Reno Drive, Downtown OKC & Stockyard City

Either a Farmers Market or an old Farmers Market. The question is how old is it really? Is that real Mission style architecture or copy? The other question is is it still used? Obviously not on weekdays.


The Entrance to Stockyard City.


Stockyard City



Police patrolling the Oklahoma River.


An old truck at an old service station near the Farmers Market.

Vinita, OK & The OTR McDonalds

Picher, Ok - A Modern Ghost Town

Picher used to be a zinc and lead mining town until 1970. In 2006, the federal government made it a superfund site to clean up the toxic waste, and paid people to leave. The piles of mine waste (called chat) around the town and neighboring areas are blowing around freely. Some of the piles even looked like they were moving, alot like sand dunes in Saudi Arabia which are slowly moving and sometimes swallow towns. The chat in the air is believed to increase the cancer rates and the amount of autistic children in this town.

We drove through it on our way home from Kansas City in April and wondered why it was abandoned so we looked it up. Here are some sites:

http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/06/30/picher-oklahoma/

http://www.grandlakevisitor.com/pichersuperfundsite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma

A building damaged by tornado.


An abandoned home.


The environmental clean up crew.


The Museum of Mining for the area.


Picher Water Tower.


The Gorilla for the Picher Schools.




One of the many chat piles scattered around the area. There were about five right in town.