Motorists traveling course 66 thro...

Motorists traveling course 66 through Oklahoma City in 1958 were treated to more than the typical array of roadside oddities and quirky motel dotting the highway; they were afforded a glimpse into what designer and futurist Buckminster Fuller considered to be the hereafter of building design. The time to come as Fuller saw it, was his patented geodesic dome, and Oklahoma City's Gold Dome Bank was an early example.

if it were not that if its present owner, Bank single in kind has its way, the eye-catching aluminum fabric may fade to memory, as has the famed "Mother Road" along which it stands. The