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The Petroleum Club of Oklahoma City (1956) [417] [418] Norman. The University Club of the University of Oklahoma (1925) [419] [420] Oklahoma City. The Beacon Club (1942–2017), insolvent [421] [422] The Petroleum Club of Oklahoma City (1956) [417] Tulsa. The Summit (1967) [423] [424] The Tulsa Petroleum Club (1950–2011), insolvent [425]
The Jewel Box Lounge, also known as the Jewel Box, was a nightclub & lounge opened by John Tuccillo in 1948. Located on the historic Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri it was one of the earliest establishments in the area to feature drag queens and impersonators as entertainers. At its peak, the Jewel Box Lounge was one of the largest and ...
Eastgate Metroplex, showing the fabric structure fabric roof. Eastgate Metroplex is an indoor mixed-use professional/retail complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The building was originally a shopping mall that opened in 1984 as the Eastland Mall, but was revitalized into its current use after years of decline.
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.
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]
Jewel's Catch One was a dance bar owned by Jewel Thais-Williams. It was located at 4067 West Pico Boulevard in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles . Opened in 1973, it was the longest running black gay dance bar in Los Angeles.
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 ...
Jewel Thais-Williams is a businesswoman and LGBTQI+ activist based in Los Angeles, the original owner of the Catch One, then known as Jewel's Catch One, and the first black woman in the United States to own a LGBT nightclub.