Our trip to Tulsa at the weekend was short and sweet. The city is in the north-eastern section of the state, a trip of some 3 to 4 hours from our home in the south-west, depending on route. We went mainly to see the American Idol concert at the BOK Center, but we did have time to also wander around the Jazz Hall of Fame, now housed in an old rail station building. This Tulsa Union Depot, an attractive old structure, was built from 1929-1931. It closed in 1967 and deteriorated until 1983 when it was restored and given fresh use. Inside the Hall of Fame they have preserved the general layout, most mouldings, and a display of large photographs showing how the place looked in its days as a working railway station - a very busy one too.
Tulsa can boast one of the largest displays of art deco architecture in the United states.
The BOK (Bank of Oklahoma) Tower is the tallest building, not only in Oklahoma, but “in any of the five ‘Plains States’: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, as well as the surrounding states of Missouri, Arkansas and New Mexico.” according to Wikipedia . Though I don't have a source, the BOK Tower is said to be a 52 floor scale replica of (one half of) the Twin Towers of the late World Trade Center. It was in fact designed by Minoru Yamasaki & Associates who also designed the Twin Towers.
There's an oddity in Tulsa known as "the Center of the Universe": a circle of tiles situated on a pedestrian overpass, leading across the railway lines in the downtown area. Stand on this circle and speak, or shout, and your voice reverberates into an echo, but it's only audible to you. Spooky! There are various theories as to why this phenomenon occurs. It must be something involving steel in the bridge structure I guess, and perhaps linked to the placement and size of the concrete decorations on the overpass.
There's a tall sculpture at one end of the overpass - it's called Artificial Cloud, by Robert Haozous. I'm standing on the Center of the Universe point in the photo above, with the sculpture and the BOK Tower behind me.
Photographs from our cameras.
Tulsa can boast one of the largest displays of art deco architecture in the United states.
The BOK (Bank of Oklahoma) Tower is the tallest building, not only in Oklahoma, but “in any of the five ‘Plains States’: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, as well as the surrounding states of Missouri, Arkansas and New Mexico.” according to Wikipedia . Though I don't have a source, the BOK Tower is said to be a 52 floor scale replica of (one half of) the Twin Towers of the late World Trade Center. It was in fact designed by Minoru Yamasaki & Associates who also designed the Twin Towers.
There's an oddity in Tulsa known as "the Center of the Universe": a circle of tiles situated on a pedestrian overpass, leading across the railway lines in the downtown area. Stand on this circle and speak, or shout, and your voice reverberates into an echo, but it's only audible to you. Spooky! There are various theories as to why this phenomenon occurs. It must be something involving steel in the bridge structure I guess, and perhaps linked to the placement and size of the concrete decorations on the overpass.
There's a tall sculpture at one end of the overpass - it's called Artificial Cloud, by Robert Haozous. I'm standing on the Center of the Universe point in the photo above, with the sculpture and the BOK Tower behind me.
Photographs from our cameras.
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Thanks for checking in on The Buddha Diaries' trip back east! Yes, it's well worth the effort. But this looks like a nice trip, too. Cheers to you...
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