the east to Boulder on the west the railroad tracks on the north and Third Street on the south. Thus, many of the oldest buildings in the city were razed. In all, nine city blocks were cleared of buildings. Notable historic buildings lost included the Daniel Building, Hotel Tulsa, the former Grand Opera House, Lynch Building (then Tulsa's oldest remaining building) and Tulsa's first bank building. The only pre-1910 building remaining in downtown Tulsa is the Pierce Block at Third and Detroit. Construction of the Tulsa Civic Center also required demolition of many blocks of downtown properties. The city acquired six square blocks, bounded by West Fourth Street on the north, Denver Avenue on the east, West Sixth Street on the south, and Guthrie Avenue West. It began to develop this area over time, beginning with the new Tulsa County Court House. B & B Grocery on the corner of the railroad tracks and 41st Street in Red Fork was one of the stores who were driven out of business during the infrastructure upgrades of the 1960s and 1970s, such as the city building the first heated bridge over the railroad tracks at 41st Street ending at Southwest Blvd. bypassing the B&B Grocery which made it inconvenient to make a sharp left turn by the OK Cleaners to drive back one block to the grocery store. Within a decade the grocery store was gone and many such small, family owned businesses were driven out of businesses through Urban Renewal and the incoming national big box store influx. Crystal City which had been a gathering place of entertainment with amusement rides during the Depression was a thriving strip mall on old Route 66 in Red Fork on Southwest Blvd between 41st St and 33rd West Ave. Through the 1970s then as TG&Y, Froug's and Safeway were driven out of the Tulsa market, it became blighted. Now it is a thriving strip mall again, and is a testament of the interest of a new generation in keeping Route 66 alive in Tulsa. Urban Renewal destroyed many historical sites, whose history has been lost except through oral stories passed from one generation to another. One such story is The First Apostolic Church, the old 2-story rock church that stood at the corner of 21st and Nogales. It was built by the hands of the men of the church, one sandstone at a time,