Bricktown Canal celebrates 10th anniversary
Vince Gill, his wife Amy Grant and their daughter Corrina Grant Gill take a Water Taxi ride on the Bricktown Canal in 2006. (Photo by Nate Billings/The Oklahoman Archives)
It’s hard to imagine that it has been a decade since part of California Avenue was transformed into the Bricktown Canal.
But the canal, which has become an Oklahoma City landmark, celebrates its 10th anniversary today.
Steve Lackmeyer, The Oklahoman’s downtown expert, talks about the effect of the canal on Bricktown in this NewsOK story.
He also reports on the proposed Bricktown Canal extension that former OKC mayors Ron Norick and Kirk Humphreys endorsed Thursday in this story.
Personally, I love the canal, though I only ride on it every few years. I will always have a soft place in my heart for it since my husband worked as a Water Taxi driver when he went back to school in the early 2000s. That was back when there was no Harkins theater, no Bass Pro Shop, no Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill and no Land Run sculpture. That end of the canal was pretty much just mounds of dirt.
We’ve come a long way, OKC.
-BAM
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