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Roy Clark's House
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The versatile and well-known country music musician and performer lives here.

Rodney Carrington's House
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Rodney Carrington is a comedian and country singer.

George Kaiser's House
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George Kaiser is an American businessman. He is the Chairman of BOK Financial Corporation. He is among the top 100 richest people in the world and one of the top 50 American philanthropists.

Mark Allen’s House
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This is Mark Allen’s house in Tulsa Oklahoma. Mark Allen is the owner of Mark Allen Chevrolet dealership in Tulsa & Mark Allen Buick GMC dealership in Tulsa .
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Bill Lobeck and Kathy Taylor's house (former)
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William E. Lobeck Jr. is CEO of Vanguard Car Rental USA, parent company of National and Alamo. The company had 2007 revenue of $12.1 billion. He was president and CEO of Thrifty Rent-A-Car, and presided over that company’s IPO and sale to Chrysler. He also served as President and Chairman of Pentastar Transportation, the company Chrysler formed to acquire Snappy Car Rental, Dollar Rent A Car and General Rent A Car.
His wife is Kathy Taylor, an attorney who served as Mayor of Tulsa from 2006-2009. In January 2013, Taylor announced that she would run again for her old job as mayor of Tulsa in the 2013 election. They own this 21,802 sq ft mansion.
Sold in 2015 for $7million.

Roger Hardesty's house
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Floyd Roger Hardesty is the founder and Chairman of United States Aviation Company, a charter and aircraft management firm. He also owns and oversees Mid-Continent/Midco Concrete Companies, one of Oklahoma’s largest ready-mix concrete producers, and he is CEO of Alliance Transportation, a Tulsa-based trucking company.
He built his early success on commercial and multi-family real estate development and property management. At one time, his holdings spanned 16 states. He also co-founded and was a major shareholder in BizJet International Sales and Support, which was sold to Lufthansa Technik in 2000. He’s an airplane buff, having owned two F-5 fighter planes and a Gulfstream V. With an estimated net worth of $500 million, he was on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in the 1980's.

Jon Kantor's house
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Jonathan H. Kantor is an entrepreneur who has been most involved in the oil and gas industry. He has also had significant involvement with real estate in the Tulsa area.

Bryan Hendershot's house
Bryan W. Hendershot is the founder and former CEO of Urban Financial Group, the fourth-largest reverse mortgage lender in the country. In 2010, it was acquired by Knight Capital Group. Hendershot led the company for less than 2 years after that.
According to public records, the Hendershots purchased this house in July 2013 for $5,000,025.

John Nickel's House
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Nickel’s business interests include Greenleaf Nursery Company; the Far Niente Winery & Vineyards in Napa Valley; the Nickel & Nickel Winery & Vineyards in Napa Valley, California; Greenland Investments; the Caney Creek Ranch; the J-5 Ranch; and Caney Creek Quarter Horses.
In 1998, he was recognized as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year.

Robert Coretz's house
Robert K. Coretz is the Chairman of Omni Air International, a large air charter and wet lease company.

Scott Pruitt's House
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Scott Pruitt a lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma owns this home. He is Donald Trump's nominee for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and is a climate change denier. He served as the fourteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from February 17, 2017, to July 6, 2018. He was nominated for the EPA position by President Donald Trump and was confirmed by the United States Senate to lead the EPA in a 52–46 vote. Despite being the EPA head, Pruitt rejects the scientific consensus that human-caused carbon dioxide emissions are a primary contributor to climate change.
By July 2018, Pruitt was under at least 14 separate federal investigations by the Government Accountability Office, the EPA inspector general, the White House Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, and two House committees over a long list of offenses, such as his spending habits, conflicts of interest, extreme secrecy, and management practices. Pruitt is alleged to have made frequent use of first-class travel as well as frequent charter and military flights. Pruitt has drawn great concerns for his questionable ethics as demonstrated by his circumvention of the White House and adding a narrow provision of the Safe Drinking Water Act to autonomously give raises to his two closest aides of approximately $28,000 and $57,000 each. These were comparatively both substantially higher than salaries paid to those in similar positions within the Obama administration. By June 2018, amid a steady succession of revelations of misconduct, conservatives had begun to suggest that Pruitt should resign. Finally, on July 5, 2018, Pruitt announced his resignation from office on July 6. Andrew R. Wheeler then became the acting head of the agency.
Scott Pruit’s Net Worth was unlisted, but is estimated to be quite low. In a recent listing by Forbes, Pruitt had allegedly less than $1, and was reported to be among those with investment assets too low to be included in the listing.

