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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9470]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Chewing Up NE 23 in the capitol area, construction machinery (viewed here looking west) is the only traffic permitted Wednesday on the street section being lowered in connection with the Capitol Expressway construction. This part of NE 23 will be closed to motorists until 1974."
Date: June 16, 1971
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9431]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Big dozers began breaking up the intersection at NW 39 and May Friday to make way for an underpass to carry the U.S. 66 four-lane bypass westward on NW 39. Above, big chunks of concrete buckle in front of the machine. The bypass leg, extending from Belle Isle to NW 39 and Drexel, is expected to be finished by August 3, state highway officials announced; but the traffic detour around the busy intersection will be close… more
Date: January 16, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9437]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Big dozers began breaking up the intersection at NW 39 and May Friday to make way for an underpass to carry the U.S. 66 four-lane bypass westward on NW 39. Above, big chunks of concrete buckle in front of the machine. The bypass leg, extending from Belle Isle to NW 39 and Drexel, is expected to be finished by August 3."
Date: January 16, 1954
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0126]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A gravel strip which city engineering officials insisted wasn't really a driveway was closed with a heavy barricade at the Classen traffic circle Friday, apparently heading off a new dispute with the state over expressway encroachment."
Date: February 16, 1962
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0125]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Heavy barricades were put into place late Friday on the U. S. 66 bypass west of the Classen traffic circle to keep traffic from using a graveled strip built by the city between the bypass and a service road."
Date: February 16, 1962
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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