The wonderfully unique Mummers’ Theater, Oklahoma City, designed by John Johansen in 1970 and demolished in 2015 to make way for a now-cancelled development

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1. I_love_pillows says

   Are the colours original intent of the design.

2. pseudangelos says

   Unique but hideous.

3. awnpugin says

   looks like a factory machine

4. WurstofWisdom says

   What was it’s replacement going to be?

5. kittensmittens69 says

   This thing looked awesome everyone is stupid.

6. sujihiki says

   wow. what a disappointment. i’d wager the planned replacement was going to be something impressively generic.

7. buttered_jesus says

   I have vague memories of this building from when I was a kid and went up to OKC with my best friend for the OKC arts festival. This image brought a lot of that back and definitely sad to hear that it went.

8. lampredotto says

   Johansen also designed the Mechanic Theater in Baltimore, built in 1967 and demolished in 2014 to make way for an unbuilt development.

9. uglychimp2019 says

   I spent my adult life in Oklahoma City and saw The Glass Menagerie here several years ago. I cried when they tore this wonderfully interesting building down and again every time I passed the site until I moved to England three years ago.

   TBF, the building was heavily damaged in a storm/flood, which was the nail in its coffin.