Joe Craft's House
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The coal billionaire lives here. Forbes estimates his family's net worth at $1.4 billion.

George Kravis' house
George R. Kravis II is communications entrepreneur who in 1962 became one of the youngest individuals to own a jazz radio show and later went on to acquire several radio stations. He has since amassed one of the largest collections of industrial design pieces in the world.
His brother, Henry Kravis, is the billionaire co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. His net worth in 2013 was $4.5 billion.

Tim Kloehr's house
Tim E. Kloehr is a telecommunications entrepreneur who has been president and CEO of EasyTEL, which produces complex phone systems, and owner of TAASC, a company that develops and sells software for use by tax and accounting professionals. He owns this 19,801 sq ft home.

David Chernicky's House
David Chernicky is an oil entrepreneur.

Robert Lorton's house (former)
Robert Lorton Jr. is the former chairman of World Publishing, which publishes Tulsa World, the second-most widely circulated newspaper in Oklahoma, after The Oklahoman. He sold the long family-owned paper to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in 2013.

Charles Stephenson's House
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Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. is a petroleum industry executive and philanthropist. He was born in Antlers, Oklahoma, the son of a successful grocer.

Bill Bartmann House
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Bill Bartmann, founder and Ex CEO of Commercial Financial Services lives here. Until recently, one of the largest fraud based failures of a business in history. Bartmann was worth over $1 Billion at the time. Originally, the entire gated and walled estate was his, but the courts seized it and now it's an upscale subdivision. They even took his tennis court and putting green for the residents' use.

Tulsa Speedway
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This 3/8 mile dirt oval track operated from 1985-2005. It was created to replace a track located at what is now the Fair Meadows horse racing track at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. Several classes of cars raced here, including sprint cars, stock cars, and modifieds.
The track was owned and operated by many different individuals, and as time went on, the facility fell into a state of disrepair.

Wayman Tisdale's house (former)
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Wayman Lawrence Tisdale who died on May 15, 2009 was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association and a smooth jazz bass guitarist and a member of the Oklahoma Tourism Board.
He won a gold medal as a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team

J.Paul Getty's Bunker
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The oilman, J. Paul Getty, built this bomb shelter and bunker when he headed the Spartan Aircraft Company during World War II. The concrete basement walls are reportedly 18 inches thick.

Lynn Schusterman's House
Schusterman is the billionaire widow of Oklahoma wildcatter Charles Schusterman, who built Samson Resources from nothing. In November 2011 the Schustermans decided to sell most of Samson to a KKR-led group for $7.2 billion. Forbes currently ranks Schusterman as the 113th richest person in America, with a net worth of $3.5 billion.

Joe & Kelly Craft's House
Joe Craft is president and chief executive officer of Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., the third-largest coal producer in the eastern United States. Kelly Craft is an American diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

'Forest Hills House' by Gene Starr
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1959

Tulsa State Fairgrounds
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Center of the Universe
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The Center of the Universe is a phenomenon located on the old Main Street bridge over the rail line. If you stand in the center of the brick circle, you hear the echo of your voice. If you stand on the opposite side of the bridge circle from someone else, you hear their echo, but not your own.

Larry Lee's house
Larry E. Lee is the founder of RAM Energy. The company sold to Petrohawk Energy in 2012 for $550 million.

