Nichols Hills mansions

[NoOkie]

The ones with the little sticker featuring the Monopoly Man with his nose upturned in a snooty manner like that of the New Yorker Magazine icon. (Or else with plates from New Hampshire).

Stopping to smell the roses in Nichols Hills will result in both a traffic and trespassing citation.
Especially if you are driving a truck.

I drive through NH all the time without issue. Just obey the speed limits. I did have a friend of mine riding his bike home at night(Without lights) get stopped for RWP(riding while poor) and I have been tailed by NHPD when riding my bike down Grand to the bank. I imagine that if there's anywhere around here that I can get the coveted speeding-ticket-while-on-a-bicycle, it's going to be NH. Low speed limits, bored PD and rich people to appease is a good combination.

[RadicalModerate]

I think you nailed it. Just obey the speed limits:
Treat the entire neighborhood as if was a school zone.

I wonder what Pody Poe would have to say about all this . . .
(if, of course, he was still running his little NH gambling den =)

NH Trivia:
The only admitted member of the KKK that I ever met (this was back in the early '80s)
was a Nichols Hills cop. He was off-duty at the time.
Technically off both duties I suppose--no uniform, no sheet

[OKCTalker]

I did have a friend of mine riding his bike home at night(Without lights) get stopped for RWP(riding while poor) and I have been tailed by NHPD when riding my bike down Grand to the bank. I imagine that if there's anywhere around here that I can get the coveted speeding-ticket-while-on-a-bicycle, it's going to be NH.

Riding a bike at night without lights is illegal - you can look it up. It's also incredibly stupid. Cyclists are hard enough to see in broad daylight.

If you want a speeding ticket on a bike, go to Mt. Scott.

[RadicalModerate]

I have been tailed by NHPD when riding my bike down Grand to the bank.

Just out of curiosity . . .
How much cash were you carrying in your backpack to rate a police escort? =)

[NoOkie]

Riding a bike at night without lights is illegal - you can look it up. It's also incredibly stupid. Cyclists are hard enough to see in broad daylight.

If you want a speeding ticket on a bike, go to Mt. Scott.

I asked him, he said he wasn't cited about the lights and they were never mentioned.

Mind you, I agree with the stupidity sentiment and have a set on my ride(with an obnoxious strobe, to boot!). Oddly, OK state statutes only require a headlight.

[UncleCyrus]

Conspicuous consumption makes you conspicuous.

Well said, sir.

[RadicalModerate]

Wasn't Grand Boulevard once "The Great Outer Loop" for Oklahoma City?
Shouldn't the speed limit on a Great Outer Loop be at least 55 mph?
Does it strike anyone else as strange that people would build mansions next to a freeway?

[Achilleslastand]

I think you nailed it. Just obey the speed limits:
Treat the entire neighborhood as if was a school zone.

I wonder what Pody Poe would have to say about all this . . .
(if, of course, he was still running his little NH gambling den =)

NH Trivia:
The only admitted member of the KKK that I ever met (this was back in the early '80s)
was a Nichols Hills cop. He was off-duty at the time.
Technically off both duties I suppose--no uniform, no sheet

Where was Pody Poes house/gambling den located in NH?

[RadicalModerate]

I was once told that it was in a house on Glenwood, south of Wilshire, on which we did some work, a long time after The Legend's exit from the state.

Later, I read Mr. Poe's auto-biography and it indicated that I had been given false information:
His NH "Informal Entertainment Den" was somewhere north of Wilshire.

[ljbab728]

Wasn't Grand Boulevard once "The Great Outer Loop" for Oklahoma City?
Shouldn't the speed limit on a Great Outer Loop be at least 55 mph?
Does it strike anyone else as strange that people would build mansions next to a freeway?

No, because it was never designed to be that kind of roadway and was never intended speed.

[RadicalModerate]

. . . and cars back then couldn't go 55 mph.

In fact, they still can't today.
Not in Nichols Hills.

By the way . . . I have it on good authority that those who tell where Pody Poe's Gamblin' Den was don't know and those who know don't tell.

[OKCTalker]

Later, I read Mr. Poe's auto-biography and it indicated that I had been given false information:
His NH "Informal Entertainment Den" was somewhere north of Wilshire.

1804 Guilford. It can be yours for $449,500.

[RadicalModerate]

You think there may be some buried treasure in the walls?
Sort of like Al Capone's Vaults that Giraldo Rivera made famous?
(Or can you bury treasure in walls? Maybe basement walls . . . =)

[ctchandler]

RadicalModerate,
Don't you mean "infamous"? That tv showing of the opening of the vault was a total bust.
C. T.

