Yorktown Garage Sales

[waterboy]

We went to several of the garage sales in the organized event Saturday. Yorktown area is between 15th & 21st Lewis and Utica. Very pleasant. I would love to see this repeated a few times through the summer. We parked and walked around chatting with lots of different little mini-hoods within that area. Some of them are farther along in restoration than others, some have been gruesomely updated and some are just not going to last another 20 years. A great mixture. The people are just as varied, were friendly, and obviously love their front porches!

That's what struck me. I never noticed the porches before. Some of these streets are mere cut-through adventures for people going between 15th & 21st and I have been guilty of that too. Walking it showed me a completely different view of the homes and their issues. They are fighting indiscriminate infill and are at risk for lots of teardowns. Do yourself a favor, imbibe a little vino, take your mate or treasured friend and walk this area before it changes again.

[Double A]

I grew up in Yorktown. We are a diverse group of porch people tried and true. In Yorktown, we don't do pub crawls, we do porch crawls. We have been fighting indiscriminate infill for as long I as can remember. If it weren't for the fact that we overwhelming(in the high 90 percentile if I recall correctly) voted to adopt HP zoning to protect our neighborhood much of it would be gone today, like so many of Tulsa's other lost treasures.

[mac]

I love living in Yorktown. We are working our hardest to keep the integrity of our neighborhood intact.
We are pleased you like it Waterboy. Please come, enjoy and join us in keeping it from the hands of big box and big ego development projects that continue to threaten us.