Oral Roberts University
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Joseph Cappy's house
Joseph E. Cappy is the former Chairman and CEO of Dollar Thrify Automotive. Previously, he was President and CEO of American Motors. After AMC's acquisition by Chrysler, he became a VP where he headed up International Operations. He was also involved with the divestiture of six non-core operations. He was successful in selling four of the six companies. Chrysler was unable to sell Dollar and Thrifty individually, so Mr. Cappy took the two public in late 1997.

Peter Meinig's house (former)
Peter C. Meinig is Chairman and CEO of HM International, a privately held management/holding company of various manufacturing and service businesses.
Sold in 2015 for $4.2M.

James Fleckenstein's House
James Fleckenstein is a neuroradiologist.

Steve Largent's house
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The former NFL wide receiver, 7x pro bowler, Hall of Fame inductee, and former Republican politician, lives here.
Largent purchased this house in 2014 for $585,000

BOK Tower
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BOK Tower, formerly One Williams Center, is a skyscraper in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. At 203 m (667 ft) in height, the 52-story tower is the tallest building 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. It was built in 1975 and designed by Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, the same architect who designed the World Trade Center in New York. This structure is very similar to the WTC towers in appearance and construction. BOK Tower's lobby has marble walls and wall hangings which have a noted similarity to the decor in the former WTC.

Ed Taylor's House
Ed Taylor is cable distributor. Off of a $1 investment in 1976, Taylor and Ted Turner made millions following Taylors distribution of Turner’s WTBS in Atlanta to cable systems via satellite.

Air Force Plant 3
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Mark Redman's House
Mark Redman is a retired pitcher in the MLB.

BOK Center
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James E. Wilburn's House
James E. Wilburn is Founder, President and Director of Winnercomm, Inc.

Philbrook Museum of Art
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The Philbrook Museum houses exhibitions from around the world, including one of the finest permanent collections of Renaissance and Baroque art and sculpture in the United States. It features work from such masters as Piero di Cosimo, Biagio d'Antonio da Firenze, Tanzio da Varallo, and Bernardo Strozzi. The Philbrook also features 19th Century European artists, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, American artists Thomas Moran, William Merritt Chase, and Levi Wells Prentice. The museum is widely recognized for its outstanding Native American and African art collection.

Stan Johnson's house
Stan L. Johnson is CEO of Stan Johnson Company, a firm that focuses on single-tenant, net lease transactions in real estate.

ONEOK Field
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Home of Tulsa Roughnecks FC and the Tulsa Drillers

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: The Starkweather family
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Season 7, episode 21. Aired 05/09/2010.
http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/article.asp?article=4391

Robert Bates' House
Robert Bates is an Oklahoma reserve sheriff's deputy and insurance executive who, on 2 April 2015, shot and killed a suspect. Bates claimed he thought he grabbed his taser, but instead grabbed his service pistol, and killed suspect, Eric Harris. Bates has been charged with manslaughter in the death.

'Wallace House' by Frank Wallace
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Port City Raceway
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Micro midgets and mini sprints race on this 1/8 mile high-banked clay oval track.

Jim Bridenstine's House
Jim Bridenstine served as United States Representative for Oklahoma's 1st Congressional district.
He is the incoming NASA administrator, nominated by Donald Trump. The former U.S. Navy pilot has no background or education in science and is a climate change denier.

Edward Lawson's House
Edward C. Lawson, Jr. is an oilman, philanthropist, American Impressionist art collector, and politician who has entertained George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Margaret Thatcher, Ambassador Claire Booth Luce and other luminaries in the historic Tulsa home he shares with his wife of nearly 50 years.

Southern Hills Country Club
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Southern Hills Country Club is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

World's Largest Bottle of Hair Tonic
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U.S. Naturals is a producer of diet/health mineral supplements mined from the Rockland Mine in Emery, UT. The Liquid Life bottle is fabricated from a steel tank or vat.

