A LOOK Back: The Interurban Trolley Car
The Interurban was a trolley car that ran between Oklahoma City and Edmond from 1911-1946. In the beginning, few people owned cars, so walking and riding horses had been the predominant mode of transportation. For 25 cents, citizens or college students could catch the hour-long ride to either city. The Interurban ran on a track,…
Read More >A LOOK Back: A Love Story for the Ages
Quimby Enterline of Piedmont met and married his sweetheart, Margaret Valeriani, while he was stationed in England in 1945. Because of the war, their early communication in 1945 and 1946 was often in the form of love letters. Margaret wrote: “Honey, I miss you so terribly, at times it’s almost unbearable, and I have had…
Read More >A LOOK Back: 1920s Rodkey Flour Mill Family
Earl and Emma Rodkey pose for a photo with their daughter, Eloise in the early 1920s. The family is bundled up in winter clothes in front of their house at 19 N. College Street in Edmond. Earl’s father, Isaac, had purchased the flour mill in 1897. In 1913, Earl joined his father, buying one-half interest…
Read More >A LOOK Back: A 1950’s Christmas
Orvis Risner, his wife Johnny, and their children, King and Courtney, decorate their family Christmas tree in 1950. Orvis came to Edmond in 1948 to run a real estate business and actively served on the Edmond school board for over a decade. Orvis Risner Elementary, built on the Risner’s farm land, opened in 1962 under…
Read More >A LOOK Back: WWII Photo Before War Damage
During World War II, a 45th Division soldier took a series of “tourist” photographs while stationed in Italy. These photos recently caught the attention of Italian historians because they show the ancient Greek ruins of Paestum, a UNESCO World Heritage site, before suffering bomb damage. A copy of this photograph is currently on display in…
Read More >A LOOK Back: Halloween 1952
Students in Mrs. Dome’s kindergarten class dress up for Halloween in 1952. The children are decked out in costumes of basic characters—rabbits, clowns, devils, cowboys, cats, and a pig, in the classroom which was located behind Mrs. Dome’s house at 403 College Circle. Although the street and the house are no longer there, and costume…
Read More >A LOOK Back: Edmond Football 1921
Members of the 1921 Edmond High School football team stop practice to pose for a photograph as coach Avon Potter looks on. Taken outside of Edmond’s first high school building, the players wear football uniforms and equipment consistent with the time period. Located where Russell Dougherty is today, on Boulevard between Hurd and Main Street,…
Read More >A LOOK Back: Edmond High 1947
Edmond High School students listen attentively in a classroom at the building at Boulevard and Campbell in 1947. Edmond’s high school began in 1915 with one class of 9th graders, but it wasn’t until 1922 that 24 students graduated as seniors. The building at Campbell and Boulevard, which served as the high school from 1924…
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Edmondite Stanley Kunc poses with an unidentified woman sometime during 1945. Kunc was a member of the 45th Infantry Division and saw more than 500 days of combat during World War II. Kunc landed on Anzio Beach in Italy and fought his way north to Munich with the 45th Division. Outside of Munich, the 45th…
Read More >A LOOK Back: Edmond High
Edmond High School students congregate on steps outside the high school around 1950. From the boys’ gelled hair and rolled cuffs to the girls’ sweaters and bobby socks––these students exemplify fifties fashion! Enjoy more of Edmond’s high school culture in the new exhibit, Bulldog Spirit: Edmond’s First High School at Edmond History Museum.
Read More >A Look Back: May Day 1923
Donovan Banzett and Stella Curtis pose for a photo in front of Old North Tower on the Central State Teachers College campus (now the University of Central Oklahoma) for the 1923 May Day celebration. The May Day event was an early campus tradition, much like a modern-day Homecoming. Stella was the elected queen and Donovan…
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