Oklahoma City’s Amis Materials Co. comes to an end with auction
Family business started in 1900 with mule teams, blasted a way through the Arbuckle Mountains for I-35, rose to presidential heights by building airplanes in the 1950s, and moved earth for 1960s nuclear missile silos, among other interesting things.
Huge turn-of-the-20th-century mule teams, believe it or not, are not the most interesting aspects of the late Amis Materials Co.’s history and legacy.
This truck is among numerous vehicles and pieces of equipment to be auctioned by Robert Hawks Auction Co. at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Amis Materials Co., 1647 Exchange Ave. For more information, go to www.hawksauction.com. PHOTO PROVIDED BY ROBERT HAWKS AUCTION CO.
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Mules don’t come up that often in everyday conversation. They were, however, the first interesting thing in Amis business history. So, David Amis, 82, who ran the company since 1985, and I...
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