Oklahoma Route 66 - Oklahoma City

OKLAHOMA CITY. All we need are some old gas pumps to turn this scene into a traditional Route 66 roadside attraction. The Oklahoma State Capitol building opened in 1917, and it is the only state capitol with a working oil well on the grounds. (Take that, Texas). The building sits on the huge Oklahoma City Oil Field, which was discovered in 1928 and is still producing today. Sensing that an oil field under a city could be disruptive to daily life, the Oklahoma City Council passed a law in 1930 limiting drilling to one well per city block, and restricting such activity to certain sections of the city. My town should have such problems. Oklahomans were so busy drilling for all that oil that they never got around to constructing the capitol's dome until 2002. It was nicknamed "Old Baldy" for all those years it went topless.