Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel were often sighted. Bonnie and Clyde drove through. Marilyn Monroe came and Liz Taylor too.

The Hale, The Superior. The Maurice. The Fordyce. Buckstaff. The Ozark. Lamar. The Magnesia became the Quapaw. One by one these establishments formed the spine of downtown. and it all began with proto bathhouses in the wild.