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  2. Roger Wheeler (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    Roger Milton Wheeler Sr. (February 27, 1926 – May 27, 1981) was an American businessman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the former chairman of Telex Corporation, and former owner of World Jai Alai. He was murdered by members of organized crime who discovered that Wheeler had uncovered their embezzlement scheme at World Jai Alai.

  3. Gillette Historic District - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Southern Hills Country Club - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  6. Swan Lake, Tulsa - Wikipedia

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    The Swan Lake area has more two- and three-story, 1920 to 1930 multi-family apartments and duplexes than any other residential area in Tulsa. The district includes the commercial area on 15th Street. [7] The neighborhood of Swan Lake was designed and laid out in a smaller than normal street grid system.

  7. ALCO Stores - Wikipedia

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    Duckwall-ALCO stores announced on November 29, 2010, the closure of all 44 of its Duckwall stores, thus ending the Duckwall name. The store in Hettinger, North Dakota, was reopened as an ALCO while the remaining 43 stores permanently closed. Subsequently, the chain dropped the Duckwall name and renamed itself simply as ALCO Stores, Inc.

  8. Oil Capital Historic District (Tulsa, Oklahoma) - Wikipedia

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    The Tulsa Club was founded in 1925 as a social club for wealthy businessmen. The 11-story building, designed by Bruce Goff, was constructed in 1927 on the northwest corner of Fifth Street and Cincinnati Avenue, next to the Philtower Building. The Tulsa Chamber of Commerce owned 40 percent of the building and the club owned 60 percent.

  9. National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulsa County ...

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    May 19, 2009 (415 S. Boston Ave. Tulsa: 5: Belmont Apartments: December 8, 2015 (1314 S. Denver Ave., W. Tulsa: 6: Charles and Bertha Blevins House: March 5, 2024