RAC20100773-.jpg
Late 1930's

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7393/9246574490_df7d8d1fed_b.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3803/9246572352_e5aa97a111_b.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3750/9246570048_c74221de68_b.jpg

Wide range of styles and periods here. One of oldest and tallest buildings (1907 Pioneer Building), 1920's (Telephone Building), 1930's (FNC and City Place) 1970's (SandRidge) 80's (Oklahoma Tower) 2000's (Devon Tower)

Great idea Will! Love the before-and-after comparison. Not much has changed, huh? :wink:

Those are great photos, russellc. Especially the third one (at Boathouse Row). I look at that and marvel at how much of what I see is relatively new -- the river, the boathouse buildings, Devon Tower,...
It's a whole new modern landscape created there.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/1015326_10151571585783731_362114399_o.jpg

Insight Visual Media | Oklahoma based graphic design, web development, photography and video production company (http://www.goivm.com/)

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/1015326_10151571585783731_362114399_o.jpg

Insight Visual Media | Oklahoma based graphic design, web development, photography and video production company (http://www.goivm.com/)

That's a great shot. Cooper Ross rocks!

Here's another jaw-dropper from IVM...

I look at this and in some ways have a hard time even recognizing my home town:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/thunder1.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7326/9264502240_5e1ddb9ce9_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7327/9261720719_9a7cf44193_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/9261718715_9a00068808_b.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3708/9264482024_9d3ae3b704_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7452/9243704681_4c572dd2e7_b.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3674/9243648411_d592b82b3a_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7292/9246430116_8b27a1c1eb_b.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3827/9246426534_c85f98bbe5_b.jpg

Taken from The Packard rooftop:

http://distilleryimage9.ak.instagram.com/acda7ae8ea9611e29a8f22000a9f195b_7.jpg

Not a big pic, but that sky....

Source: Downtown OKC Pictures and Videos ? #okc #downtownokc #oklahoma #patioweather #clouds #pretty #beautiful #sunset #nofilter #devontower @packardsokc (http://downtownokcnews.tumblr.com/post/55224785761/okc-downtownokc-oklahoma-patioweather-clouds)

The City of OKC posted a nice photo gallery on their fb page here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151517482022312.1073741828.53385692311&type=1

The title is "OKC Street Scenes | July 22", so I guess they were taken ealier today (recently anyway). Here's a nice one:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1073100_10151517484852312_216469507_o.jpg

Notice how you can see two cranes in the shot. :)

The amazing Cooper Ross just posted a new set to his website:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/wikiphotos/river73013.jpg


http://www.okctalk.com/images/wikiphotos/river73013b.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2884/9397793998_dddfde08f8_b.jpg

A few nice downtown shots from Jonathan Garner:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X2VghWXOMxM/UgD5UMyxjGI/AAAAAAAABk4/s67PNTXyQl0/s1600/031.JPG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GIvoD4ZQmSs/UgD5RTtf9II/AAAAAAAABko/g6ebeT2youg/s1600/022.JPG

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EH2NdOa7OSQ/UgD5SkErXbI/AAAAAAAABkw/RLKarzLMdr8/s1600/025.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WL9jtNHdHcg/UgD5XUVKwJI/AAAAAAAABlI/CxNlV6msCiA/s1600/045.JPG


Source: Slog Alpinismo: Downtown Oklahoma City - 5 August 2013 (http://tornadocyclone.blogspot.com/2013/08/downtown-oklahoma-city-5-august-2013.html)

You GOTTA LOVE this commercial (produced by Insight Visual Media):

https://vimeo.com/71466752

That's awesome!

Has anyone seen this aired? I haven't -- but then again, I hardly ever watch TV these days.

Still shot from that commercial:

http://dl.dropbox.com/s/o50iavr7igwavkq/JoeCooperCommerical.jpg

Kaiju!