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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.
James M. Hall, The Beginning of Tulsa (Tulsa, Okla: N.p., 1933). Federal Writers' Project (1938), Tulsa: A Guide to the Oil Capital , American Guide Series Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Tulsa" , Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State , American Guide Series , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press {{ citation }} : CS1 maint: ref duplicates ...
The contest was advertised with the slogan "Suddenly It's 2007” which was a variation of the 1957 Plymouth advertising campaign "Suddenly, it's 1960 ...". [15] [16] A matching automobile had been awarded in a separate contest a few days prior. [17] Plaque over the time capsule containing "Miss Belvedere". Photo taken in Tulsa, OK on March 16 ...
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]
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]
Oklahoma City: 1939: 1960 Frisco Railway: Meteor: St. Louis: Lawton: 1902: ... Tulsa Union Depot Pictures in the Tulsa City-County's Beryl Ford Collection Archived ...
A much more significant tornado outbreak began on the afternoon of May 5 and continued overnight, spreading from eastern Oklahoma into portions of southern Missouri and Central Arkansas. At least 35 tornadoes developed between 6:00 a.m. CST on May 5–6, including a long-tracked F5 that struck rural areas in Northeastern Oklahoma and killed ...
On May 27, 1981, Roger Wheeler, a Tulsa businessman and owner of Miami's World Jai Alai, was murdered in the parking lot of the club.The killing was ordered by Winter Hill Gang mobster Whitey Bulger, who discovered that Wheeler had uncovered the gang's ongoing embezzlement from the jai alai organization.