Woodward Park
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Woodward Park (34 acres) is a public park, botanical garden, and arboretum. The park contains a number of specialty gardens, including those featuring spring flowers, tropical plants and cacti, the Tulsa Rose Garden, the Tulsa Garden Center, and the Tulsa Arboretum. The park is particularly known for its azaleas, as well as tulips, irises, dogwoods, and redbuds. The Rose Garden (established 1935) features over 9,000 roses of over 250 varieties.

University of Tulsa

John Zink Flare Pad Test Facility
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Richard Lloyd Jones House by Frank Lloyd Wright
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'Negative Tree' by Menashe Kadishman
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at the Philbrook Museum of Art

Golden Driller
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From "Roadside Americana":
"Originally erected for the International Petroleum Exposition, the Golden Driller claims the title of the world's largest free-standing statue - 76 feet tall and 43,000 pounds. The big guy was refurbished and relocated to its current home at the Tulsa Exposition Center in 1996, where it has since survived tornados, art critics and even the occasional shotgun blast."

World's Largest Bottle of Hair Tonic
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Giant Globe
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Built for the 1957 International Petroleum Exposition, it measures at 30 feet in diameter, and was at one time the largest rotating globe in the world. Bell's Amusement Park bought it in the late 50's and have since displayed it at their park at the Tulsa State Fairgrounds.
The amusement park closed in 2007 after being evicted by the fair board.

Fighters on Display
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At Tulsa Air National Guard Base - F-86D Sabre, F-100D Super Sabre, A-7D Corsair II, F-16 Fighting Falcon

'Scherbatskoy Residence' by Robert Buchner
1958

Two Hawker Hunters at Tulsa International
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The one without a tail is F.6A XK149,being restored to flying condition by Aero Group, Inc of Tulsa. The one with the tail is Hunter T.8M XL603 and is a very rare T.8M Sea Harrier training variant.
A photo of it can be seen at:

'Windswept' By Dale Lamphere
2007

University Club Tower
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The University Club Tower is a residential high-rise building in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The building rises 377 feet (115 m). It contains 32 floors, and was completed in 1966. The University Club Tower currently stands as the 8th-tallest building in the city, and the 14th-tallest building in the state of Oklahoma. It also currently stands as the tallest all-residential building in Tulsa and Oklahoma. The circular building, marked by unusual floorplans surrounding its central core, also holds the distinction of being the first major building in the United States to be designed using a computer.
In June 2011, resident Joshua Hilberling fell through a 25th-floor window of the building to his death. His wife, Amber Hilberling, was charged with causing his death by pushing him through the window. She maintained that the building's windows were made of insufficiently strong glass, and she filed a suit against the building for the allegedly unsafe construction of the windows. In March 2013, a Tulsa jury found her guilty of second-degree murder.

'Kansas Landmark (Drum Piece)' by Dale Eldred
at the Philbrook Museum of Art

'Calyx Dome' by Laurie Spencer and Daniel Cajamarca
behind Holland Hall School
A beehive-like dome made of horizontal clay rows

Rose Bowl Event Center
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"The Rose Bowl Event Center located on historic Route 66 in Tulsa, Ok is open and ready for your next event. This iconic building stood its first forty five years as a Bowling Mecca, bringing people from all of the country to Tulsa for Bowling Events. The bowling lanes are gone. People now come to enjoy our unique venue for concerts, private parties, receptions, banquets, birthday parties, corporate events, trade shows and any other event that can be held in our 32,000 square foot venue. Our facility’s two and one half domed sections with 35’ ceilings offer a Grand Ballroom atmosphere. The history of “Get your kicks on Route 66” lives on at the Rose Bowl. You can feel the connection to “Main Street America” in our venue. We are a privately owned facility and our motto is “It’s Your Party, Have It Your Way”. Please consider the Rose Bowl for your next event. Everyone is Welcome!"

