Full Circle Press to Launch 'OKC: Second Time Around'

Thursday, November 2 at 6:30 p.m.

From the run of 1889 when 10,000 strangers came together in one day to build a city until the beginning of the turbulent sixties, Downtown has been the commercial, retail and entertainment heart of Oklahoma City.

In the subsequent forty years, the city struggled to re-imagine and rebuild and in the process overcome the centrifugal forces of suburban growth and a brutally cyclical commodity based economy.

OKC: Second Time Around is the narrative and visual history of that unique experience. It is a tale of false starts and misconceptions, of leadership and pedestrian politics, of terrorism and its remarkable after effects, and ultimately of the astonishing resilience of a community's common vision of what it could become.

Steve Lackmeyer and Jack Money provide the narrative that pulls together the almost serendipitous combination of circumstances that resulted in today's growing, vibrant, downtown Oklahoma City.

Illustrated with more than 250 historic photographs, OKC: Second Time Around will provide fascinating reading for those who have lived this renaissance, for students of Oklahoma history, as well as all those interested in the peculiar, frail and highly individual nature of a city's reinvention.

The publication of OKC: Second Time Around is a milestone for Oklahoma City and the Full Circle. Please join the authors Jack Money and Steve Lackmeyer in a signing and celebration on Thursday, November 2 at 6:30 p.m.