You think there may be some buried treasure in the walls?
Sort of like Al Capone's Vaults that Giraldo Rivera made famous?
(Or can you bury treasure in walls? Maybe basement walls . . . =)

[RadicalModerate]

You are correct: "Infamous" is a better word . . .
Probably also applicable to the broadcast of Geraldo's Opening of the Titanic's Mini-Safe.

As a matter of fact, if cash had been "buried" in the basement walls of The Gambling Den, it would probably be in about the same condition as the stuff that was in that ship's safe on account of basements are notoriously leaky.

[kevinpate]

There are ways to keep special insulation materials dry, or so I've heard.

[cclind]

I was just driving through there today showing off all the big houses to my daughter. Passed by the old museum and unaware it was no longer a museum proceeded to pull in the drive (gate was open). Glad we didn't try to go in. Another home that caught my eye, mainly because it is surrounded by a solid wooded fence so you can't see squat, was 7401 Nichols Rd. So I come home and do a quick search. Holy cow, 12,500 sq ft, 4bd, 4bath on 2.7 acres.

Took down some others that were for sale (there were a lot) just to see out of curiosity. I mean I knew they were pricey but geesh! It's akin, in a smaller manner, to paying for the 90210 zip code. Most of them were as old and dated as Beverly Hills homes too. Boasting original tile and wallpaper that had been pristinely maintained and cared for. Code words for "it can be yours for the low, low price of high 6 to low 7 figures, but you will need to throw a few hundred grand in it to update it".

[RadicalModerate]

and that is exactly why i remain a very happy and satisfied dweller on the fringes and outskirts of and drive-by/thru appreciation for the paid for flashing traffic warning signs posted by (mos'ly) the elders and or the assigns of that magnificent representation of what "successful oklahoma" used t' be.

either the whole deal is a school zone or . . .
a lesson to "Pops" not to "f" with nichols hills?
who is to say . . ?

at least "they" still put out "christmas" lights as well.
and they ain't yet a "gated community"
'ceptin' fer them thar' signs and wunders fer the uninformed. =)

Edited to remove the o on "to" and replace it with an ' to remain consistant.
(e.e.cummings, alan ginsberg, manet, monet, james joyce,
robin williams, lenny bruce, et.al. ad infinitum
apologize for any misunderstanding.
yeah. right. =)

Friendly Tip with all due respect and welcome to The Noob/Thread Re-Animator:
Whatever you do, never mention Lead or Asbestos "Removal"
It costs a lot of money and is "Hazardous" to "US ALL" . . . OK?

[Larry OKC]

Wasn't Grand Boulevard once "The Great Outer Loop" for Oklahoma City?
Shouldn't the speed limit on a Great Outer Loop be at least 55 mph?
Does it strike anyone else as strange that people would build mansions next to a freeway?

While it was the greater outer loop, I don't ever recall it being compared to a high speed interstate freeway or expressway. As the Grand Boulevard suggest (to me at least) was a place to see the City on a leisurely Sunday drive back in the day...

[bornhere]

While Grand was conceived (but never realized) as an outer loop, that was about 70 years ago. I think Larry OKC has it right about the intent being a leisurely drive. More like Classen Blvd. than, say, Mockingbird Lane in Dallas.

[RadicalModerate]

http://www.imaginativeamerica.com/20...rd-by-wh-dunn/

Yeah . . . 20 mph would probably seem like 60 in one of these . . .

[KayneMo]

I drove through Nichols Hills a few days ago, and I often do because I'm an architecture nerd, and I'm always in awe with the mansions. One of my favorites is the mansion with the long driveway at the NW corner of Nichols Dr and Guilford Ln. I believe the mansion directly to the east of the Buttram Mansion at Nichols and Kenilworth is the biggest in NH at 14,800 sf. Also, I didn't know the Buttram Mansion was once an art museum, very interesting! I sort of wish it still was. Was it built to house an art museum? Or built initially as a private residence?

[windowphobe]

Also, I didn't know the Buttram Mansion was once an art museum, very interesting! I sort of wish it still was. Was it built to house an art museum? Or built initially as a private residence?

It was built in 1937 as a residence for Frank and Merle Buttram; its term as a museum ran from 1975 to 1996, when a massive fund drive (simultaneous with, but not connected to, MAPS) made it possible for OKCMOA to move downtown.

[Mel]

Driving in the Hills at dusk a few weeks ago and it was interesting. So many runners, walkers and cyclists and they all had numerous blinking and steady glow led lights affixed all over. It was like driving through a field of psychedelic fireflies.

[Urbanized]

It was built in 1937 as a residence for Frank and Merle Buttram; its term as a museum ran from 1975 to 1996, when a massive fund drive (simultaneous with, but not connected to, MAPS) made it possible for OKCMOA to move downtown.

RIP, Carolyn Hill.