Location of this photo from 1937?

[Summus]

A friend of mine posted this online asking where the location may be today. I told her I knew just the community to answer the question. She says her grandparents owned a photography studio and there is a stack of photos like this. I know you all appreciate these nostalgic photos as much as I do, so I figured I'd share.

[Pete]

O.K. Stamp & Seal was at 118 W. Grand, which is now known as Sheridan.

In present day, this would be the site of the Cox Convention Center; the north side that faces Sheridan just west of Broadway. The Sheraton is directly across the street (where the photographer would have been standing).


Cool photo! Thanks for sharing.

[Jim Kyle]

I visited the stamp store sometime before 1940 and my parents bought me a "Superior" toy printing press there. It used rubber type to print on 3-inch-wide paper; I still had it in 1942 and used it then to print handbills for a tiny craft shop I was running out of my garage at the age of 11!!!

[Prunepicker]

I'm almost positive that Jordan's is in one of the Oklahoma pictorial books and
that it's on Grand, which is now Sheridan. Hope this helps.

[RadicalModerate]

I LOVE this sort of thing. Thanks to the OP for sharing. (If I were to make a guess about the location it would be: The Old Location of the OHP? Somewhere downtown instead of way up there on Eastern near the Zoo? =) Again: Thanks for the photo.

P.S.: Wasn't Oklahoma Stamp and Seal over on Linwood at some point? Or was that a different Stamp and Seal place? I know I once had them design and obtain a custom ticket punch for me. The place I'm thinking of was just down the street (Linwood) from the place I used to take my transit/level to be re-calibrated. =)

[Jim Kyle]

The OHP was created in 1937. I suspect this photo shows the very first cadet class. At one time, I worked rather closely with a fellow from that group who wore badge number 7.

[Prunepicker]

... Somewhere downtown instead of way up there on Eastern near the Zoo? =) Again:

Since the Zoo is on Eastern why wasn't it called the Eastern Park Zoo?

[RealJimbo]

Can't read the sign clearly on "Jordan's", but is that Jordan Desk Company?