#1
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:05 AM
#2
Posted 28 December 2012 - 12:03 PM
Thanks for posting these pictures. I've never been to Tulsa, but always wondered what it looked like. I think I've heard it's a comparatively wealthy city. The quality of the architecture seems to demonstrate that. Oral Roberts University reminds me a bit of Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York.
#3
Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:04 PM
I agree with you in that the downtown seemed rather dead when I was there. I will also agree with you in that there are several beautiful buildings that were built before 1950. Their downtown does have a lot of potential.
#4
Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:19 PM
The Cityplex buildings are quite odd. I spent a lot of time in Tulsa when I was growing up because I have cousins that live there. I went back 3 years ago for the first time since I was a teenager and we stayed in the Marriott right across the street from Cityplex and ORU. I remember seeing the buildings when I was younger, but on my last visit I really noticed how big and oddly placed they are. They were built as a hospital and med school for the university, but are now repurposed as office space. I remember hearing not long ago that less than half of the complex is occupied and only a few of the lower floors of the 30 story tower are still in use. My last trip was an overnight visit for a wedding, so I didn't have time to venture downtown.
#5
Posted 28 December 2012 - 10:10 PM
Cool photos, Austin!
#6
Posted 22 June 2015 - 08:00 AM
I went to Tulsa a couple of weeks ago. I only had about an hour there to take some photos:
First Church of Christ Scientist by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
Bok Center by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
Old time religion by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
Lumped together by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
Page Belcher Federal Building by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
Warehouse Market by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
Tales from the YMCA by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
Old and new by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
A tall tale by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
The Blue Dome by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
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#7
Posted 22 June 2015 - 10:32 PM
Looks like it still has the feel of a well maintained post apocalyptic city. Not much life to it. Has so much potential to.
I remember standing in the plaza of the BoK tower when there, the city offices are in a glass tower to the north. The tower uses a robotic window washed, like a giant spinning squeegee on ropes. It was the only thing moving. Was so odd.
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#8
Posted 23 June 2015 - 04:05 PM
I have clients there and I've always thought Tulsa was a much better city than it's neighbor to the southwest.
#9
Posted 23 June 2015 - 05:00 PM
Nice photos dangr.dave!
I'm surprised you didn't get a photo of the AT&T building which is a nice complement to our own!
#10
Posted 22 November 2022 - 10:19 PM
https://downtowntuls...ntertheuniverse
#11
Posted 10 January 2023 - 10:57 PM
I went to Tulsa a couple of weeks ago. I only had about an hour there to take some photos:
Federal Building by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
Warehouse Market by Dave Matthews, on Flickr
This Warehouse Market building was originally the Public Market building and a sister to the historic and soon to be redeveloped Public Market building in Fort Worth and the one in Oklahoma City. The Public Market endeavor went out of business in the early years of the Depression.
Warehouse Market was an early discount grocer that moved into the building in 1938 and remained there until the early 1970s. It still exists as a local discount grocery chain in conventional supermarket buildings. The advent of Walmart and the entrance of Winco into Tulsa makes me wonder to what degree they are able to still offer lower prices.
In the 1990s the property was redeveloped for a Home Depot and was at risk for demolition. What was worked out was for the back portion of the building to be demolished but for the really beautifully detailed art deco façade to be preserved with small retail stores being housed behind it.
#12
Posted 10 January 2023 - 11:15 PM
Here are a few photos of the Tulsa Public Market/Warehouse Market building I took back in around 2003 or 2004 that show some close up detail of just how nice Tulsa's sister to Fort Worth's Public Market building is:
Observe the "Public Market" ghost impression left over after the original was pried off some point after the Public Market closed.
#13
Posted 10 January 2023 - 11:59 PM
I think there is another thread on Tulsa photographs here on the forum.
I put up two threads in 2004 with lots of photos I took of downtown Tulsa.
That thread still exists on the forum. Unfortunately, the links to all of the photos are broken despite the fact that the photos are still online and where they have always been.
Blame Google for this. A couple or so years ago, Google's Chrome browser stopped supporting so called "mixed content" on secure websites. A secure website begins with https:// instead of http:// So a web page with "mixed content" is a website that has an https:// address but which contains image files, audio streams or a videos that are served over a non-secure http:// connection. Google will allow the https:// page to display - but any http content within it is now blocked by Chrome and other major browsers.
Google did this for good reason as criminals were using sites with mixed content for nefarious purposes. But the problem is that it ended up breaking a lot of existing content out on the web.
With regard to photos I have posted here over the years, I hosted them under a dismuke.net domain that I purchased but never really used. So I just used it to host images for online forums or for special content or files I uploaded for the benefit of specific individuals. I never bothered to upgrade that domain by getting an ssl certificate because I don't host any sort of website on it.
My web hosting service allows me to host an unlimited number of domains with my package. But it only allows me 4 "free" SSL certificates - which I need for other domains that I do have websites on. And the price they want to charge me for an extra SSL certificate is, in my opinion, absurd given that one can get a basic SSL certificate for free from Certbot. But I would need root access to the server to install it - which, of course, I don't have on a mere webhosting account.
What I am probably going to do is just get a super cheap, low-spec Linux cloud server, copy all my dismuke.net files to it, point the domain to the server, install Certbot and have the server automatically convert any old http link sent to it to https:// My HOPE is that the automatic conversion will be sufficient to make the old image files display once again. But, it is also possible that there is something with IP Bboard that will prevent that. If so, then I will need to manually go back and edit the links to all my old photos posted here changing the http:// link to https://. It is my intention to do all of the above - but it is a bit of a project and I am not sure when I will be able to do so. Meanwhile, I am, for now, using a different domain that I do have an SSL for to host my recently posted images.
I mention all of this as this is something that might very well have impacted others who have posted images here that no longer display because they linked to them using their own domains. That, of course, isn't the only reason why photos might no longer display. Always possible that they have been taken down or the person posting used some sort of image hosting service that no longer exists. I purposely used my own domain to host the image files verses a dedicated image hosting service to ensure their continued availability just in case such a service might go under or impose some sort of unacceptable price increase. I could not have anticipated that Google would have someday rendered the links useless.
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