Historic Tulsa
An illustrated history of the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, paired with the histories of companies, families and organizations that make the region great.
An illustrated history of the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, paired with the histories of companies, families and organizations that make the region great.
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Top: <strong>Tulsa</strong> County citizens were proud of<br />
the area’s natural beauty, but added to the<br />
beauty with the construction of a rose<br />
garden at <strong>Tulsa</strong>’s Woodward Park.<br />
Middle: The wading pool at Central Park<br />
in <strong>Tulsa</strong>.<br />
Bottom: The Bama Pie Company began<br />
business in 1937 in <strong>Tulsa</strong> under the tutelage<br />
of Paul Marshall who inherited the idea<br />
from his mother who had sold homemade<br />
pies in Dallas a decade earlier. This is a<br />
photograph of Bama employees outside the<br />
company plant at Eleventh Street and<br />
Delaware Avenue in 1943.<br />
Below: Evangelist Oral Roberts made <strong>Tulsa</strong><br />
his headquarters as he became America’s<br />
most famous television preacher. Roberts<br />
established Oral Roberts University in 1964.<br />
COURTESY OF ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY.<br />
HISTORIC TULSA<br />
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