Here in what becomes the United States. As a lifelong collector of the arts archives, an tlo pa logical items gilcrease was continually adding to the collection and by the early 1950s his collecting was on an upward trajectory. Unfortunately for him the price of oil was sinking, singing down to the point that eventually he was a little bit upside down. That he owed money and there was the real threat that he would have to sell part of his collection to cover the debts to pay off the debts. And in 1954 some forwardthinking tulsans understanding the collection put together a city wide bond issue to help pay the private debts through public funds. The only time im aware of where a Community Came together the help pay off private debt to save an institution they held very dear in the community. The bond issue wu put to a vote of the public. It was passed by over two thirds of tul sans wanting to help save this precious asset institution. And as a result over time, Thomas Gilcrease will giv
Here in what becomes the United States. As a lifelong collector of the arts archives, an tlo pa logical items gilcrease was continually adding to the collection and by the early 1950s his collecting was on an upward trajectory. Unfortunately for him the price of oil was sinking, singing down to the point that eventually he was a little bit upside down. That he owed money and there was the real threat that he would have to sell part of his collection to cover the debts to pay off the debts. And in 1954 some forwardthinking tulsans understanding the collection put together a city wide bond issue to help pay the private debts through public funds. The only time im aware of where a Community Came together the help pay off private debt to save an institution they held very dear in the community. The bond issue wu put to a vote of the public. It was passed by over two thirds of tul sans wanting to help save this precious asset institution. And as a result over time, Thomas Gilcrease will giv
York city history or to speak about yet another of his new books and his new publications. He is an exemplary historian and someone who has a long and deep history with new york city landmarks, having worked in his youth at the commission on the research staff, having been a consultant to them, having written many a designation report, having authored the first guidebook to new york city landmarks, and in the years now since he has been at columbia, heading the Historic Preservation program at the graduate school of architecture, planning, and preservation. He has been a friend and colleague of everyone who cares about the history of new york and the history of architecture. And indeed, tonight, were celebrating the history of architecture as part of american architecture because we are being filmed here for cspan American History channel. So im going to remind you that when we come to the questionandanswer period, youre going to use this phone in my hand in order to project your impor
Accomplishes made by you was is as grand. All weekend, American History tv is featuring the city of pulsar, a local business of tulsa. His proposal to build a highway from chicago to los angeles was approved in 1926. Posted posted by our caulks cable learn more about tulsa all weekend on American History tv. Tulsa, late 1800s, was a much more sleepy town then it was during the oil boom of the 1920s. With the discovery of oil around the early 1900s just north of here and later to our west tulsa, overnight was transformed from a sleepy, indian outpost with a sprinkling of settlers into overnight, what are your first two as little arabia. Many of them came from large American Cities philadelphia, chicago, new york. They were around the culture at the turn of the century that was all of those cities. Urban. Tulsa, unlike some of the other oil towns, is really influenced by the east and the midwest and particularly, the urban east and urban midwest because of the culture these oil men broug
Native oklahomans writings and songs. Woody guthrie i got started in oklahoma. That is where i was born. The population is one third indian, one third negro, and one third white people. I hit the road when i was 12 years old traveling and working odd jobs. That is where i picked up these songs. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters this land was made for you and me Woody Guthrie is most famous for his writing of this land is your land, but he was very much more than that. He was born in oklahoma. We are proud to have this work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs. He was an advocate or people who were disenfranchised, for people who were Migrant Workers during the dust bowl era who found themselves in california literally starving. He saw this vast difference between the house and havenots and became their serviceman through his music. The Woody Guthrie center was opened in april of 201