[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7198]

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A roaring twister slammed into a shopping center at SW 59 and Western at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday damaging five stores and 10 homes. Damage estimates range as high as $100,000. No one was hurt in the storm which hit without warning, moved over a 3-block area and then disappeared. It was accompained by driving rains and lightning. A 90-feet section of roofing was lifted from two business firms, twisted and dropped into the street, flattening four packed cars...The storm caught its victims by complete surprise. "The wind came up … continued below

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Albright, Bob September 29, 1954.

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  • Main Title: [Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7198]
  • Added Title: No One Is Injured In Shopping Area At Sw 59, Western

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A roaring twister slammed into a shopping center at SW 59 and Western at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday damaging five stores and 10 homes. Damage estimates range as high as $100,000. No one was hurt in the storm which hit without warning, moved over a 3-block area and then disappeared. It was accompained by driving rains and lightning. A 90-feet section of roofing was lifted from two business firms, twisted and dropped into the street, flattening four packed cars...The storm caught its victims by complete surprise. "The wind came up a little, and it started raining pretty hard," John F. Brambles, operator of Bramble's Hardware and Feed store at 934036 SW 59, said. "Then it hit like a clap of thunder. I had just closed closed the back door to my store to keep the rain from blowing in. There was a terrible roaring noise." "The next thing I knew the roof was going off my store, and I was thrown to the floor," Brambles said. "The tornado lasted about two minutes." Witness said they pulled Brambles from beneath a pile of rubble in the store. Except for being bruised and shaken, he was unhurt."

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PublishDate: O-9-30-54

Credit: Daily Oklahoman

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  • "No One Is Injured In Shopping Area At Sw 59, Western", Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, September 30, 1954

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The Oklahoma Publishing Company, the parent company of many prominent Oklahoma newspapers, amassed a significant collection of photographs that span more than a century. The wide variety of photographs accompanied stories in the newspapers.

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  • September 29, 1954

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Albright, Bob. [Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7198], photograph, September 29, 1954; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1696945/: accessed July 13, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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