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There is only one of them so I’m going have to call this one quarter-scale.
The ceilings must be really low.
This is actually really cool. I would check it out next time I'm out traveling. But I can't seem to find whether they're open to the public or do tours or not. No observatory or restaurant on the top floor either, that I can find.
Guess it's time to start "looking at office space" in the Tulsa area :P
Also, downtown Tulsa is super cool. Sweet Art Deco everywhere (we had oil money when the Depression was raging). Wasn't any nightlife when I was a teen, but it's lit now!
Worked there a bit in '98! It was sweet then, can't imagine how cool it is now.
It's open to the public, AFAIK, always was. Everything above the 3rd floor or so is just typical office space, though I'll bet there's some cool one's in there now.
Dude, hell yes, thank you for this! The place is definitely going on the list for my next road trip now. I usually run a big loop and I've been to Texas more than enough, so I've been looking for other things to check out on my way through the south western states.
Get out anywhere in downtown Tulsa, have a walk! One of the coolest metro areas I've seen. Sweet Art Deco buildings, Echo Point, Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Massacre site, lots to see and do. Lord only knows what they've added since, but downtown seems to get cooler every year.
I know the massacre site sounds depressing, but it's American history you need to experience. It was worse than merely depressing when I was a teen. No monuments, no bullshit, just a couple of acres of mown grass, concrete basement and sidewalk and street outlines. Nothing else. "Jesus. This was a thriving community?" Most eerie experience of my life puling up there in '89.
Anyway, don't miss Echo Point on the bridge! You can stand in an 18" concrete circle and hear your voice echo back at you. No one outside that circle hears it!
your username should be PleaseLetMeIn instead
There's an even smaller scale tower, also built by the same architect, and also using the same design as the WTC. It's in Madrid, Spain.
Oklahoma 🤮
I live here so don't hate on it so much.
I love Oklahoma. If it didn't suck so hard, Texas might fall into the Gulf of Mexico.
Kansas blows, and Oklahoma sucks! Classic saying.
We're sorry for your loss.
I live in Alabama (not from here) and I hate it every second of every day. I talk shit about it and it's "people" all the time. I've never been to OK but I'm pretty fucking far from OK, you know what I mean?
No offense to your state but my dad's going there to build an Rv park. He asked me to go, I said fuck no there no reason to go to Alabama. I been there it was near some college town and it was nice. Had a chance to marry a rich girl there, even that couldn't keep me in that state.
None taken. It's not my state and never will be. It's a third world tier shithole full of sociopathic MAGA morons. California is my home, I'm going back as soon as I get this xray tech school out of the way so I can afford to live there on my own. A few more years of misery then I'm free.
Oh I hate Alabama too and I live here. Hii neighbor, isn't Atlanta actually fun to visit and find stuff to do?
Atlanta is much more like actual civilization but it's still the south unfortunately.
I was born in Tulsa at hillcrest. I fucking hate Oklahoma and left it.
St. Francis here! I still think Tulsa is Oklahoma's crown jewel and the nicest place I've ever lived or visited.
Yeah Tulsa really isn’t the worst place in the world, I don’t love the state but I’m a little soft for Tulsa. There are a lot of good people in that city
Where you go? I won't out to but to where, and even if I did could we afford to live there?
I ended up in St. Louis. Missouri as a state isn’t super great and has a lot of the same people as Oklahoma but St. Louis is like a bastion in a sea of red and a really affordable place to live. Oklahoma is probably a bit cheaper but areas of St. Louis are surprisingly cheap and it’s not the dangerous hell hole it’s portrayed as. I live in an area similar urbanwise as like broken arrow or something and it’s just quiet and chill here all the time
Huh. I'm from McAlester and did the same. Oklahoma sucks donkey dick.
No love for the third building?
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