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elk city high school

Elk City School

(Featured Image Credit to Peri Moritz Flickr 2008) Elk City High School Elk City was experiencing a surge in population when it was announced that a brand new Elk City High School would be built. The...

boulevard plaza

Boulevard Plaza

The Boulevard Plaza in Wichita is a sad reality of what has happened to shopping centers across the Midwest for decades. But before it became what it is now, read any comments about the Boulevard...

longfellow school

Longfellow Grade School

The long-neglected and vandalized Longfellow Grade School was constructed in 1955 to replace the former Longfellow School that sat on the same property. The new school opened for classes after the...

Wyandot Swim Club

Wyandot Swim Club

Wyandot Swim Club Once a luxury swim club is now a derelict memory of what it used to be. The vision for the swim club came when Ellis McGeorge “Mac” O’Bannon was engaging in a discussion over...

docking building

Docking Building

The history of the Docking Building is one that begins and ends the same. What was once viewed as an issue in the 1950s, leading to its construction would become desirable in the 2020s and that same...

Star-Vue Theatre

Star-Vue Theatre

The Star-Vue Theatre, most popularly known and photographed for its vintage and rustic sign was constructed in 1950. During the 1950s the drive-in movie theatre business boomed and people in small...

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