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Penn Square Mall is a two-story, 1,083,937 sq ft (100,701 m 2) regional shopping mall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and NW Expressway, near Interstate 44. The mall's anchor stores consist of JCPenney, Macy's, AMC Theatres, and two separate Dillard's stores.
The 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in was one of the first protests of its kind during the civil rights movement, occurring on August 19, 1958, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In protest of racial discrimination, black schoolchildren sat at a lunch counter with their teacher, demanding to be served and refusing to leave until they were.
Katz Drug Stores would end their segregation policy as a result of the sit-in. [7] [8] The sit-in also sparked a series of sit-ins throughout Downtown Oklahoma City's restaurants. [2] Similar protests occurred throughout the city until 1964, [ 1 ] when Oklahoma City passed an ordinance forbidding restaurants from refusing service or facilities ...
According to Price Edwards & Co.’s 2010 Oklahoma City Mid-Year Retail Market Summary report, Crossroads Mall was 75 percent vacant. [5] On September 14, 2011, the mall was purchased by Raptor Properties, LLC for $3.5 million, far below the $24 million asking price, although the sale only included 762,532 square feet (70,841.5 m 2 ), as ...
The NW 39th Street Enclave, also known as "The Strip," "The Gayborhood," "May-Penn," "39th & Penn" or simply "39th Street" is a prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender district in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The area is located along NW 39th Street in the city's northwest quadrant, one block west of Pennsylvania Avenue. [1] [2]
In 1936, the city began construction on the Tower Theatre, which originally caused negative feedback from citizens who said the location was "in the country". However, the Tower Theatre quickly became a major hub for arts in Oklahoma, and the remainder of N.W. 23rd Street began to blossom with business, recreation, and industry.
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photo of entrance of Shepherd Center (formerly Shepherd Mall) Shepherd Mall is a former shopping mall located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that opened in 1964 [6] as the first fully-enclosed indoor shopping mall in Oklahoma City; [7] however, by 2003 all of the anchors had closed and the mall was well underway in transitioning to being primarily an office complex.