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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 ]
December 13, 2011 The Blue Dome Historic District in Tulsa, Oklahoma is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is a seventeen block area of commercial, industrial, and mixed-use buildings, as well as open spaces, just east of the downtown business area of Tulsa.
Tulsa Transit, the city's transit bus operator, runs 97 buses on 19 different routes across Tulsa and in surrounding suburbs such as Broken Arrow, Sand Springs and Jenks. Tulsa Transit has two stations: the Memorial Midtown Station at 7952 E. 33rd St. in Midtown Tulsa, and the Denver Avenue Station at 319 S. Denver, across from the BOK Center ...
The historic U.S. Route 66 (US-66, Route 66), sometimes known as the Will Rogers Highway after Oklahoma native Will Rogers, ran from west to northeast across the state of Oklahoma, along the path now taken by Interstate 40 (I-40) and State Highway 66 (SH-66). It passed through Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and many smaller communities.
The area serves as Tulsa's financial and business district, and is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area's historic architecture. Much of Tulsa's convention space is located in downtown, such as the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, the Tulsa Convention Center, and the BOK Center.
1964 – Tulsa Convention Center opens. 1965 Oral Roberts University established. [49] Tulsa City-County Library Central Library opened. [50] 1966 Area of city expands. [24] Tulsa Expo Center built; Golden Driller statue permanently installed. [33] James M. Hewgley, Jr. becomes mayor. 1967 Prayer Tower and Fourth National Bank of Tulsa built.
From 2009 through 2012, the Convention Center was the home arena for the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA Development League. In 2013, the team returned to the SpiritBank Event Center in nearby Bixby . [ 9 ] In March 2012, the now-defunct Oklahoma Defenders of the American Professional Football League played their first game at the arena.
In 1925, Tulsa businessman Cyrus Avery, known as the "Father of Route 66," [25] began his campaign to create a road linking Chicago to Los Angeles by establishing the U.S. Highway 66 Association in Tulsa, earning the city the nickname the "Birthplace of Route 66". [26]