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Tulsa is getting a fancy new park that residents can feel smug about - The Lost Ogle

Tulsa is getting a fancy new park that residents can feel smug about - The Lost Ogle OKC blog rates OKC's new Scissortail Park uninspiring compared to Tulsa's The Gathering Place, but also shares a bit of childhood park nostalgia....

Posted by Michael Bates on January 15, 2020 8:44 PM

Oil Town "Aero Views" - American Oil & Gas Historical Society

Oil Town "Aero Views" - American Oil & Gas Historical Society 'Traveling from Pennsylvania to Texas at the turn of the century, Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler created oil town "aero views" - panoramic maps of many of America's earliest petroleum communities.... 'From...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 6, 2018 3:45 PM

Panoramic Maps | Library of Congress

Panoramic Maps | Library of Congress Bird's-eye-view maps, panoramic maps, and other semi-geographic, semi-artistic representations of American cities in the early decades of the 20th century. Includes the 1918 Fowler and Kelly maps of Tulsa and Bartlesville....

Posted by Michael Bates on January 6, 2018 5:25 PM

The Martin Gardner Interview | FifteenEightyFour | Cambridge University Press

The Martin Gardner Interview | FifteenEightyFour | Cambridge University Press On his 90th birthday, in 2005, Don Albers interviewed the legendary Tulsa-born-and-raised polymath....

Posted by Michael Bates on August 22, 2016 2:31 PM

We got it all on UHF: An oral history of "Weird Al" Yankovic's cult classic · Oral History · The A.V. Club

We got it all on UHF: An oral history of "Weird Al" Yankovic's cult classic · Oral History · The A.V. Club The story of the one and only Weird Al movie, filmed in Tulsa in 1988 and released in...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 24, 2015 11:09 AM

Yogi's Den: Our World - HDR Photography the Easy and Inexpensive Way

Yogi's Den: Our World - HDR Photography the Easy and Inexpensive Way Using a Canon point-and-shoot camera's bracketing function and a processing website to create beautiful High Dynamic Range photos of Philbrook Art Center...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 28, 2014 9:32 AM

27 Things You Need To Know About Tulsa Before You Move There - Movoto

27 Things You Need To Know About Tulsa Before You Move There - Movoto Mostly good stuff: Places to play like Tulsa's zoo and parks, places to eat like Brookside and the Blue Dome district, places to relax with friends...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 29, 2014 11:25 PM

Those Who Know | This Land Press

Those Who Know | This Land Press A fascinating profile of Mike Samara, owner of the Celebrity Club Restaurant at 31st and Yale in Tulsa, and you can learn about "liquor-by-the-wink" -- the hoops you had to jump through to...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 24, 2014 10:53 PM