Recently I went on a walk around Tulsa’s Lafortune Park. The walking trail winds around the park which contains a lot of things. An 18 hole golf course and a par 3 course as well, playgrounds, a pony league and little league ballparks, fishing ponds, a huge tennis complex, a high school, a public swimming pool, a public library and more!! The trail is paved and 3 miles long and is very popular. On warm days I like it’s shady spots.
The clubhouse for the golfcourse has two walls made out of concrete blocks. I don’t know how old they are but they look like the blocks that were common for screen walls back in the 50’s and 60’s.
Don’t see too much of them any longer. I love them. It makes for a screening wall with a lot of visual interest, including geometric shadows.
I’ll finish with these shadows. A tree in our backyard late in the day. I loved the pattern of sunlight and shadows on the tree trunk and limbs.
…I like that Midcentury Modern breeze wall.
My favorite picture was the last one – loved the lighting on the bark. However those golf course bricks are interesting. Hard to believe that the 50’s are 80 years ago. Antiques!
Nice shadowed path to stroll on.
You are exactly right Yogi. Lafortune park was opened in 1960 and decorative concrete blocks were a very popular way of decorating the landscape. You will find a very nice example of custom masonry units at the abandoned Abundant Life building on 17th & Boulder. It was the original headquarters of Oral Roberts Ministries. Honestly, I am surprised it hasn’t been sold and redeveloped, but I am guessing that it is so full of asbestos and other hazardous materials that remediation will be prohibitively expensive.