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The original idea for the VOk project came to John Erling in 2008 during lunches with his friend Walter Helmerich. Walt would tell Erling many stories about being an oilman in Oklahoma and after allowing Erling to record these stories, gave permission for Erling to put his voice online as part of a new historical preservation project.
Gillette Historic District (GHD) is a residential area in the Midtown section of Tulsa, Oklahoma.It consists of the homes on Gillette Avenue and Yorktown Place, and is bounded by 15th Street on the north, [a] the alley between Gillette Street and Lewis Avenue on the east, 17th Street on the south and the alley between Yorktown Place and Yorktown Avenue. [2]
The Gillette-Tyrrell Building is a building in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.It was begun in 1929 by two Tulsa oilmen, J. M. Gillette [a] and H. C. Tyrrell. They initially planned to construct a three-story office building at 432 S. Boulder Avenue, topped by a ten-story hotel, but these plans were canceled during the Great Depression and they stopped construction at the third floor.
Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, US 64 and US 75. [1] The area serves as Tulsa's financial and business district; it is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area's historic architecture. [2]
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma.It has many diverse neighborhoods due to its size. Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, Highway 64, and Highway 75.
Robert Galbreath Jr. (1863–1955), oilman who moved to Tulsa after he drilled the first oil well in Glenn Pool Field; J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), oilman founder of Getty Oil Company, who made his first million in Tulsa between 1914 and 1916 [4] Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962), [5] oilman, founder of Gilcrease Museum
Initially, the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce owned 40 percent of the building and the club owned 60 percent. The Chamber of Commerce and other organizations used the lower five floors, while the Tulsa Club occupied the top six floors and a roof garden, which was the site of the inaugural meeting of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ...
In 1923, the Tulsa Fairgrounds were moved to a 240-acre lot donated by Tulsa oilman J. E. Crosbie, located between Fifteenth and Twenty-first Streets in midtown Tulsa. [ 3 ] In 1926, it was decided that a group needed to be established in order to make decisions over the new location that is the present-day fairgrounds and Expo Square.