TULSA Photo Tour (2nd Most Art Deco-Only To Miami) - Page 2

SLC fan · #21 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 5:18 AM**

Tulsa is beautiful, and its skyline is impressive. Great photos!

SnyderBock · #22 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 5:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by pj3000

You find this to be true in New Orleans? You're kidding, right?

No, I didn't clarify... New Orleans has raciest people just like anywhere else and many of them. I was just pointing out that this problem isn't confined to mostly white cities like Fargo. Anywhere segregation traditions are still taught and passed down (predominantly white northern cities and deep south traditionalist white separatists).

SnyderBock · #23 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 5:38 AM**

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Tulsa is beautiful, and its skyline is impressive. Great photos!

Yeah!
I love that Mid-Continent Tower! Built in 1918, it was the tallest building West of the Mississippi! The 320 Boston Avenue Building built in 1928 is also a true gem! They are both fine examples of are deco skyscrapers at their best built while Tulsa was the oil capital of the world in the late teens and roaring 20's!

Buckeye Native 001 · #24 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 6:26 AM**

Art Deco yay!

Xelebes · #25 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 6:35 AM**

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Actually, everyone in Oklahoma City thinks the Super Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City. There are some businessmen pushing a Tulsa bid to land the Pittsburgh Mighty Ducks NHL organization - however.

Pittsburgh Mighty Ducks?

dktshb · #26 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 7:05 AM**

I've spent some time in Tulsa for work and was surprised at how beautiful a lot of those art deco buildings downtown were. Very nice!

insanenuyawka · #27 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 8:24 AM**

Ummm...where are the humans?????

SnyderBock · #28 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 9:16 AM**

Well, it's actually a $100 fine if you get caught downtown. Only people who have work permits and go through security check points are allowed into the downtown area. Plus, the majority of these ground level photos were taken by a friend of mine that lives DT Tulsa,... right after that huge ice storm we got here a few weeks ago. Notice the ice everywhere? Sunday Morning right after 5 inches of freezing rain and sleet fall = no one outside.

Cementglow · #29 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 7:08 PM**

Your joking right.

TexasStar · #30 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 7:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by SnyderBock

... There are some businessmen pushing a Tulsa bid to land the Pittsburgh Mighty Ducks NHL organization - however.

FYI...
Pittsburgh Penguins
Anaheim Ducks (They officially dropped the "Mighty")

soleri · #31 Posted **Feb 13, 2007, 8:12 PM**

Looking at those pics, I see a city with some really nice buildings and a downtown that still looks like a dog.

What's the point of having a downtown if we're going to drive there? You have to rip up so much of the city for parking lots and garages that it begs the question for even having a downtown. Yeah, the skyline pics are nice, but is that it? Nothing else?

SnyderBock · #32 Posted **Feb 14, 2007, 12:59 AM**

That's it, I was only trying to show you pictures of Tulsa's skyline. Is that not enough for you? Tulsa's a small city and doesn't have mass transit anymore - it was ripped out in the 1950's. I hope over the next 20 years, Tulsa will rebuild mass transit lines and make Tulsa Union Depot a once again bustling train station! Lets see, DT Tulsa has a pedestrian mall that resembles Denver's 16th street Mall in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Tulsa also has a small DT entertainment district. The most lively part of DT is actually mid-town Tulsa called Utica Square. It was pointed out in a reply by another member. From DT south along the Arkansas River is called Riverfront and it is also a bustling active area full of pedestrians and residential projects. There are plans to build thousands of residential projects along the Arkansas river next to DT Tulsa in the Channels project. It calls for a dozen 20-40 stroy residential towers to be built in man made islands and/or along the shore next to downtown Tulsa. They would include ground floor retail and art galleries and stuff. There are also plans to have commuter rail service from Tulsa Union Depot to Broken Arrow (Tulsa's largest suburb) within a 5-10 years period.

