Photo Flashback: Automobile Alley Pre-Urban Renewal
1100 N Broadway shown to the right. Soon to be home to the CityScape Lego exhibit. Photo courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Barney Hillerman Collection
1101 N Broadway. Photo courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
1101 N Broadway, the Hotel Marion shown in this 1949 photo, courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Automobile Alley, back when it was truly car row. Courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Hotel Marion, Courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society
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2 great things that could help the Alley immediately:
(1) OKC Chamber moves into 1101 N. Broadway rather than building something new – cool building with great views of the downtown.
(2)Now hang with me here- Sandridge purchases the Marion hotel and infuses the MAJOR capital it needs to become a structure that can be developed – then sells it to a developer. They have the means, and the gesture could go far towards soothing some ruffled feathers from the commons melee.
I’ll be first to request the obvious – Wouldn’t it be great to have side-by-side, then-and-now photos?
I’m impressed that someone managed to get a ’57 Plymouth into a 1949 streetscape.