What Were They Thinking?

[TheArtist]

Hope I dont sound too whiney, but occasionally one just runs into things that are so obviously, glaringly...well... stupid.  Now these may be just small things but they are things that with only a modicum of effort and thought would have made a difference.  And what makes these things all the more irritating to me is that they were done by people who should have known better, who are paid by the citizens of Tulsa to know better.  
 
  As I have started going around Tulsa taking photos, just as I would any city or tourist place I visit.  I have noticed a distinct lack of care for where things are placed in this town.  

  If one cares at all about how the city you live in looks.  If you want to make a city a destination or attraction like other cities that are.  You must care about things like, well the first word that comes to mind is "vistas" or views of things.  Especially when the things concerned are attractions or of a historic nature.  

 For example:  You dont stick a tacky looking light pole in front of a historic baux arts building.



 I mean whose brilliant idea was that?  This thing is only inches from the canopy of this building.  Its now impossible to get a good photo of it.  And it simply looks bad regardless.  Would it have been so difficult to have put it a bit to either side of the canopy?  If you had done something like that to a building in a tourist or destination city anywhere from Santa Fe to Paris, someone would have been shot for it. Perhaps we dont really want to be a destination or have our historic buildings be part of the attraction of our city?  BTW I hope nobody seriously thought those planters were going to be an improvement.[]

 Here is another example.  I hadnt really checked out the renovations and new landscaping around the Fairgrounds Pavilion so went to take a peek today.  The very first thing I thought was, "Oh, it looks nice, but, why would they plant those trees so close to the building? In a few years they are going to completely hide all the architecture."  Were they just not thinking?  Whats the deal?  I really like the idea of having trees around the fairgrounds and even that building, but not so close and not that many.  I mean they are going to eventually completely hide everything but the entrances.

 

Get your photos now, because sooner or later nobody is going to be able to even see most of this art-deco treasure.  Future art-deco tour in Tulsa...."And just behind those rows of trees you can aaaalmost see..."

 There are dozens of examples like this where someone simply wasnt paying attention, thinking things through, or I guess didnt even care.