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Old Posted Jun 16, 2007, 11:06 PM
Doug Loudenback Doug Loudenback is offline
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Oklahoma City
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Oklahoma History Center

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.
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