Category: photography
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The Last Free Art Drop at Cogar
Today I made one last trip to the old APCO station in Cogar, Oklahoma, and left the final Forgotten Main Street Free Art Drop at the place where this little experiment found its home. Cogar has always been exactly the kind of place Forgotten Main Street was created to celebrate. An old gas station. A quiet Oklahoma…
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Free Art Drop: Take. Keep. Share.
FMS has always been about exploring the path less taken, finding beauty in forgotten places, and sharing a little bit of that adventure with others. Sometimes that means a photograph. Sometimes it means a story. And now, sometimes it means leaving a little piece of art behind for someone else to find. We’re calling this…
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Bedford Camera’s Mural Panels: Route 66 Roots, Modern Icons, and Why This Wall Matters
If you’ve ever rolled into Bedford Camera & Video in Oklahoma City, you’ve probably noticed the tall mural panels mounted along the brick exterior. They’re loud in the best way—big letters, big sky, and snapshots of Oklahoma that feel like they belong on a travel postcard… or stitched into the lining of every road trip we’ve…
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OKC Manhole Map Hunt
Forgotten Main Street usually lives on two-lane highways—rusty pickups, ghost signs, brick storefronts, and the kind of places you only find when you take the long way around. But every once in a while, the adventure isn’t out on the backroads. Sometimes it’s right under our boots in downtown Oklahoma City. If you’ve walked the…
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Forgotten Main Street Is Growing Up (Just a Little)
Somewhere between a peeling café sign in Kansas, an old truck on Route 66, and a dusty detour that definitely wasn’t fastest way home, Peep and Dixie realized something: Forgotten Main Street was never just about the lenses. Yeah, we’re still those weirdos who geek out over vintage glass, sticky aperture rings, and manual focus lenses…
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The Element Cross Country Adventure
The January 2025 trip was extra special for the FMS team as it had two purposes: vintage photography on the backroads and bringing the Element from Bellingham, WA, to Yukon, OK. The short story is simple, Peep built up an awesome adventure rig and sold it to Dixie. I flew to Peep’s hometown and we…
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Happy New Year and Welcome 2023!
Welcome to the year 2023 and a belated Happy Holidays from the FMS Crew! While this post is a little late – we are already into the first week of the new year – we wanted to say Thank You for all the support we have received in this passion project. We must say that…
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Sunflowers Found
This was a huge surprise for me. It’s been so hot outside in Oklahoma, that I’m rushing from the comfort of home quickly into the a/c of the car. While I have been “forced” to ride the motorcycle in this heat, enjoying the backyard hasn’t been on my short list of tasks. Truth be told,…