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: Instructors at the Spartan School of<br />
Aeronautics trained thousands of pilots<br />
during World War II. <strong>Tulsa</strong>’s Harvey Young<br />
Airport served as a training center for the<br />
overflow. In this photograph, rookie pilots<br />
wait to take to the air.<br />
Middle: A skyline view of <strong>Tulsa</strong> in 1954<br />
with the DX Refinery in the foreground.<br />
Bottom, left: Pennington’s Drive-In at Fortysecond<br />
Place and South Peoria Avenue<br />
in 1955.<br />
Below: <strong>Tulsa</strong> always has been a baseball<br />
town. A. Ray Smith owned the <strong>Tulsa</strong> Oilers<br />
minor league team in the 1960s and 1970s.<br />
When he moved the Class AAA Oilers to<br />
New Orleans before the 1977 season, <strong>Tulsa</strong><br />
was faced with no professional baseball.<br />
Building contractor Bill Rollings obtained<br />
the Texas Rangers AA team from Lafayette,<br />
Louisiana, and <strong>Tulsa</strong> re-entered the Texas<br />
League. In a fan contest, “Drillers” was<br />
selected as a nickname.<br />
COURTESY OF THE TULSA DRILLERS.<br />
CHAPTER IV<br />
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