I think I like the Crystal...
by hockalocker
I think I like the Crystal Bridge and Myrid Gardens best of all the fun places in OKC. The grounds are pretty and the wide rance of plants of all kinds are amazing. The building is one you will remember. It looks like a big cylinder on it's side. It's easy to find and get to also, right downtown. If you are luicky you might get there for a special event like the Oklahoma State Fair or a big OU football game. Other great events are Red Earth, a huge Native American Expo, or Opening Night on New Years Eve. If you get the chance go see a Rodeo. The Festival of the Arts is a great time to see some of the greatest art1st of the southwest showing off their work.
Religious Converts
by mrclay2000
If you're some blocks south of the state capitol building on Lincoln Boulevard, you might notice how many of the local buildings are owned or operated by the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. This particular structure (just off the southwest corner of NW 10th Street and Lincoln Blvd) used to be a church, but has since been converted into a secular building belonging to the Oklahoma State Department of Commerce. Still it makes a handsome interruption to all the lifeless blocks of stone cropping up in the environs.
Shorty Smalls had good bbq...
by brdwtchr
Shorty Smalls had good bbq sandwiches and good service. Best of all I got to meet VT member jedd43 there. DeLois was so very nice. If you are in Oklahoma I am certain she can advise you on things to see and do.
Bricktown
by Paulie_D
Bricktown is the downtown centre for restaurants, bars & clubs.
It's a very popular as a lunchtime destination for OKC's office workers.
Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to see it during the evening but I understand that it very active during at night.
Chain & speciality restauarants abound so you will be able to eat out regardless of your culinary tastes.
If food isn't your thing, then visit to enjoy exciting Redwings baseball (AAA affiliate of the Texas Redhawks) at the Bricktown Ballpark (see the statute of Mickey Mantle outside), to stroll along the Bricktown canal, or to just enjoy people-watching
War and Remembrance
by mrclay2000
While we are commemorating fallen friends and family, the War Memorials outside the Oklahoma Historical Society deserve attention. Since statehood in 1907, young Oklahomans have been sent into battle in all the major wars. Arching around the center of the pavilion is a sculpted panorama typifying the type of combat encountered in those wars. An eternal flame burns in the corner of the war pavilion, while in the opposite corner a single GI looks on, bleak and weary, at the legislature that sent him into harm's way.
Sign in with Facebook
Enjoying some dessert
Another shot
Part of exhibit on western entertainers
more pricklies
