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Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Kenosha on July 26, 2007, 09:02:14 am to save one and only one building in Tulsa from destruction.
Which one would you choose? Me? The Ritz Theater. Although the Brown-Dunkin Building tied for a close second with the Cimmaron Ballroom. Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: breitee on July 26, 2007, 01:48:42 pm The Akdar Shrine Temple, aka The Cimmaron Ballroom.
Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Wingnut on July 27, 2007, 11:20:49 am Either the Will Rogers movie theater or the Will Rogers Motor Court that used to be down at 11th & Joplin.
Sorry, I did 2, but either one would be fine with me. They were both near where I grew up and I used to ride my bike down aroumnd them all the time. What great places. The motor court is just vacant land now. Just more lost Tulsa. Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Breadburner on July 27, 2007, 12:16:57 pm The Coliseum......
Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Conan71 on July 27, 2007, 12:43:34 pm quote: What, were you going to be there an hour or two before the fire with a fire company? Actually that was my thought as well, but I figured he meant wrecking ball. [;)] Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Breadburner on July 27, 2007, 01:25:35 pm Exactly...He did say save....heh.....
Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: aoxamaxoa on July 27, 2007, 01:44:51 pm Orpheum Theatre....
Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Conan71 on July 27, 2007, 02:51:11 pm AOX!!!
Where you been hiding? Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: iplaw on July 27, 2007, 02:55:11 pm In the shed with Timmy H...
Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Hometown on July 27, 2007, 03:55:45 pm I remember a particularly beautiful white brick library branch near TU. Didn’t it have a slender cupola and thin white columns? I think it was one of Tulsa’s original libraries.
So many buildings for this list that are all very deserving. How about a moratorium on demolition north of 51st Street? Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Steve on July 27, 2007, 04:35:22 pm quote: I second that. Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: pfox on July 28, 2007, 12:10:03 pm Anything that doesn't qualify as an act of god should count.
I think the coliseum was struck by lightning. I'd be tempted to save the Carnegie library downtown. Or the Alvin Hotel. Or the Medical Arts Building. Or Pennington's Drive In. Nope. I know what I'd save...those building that used to occupy what is now Arvest Bank and the parking lot directly south of the bank on Main Street between 5th and 6th Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: sauerkraut on July 28, 2007, 02:59:28 pm I would save the stand pipe hill thing, from Tulsa circa 1910.... That was really something. It's very sad they distroyed it.[:(]
Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: waterboy on July 28, 2007, 04:45:24 pm quote: The Second Street library just east of Lewis right near Tulsa's first suburban shopping center, Whittier Square. Spent many hours in that air conditioned beauty with the squeaky linoleum floors. Designed to blend in the neighborhood, it was a colonial design I think. Red brick and white columns. Good call. My choice? Hard to pick. Josh Cosden mansion maybe or the Orpheum. Close call with the Paris Art Theatre, Tulsa's first dirty movie house. Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: Steve on July 29, 2007, 10:11:57 am quote: I haven't thought of that one in years! I also recall the Studio Art Theater, I think it was in the section of buildings at 6th & Main that were demolished by Arvest for the parking lot. I remember seeing the ads for the Paris Art and Studio Art theaters in the Tulsa Tribune when I was a kid in the '60s. It all seemed so lurid and forbidden then! Actually, the movies they showed there probably would barely rate an "R" rating today. Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: booWorld on August 04, 2007, 09:59:54 pm Three years ago, some of us had hopes of saving the Skelly Building from destruction at the hands of World Publishing -- but to no avail. World Publishing demonstrated their power to all of Tulsa by trashing their art deco building for about 13 seldomly used parking spaces and an absolutely precious statue of a young Paul Williford (or a Williford wannabe). We were expecting 12 parking spaces, but I think World Publishing was able to provide 13 spaces. Lagniappe!
If I could turn the clock back about 10 years, I'd try to save the Cadillac Building from implosion. The memory of hearing those explosives inside my house several blocks away -- it rattles me a decade later. Tulsans continue to destroy their own historical buildings. Title: You have the ability to go back in time... Post by: waterboy on August 05, 2007, 09:02:41 am quote: And its our leading institutions that do it. Churches, Newspaper, TCC.... They now all have plenty of parking. Your Williford note is funny. The destruction of the old Cadillac building was not. I also miss the Ford and Chrysler dealer buildings. You just can't landscape a church or school parking lot enough to make up for their loss. |