The Golden Era: 1920-1932

[Doug Loudenback]

When researching the USO Club article, the Oklahoman article which announced the opening of Bass Furniture & Carpet also contained a great collage. Using that as my springboard, and modifying the blog article's title to fit reality, I've put together this article: Doug Dawgz Blog: The Golden Era: 1920 to 1932

Here's the June 29, 1930, collage ... click on it for a much larger view.



The same issue shows that an Oklahoma City Athletic Club was proposed, but it never happened:



I've put together a version of the collage with numbers on it and the text following the graphic identifies what the buildings, and others not included in the collage, are or were.



Of the 49 buildings included in my list, 13 no longer exist, 10 being victims of Urban Renewal.

[Steve]

Doug, are you even taking time out to sleep and eat these days?

[papaOU]

When researching the USO Club article, the Oklahoman article which announced the opening of Bass Furniture & Carpet also contained a great collage. Using that as my springboard, and modifying the blog article's title to fit reality, I've put together this article: Doug Dawgz Blog: The Golden Era: 1920 to 1932

Here's the June 29, 1930, collage ... click on it for a much larger view.



The same issue shows that an Oklahoma City Athletic Club was proposed, but it never happened:



I've put together a version of the collage with numbers on it and the text following the graphic identifies what the buildings, and others not included in the collage, are or were.



Of the 49 buildings included in my list, 13 no longer exist, 10 being victims of Urban Renewal.

Doug, #17 is that not the Montgomery Bldg? I thought it still stands.......

[Doug Loudenback]

Yes, 17 is Montgomery Wards, which is still standing. Did I say something differently?

[papaOU]

Yes, 17 is Montgomery Wards, which is still standing. Did I say something differently?

No. I was just not seeing the whole story. I mistook the purple numerals to be bldgs removed by urban-renewal. If I had been paying full attention the two different colors are just for separation between rows of photographs. Guess I just had a "grant attack".

[Doug Loudenback]

Good. Thought I'd done another bad thing!

Out of curiosity, I was wondering what $113,455,279.00 in 1930 dollars would be worth today. The figure represents building building permits between 1920 and 1930. I found an inflation calculator at Inflation Calculator - Value of a Dollar over Time and plugged in the number, understanding my approach to be unscientific since it did not account for each single year's contribution to the $113.45M pie. Still I thought it might give a better idea ... the result from the on-line calculator?

$113,455,279.00 in 1930 had about the same buying power as $1,386,726,936.29 in 2009. Annual inflation over this period was about 3.22%.

Damn! That's a bunch ... 1 BILLION 386 MILLION and change.