This is the Donnay Building in Oklahoma City built in the 40s and added on to over the years by its owner who stuck additions on where they somehow almost fit.

When Oklahoma was still in its prohibition era, a patron gained entrance into the HiLo Club, originally a bar, a dance hall, and a gambling establishment through the door with one of those speakeasy sliding peep holes in it. The door is still there, only always open and unused, hiding in the shadows against the wall because of the more modern entrance.

If the place was raided, escape was through the tunnel to the restaurant across the street. For years a juke box stood in front of the entrance.

There was dancing on one floor and gambling on the other which eventually became little apartments, one in which I lived for a time at the end of the 1990s.

A section of the second floor, or, rather, the somewhat second floor, as the adding on had new sections not lining up with the old, has been used as artist studios. These used to be the rooms to which the prostitutes took their johns, like Miss Kitty’s girls did on Gunsmoke.

Just like at Fantastic Sam’s where the hair dressers got  pre-named booths so that over a day’s business there would be multiple Daisys and Sunflowers, the women got rooms with names already on the doors, so if you wanted Roxanne a second time, you could get a different girl with that name in that door.

Eventually the building housed a Gay bar which kept the old name, the HiLo Club, based on the odds and winnings as some were high and some were low, some restaurants, a record store, my friend Dan’s hair salon with his living quarters in the rear, and a series of little businesses over the years.

During my time there, I lived just above the stage area, and if I wasn’t at the Drag shows I could hear the performers and the audience. I was told there were over 30 people living in the building, but you really couldn’t know that because finding the other apartments was like trying not to get lost in a labyrinth.

There is a story that the builder hated his relatives so much that he built a hidden temple in the building where he put curses on them.

I was there in 1999 when the huge tornado hit the southern side of town, and it was a very safe place to be because the bar had no windows of any note and it as a little below ground, about halfway.
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In the early days of Oklahoma City, and remember it only came into existence in 1889, the bankers and moneyed people bought up all the land north of the city, and divided the parcels and built a trolley system that took people from the established city to the lake where the water was that produced the electricity to make the system work , where there was a dance hall, a beach, and entertainment venues, on the way to which people could see all the land they could buy and put a home on.

Eventually the trolley system gave way to roads and the lake was allowed to dry up. But the circle where the trolley turned around for the trip back down town is still hinted at, if only by the name Classen Circle, and that is where the Donnay building was built- the Northern most point of the city at the time, out in the middle of nowhere.  The city has expanded around it, and now Edna’s, an eatery and bar, the Classen Grill, which is what it says, and the Donnay building are all that remain of those days.

The dairy company Braum’s which has eateries that double as desperate, high priced convenience food stores has bought the area and wants to tear down the history for a clone store.

If the building goes, one of the memorials to the prohibition days of Oklahoma, an era that ended late, will be lost. Gone will be the door with the little opening, the tunnel, the door that separated the dancing from the illegal drinking and gambling with its 1940s era artwork, the artist studios, the food places, the little stores, and history.

And for me, it will be the loss of a connection to the people I knew there during my time, some who have passed on, but all of them such characters.

People are going to try to save the area, but it is the little guy against the corporation.

I attached a youtube video shot at the building, and at the 2 minute mark, the singer walks up the stairs to where my apartment was and then down the hall passing it.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harper+simon-bonnie+brae

It’s the first video.