The OKC Central Time Machine: Mercy Hospital
I’ve heard from a couple of readers interested in seeing more images of the old Mercy Hospital that occupied by the NW 13 and Walker block in MidTown now slated for The Edge apartments. It’s easy for me to forget that not everyone saw this huge complex day in and day out as much as I did, and that some never saw it as well.
So let’s take the time machine back and visit the hospital during its glory days, and then not so glorious days:
Undated earlyday photo of Mercy Hospital courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society
Moving day, 1974 - Mercy Hospital leaves MidTown, relocates to Memorial Road west of May Avenue.
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Geez, who would want to tear that down just to build a new urban residential area with some space for retail… animals.
Thanks Steve!
Just goes to show the dangers of completely removing structures then letting the land sit vacant for years, if not decades: Instead of a neighborhood glad to see the blight removed and replaced with great new development of similar density, they become accustomed to a nice empty lot then complain if anything other than expensive, low-density homes are built in it’s place.
wow, this is the first website i’ve seen today that isn’t blacked out. eeewww, that thought made me shoot milk out of my nose.
I remember the old Mercy in it’s glory days, my dad was in there a couple of times and I went to the ER there at least once when I was a kid. I also had surgery in the new Mercy in September 1974, it had only been open a few months and all around it were empty fields. We couldn’t imagine why they would build a hospital so far out in the middle of nothing…….now we know why!
Thanks for sharing the pictures. I was born in that hospital and remember it as we would drive to that part of town when I was a child.
I like the entrance. The rest is pretty meh.