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Back in those days, typewriters had a single key for the number 1 and the lowercase l. But they did have the O and 0 as different keys. It is possible that th
by OldHand2018 6y ago
Back in those days, typewriters had a single key for the number 1 and the lowercase l. But they did have the O and 0 as different keys.
It is possible that they saw the 4 floors as "representative" of all the floors that would be built, and just expected that there would be 40.
Wichita Falls is pretty much on the Texas/Oklahoma border and that area was filled with oil money at that time. Only 10 years later, Tulsa Oklahoma was building 40+ floor skyscrapers. But prior to that, skyscrapers seemed to be limited to NYC, Philadelphia and Chicago.
- gnulinux 6y agoThere were no skyscrapers in Boston, LA, SF, Houston etc?
- stevula 6y agoSF had skyscrapers prior to 1920 when this was built. Some of them were damaged in the 1906 earthquake. Perhaps you mean they were mostly associated with NYC, Chicago, etc?
- OldHand2018 6y agoYou are right of course. My apologies :)
- ggcdn 6y agoFun fact, because of that earthquake, there is a 160ft height restriction on certain types of construction in US building codes even to this day!
- dhosek 6y agoThe typewriter that I used in high school in the 80s (which dated back to at least the 30s if not earlier) only had the numerals 2–9. One typed l for 1 and O for 0. Typing numbers is not that common an occurrence in any event which made it easy for me to use old-style numerals in papers I wrote in college using LaTeX.
- lostlogin 6y agoThis makes me even more curious about which genius put O and 0 next to each other on the keyboard.
- devoutsalsa 6y agoI wonder how safe Tulsa skyscrapers are now with all of the earthquakes Oklahoma is experiencing.