[Hot Rod]

Originally Posted by Doug Loudenback

A major development which came to fruition in November 2005 was the $59M new Oklahoma History Center at the northeast corner of the State Capitol, moving from its former location south of state capitol, shown below (aside from the 1st 2 "vintage" pics which probably came from the Oklahoma Historical Center's website, http://www.okhistory.org/ , I don't remember for sure), I took the other pics shown below in October 2006:

The old Oklahoma Historical Society Building



The New Oklahoma History Center

Looking north and a little east, east of the State Capitol



Looking north and a slightly west at the entry to the Center



Approaching the entry, looking northwest



Looking west into the entry



Looking west and slightly south toward the Capitol,
Showing a replica of Wiley Post's Winnie Mae, 1st airpcraft (other than a Zeppelin) & 1st pilot to solo an around the world flight in 1933 (his 1st (1931) flight had a co-pilot)



Wiley Post is buried in Oklahoma City

If interested in more about Wiley or the OHC, see the Wiley Post and Oklahoma History Center articles in my blog.

I really like the pic of the museum with the airplane in it with the capitol building in the background through the window.

That's priceless!!