The City of the Future
As Oklahoma City continues to strive for a futuristic redefinition of an American downtown, let’s go back in time and check out a past vision.
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actually, if it had not been for “euclidian” zoning and robert moses, something like this could have actually happened. i suppose you might throw in the hindenburg, as well.
First two stanzas of “Don’t Fence Me In,” 1934 by Cole Porter & Robert Fletcher:
Oh, give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above
Don’t fence me in
Let me ride thru the wide-open country that I love
Don’t fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever, but I ask you please
Don’t fence me in
Don’t fence me in
Just turn me loose
Let me straddle my old saddle underneath the western skies
On my cayuse
Let me wander over yonder till I see the mountains rise
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
Gaze at the moon until I loose my senses
I can’t look at hobbles and I can’t stand fences
Don’t fence me in
Don’t fence me in
By the 1950s? Wow.