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Oklahoma Railway (ORY) Street Car "Robinson"

Description: A photograph print showing an Oklahoma Railway (ORY) streetcar "Robinson" northbound turning off 16th Street onto North Robinson, across the corner of a yard, on the day this line was abandoned, view looking southeast, Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: December 7, 1940
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma Railway (ORY) Terminal Station

Description: A photograph print showing the Oklahoma Railway (ORY) Terminal station on the last day it was used. "This station is in the center of the retail shopping district and was used by 10 street car lines, 3 interurban lines and 4 bus lines. Now used for a parking lot for autos, except one track still used by interurbans. Passengers now have to catch the street cars and buses on street corners which is inconvenient. 4 street car lines were abandoned at the same time, and several new bus lines put in.… more
Date: December 7, 1940
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0753]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Flake Clausewitz, who opened his flying career by jumping in parachutes as a kid of 16 and advanced to piloting war planes from Canada to England, was an Oklahoma City visitor Saturday."
Date: December 7, 1940
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0968.0490]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Old "85" heaved and clattered out of Oklahoma Railway Co., barns on Exchange avenue Saturday morning to become a beautiful corpse under artistic embalming directed by A. C. DeBolt, company president."
Date: December 7, 1940
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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