A $185,000 grant will allow Oklahoma City to organize historic documents dating back to 1890 and create an online catalog.
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Hear the music
Civic Center Music Hall Photo Provided The Civic Center Complex, which sits on the west side of downtown, is home to City Hall, Civic Center Music Hall, the Oklahoma County Courthouse and OKC’s police station. All four buildings were constructed in the 1930s through a voter-approved municipal bond and a matching grant from the U.S. […]
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Prohibition fight
Byron Gambulos in 1959 Provided After his Oklahoma City liquor store had been bombed multiple times in the mid 1960s, Gambulos mounted his World War II-era registered machine gun on top of his store at the corner of NW 23rd Street and Broadway Avenue. “I have never been one to run,” said Gambulos, 88, the […]