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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
The Golden Driller is a 76 foot tall (23 meter), 43,500 pound statue of an oil worker, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is claimed to be the "largest free standing statue in the world." It was originally built in 1953 by the Mid-Continent Supply Company of Fort Worth for the International Petroleum Exposition.
From Lucy the Elephant in New Jersey to Rock City in Georgia there are a plethora of must-see historic roadside attraction stops across the United States.
The iconic Golden Driller, built in 1953 for the 1953 International Petroleum Exposition, [127] now stands at the Tulsa County Fairgrounds. The largest augmented reality mural in the world, "The Majestic", a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2) work which adorns two sides of the Main Park Plaza at 410 S. Main downtown, was completed in October 2021 ...