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#1 Austin55

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 03:05 AM

Tulsa was the first stop on a Fort Worth-St. Louis roadtrip my Dad and I took this summer. Spent the afternoon there, just walking around Downtown and Oral Roberts University. I think the entire few hours we were there, we same maybe 20 people. The streets are amazingly empty. Not even much road traffic. Maybe it was because it was a Tuesday at 5 P.M. and 102 degrees outside, but we were the only ones for the most part.
 
In comparison to Fort Worth, Tulsa's downtown overall has a few "prettier" buildings, the skyline and pre-50's buildings are just beautiful, I'm extremely jealous of them. There is an extreme amount of density, there are about 3 intersections that are really nice canyons of skyscrapers, and on the outside the skyline looks great. It isnt as spaced out as Fort Worth's. I don't think there is really a single whole block building. But beyond that, nothing. As you see, I think I took one picture that had other people walking. One! And one of those people is my Dad. There are no trees, interesting storefronts, or really nice plaza's or public gathering spaces. It has so much potential to be a really fantastic Downtown. 
 
Pelli is Awesome, the BOK Center is awesome. I'd love Pelli to do something on Fort Worth, but I hope not a stadium. Street level sucks the life out of the sidewalk.
 
Starting out, Oral Robert's University and the Cityplex Towers. A very interesting complex, and comparatively empty. Just sort off spouts out of the middle of some sprawl. Very interesting religious stuff going on here. 
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Cityplex by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Cityplex by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Cityplex by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Edges by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Cityplex by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Epcot by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Garden of Eden by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Angles by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Back towards downtown
Really beautiful buildings, it's clear they take historic preservation seriously. That said, It was still fairly empty, and I didn't see any restraunts, stores or theaters or anything that looked all that interesting.
 
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DSCN0069 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0053 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0052 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0049 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0048 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0045 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0044 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0038 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0037 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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BOK Center by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Tulsa Skyline by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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DSCN0028 by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Cutting Edge by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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City in a Park by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Memories by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Downtown by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Back in time by Micro55, on Flickr
 
This little row of three buildings is so amazing. Please, can we just move these to Fort Worth? I'd like that. Mid Continent is no doubt one of my favorite buildings.
 
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Care to share? by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Tulsa by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Standing Gaurd. by Micro55, on Flickr
 
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Up by Micro55, on Flickr
 
Hope everyone enjoyed :) I hope to go back one day if anything new develops! Good luck Tulsa, you have so much potential.


#2 ramjet

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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 John T Roberts

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:04 PM

I think there is another thread on Tulsa photographs here on the forum.

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.

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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.



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Posted 28 December 2012 - 10:10 PM

Cool photos, Austin!



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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:

 

18285424293_59cf3a9e69_z.jpgFirst Church of Christ Scientist by Dave Matthews, on Flickr

 

18874167836_7f9840852d_z.jpgBok Center by Dave Matthews, on Flickr

 

18277875894_de3b4bb8e7_z.jpgOld time religion by Dave Matthews, on Flickr

 

18712748728_014efa7df5_z.jpgLumped together by Dave Matthews, on Flickr

 

18712754988_67957c3e50_z.jpgPage Belcher Federal Building by Dave Matthews, on Flickr

 

18767796418_fb88a146f2_z.jpgWarehouse Market by Dave Matthews, on Flickr

 

18769257059_33277db955_z.jpgTales from the YMCA by Dave Matthews, on Flickr

 

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18769261709_679f501d53_z.jpgA tall tale by Dave Matthews, on Flickr

 

18942288951_5144fba5f2_z.jpgThe Blue Dome by Dave Matthews, on Flickr



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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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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.



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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!



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Posted 22 November 2022 - 10:19 PM

Center of Universe attraction (Tulsa) under consideration for $3.5M renovation.

https://downtowntuls...ntertheuniverse


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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

 

18767796418_fb88a146f2_z.jpgWarehouse 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. 


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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:

 

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Observe the "Public Market" ghost impression left over after the original was pried off some point after the Public Market closed.

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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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