Bricktown in Oklahoma City

BRICKTOWN

Seattle has Pioneer Square. Dallas has the West End. San Antonio has the Riverwalk. Fort Worth has, well, proximity to Dallas. And Oklahoma City has Bricktown. An old industrial warehouse and factory section of town, built of red bricks, hence the name. Reborn with the help of a 750 million dollar project which includes a beautiful new baseball stadium and a canal with water taxis. Toby Keith has opened a bar in Bricktown named after one of his hit songs named I Love This Bar and Grill. Bass Pro Shops has opened an Outdoor World in Bricktown.

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A lot of neon lights up Bricktown as dark descends.

A tourist at a canal side Bricktown restaurant.

A tourist from Texas with the water tower/clock tower from the previous photo sitting above his head as he eats chips in a Mexican restaurant watching water taxis ferry people along the Bricktown Canal.

The aforementioned water taxis and canal. That is the baseball stadium in the background.

It seemed faster to walk than to water taxi.

Is this what they call the Bridge of Sighs?

A Water Taxi seems to travel about a half a mile an hour which leaves quite a bit of turbulence in its wake.

It seems someone named Mickey Mantle was a well known baseball player from the last century with ties to Oklahoma City.

This sculpture may represent some Greek Mythology character, or not. Maybe it is supposed to be Mickey Mantle.

A statue of Mickey Mantle outside Bricktown Ballpark.

A statue of the aforementioned Mickey Mantle stands in front of Oklahoma City's beautiful minor-league baseball stadium, Bricktown Ballpark, with Grauman's (or Mann's) Chinese Theater-type handprints of other famous players from long ago immortalized in cement .

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