Documenting Enid's History Through Photography
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The photo above is my great-grandma when she was a little girl. She's out in front of her house and may have been getting ready for a parade.
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We'll be posting lots of vintage and retro Enid photographs on this page and throughout the website. We have a large collection of photos we're trying to get uploaded in an easy to browse format. Keep checking back!
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Here's a little more Enid, Oklahoma history.
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Newspaper Delivery Boys
This peppy group of boys helped deliver the OKC newspaper around Enid in 1928. My guess is that the photo was taken downtown in front of the old Garfield County courthouse.
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Rude Hardware
Twelve years after the land run, Walter Rude and John Stephenson entered Enid in a relentless downpour. Their wagon was too full of hides to pull through the mud. After waiting for three weeks for the rain to stop, they decided to settle in the prosperous little Garfield County seat.
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John traveled back to Colorado to fetch the family, and Walter stayed in Enid to establish a hide-trading business. He later opened a pencil factory, and finally Rude Hardware Store, which specialized in farm and ranching implements. The doors of Rude & Co. Hardware remained open for business for the next 60 years.
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Today, the Rude Hardware building is home to Creative HQ and Creative Arts. Info & photo from http://johnrudeslife.blogspot.com/
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American Legion HQ
This little building was on the courthouse lawn facing Randolph. This great close up shows that the building was the American Legion HQ. You could exchange $1 in wheat for a membership.
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1919 Downtown Parade
A great vintage photo from a 1919 parade in downtown Enid. The building in the background says Armstrong Matthews Music Co. The float is by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Armstrong Matthews Music Co. was once located at 104 S. Independence. In 1921 they moved a few doors south to 110 S. Independence. By 1923 the company was gone.
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