Credit: Mark Hancock Driving down Route 66 can be like a 70 mile-per-hour history lesson, where vestiges of the state’s past stand out along 400 miles of highway. In Yukon, a 100-plus-year-old flour mill visible from the Mother Road is a symbol of local pride and community spirit. Crowning the old building is a sign […]
Route 66
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Blacktop book
Three photographers and one mother road. The result of this combination is “Route 66 Sightings,” a photography book with built-in street cred. Roadside shutterbugs Jerry McClanahan, Jim Ross and Shellee Graham will be present Saturday afternoon at Full Circle Bookstore for a signing of the coffee-table book they call “beautiful.” And from the looks of […]
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Blacktop book
Three photographers and one mother road. The result of this combination is “Route 66 Sightings,” a photography book with built-in street cred. Roadside shutterbugs Jerry McClanahan, Jim Ross and Shellee Graham will be present Saturday afternoon at Full Circle Bookstore for a signing of the coffee-table book they call “beautiful.” And from the looks of […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Blacktop book
Three photographers and one mother road. The result of this combination is “Route 66 Sightings,” a photography book with built-in street cred. Roadside shutterbugs Jerry McClanahan, Jim Ross and Shellee Graham will be present Saturday afternoon at Full Circle Bookstore for a signing of the coffee-table book they call “beautiful.” And from the looks of […]
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Pedal power
This two-day conference in Oklahoma City in early November, coordinated by the Oklahoma Bike Coalition, will be geared toward engineers, city planners and cycling advocates. “(Nov. 4) is primarily for engineers and city planners to create the system in their communities to make them more bike-friendly,” said Kevin Musset, summit chairman. John LaPlante, a chief […]
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Dean Cain not included …
The latest, “Strikingly True,” contains some Oklahoma-centric pieces in its collections of “unusual, unbelievable and amazing stories from around the world” including: —Tulsa woman Ashley Battles, who stood on the wing of a biplane for more than four hours above San Francisco, at speeds at 100 mph. —the Enid churchgoing couple whose car collided with […]
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Summer sizzle
In the late 1930s, Hensley’s began as a gas station/grill. Although location, owners and names changed (it was once called Consumers but changed back to Hensley’s), the restaurant grew to be a part of Oklahoma culinary history, no matter what it was called or who was running it. The original Hensley’s appealed not only to […]
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ROUTE 66
That’s the sensation one gets cruising down the stretch of Route 66 between Weatherford and El Reno. The interstate travelers speed by, dozens of cars jostling for position as they squeal past billboards. It’s a race with nothing in mind but the finish line. You can witness the prix clearly — separated by little more […]