Everyone agrees that Riverside Drive is one of Tulsa’s most unique and beautifual assets. Why then are so many people dead set on screwing it up? Over the years I have heard some of the silliest ideas pitched as “river development” along the Arkansas. Skyscrapers on a sand bar, a miniature Branson next to a [...]
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Bad River Development Idea No. 24
Posted: February 19, 2012 in architecture, tulsaTags: development, riverside, turkey mountain
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Jackie discovered this vintage postcard from the Kon Tiki Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. On the back it explains the Kon Tiki offered a “fabulous Polynesean (sic) atmosphere in the midst of Phoenix.” Back in 1989 we made the trek to Phoenix, Arizona for the U.S. Grand Prix. Now as Formula One Grand Prixs go it [...]
Anyone interested in vintage views of Tulsa should visit the vast archive of photographs from the Beryl Ford Collection. The database has been made available online by the Tulsa City-County Library system and the Tulsa Rotory Club. Prints are also available through the Tulsa Historical Society. The collection offers more than 22,000 images collected over [...]
Tulsa is hoping to land one of NASA’s surplus Space Shuttles. And we’re not the only ones- cities from Huntsville to London have lined up for a piece of that ceramic tile action. But we have one ace in the hole, something no other city can boast. We have Roadside America rooting for Tulsa! www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/land-that-space-shuttle [...]