BG918 · #33 Posted **Feb 14, 2007, 9:00 AM**

Tulsa has wonderful buildings but outside of the office workers in the CBD, the club-goers on Fri. and Sat. nights in Blue Dome, and church people on Sundays it's pretty much deserted except for homeless people. Quite sad but things are slowly, and I emphasize slowly, changing. Activity downtown in the past 5 years has picked up faster than the previous 15 before that. The biggest key to downtown is expanding the OSU-Tulsa university campus on the north end but expansion is just not happening fast enough. Also developing the more established Uptown district just south of downtown would have positive effects as it's where Tulsa's highest concentration of condo towers is located. One of Tulsa's problems is that Midtown is already so popular and most of the city's population is too far south and east of downtown...

oilcan · #34 Posted **Feb 14, 2007, 1:47 PM**

Nice pictures....

Hopefully that new arena will bring some life into downtown.. been there several of times, and I have to say downtown was just boring, and lifeless... seemed as if there was somthing maybe at one point in time.. maybe? then vanished..

good for Tulsa..

Jeeper · #35 Posted **Feb 14, 2007, 2:54 PM**

I had no idea that Tulsa had such beautiful architecture. Thanks for sharing.

SnyderBock · #36 Posted **Feb 14, 2007, 6:17 PM**

Your welcome!

oilcan:
Yes, Tulsa did once have something downtown! Just look, the Mid-Continent Tower is the 4th tallest in Tulsa (and 4th tallest in the entire state of Oklahoma) at 156 meters tall - that's pretty tall for 1918, isn't it? It was built in 1918 and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Tulsa was the oil capital of the world. Houston managed to attract most of Tulsa's big oil companies away over time and still does to this day. It has stripped hundreds of thousands of jobs out of downtown over the decades at a faster rate then which has been replaced by other industries. For the first time since the 1940's, there is again much promise for downtown Tulsa!

sbarn · #37 Posted **Feb 14, 2007, 8:45 PM**

Even if it is claimed on Tulsa's city website, I highly doubt that it has the 2nd greatest concentration of Art Deco in the U.S... NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, even los Angeles I would gather have greater concentrations of art deco than Tulsa. I may be wrong, but I didn't see much art deco in the pictures posted.

In any case, thanks for sharing... Tulsa seems to be a nice place.

oilcan · #38 Posted **Feb 15, 2007, 12:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by SnyderBock

Your welcome!

oilcan:
Yes, Tulsa did once have something downtown! Just look, the Mid-Continent Tower is the 4th tallest in Tulsa (and 4th tallest in the entire state of Oklahoma) at 156 meters tall - that's pretty tall for 1918, isn't it? It was built in 1918 and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Tulsa was the oil capital of the world. Houston managed to attract most of Tulsa's big oil companies away over time and still does to this day. It has stripped hundreds of thousands of jobs out of downtown over the decades at a faster rate then which has been replaced by other industries. For the first time since the 1940's, there is again much promise for downtown Tulsa!

Great to hear... thanks again for the pics!

BG918 · #39 Posted **Feb 15, 2007, 1:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by SnyderBock

Your welcome!

oilcan:
Yes, Tulsa did once have something downtown! Just look, the Mid-Continent Tower is the 4th tallest in Tulsa (and 4th tallest in the entire state of Oklahoma) at 156 meters tall - that's pretty tall for 1918, isn't it? It was built in 1918 and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Tulsa was the oil capital of the world. Houston managed to attract most of Tulsa's big oil companies away over time and still does to this day. It has stripped hundreds of thousands of jobs out of downtown over the decades at a faster rate then which has been replaced by other industries. For the first time since the 1940's, there is again much promise for downtown Tulsa!

Actually the Mid-Continent tower as we know it, all 36 stories, was constructed in 1984! The original 16 story building was built in 1918 and then in the early 80's another 20 stories was built CANTILEVERED over the original! This was done because the original was considered a National Historic Landmark. It is one of the most beautiful buildings ANYWHERE now and a major piece of the Tulsa skyline.

Urban Enthusiast · #40 Posted **Feb 15, 2007, 2:20 AM**

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For those that don't know, this is the center of the ever popular Midtown and Utica Square to the south of downtown. There will hopefully be a new residential highrise going up to the right of that brown building:

If you are referring to the Utica Place development, that is it on the far right. But it is only 9 stories, I believe, so it is actually a mid-rise.