Volume 8 , Issue 14

Alva, Oklahoma - May 27, 1911 Postcard 'Street Scene'

Remember this is May 27, 1911 postcard 'street scene' looking south down 4th street towards Barnes Avenue. it shows the flooding after a hard rain. During 1910 thru 1911 they were paving College Avenue (6th Street), the streets around the downtown square and constructing City Hall in the city of Alva, Oklahoma. Notice the frame building on the west corner of 4th Street & Barnes Avenue, southeast corner of the square. That frame building was the 'Ketchen's Veterinary Hospital'. It also shows a barn like building to the left (catty-corner from veterinary hospital) that said it was the Nicholson-Noel Livery Stable. It was in Ketchen's testimony in the "1911 Old Opera Murder Trial" that Ketchen mentioned that Miller's Old Opera House & office was west of the veterinary hospital with four feet open space between the two buildings. The Old Opera House was just west and Miller's office was west of that. It was also testified to that the Noel Livery Stable was catty-corner from the Old Opera House. Through testimony and the Defenses Attorney's opening statement, the Old Opera House Murder site is now pinned down to the southeast corner of the downtown square in the east end of the 400 Block of Barnes Avenue., southside of the square. -- OkieLegacy Mysteries   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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