Daily photos from Oklahoma City and the surrounding
metro area
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Downtown OKC
Oklahoma City has a particularly pretty downtown area. I haven't posted enough pictures of it because I don't really live very close but we were out today looking at wedding venues for my son and his fiancé, so I will have some interesting pictures to post in the next few days.
Oh, that's a good question. I think we were on Robinson. Sorry, but I wasn't driving so I spent my time looking out the window. Oh wait, I grabbed a map at the Civic Center... Nope, I was off by a mile - Broadway and Park Ave.
Oklahoma is called the Sooner State, because when the state was opened up land was given away not by lottery but by land run, in a "shotgun start" style. At a certain time, all the settlers lined up at the starting line took off at a dead run and ran as fast as their buggies, coaches, buckboards, horses and legs could take them until they could find land that no one had claimed, 160 acres at a time. Unfortunately, not everyone waited for the starting shot and took off Sooner than they were supposed to: hence, the Sooner State. This bronze statue, actually a series of statues depicting the land run, is found along the canal in Bricktown, in downtown Oklahoma City (OKC) and when finished will be the largest bronze statuary in the world.
2 comments:
That IS very lovely! What streets are those? I would remember the names even though I would probably recognize very little of downtown OKC.
Oh, that's a good question. I think we were on Robinson. Sorry, but I wasn't driving so I spent my time looking out the window. Oh wait, I grabbed a map at the Civic Center... Nope, I was off by a mile - Broadway and Park Ave.
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