Painted Bricks: Oklahoma City

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Saturday, January 21, 2023

Bricktown, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

These are all bad photographs from my hotel window of the Bricktown district of Oklahoma City. I didn't have time to tour it, so this is what I have

I've been to Oklahoma City quite a few times over the years, but several of my visits predate the period at which I packed around an iPhone for photographs. I'm sure the first time I was there I didn't take any photos at all, and I probably didn't have a cell phone.

Bricktown is the name that's been attached to the old downtown section of the city. Oklahoma City has done a really nice job of making this old section of what's now a fairly old Midwestern city pretty hip and cool.

Painted Bricks?

As we noted in our very first post on this curiously named blog, this blog started off as an effort to photograph and document the painted "ghost signs" on buildings in Casper, Wyoming.

It has since expanded, as we have photographed most if not all of those, into one that captures generally interesting older buildings anywhere, while still recording painted signs on buildings where we run across them. It is one of a series of photograph blogs we have, including our main site, Holscher's Hub, our site dedicated to churches in our region, Churches of the West; our similar site on courthouses, Courthouses of the West; our railroad site, Railhead; and our site dedicated to war memorials, Some Gave All.

In a way, however, this site is a history site, attempting to record a bit of the history of the West through the depiction of its buildings of a certain era. We have a couple of history sites as well, including Lex Anteinternet and Today In Wyoming's History. This one mostly lacks text, unlike those other two, with the buildings speaking for themselves.