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The Golden Driller is a 76-foot-tall (23 m), 43,500-pound (19,700 kg) [1] statue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, depicting an oil worker. The structure is a steel frame covered with concrete and plaster. [ 2 ] It is the seventh-tallest statue in the United States and has been located in front of the Tulsa Expo Center since 1966.
The Golden Driller statue was first erected at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa in 1953. It was permanently installed there in 1966. The next exposition was held in 1953. The Mid-Continent Supply Company commissioned the now-famous Golden Driller statue and displayed it at the entrance to the exhibition grounds. It drew so much ...
The IPE grew and reached its peak attendance in 1966, when the Golden Driller, a large statue symbolic of Tulsa's historical importance in the oil industry, was erected in front of the new IPE Building, then said to be the world's largest building under one roof. [25]
Golden Driller Statue (Tulsa, Oklahoma) Standing 76 feet tall, the Golden Driller was first erected by the Mid-Continental Supply Company at the 1953 International Petroleum Exposition. Following ...
Standing in front of the Expo Center is the Golden Driller which was added as a symbol of the International Petroleum Exposition in 1966. Weighing 43,500 pounds and standing 76 feet (23 m) tall, the Golden Driller has become the symbol of Expo Square and a Tulsa landmark. Design of the building was performed by David R. Graham and Associates of ...
Lake Eucha and second pipeline from Lake Spavinaw to Tulsa constructed to supplement city water supply. [12] Tulsa Coliseum destroyed by fire after being hit by lightning on September 27, 1952. 1953 Golden Driller statue created for and displayed at the International Petroleum Exposition. [33] Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission ...
That is how the 51-year-old Owasso native kept her sanity last Saturday morning during the Golden Driller Half ... Apr. 24—TULSA — Rebecca Bennett tends to talk to herself during hard runs ...
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.