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25 unusual facts about Tulsa, Oklahoma


1999 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1999 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Donald W. Reynolds Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the only time for now NAIA Tournament.

2013 Conference USA Football Championship Game

In the 2012 Championship Game Tulsa defeated the former member UCF (University of Central Florida) in overtime, 33-27 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Al Clauser

Henry Alfred Clauser was a guitarist, songwriter and engineer featured on radio shows in Des Moines, Iowa and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Clauser and his string band had a popular radio show in the mid-1930s on WHO in Des Moines, Iowa, where they were regulars until 1942, after which Clauser moved the band to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began a regular weekly program on KTUL Radio.

Alberto Rivera

According to cemetery records, Rivera is buried in Section Moore (28) L-14 #3 at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing A-10

The A-10 was produced by a number of companies, including Mitchell Aircraft Corporation and Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Porterville, California, MitchellWing Aircraft Company of Kansas, Tulsa Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Higher Planes of Dover, Kansas and lastly AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

Benjamin F. Rice

He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 19, 1905, and was buried Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

Charles Winchester Breedlove

He then went to Tulsa, Oklahoma, "to fulfill a theatrical engagement," and in March 1931 went to China but returned "after a few months abroad."

Colin Dawkins

Born on an Indian reservation near Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dawkins grew up in New York City, where he studied art with plans to become a portrait painter.

Corbin Billings

Corbin Billings (born July 27, 1988) grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, attending Jenks Public Schools.

Ed Klepfer

After baseball, Klepfer became an independent oil operator and then in 1946 went to work for C.W. Titus, an oilman in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

James Westphal

He came to Caltech initially on a four-month leave of absence from Sinclair Research Labs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but never left.

Jasper Alston Atkins

The firm, initially named Saddler, Atkins, & Wesley, operated offices in Muskogee and Tulsa.

KTZT

KTZT-CD, a television station (channel 29) licensed to serve Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Meish Goldish

Meish Goldish (born Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an author of fiction and nonfiction books and poetry.

Midland Valley Railroad

The Midland Valley Railroad was incorporated in 1903 for the purpose of building a line from Hoye, Arkansas, through Muskogee and Tulsa, Oklahoma to Wichita, Kansas.

Nimrod Kovacs

He started his new life as a dishwasher at a hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from where he was elevated to become a waiter.

Oklahoma Policy Institute

The Oklahoma Policy Institute (OK Policy) is a nonpartisan think tank located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In 2010, Blatt replaced Matt Guillory as Executive Director, and the organization's main office was moved from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Tulsa.

Riverview Church

They subsequently trained at Rhema Bible Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma under Pastor Kenneth E. Hagin, and started the Inner City Faith Fellowship at Holmes Hall in Belmont, a suburb of Perth, on 9 December 1979.

Robert Donaldson

He worked to raise the university's profile through international conferences in Tulsa and exchange programs, particularly with institutions in Russia.

Shelter Records

The company established offices in both Los Angeles and Tulsa, Russell's home town, where the label sought to promote a "workshop atmosphere" with a recording studio in a converted church, adjoining houses for artists working at the studio, and other facilities.

Stephen Cortright

Following the end of the Vietnam War, Cortright returned to Oklahoma and became the operations officers with the 125th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Black Wall Street Records

The name "The Black Wall Street" is adopted from what was the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Thomas Rutherford Brett

He was an Assistant county attorney of Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1957 to 1958, and was then in private practice in Tulsa until 1979.


1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic

The 1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at The Greens Country Club in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour.

66ers

Tulsa 66ers, a NBA Development League franchise based in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Aero Commander

Three men funded the company's early efforts: Philadelphia attorney George Pew and Oklahoma City brothers William and Rufus Travis Amis.

Alfred G. Hansen

He initially enlisted in the Air Force and later was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the aviation cadet program, receiving his pilot wings in February 1955 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Anadarko Independent School District

The Anadarko Independent School District is a school district based in Anadarko, Oklahoma United States.

Bare Bones International Film Festival

The Bare Bones International Film Festival was founded in 1999 by the Darkwood Film Arts Institute (DFAI) in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma to showcase independent motion picture projects with budgets of less than 1 million dollars (hence Bare Bones).

Bizzell

William Bizzell (1876–1944), fifth president of the University of Oklahoma and president of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas

Blue-eyed Darner

The Blue-eyed Darner is a common dragonfly of the western United States commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma.

Chuck Cissel

He was the CEO of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame from 2000–2009 and is now the Artistic Director of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, which is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Conrad Ludlow

He also danced at San Francisco Ballet and founded and directed Ballet Oklahoma (now Oklahoma City Ballet).

Craig Groeschel

He is married with six children and lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, where LifeChurch.tv is based.

Edward Buehler Delk

Among his most famous works were Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture buildings in the 1920s for Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols and Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips.

Encyclo-Media

Encyclo-Media seeks to provide high quality professional development by encouraging Oklahoma educators to share their best classroom practices to peers, and by inviting nationally known speakers such as Jim Trelease, Richard Peck, Alan November, Patricia Polacco, Doug Johnson, Stephen Krashen, Sharon Draper, Linda Sue Park, and more.

