Blog search

Tulsa Near Northside design workshop

Tulsa's Near Northside neighborhood, whose rise and demise I documented in a 2014 story for This Land Press ("Steps to Nowhere"), is part of an area that will be the subject of the Unity Heritage Neighborhoods Design Workshop, next week, September 11-15, 2017, led by urban design students from...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 7, 2017 10:36 PM

Boston Beer Garden, 1937-1983

Found while looking for something else: In the Tulsa Library's growing digital archive, a December 22, 1983, Tulsa Tribune, story about the the Boston Beer Garden, destroyed by fire in the wee hours of December 21, 1983. The fire took the life of the bar's janitor and night watchman, Lennis...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 2, 2016 11:50 PM

Steps to Nowhere, in <em>This Land Press</em>

For the first time in a long time, I have an article in print. The May 15, 2014, edition of This Land Press includes my history of the lost neighborhood just north of downtown Tulsa. Criss-crossed by streets but now devoid of buildings, this neighborhood was established about 100...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 17, 2014 9:49 PM