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

1950

1950

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Phillips Hotel-Apartments construction begins. (See photo.) YMCA wins the Swimming Championship. The Westside Community Center Association is founded.
1947

1947

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The city celebrates 50 years of existence with a parade and commemorative currency.
1946

1946

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Hulah Dam Celebration — Senator Kerr looks on at the Crow Eaters banquet, May 3, 1946. The Welty family eat crow after the money was appropriated by the government for Hulah Dam. (See photo.) Hilltop Drive-In opens on Nowata Road, “three miles east of Bartlesville.”...
1942

1942

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REDA employees make aircraft parts under World War II defense contracts. H. C. Price Company foremen and welders work in shipyards building Liberty ships, tankers and LST’s.