1962 OKC highway map.

[Catt57]

I found this interesting. Thought some of you might too.

It shows the old Grand Blvd loop and I-40 west of I-35 is just a suggestion.

 

[THAT Gurl]

OH WOW! That IS pretty cool! You know Grumpy has some boxes out in the garage filled with stuff from the early 80s. I wonder what's out there??

 

[SoonerP226]

It shows the old Grand Blvd loop

My dad told me that the reason you see Grand Blvd. everywhere in OKC is because it used to be a big loop to take you around the city. It's interesting to see a map that shows it so clearly.

It's also interesting to see how nearly everything ended at the North Canadian, with very few streets crossing it.

 

[THAT Gurl]

My dad told me that the reason you see Grand Blvd. everywhere in OKC is because it used to be a big loop to take you around the city. It's interesting to see a map that shows it so clearly.

It's also interesting to see how nearly everything ended at the North Canadian, with very few streets crossing it.

Right??!?! I can remember when Hefner and Overholser were both "rural". Now look at us ...

 

[SoonerP226]

Right??!?! I can remember when Hefner and Overholser were both "rural". Now look at us ...

I remember when 24th Ave NW went straight through to Robinson in Norman, back when its current path was nothing but cotton fields. Now it's all businesses.

 

[kcatto]

My grandfather told me grand blvd made the loop around the city because when it was built the city had the intention of a road race through the city.. When I was a kid nw highway and council was the beginning of the gravel roads... We lived at nw264th and county line road... and finally we used to hunt along the canal connecting Hefner lake and Oberholser lake... before stinchcomb was a refuge... melots sportsman's club was at county line and memorial rd... Shot my first deer where the Kilpatrick is now around county line rd... we hunted all that area...

 

[Shadowrider]

It's also interesting to see how nearly everything ended at the North Canadian, with very few streets crossing it.

My grandfather used to talk about this. The best hunting was on the other side of the river he said. He hunted about every day of his youth to put food on the table.

 

[kcatto]

My grandfather used to talk about this. The best hunting was on the other side of the river he said. He hunted about every day of his youth to put food on the table.

yup we used to walk on west side of wiley post next to the runway and shoot birds.. quail, etc... ducks were amazing back then, not to mention turkey all along the hefner canal...

 

[Waltercat]

Wedgewood Village. As a kid we lived close in Parkview Addition.

 

[Snattlerake]

Wedgewood and Spring Lake Amusement Parks. Fun times. This map is apparently not old enough to show where the original; site was for the state fair. I got to metal detect it several years ago and found some old wheaties, Idian Heads, Barber Dimes and a Seated quarter.

Does anyone here remember or even know where that was? I'll bet most don't even know.