Lost Tulsa, Be warned, depressing thread.

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by inteller

you have the Pythian building listed as mcbirney....and it is still standing.

Actually I believe this is the Pythian building...


And yes, it is still standing, thought it has "lost" its main canopy.

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by breitee

Three corrections to be made. First, the Gallais Building is still at 4th and Boston. It was bought by Dr. Samuel Kennedy and had a duplicate addition on the Boston Avenue side. If you look over the entrance doors on the 4th Street side it still says "Gallais". Second, the Mc Birney Building also still exists at the corner of 3rd and Main Street. It was purchased in the sixties by Parker Drilling Company and had its ornamatation stripped off and replaced by square blocks at the cornice level. Third, the high school pictured was Tulsa High School which was located on Boston Avenue where the Atlas Life Building now sits. It was the forerunner of Central High School. If you look at a picture of Orcutt School you can see the differences in design. Also, yes you can barely see the Morningside Hospital building peeking out at you on Utica. If you go to the Alexander Burn Center at Hillcrest you can actually see the ornate terra cotta of Morningside close up. It is a shame that Hillcrest chose to deface this jewel. At least we still have some of these buildings to appreciate!

Thank you for "finding" the Gallais building lol. Like I mentioned in my initial post, I was worried that I may include a building that had  changed names. It is now called the Kennedy building, I do recognize that canopy now. I actually took a photo of it once.

Gallais building, now called the Kennedy building



As for the Mc Birney building, they must have also stripped off the ornamentation on the top of the building for I dont remember ever seeing anything that ornate on top of any building downtown. But I will go check it out soon. Will be thrilled if its there.

Yes that is the "Tulsa High School" I just left off the Tulsa on everything, its implied.

[PonderInc]

New PR slogan to attract visitors:

"I am...surface parking lots."

[booWorld]

quote:Originally posted by TheArtist

I hope I have not added any buildings to this list that actually exist lol.

McBirney Building

The decorative finials at the top of the McBirney Building have been removed and/or covered over, but the structure still exists at the southeast corner of Third and Main.

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Schools

Owens School is still standing near First and Maybelle, just west of downtown.

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Palace Clothiers

World Publishing owns this one and has spared it from destruction for the time being.  It's on the northwest corner of Fourth and Main.  Arby's has a number of historic photos displayed in their restaurant on the ground floor.

[pmcalk]

^I thought the Owen's school looked familiar--that's right off the IDL, correct (northwest side)?  Wasn't it recently in a BOA case for a Juvenile probation location?  The BOA turned it down, so I don't know what the building is used for right now.  Great building--anyone have some suggestion on how it could be used?  Besides a surface lot, I mean.

[TheArtist]

Wow, I would like to have that for a house.  Tulsa Now Headquarters perhaps? [] But I don't know, what would be a good idea for it that Tulsa could use? Too bad Tulsa Ballet has spent so much on the location they have now. This building looks just like what you would imagine a classic european ballet company and school as being in.

[booWorld]

Owen School looks like the old portion of Irving School at the northwest corner of Admiral and Maybelle.  On the existing building, the date over the door facing Admiral is 1909.  I think is the same Owen School shown in the old photo, but I'm not 100% certain.

[hello]

Thanks very much for the pictures. It is depressing to see how much has changed.

Wasn't there another thread about old Downtown pictures? I remember one had a picture with a lot of lights and downtown buildings (specific, I know). But I can't find the thread again.

[TheArtist]

Wish I could help you find it. I keep begging for a section where we can have photo threads. HINT HINT! []

Here are a couple of neat photos I have found while nosing around.  I would like to do a thread about interesting and historic thing in Tulsa that people can come back to and contribute to over time. Buuuut since we dont have an area specifically for photo threads..... it would probably get lost as well... SIGH[V]

It seems that most of my vision of the history of Tulsa was... it started with the Council Oak, there was that little main street with a few wooden buildings on it... then the oil boom happened in the 1920s and all those great skyscrapers and such were built. We know so much about that "Golden Age" of the oil boom years and what came before is pretty much a blank spot historically.  But the more I look around I discover that there was a really interesting, thriving and unique city here before the 1920s.
 
For instance, did you know that Tulsa once had an Arch de Triumph?


I think thats really neat. I had no idea such a thing had ever existed in Tulsa.

This is kind of neat. It made me laugh knowing that at least some things never change.  Its a photo of an early street paving crew.
Apparently its the same crew and equipment we got now.

Here is Tulsas first firewagon.

[AVERAGE JOE]

Dear TheArtist,

Although owned by the Tulsa World, the continued existance of the Palace Clothiers building at 4th & Main, now called the Excaliber Building, had escaped our attention until now. I want to thank you for bringing this oversight to our attention. Bulldozers will be dispatched first thing Wednesday morning.

Sincerely,

Bobby Lorton
Tulsa World

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by AVERAGE JOE

Dear TheArtist,

Although owned by the Tulsa World, the continued existance of the Palace Clothiers building at 4th & Main, now called the Excaliber Building, had escaped our attention until now. I want to thank you for bringing this oversight to our attention. Bulldozers will be dispatched first thing Wednesday morning.

Sincerely,

Bobby Lorton
Tulsa World

Niiiiice lol. But are you sure? I dont remember seeing anything downtown that looks like that? Look at the pic right underneath with the parade. That architecture, stonework, the large canopy... I don't remember seeing that?

[AVERAGE JOE]

quote:Originally posted by TheArtist

quote:Originally posted by AVERAGE JOE

Dear TheArtist,

Although owned by the Tulsa World, the continued existance of the Palace Clothiers building at 4th & Main, now called the Excaliber Building, had escaped our attention until now. I want to thank you for bringing this oversight to our attention. Bulldozers will be dispatched first thing Wednesday morning.

Sincerely,

Bobby Lorton
Tulsa World

Niiiiice lol. But are you sure? I dont remember seeing anything downtown that looks like that? Look at the pic right underneath with the parade. That architecture, stonework, the large canopy... I don't remember seeing that?

It's been altered over the years and the building itself painted, but it's still standing.

[TheArtist]

Perhaps I should have an "Altered/butchered beyond recognition" category. [B)]

[booWorld]

The Palace Clothiers building is easily recognized.  It's on the northwest corner of 4th and Main as I posted on this topic last July.

[hello]

Some nice photos of the Williams Center Forum.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezeiza/sets/72157603844917170/with/2240063455/