Booker T. Washington High School
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Drillers Stadium
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Home field to the Tulsa Drillers

Tulsa Air and Space Museum

Tulsa International (TUL)

Mabee Center
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Mabee Center is an 11,300-seat multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of Oral Roberts University, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
An adjacent building, smaller but similar in shape, is known as "Baby Mabee" and houses a television production studio.
Mabee Center opened in 1972 and has hosted the NAIA national men's basketball championship (1994-1998), five NCAA men's first-round or regional tournaments (1974, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1985)[3] and the Midwestern City Conference (now Horizon League) men's basketball conference tournaments (1982, 1985).
It is home to the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles men's and women's basketball teams. It was Eastern Oklahoma's largest arena until the BOK Center was built.

Oral Roberts' Windowless Building (Abundant Life Building)
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Built in 1957 but since the early 1980's it has been sitting completely vacant.

U-Haul truck on a rooftop
This truck revolves above a U-Haul storage building.

Clover Interchange - US Route 65 and SR66

'Three-Up' by Clement Meadmore

Giant praying hands
Sixty-foot, thiry-ton bronze Praying Hands at the main enterance to Oral Roberts University.

Oral Roberts Prayer Tower

Fighters on Display
At Tulsa Air National Guard Base - F-86D Sabre, F-100D Super Sabre, A-7D Corsair II, F-16 Fighting Falcon

'Pilot's Memorial' by David von Schlegell
at the Tulsa Airport

Boston Avenue Methodist Church

Hank's Hamburgers
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Hank's Hamburgers has been a Tulsa landmark since 1949.

Holy Family Cathedral
Cathedral of the Holy Family in Tulsa is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It is the motherchurch of the Diocese of Tulsa and is the seat of the prelate bishop. It is located in the city of Tulsa in the state of Oklahoma.
The Cathedral is also the site of the Holy Family Cathedral School, an educational institution for students from pre-school to eighth grade.

'Talisman' by Oded Halahmy

'Patti Adams Shriner House' by Bruce Goff
aka Piano Studio, Spotlight Theater, Spotlight Studio

Greenwood Cultural Center

Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum

Skelly Stadium

Camelot Parkside Hotel
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Little Pink House
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'Way House' by Bruce Goff
1922 - altered

Landlocked Lighthouse

Sonic Drive-In

Circle Cinema
"Circle is everything an independent theater ought to be: Clean, comfortable, historically conscious (classic movie posters decorate the lobby, and an old projector is displayed in the front window), and dedicated to presenting the kind of artsy, edgy films that typically don’t sell enough tickets to interest the corporate-owned multiplexes."

'Latham House' by Bruce Goff

Gilcrease Museum
Gilcrease Museum is a museum located northwest of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. The museum now houses the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of art of the American West as well as a growing collection of art and artifacts from Central and South America. The museum is named for Thomas Gilcrease, an oil man and avid art collector.

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Calvery Cemetery

'Jones House' by Robert Lawton Jones
Mies protege

Gunboat North Park
Gunboat North Park, Gunboat South Park and the land between the two, bordered by S. Elgin Ave on the west and S. Frankfort Ave on the east, kind of looks like the outline of a mighty ship of war . . . and I guess that's why someone decided to name these tiny twin quarter acre parks with these names.

Thompson Building
The Thompson Building is a historic high-rise building in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The building rises 215 feet (66 m) in downtown Tulsa It contains 15 floors, and was completed in 1923. The First National Bank Building currently stands as the 17th-tallest building in the city, and the 36th-tallest building in the state of Oklahoma. The architect who designed the building was Arthur M. Atkinson.
The Thompson Building was originally constructed as a 10-story low-rise commercial building in 1923. Five additional floors were built in 1929, six years after the completion of the original structure, bringing the high-rise to its present height. The building was constructed in the Beaux Arts architectural style, and is the 2nd-tallest Beaux Arts high-rise in Tulsa, after the Mayo Hotel.