After all of these years, I finally made it to an area known as Bricktown to see what all the fuss was about. Let me just say this: the Bricktown Canal is not the San Antonio Riverwalk. While San Antonio has history to show off along with its bars and restaurants, Oklahoma City just has bars and restaurants. Don't take that the wrong way: there are some pretty spots, but this in no way matches what it was intended to be, and there were only two boats cruises that canal at a time (with only one during the day). Other boats sat idle, even thought I was there in the dead center of tourism season.
I guess one of my favorite items was this mural on one building's side wall. Something about the mural appealed to me. It was painted in a less-than-modern style, and it looked awfully nostalgic...but it still didn't explain things. I spent several minutes trying to interpret the image, but without more context, one has to rely on generalities and not specifics.