Éric Cyr

Cyr graduated from Edouard Montpetit High School in Montreal and attended Seminole State College in Oklahoma.

Five Moons

She and her husband Miguel Terekhov founded the Oklahoma City Civic Ballet, now known as Oklahoma City Ballet.

Forgan

Forgan, Oklahoma, a town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States

Fort Stockton, Texas

Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Richardson, Fort Davis, Fort Bliss, McKavett, Clark, Fort McIntosh, Fort Inge and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Fred's Frozen Foods

As of 2002, both brands are operated by Windsor Quality Food Company, LTD, which is ultimately owned by the Hojel and Meinig families through their holding company HM International based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Glen Johnson

Glen D. Johnson, Jr. (born 1954), Chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education

Green Currin

Currin participated in the Land Run of 1889 and served as the grand master of an African American Masonic Order in Oklahoma.

Gregory Perino

His fascination with the past and his innate ability to locate and meticulously excavate prehistoric cemeteries and burial mounds soon led him into a career as a self-taught professional archaeologist, first with the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma; then with the Foundation for Illinois Archeology in Kampsville, Illinois; and finally with the Museum of the Red River in Idabel, Oklahoma.

Heinrich Karl Beyrich

In September 1834, while on an expedition through North America, he became ill and died at Fort Gibson, located in the present-day state of Oklahoma.

Heritage College

Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas

Iselin Alme

Among the productions she has taken part in are Godspell, A Chorus Line, Cats and Oklahoma, as well as Ionesco's La Leçon at Riksteatret.

Jim Hightower

After managing the presidential campaign of former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976, he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer.

Johnson T. Crawford

Johnson Tal Crawford was a district judge in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States.

Jones, Oklahoma

Aldrich named the town after his friend and business associate, Charles G. "Gristmill" Jones who was a three-time mayor of Oklahoma City.

Karen White

White was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and during her childhood lived in numerous states and also in Venezula and London, England, where she graduated from The American School in London.

KMYT-TV

Both stations share studios on Memorial Drive and East 27th Street South (near Interstate 44) in the southeast section of Tulsa, and its transmitter located between East 93rd Street South and the Muskogee Turnpike in southeastern Tulsa County (near Broken Arrow).

KRMG

KRMG-FM, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Sand Springs, Oklahoma, United States

KVOO

KFAQ, a radio station (1170 AM) licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, which used the call sign KVOO until May 2002

KWHW

KWHW-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to serve Altus, Oklahoma, United States

Manhattan Construction Company

Manhattan Construction built the Manhattan Building, Oklahoma State Capitol Dome, Reliant Stadium, the George Bush Presidential Library, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, the Cato Institute headquarters, the Prayer Tower at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States Capitol Visitor Center, and many more.

Margie Wright

In March 2000, she broke Judi Garman's mark as the all-time winningest softball coach with caeer victory No. 914, a 1-0 win over Oklahoma.

Mary Odilia Berger

The congregation, through SSM Health Care, today operates in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence

In the Oklahoma City area, the General Motors Oklahoma City Assembly sustained major damage as well as a manufacturing plant near Interstate 240 where F4 damage was observed.

Mick Cornett

Also in 2010, he was named runner-up of the World Mayor prize, and also the recipient of the World Mayor Project's 2010 World Mayor Commendation, in recognition of the economic and civic progress of Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma Girl

Oklahoma Girl is the twenty-first album, a double-disc 40-track retrospective of Reba McEntire's early years on Mercury Records.

Purcell, Oklahoma

The bridge, among the longest in Oklahoma, is named for James C. Nance, a newspaper publisher and legislative leader in Oklahoma and U.S. Uniform Law Commissioner.

Robin J. Cauthron

Ralph Gordon Thompson, of the United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma from 1977 to 1981.

Steven Taylor

Steven W. Taylor (born 1949), American politician, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest is a soundtrack by The Flaming Lips to the Bradley Beesley fishing documentary Okie Noodling, featuring three country-tinged songs not found elsewhere, two of which are instrumentals.

Thom Cox

During the summers, he and his wife, the stage manager Chris Freeburg, work at the Weston Playhouse Theatre in Vermont, where he has appeared in productions ranging from Chicago, Oklahoma!, and Urinetown, to Tartuffe, Blithe Spirit, and most recently Peter Pan.

Toby Morris

An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1960 to the 87th Congress, Morris served as judge for the Oklahoma State Industrial Court from July 1, 1961, to July 17, 1963.

Tulsa Shock

Tulsa Pro Hoops LLC, composed of Bill Cameron and David Box (majority owners), and Chris Christian, Pat Chernicky, Sam and Rita Combs, Pat and Don Hardin, Paula Marshall, Stuart and Linda Price, and Katie and Scott Schofield (2010–present)

Tulsa Time

Reba McEntire recorded "Tulsa Time", which was originally going to feature in her 1995 album Starting Over but it did not make it to her album.

United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 2008

Another fallback for Obama was that U.S. Representative Dan Boren, the only Democrat from Oklahoma's five-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, refused to endorse Obama.