Some good photos and perspective

[swake]

I found this thread of Tulsa Photos, the photos are really good and then it's enlightening to read the comments from people around the country.

The photographer has to be from Tulsa, he goes by BG918, but I'm not sure if he is a forum member here.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=122217

[TheArtist]

Very nice tour.

[Rico]

Just stumbled across it over on Skyscraper City eh Swake...?[}:)]


Rare Find... nice very nice.

[YoungTulsan]

Very good photo collection indeed.

I LOL'd when I saw someone comment about how dead it looked downtown while the whole time I was looking at the pics I was suprised at how much activity there was

The poster of the pics thought the same thing (that it was a busy day for DT)

Another funny comment on that page is the guy who visited in 1982 and said we had a decent amount of activity

Yeah, it was pretty much downhill from 1982, hehe

[AMP]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6-9UnpxPE8&mode=related&search=

This is a different prespective of Downtown Tulsa.  Someone should post this on that other forum.

[TheArtist]

That was a pretty good shot of the finale.  Looked through some of the other videos with Tulsa tags and there were a couple with the center of the universe.  I always wondered if you could record what you hear when you are there?  Apparently not.  Spooooky.[]

[AMP]

Have a friend that is a sound engineer and he has devices and software that records in 3 dimensional sounds.  Playback is erie as you hear not only left and right but up down in front and behind you.  

His recording methods would pick up and recreate the 3-D sound produced at the Center of the Universe.

I am sure he has some recording from there in his archives, will check it out.

[Renaissance]

That's an outstanding set of pictures.  I sent the link to some college friends who have never visited to show them my hometown was quite a bit more than a wide spot on the road.

[Rowdy]

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

[perspicuity85]

Reading some of the posts from the skyscraper forum really exposes why Tulsa needs to invest a great deal of time marketing itself.  I doubt more than 50% of people in the northeast have ever heard of Tulsa.  I have even met educated people from Little Rock, AR, who thought Tulsa had less than 100,000 people.

[AMP]

What is the population of the City Limits of Tulsa?  Anyone have that stat?

Not Tulsa County, the City Limits of Tulsa.  

Not counting, Bixby, Broken Arrow, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, Collinsville, New Tulsa, Sperry, Turley and other surrounding towns.

[perspicuity85]

quote:Originally posted by AMP

What is the population of the City Limits of Tulsa?  Anyone have that stat?

Not Tulsa County, the City Limits of Tulsa.  

Not counting, Bixby, Broken Arrow, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, Collinsville, New Tulsa, Sperry, Turley and other surrounding towns.

393,000 in the 2000 census.  I believe the 2005 estimate was 382,000.  The metro area increased in population, but the population within the city limits decreased.

[rwarn17588]

Little-known fact: St. Louis city limits (344,000) has a lower population than Tulsa city limits.

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=ChangeGeoContext&geo_id=05000US29510&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=St.+Louis%2C+MO&_cityTown=St.+Louis%2C+MO&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&_submenuId=population_0&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry=