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Independence's Riverside Park preserves historic fun, adds safety
The National Trust for Historic Preservation's Preservation Blog has put its spotlight on the efforts of the City of Independence, Kansas, and the Friends of Riverside Park and Zoo (FORPAZ) to preserve the park's historic playground equipment while meeting modern safety requirements: When Riverside Park's insurance company told park...
Blair Mansion/Crow Creek public input tonight, 2012/03/07
In recent years, a local foundation has purchased two significant properties along the east side of Tulsa's Riverside Drive: The Blair Mansion and grounds, just north of the Midland Valley trail, and two apartment complexes just south of 31st Street on either side of Crow Creek -- Sundance and Legacy...
State Sudafed system SNAFU; snuffly Sooners suffer
It's cold season, and Oklahoma's whipsaw weather has Sooner noggins clogged with snot and in search of a solution. A few minutes ago at a nearby chain drug store, I heard one of the assistants say that, at the moment, no one in the state of Oklahoma can buy products...
Tulsa ice forecast update, stocking up
The National Weather Service office in Tulsa posted another informative ice storm forecast briefing at 5 pm on Tuesday. This one is twice as long, shows the two weather systems that are on course to collide right over Oklahoma, explains some of the uncertainties in the timing of the storm,...
The Greenwood Gap: My Ignite Tulsa talk
Here it is: Here are some previous entries on BatesLine that touch on Greenwood and include some of the material I shared at Ignite Tulsa.Greenwood's streetcar: The Sand Springs Railroad (includes photos) The rise and fall of Greenwood (includes high res 1951 aerial photo of Deep Greenwood) Greenwood 1957 Film...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey comes home -- one night only
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is returning home to Tulsa for one night this Friday, September 25, on a coast-to-coast tour promoting their new EP, One Night in Brooklyn. The show starts at 9 pm at The Marquee on Main and Cameron in Tulsa's Bob Wills Arts District (look for Bob...
Ignite Tulsa Thursday night: A wealth of perspective in five-minute pieces
If you've ever wondered, "Is Michael Bates capable of expressing himself concisely?" you and I will both have a chance to find out tomorrow night, Thursday, September 17, 2009, at Ignite Tulsa. The event will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Blue Dome Diner, at 313...
My tank is full
I've spent all morning and the beginning of the afternoon eating and listening. I've finally had the time to stop taking in and starting processing and writing about what I've seen and heard. First stop was a joint breakfast of the Oklahoma and Louisiana delegations, way the heck out in...
New Urbanism on Lake Eufaula
There's an exciting lakeside community planned for Oklahoma, unlike anything in the state, but hopefully a model for many more to come. New urbanist city planner Andres Duany has been hired by former Oklahoma City mayor Kirk Humphries to plan Carlton Landing on 1600 acres beside Lake Eufaula. The result...
PLANiTULSA survey summary released
Over the last month, the Austin-based opinion research firm Collective Strength has been polling Tulsans, conducting in-depth interviews with about 90 civic leaders and elected officials and then did a thousand-person telephone poll, using U. S. Census data to stratify the results. The aim was to create a "values framework"...
Tulsans are top yodelers
Belated congratulations to Tulsa's Emma Jane Pendleton, 14, who took first place in the Patsy Montana National Yodeling Championship, and to her younger sister Marina, 13, who took second. The two sisters are also top fiddlers; Emma Jane is the reigning Oklahoma Junior Fiddle Champion and won the junior championship...
When will Big Splash be evicted?
It's becoming more and more evident that favoritism is at work on the Tulsa County Fairgrounds, and that a tenant's status has more to do with skill at spreading around campaign money than the merits of the situation. The issue of the business plan, cited by County Commisisoner Randi Miller...
PLANiTULSA launch presentation
Here are the Powerpoint slides presented by planning consultant John Fregonese at last Tuesday's kickoff of PLANiTULSA, the city's first comprehensive planning effort in a generation. It's only the slides, unfortunately, and not the audio, but it will give you the gist of what was presented. | View | Upload...
City Council street town hall report
Steve Roemerman has posted a first-hand report from one of the Tulsa City Council's town hall meetings about street maintenance and how to pay for it. (The City Council meetings are not in any way connected to the Sharon King Davis - Dewey Bartlett, Jr., headed committee appointed by Mayor...
Tulsa 1957: A porch swing on East 5th Place
I've been meaning to post this for some time. S. Lee, a regular commenter here, commented a while back that in the late '50s his family lived near Longfellow Elementary School, which used to be at 6th & Peoria. When he was born, the family lived at 1012 E. 5th...
Independence, Kansas, is FUN-FUL
One of my earliest blog entries was about a brief visit four years ago to Riverside Park in Independence, Kansas, on the way home from seeing my cousin graduate from Lawrence High School. Last Saturday, my uncle was celebrating his 50th birthday, so I drove myself and the toddler north,...
MSM financial woes may prematurely narrow '08 field
The compressed 2008 presidential primary schedule may not be the only thing that leads to an early conclusion to both parties' nomination processes. Mickey Kaus passes along an e-mail from an anonymous reader who writes that the mainstream media networks don't have the resources to cover two long battles involving...
It don't mean a thing
Why is it that so many Tulsa parks don't have swings? What good is a park without swings? Now this is what a city park should be. Swings, slides, and things that bounce and spin....
Flickr back to the Philippines
In 1983, after my sophomore year in college, I went on a summer missions project to the Philippines with Campus Crusade for Christ. I spent two months living in Quezon City and working alongside staffers at Far Eastern University in Manila, evangelizing students with the Four Spiritual Laws and helping...
Hurricane damage links
Just getting in on the tail end of Katrina Blog Relief Day: Here are some links that have helped me understand the extent of the damage caused in New Orleans and the central Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina. Referring to the city's distinct accent, New Orleans writer John Kennedy Toole...
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