OK Street Paving – Bisbee AZ

Description

The Works Progress Administration carried out street paving in Bisbee. Pictured is a finished section of Okay Street in Bisbee.

The street is incorrectly referred to as “Okay Street” while the name today is “OK” Street. Historically it was never written out. Early records of Bisbee show businesses and home owners utilizing “O.K.” Street. A search of “OK Street” through the digitized newspapers of Chronicling America on March 4, 2018, produced 34 results; a search of “Okay Street” utilized no results in the Bisbee Daily Review. The Bisbee Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 1980. The Bisbee Historic Residential District was added to the National Register in October 2010. Addresses for contributing properties are listed as “OK Street.”

While the evidence suggests the Works Progress Administration spelled the street as “Okay Street” in their record of their work in Bisbee, the correct spelling should be noted.