Was looking at a neat London poster and it was a design composed of words. The words evoked "London" it's identity and sense of place. Landmarks (London Bridge, Westminster,Trafalger Square, etc.) , sayings (Keep Calm and Carry On, Mind the Gap, etc) , people, things (Double Decker Bus, Tardis, etc.) , food (Tea, Fish & Chips, Bangers and Mash), mythical people even (Sherlock Holmes) History, etc.
I thought, what a neat idea. What are some things that evoke the same for Tulsa/Tulsa County?
Blue Dome Brady Arts Outsiders Scissortail
Buffalo Cherokee CreekIndians Wind Tornadoes CrowCreek
ArkansasRiver Osage WhittierSquare UticaSquare KeystoneDam LakeYahola
Oil TU ORU Blue Whale GoldenDriller Aviation
Council Oak May Rooms Philbrook Gilcrease
Owen Park Maple Ridge Brady Heights Art Deco Flappers Oil Barons
Philips Philcade Philtower IPE Route 66
Oil Capitol Green Country TulsaBallet WoodyGuthrie SpotlightTheater CainsBallroom BobWills LeonRussel TulsaSound TheGAP-Band
Boston Avenue Church Bells Camelot TulsaTime AdmiralTwin Hanson SE Hinton
PattyPage Woodland Hills Michael Wallis PaulHarvey TulsaOilers TulsaDrillers OilWells
BlackGold Indians Prairie Wind GarthBrooks
DECOPOLIS (I can add that cause it's my idea lol) IDA-Red DwellingSpaces BruceGoff PrayerTower PrayingHands BOKCenter CenterOfTheUniverse
UnionDepot AdamsHotel ChristTheKing Greenwood Brookside CherryStreet Channel6 Channel2 Channel8 Channel11PBS UnionHigh
BookerT-High MohawkPark LaFortune RoseGarden TurkeyMountain Quakenado BooHaHa MissJackson's MissDeHaven's LostCity
KendalWhittier Mid-ConBuilding Perryman McBirneyMansion PythianBuilding SandSprings SkellyMansion SophianPlaza StandpipeHill TulsaGardenCenter Vandevers
GardnersBooks AdamsHotel AHHA PrettyBoyFloyd MaBarker Trula PonyBoy TulsaWorld OralRoberts Halliburton Git-n-Go
QuickTrip Williams Spartan Penningtons DesertHillsMotel Tally'sCafe ThePearl CircleCinema MayoHotel MeadowGoldSign
WillRogersHigh RoseBowl JPaulGetty SkellyOil
JJCale RoyClark LeonRussel DwightTwilley JohnHopeFranklin WoodwardPark SwanLake
Westhope SkellyMansion DonWoods GailardSartain TonyRandall MaryKayPlace
JosephRKoberling CharlesPage JenniferJones
IndianTerritory BrookTheater BOK Bungalows
GrandMansions Getty OwenPark BruceGoff AdaRobinson AmbassadorHotel TrinityEpiscopal
AtlasLifeBuilding ARCO-Towercade JPaulGetty
FirstPresbyterian TurkeyMountain LookoutMountain UnionDepot Glenpool Bixby SandSprings Sperry Skiatook Owasso Collinsville BrokenArrow WillRogers LivinOnTulsaTime TakeMeBackToTulsa DaltonGang GreatRaftRace Stormgasm TulsaTough CrybabyHill
Additions, deletions?
Great list! I would add a few food-related items: coneys, Brownies, Weber's.
Yeah, how could you leave off Coney I-Lander?
Good points. I have decided to split things up into several "posters" Visiting Tulsa (Golden Driller, Philbrook, Center of the Universe, BOK, Tulsa Zoo,) , Deco Tulsa (Boston Ave Methodist, Philcade, etc.) , Places of Tulsa (Brookside, The Pearl,) People of Tulsa (Paul Harvey, SE Hinton, Waite Phillips etc.), Holy Tulsa, Lost Tulsa, and Notorious Tulsa (May Rooms, Hangin Tree, Ma Barker).
Kind of like this... https://www.kingandmcgaw.com/prints/transport-for-london/london-transport-bus-blind-422190#422190::media:0
and this http://www.amazon.com/Stupell-Home-London-Cities-Plaque/dp/B006GXWZTO/?keywords=london+wall+art&qid=1382834181&ref=sr_1_6&ie=UTF8&sr=8-6
Then later do some where they form images out of the words. When I first started I thought I might not have enough of each thing, but have been quite surprised at how many interesting, people, sights, areas, etc. we have.
Home Depot, Olive Garden, Staples, Lowes, Petsmart, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Sam's, McDonald's, Dollar General, Pei Wei, Starbucks, Subway, Cheese Cake Factory, Old Navy, Applebee's, Panda Express, Dick's Sporting Goods, Bed Bath & Beyond, Hobby Lobby, Toys R Us, Outback Steakhouse, Chuck E Cheese, Taco Bell, Taco Bueno, Dave & Busters, Target, Office Depot, Burger King, Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Sprouts, Pizza Hut, Arby's, Schlotsky's, Red Lobster, Sonic, Stein Mart, Kohls, Chick-fil-A, Chilis...
Oh, sorry, I drove to Dallas a few weeks ago, and was struck by how many places have the same old crap everywhere.
Tulsa really needs to re-focus on who we are, and not focus on "checking off boxes" of national chains. We cannot compete with any other cities if all we do is build the same crap the same ways as everyone else. We can't let our growth be driven by out of state developers with standard issue templates and their own agendas. Topeka can do that. We need to find our heart and go with that.
Artist, you're on the right track!