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Table Of Contents Historic Oklahoma City ............................... 7 Areas of Town ............................................... 13 The Memorial ................................................ 21 Night Life ....................................................... 29
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Built in 1958, this geodesic gold dome was the location of the Citizens State Bank. The city commissioned futiristic architect Buckminster Fuller to construct something that would serve to rejuvenate the downtown area. In 2001, plans to refurbish the building proved too costly and the building has since been empty and fallen into disrepair. Despite this, the Gold Dome is still considered an historic landmark and a group, Citizens for the Gold Dome, has arisen to try and stop the owners from demolishing it.
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Oklahoma City Facts:
• Population 580,000 • 29th largest city in the US • “Oklahoma” means “Land of the Red People” in Choctaw language • The world’s first installed parking meter was here on June 16, 1935 • The first shopping cart was invented and used here at Standard Food Markets in 1935 • The state capitol building at 23rd and Lincoln is the only capitol in the nation with a working oil well on its grounds. • Oklahoma City is equidistant from Los Angeles and New York
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The Capitol Building
“As Long As The Waters Flow� is a sculpture by Chiricahua Apache artist Allan Houser which represents the rich culture of the Native American tribes of Oklahoma.
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Located on more than 100 acres in north east Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma State Capitol features Greco-Roman architecture. The structure is comprised of 650 rooms and 11 acres of floor space with murals, restored stained glass, tribal flag plaza and changing art exhibits. The current site was chosen in 1915 and construction was completed in 1917. Construction of a dome was completed in 2002, a feature that was included with the original design plans of the building but never completed.
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The Oklahoma City Civic Center Centennial Clock is a 19-foot tall four-faced black centennial clock with gold trim and has guardian lions at each corner. It is a fully modernized version of vintage street clocks that graced Oklahoma towns at the time of statehood in 1907.
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Installed in 2007, “The Conductor� pays tribute to local music conductors.
The Civic Center Music Hall is a performing arts center located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was founded in 1937 and serves more than 300,00 patrons at around 250 performances at six different stages each year. The center is home to eight professional arts organizations: Black Liberated Arts Center, Canterbury Choral Society, Celebrity Attractions, Lyric Theatre and Academy, Oklahoma City Ballet, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre, and Oklahoma City Theatre Company.
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Conveniently located in the heart of Midtown, the shops, restaurants, and offices of Plaza Court draw residents from all over the city for food, shopping and night life.
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“The Womb” is an art gallery owned by Flaming Lips’ lead singer Wayne Coyne. The Womb features an interactive room designed by Coyne that requires 3-D glasses and allows visitors to include themselves in the art by writing or drawing their own designs on the walls.
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Located southwest of downtown Oklahoma City, Stockyards City represents not only the metro’s rich history, the city’s importance as one of the largest livestock markets in the world, but it is also a unique area of western heritage celebration. With early 20th century architecture, the district is home to many western-themed stores, the popular Cattlemen’s Restaurant, weekly cattle auctions and a number of special events.
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Bricktown is an entertainment district just east of downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was formerly a major warehouse district and presently is home for several bars, night clubs, theaters, hotels and live music. It is known for its massive sculpture depicting the opening of Native American land. People who rushed for land before the legal date and time were called, “sooners�. When finished in 2015, this will be the largest bronze sculpture in the United States.
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The Chain Link Fence From the first hours after the April 19, 1995, bombing, Oklahomans began to create small makeshift memorials around the perimeter of the bombsite – mounds of flowers, stuffed animals, personal notes, cards and prayers. Later, after the Murrah Building was demolished and removed, a chain link fence secured the footprint of the building. The Fence became Oklahoma’s – and America’s – memorial. Each day, visitors would hang mementos on the Fence. Items including poems, key chains, brief scribbled messages of condolence and support, event convention badges, car tags and airline ticket stubs were left by visitors to Oklahoma City. The Fence has been preserved, and a portion of it is a part of the permanent memorial to allow visitors the opportunity to continue to leave personal messages of hope, comfort and goodwill.
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The Field of Chairs
168 empty chairs hand-crafted from glass, bronze, and stone represent those who lost their lives, with a name etched in the glass base of each. The chairs represent the empty chairs at the dinner tables of the victims’ families. The chairs are arranged in nine rows to symbolize the nine floors of the building; each person’s chair is on the row (or the floor) on which the person worked or was located when the bomb went off. The chairs are also grouped according to the blast pattern, with the most chairs nearest the most heavily damaged portion of the building. The 19 smaller chairs represent the children killed in the bombing.
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Several families lost more than one member in the blast which is evident from the matching last names on the glass.
Three unborn children died along with their mothers, and they are listed on their mothers’ chairs beneath their mothers’ names
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Helping Hands Wall
More than 5,000 hand-painted tiles, from all over the United States and Canada, were made by children and sent to Oklahoma City after the bombing in 1995. Chalkboards provide a place where children can draw and share their feelings. The Children’s Area is north of the 9:03 gate, on the west side of the Museum
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The HiLo and Tramps
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The HiLo Club and Tramps are popular live music clubs and bars. Both venues feature drag and burlesque shows, as well as live music two to three times a week.
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