By Brad on Oct 2, 2008 in Our Town, Photography, Sights and Sounds | comments(0)
7:04am, Main Street Parking, Downtown Oklahoma City
Looking south from the 7th Floor of the Main Street Parking garage in downtown Oklahoma City, you can see the Ford Center, new home of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team, on the left and the historic Colcord Hotel on the right.
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By Brad on Sep 30, 2008 in Our Town, Photography, Sights and Sounds, Trivial Matters, Weather | comments(0)
11:58am, Park Avenue at Robinson Avenue, Downtown Oklahoma City
Downtown bustles during the noon hour as people venture out to enjoy the beautiful day over their lunch break. Today is absolutely gorgeous and the perfect temperature!
(Check out the Google Maps Street View of this intersection.)
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By Brad on Sep 29, 2008 in Family, Our Town, Photography, Sights and Sounds, Trivial Matters, Weather | comments(1)
11:59am, Richey’s Grill in the Oklahoma Tower, Downtown Oklahoma City
Karla joins me for an impromptu lunch date, an instant cure to the Monday malaise. (The gorgeous mid-day weather certainly helped act as an antidote to the Monday-induced mental dreariness.)
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* Taken with my iPhone. Standard disclaimer about the photography quality applies.
By Brad on Sep 23, 2008 in Our Town, Photography, Sights and Sounds, Trivial Matters | comments(0)
12:02pm:
A snapshot from my iPhone from the second floor balcony looking down on the first floor atrium area in Leadership Square in downtown Oklahoma City.
By Brad on Aug 21, 2008 in Amazing Stuff, Cool Stuff, Our Town | comments(0)
By Brad on Aug 20, 2008 in Cool Stuff, Our Town | comments(2)
Earlier today, Devon unveiled its plan for a new skyscraper in downtown Oklahoma City. It will be 54 stories tall, making it the tallest building in Oklahoma, 20th tallest in the country and 54th tallest in the world, according to News9.com. It will cost $750 million and is scheduled to be completed in 2012.
I’m really excited about it and it’s generating a great deal of buzz both downtown and in the community at large.
Sphere: Related ContentBy Brad on Jul 27, 2008 in Our Town | comments(0)
By Brad on Jul 3, 2008 in Cool Stuff, Our Town, Sights and Sounds | comments(1)
With news that the Sonics NBA franchise is on its way to Oklahoma City, I thought it would be a good time to roll out the welcome mat and provide those Sonics players, coaches and staff with a preview of our city, its recent growth and its continuing development. Here’s an well-produced promotional video by the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
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By Brad on May 29, 2008 in Our Town, Worth Considering | comments(3)
OETA’s Oklahoma Horizon television show featured an Oklahoma lawmaker who “has a tourism-generating dream of turning the Oklahoma oil boom into an iconic landmark rivaling the Eiffel Tower.”
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I think it’s a pretty interesting idea. It would certainly be a distinctive landmark and it very well could prove to be a tourist attraction. But I wonder how that thing would handle an Oklahoma severe storm, including one of the state’s other trademarks — tornadoes!
What do you think about the idea?
Sphere: Related ContentBy Brad on May 28, 2008 in Our Town, Wordless Wednesday | comments(1)
