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Today’s postcard from a 1940 Oklahoma souvenir pack is of Tucker Tower at Lake Murray. That is east of I-35 way down south of Ardmore, only thirteen miles from the Texas border. It was a boondoggle rising 65 feet above … Continue reading →

Today’s postcard from a 1940 Oklahoma souvenir pack is from what was once Platt National Park. The image is of Bear Falls, a surprising choice to me given the other opportunities there of Sulphur’s artesian Vendome Well, the old mineral … Continue reading →

Today’s postcard from a 1940 Oklahoma souvenir pack is of downtown Tulsa. Years ago I did a self-guided Art Deco tour of the fabulous lobbies and the like constructed in downtown Tulsa in the roaring 1920s, when it truly was … Continue reading →

Today’s postcard from a 1940 Oklahoma souvenir pack is of Fort Gibson, which is across the Arkansas River from Muskogee in the east central part of the state. I’ve never been particularly interested in old forts. Years ago my father … Continue reading →

Today’s postcard from a 1940 Oklahoma souvenir pack is of the Will Rogers Memorial Museum and Tomb at Claremore. Yesterday’s card was of his birthplace, so two of the twenty cards in the pack dealt with The Cherokee Kid. That’s … Continue reading →