The History Museum is open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.   |   401 S Johnstone - 5th Floor/City Hall

1956

1956

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Douglass School goes from 12 to 8 grades as integration of the school system begins.
1955

1955

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The Price Tower designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is completed.
1954

1954

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Oklahoma recorded weather shows July statewide and hottest July of the century. 1954 was warmest year of the century statewide. On July 14, 1954 the temperature, recorded at 116 degrees at 5:57 p.m. on the Cities Service sign. (See photo.) Phillips Petroleum Company...
1952

1952

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The Phillips 66er’s basketball team wins the first of two Olympic trials championships in New York (see photo). Third Street is renamed Frank Phillips Boulevard. Jane Phillips hospital is dedicated.
1951

1951

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The Hulah Dam is completed. (See photo.) Phillips Petroleum Company scientists invent polyethylene, which becomes one of the most widely used plastics in the world.