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Tulsa was the first major Oklahoma city to begin an urban renewal program. The Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority was formed in July, 1959. Its first project, the Seminole Hills Project, a public housing facility was begun in 1961 and completed in 1968. [37] The Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority was renamed the Tulsa Development Authority (TDA) in 1976.
2000 – Population: 393,049; [60] metro population: 859,532. 21st century ... Exterior of Woody Guthrie Center in the Brady Arts District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2013
The Tulsa sound is a popular musical style that originated in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the second half of the twentieth century. [1] It is a mix of blues, blues rock, country, rock and roll and swamp pop sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Tulsa (/ ˈ t ʌ l s ə / ⓘ TUL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. [5]
One of the hot spots for rock and roll in Oklahoma during the 60's was Ronnie Kaye's "The Scene" in Oklahoma City. It featured local garage rock and psychedelic bands. Musicians such as songwriter J. J. Cale , Elvin Bishop , and Leon Russell have ties to Tulsa, Oklahoma ( see The Tulsa Sound ), and Tulsa's Cain's Ballroom has become a notable ...
Neighborhood in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States Greenwood, Tulsa Neighborhood Nickname: Black Wall Street Greenwood, Tulsa Location in Oklahoma Show map of Oklahoma Greenwood, Tulsa Greenwood, Tulsa (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 36°09′42″N 95°59′12″W / 36.16166°N 95.98660°W / 36.16166; -95.98660 Country United States State Oklahoma ...
In a photo provided by the city of Tulsa, a monument to honor people found or exhumed during a probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre stands in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, November 12. (City of ...
The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901, which helped make Tulsa the "Oil Capital of the World". [1]