More "general" OKC images? (Oklahoma City, Edmond: work, houses, businesses)

[jm31828]

Hello All,

I've seen all of the touristy pictures of OKC on here and on other sites, but as someone who wants to see what all the rest of the city looks like, can someone point me to a site where I can see normal pics of just "normal" areas of OKC? (views from freeways, major city streets, shopping centers, random views around the city?)

Thanks in advance!!

[peggydavis]

Here are some, a little disorganized:

OKC Downtown Bricktown


"West OKC"

North OKC


Trip to Cattlemen's day


NW OKC & Edmond


Heritage Hills


Northwest Oklahoma City after ice storm

[jm31828]

Thanks, those are the type I was looking for. I'm a bit surprised, a lot of these look sort of like wide open space- is there a lot of that within the metro area, or were these (especially the freeway shots) taken at the outer fringes of the area?

[peggydavis]

There are actually a lot of wide open spaces in the metro area. They keep disappearing though, and being developed into houses & shopping areas. There are places in the metro area that are densely populated too.

[2010grad]

The wide open spaces you saw were mainly along those highways... Almost all those pics are in areas that a fairly dense. The Cattlemen's set isn't very dense, The Stockyards do have a fair amount of open space. Parts of the NW OKC & Edmond would be fairly spread out since its on the edges of the city.

[peggydavis]

The population of OKC is about 540,000 now. The city itself is an area of 607 square miles. The newer highways were built with lots of land and some of those spaces are the highway land. Then there are the lakes and the river that have a lot of land, the airport, etc.

I've never been to Omaha, but it has a population of about 420,000 with an area of only 116 square miles. So, I'm pretty sure OKC is going to look more like wide open spaces.

The OP is from Omaha, but that was on another thread.

[windowphobe]

There is open space in the darnedest places. If you follow May Avenue north from 23rd, you get a horrid mishmash of old businesses and new, separated by used-car lots. Even back in the 1950s it was a mess.

Then you cross I-44, go a quarter-mile north, and suddenly there's a tiny strip of a park for the next half-mile on the right. (I live behind it.) After the next stoplight, the strip mall zone begins again.

Crazy patchwork, this town.

[peggydavis]

A good way to look at the population density in various areas is to look at the satellite view on google maps.

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by peggydavis

There are actually a lot of wide open spaces in the metro area. They keep disappearing though, and being developed into houses & shopping areas. There are places in the metro area that are densely populated too.

I'm trying to convince my son, Scott that DH and I didn't move him out to the boondocks. So, we're out the other day and we just passed the sign that says "welcome to Oklahoma city". So I say to Scott, "ok, now we're actually in Oklahoma City itself". Bad move. The very first thing we passed was an apaca farm. I thought his eyes would fall out. He says "THIS is the city??" I quickly pointed out the tall buildings on the horizon.

[2010grad]

lol... You should have waited until you got into the developed parts of the city first!!! =P I do think that our size can be a problem, but I don't know if theres lots of open spaces within the developed areas. Maybe outisde the inner city past the suburbs but not withing the actual city "city" part.