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City Leaders Celebrate Continued Destruction of Old State Fair…

9:34 AM EDT on August 13, 2025

The Oklahoma State Fairgrounds are, once again, a little less cool.

Yesterday afternoon, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt took a break from acting like he personally won an NBA title to celebrate the destruction of the historic Oklahoma State Fair Arena – a crowning piece of OKC mid-century architecture that, like so many other cool old buildings, is now just a pile of rubble.

Here’s video of the implosion that had to scare the living shit out of motorists who just happened to be driving down I-44 yesterday morning.