City on the March: A Short Story of Oklahoma City. c.1950s.

Item Number: F2000.044.02
Color film with audio. Film follows a family that just moved to Oklahoma City. Family tours Oklahoma City. Shows Oklahoma City neighborhoods, Mayfair Shopping Center, Casady Square, A Brown store on Capitol Hill, Park Estates Shopping Village, Downtown, Skirvin Hotel, Republic Building, Municipal
Auditorium, Lee Way Truck distribution Center, Will Rogers Airport, Railroads downtown, Capitol oil wells, Oklahoma wheat field, Industrial manufacturing in Oklahoma City, Telephone men, Oklahoma A&M college demonstration farm, Oklahoma City Zoo, Downtown YWCA and YMCA, Oklahoma City Indians baseball team, Lake Overholser, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Briton School, Oklahoma City University, Tinker Air Force base from aerial shot and ground shots, Oklahoma State Fair, Turner Turnpike, Site of Cowboy Hall of Fame,
Southwestern Bell of Oklahoma (Creator)
Oklahoma City (City), in Oklahoma (USA)
18 minutes 43 seconds
16 mm film; video/avi AVI 1920X1080 29.97 FRAME RATE
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[@michaelteton1307]

Great vid

[@RobertKeeleyTV]

It's cool seeing the young Tuner Turnpike, freshly opened on May 16th, 1953 in this film 17:18. The future home of the Cowboy Hall Of Fame, off of Route 66 is cool thing to see 17:41. The OKC Stockyards at 9:55 is really impressive.

[@jesseserna8424]

I was born in 1965 grew up in the Capital Hill district in the 70s I barely remember that John A. Brown it had a escalator soon as you come in the door off 25 st. also there was a theater across the street it was the Knob Hill,my parents met in the stock yard district ,Wow Macklanburg Duncan still looks almost same today I work down the street 😮..thanks for this 🤠

[@WAL_DC-6B]

The new neighbors got a tour of OK City in an apparently new '55 Chevrolet complete with a continental kit. That's an American Airlines, Douglas DC-6B taxing in at 4:48 followed by a Braniff International Airways, Convair 340. Nice look back at Oklahoma City in the mid 1950s (gosh I miss the oil derricks that used to be around much of the city). Thanks for sharing!