Nice piece Michael. As with any “Top Ten” list, there are always more that didn’t make the cut. Mummer’s Theater, aka Stage Center and the Bel Isle Power are the two saddest examples that immediately come to mind. Thanks for the work you do. FYI, the Capitol Hill High School Building you and I discussed will not meet the same fate as Columbus Elementary. Plans to demolish it have been replaced with the intention of the OKCPS District to see it adaptively reused.
It absolutely would’ve been on the list had I explored it or had any photos of it while it was Abandoned. I am still on the search, and as soon as I find it, I’ll add it to the list in part two.
As a teenage skateboarder I shredded most of those locations. But you missed the Mass Transit center, Wonder bread warehouse and Belle isle power plant.
Do you have any pictures of those two locations? We unfortunately didn’t get any pictures before they were demolished. That’s why they didn’t make the list.
I totally would have added those to the list! However, they haven’t been demolished. This list is only about places that were demolished. I will plan on doing a different list about places that are endangered, but still standing.
Anyone remember the Oklahoma theater center on the west side of downtown. It was sold and then demolished to make way for 4 20+ stories office buildings that ended up not being built. It was an eye catching building with a futuristic look. I remember getting to watch plays there free with members of my high school drama class in the 70s when we ushered on Sundays once a month. My favorite area was the wishing pool by the entrance that had lots of coins in it less a few wink wink! There was a big controversy about tearing it down.
Are you talking about the stage center? Because that was going to be in the list! But I didn’t want too many Oklahoma City locations. I think that deserves a video all by itself. It was a really really beautiful building if we are talking about the same one.
@@AbandonedAtlasFoundation it may have changed to the stage center later but in the late 70s when it was fairly new it was called the Oklahoma theater center if I recall it correctly. On the outside it look futuristic and colorful. We're probably talking about the same building. It was not a popular decision to sell it and tear it down. It should have been protected somehow it was iconic.
You missed one of the most dramatic set of structures in OKC. OKC sits on a hugh pool of oil. Up until the 1960s looking across the skyline the most notable feature(s) were hundreds of oil derricks. Almost all are gone now. I was glad to see that gold bank on Classen is not on your list because it is still there.
Columbus Elementary was too old with tight spaces unable to use properly so may have had plans for demolition much time before occurred. Also, the school would have Halloween Haunted House parties for the school children and their families and friends and for that reason may have the need to be destroyed, but as said, probably with the intention of already knowing would be. I know, I was constantly there.
@@AbandonedAtlasFoundation Much was torn down very recently part is still there it's a very large property, there is plenty of information about it by googling "BFGoodrich Plant in Miami, Ok" as well as a local museum in Miami telling all about it's history.
Have you explored many Dam areas a multitude of communities and towns were destroyed or moved to make way for government or electrical projects across a number of southern states 🧐? That’s allot of stories to tell and places to explore.
Have you considered doing one about Putnam City? The 'almost' capital of OK? Grew up in Warr Acres and there's a lot of folklore around that....would be interesting.
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that's UMass, Amherst ?? that looks worse than some D3 stadiums. there are schools that have quit playing football, and their football stadiums look better than this.
It was called the Bra Cup Church and I for one was glad to see this monstrosity disappear once and for all. The design was a memorial to the ego of the original minister who dreamed it up.
