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Dec 24, 2020
Dec 24, 2020
53 years ago, lights shaped like Christmas trees hung from the âspiral cascadesâ in the intersections. The 19-story First National Bank and Trust Co., 15 E. Fifth St., was outlined with gold lights that came on at the same time as DTUâs.
In 1967, the lights appeared on the Friday after Thanksgiving, a day when downtown normally would have been deserted. But Tulsans hopped in their cars to drive down Main Street and Boulder and Boston avenues from Third to Seventh streets to enjoy the spectacle.
The downtown merchants were trying to up their game due to serious competition from Southland Shopping Center, which opened in 1965, and Southroads Mall, which opened in 1967. The two new malls were turning the 41st Street and Yale Avenue corridor into Tulsaâs most popular shopping area.
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The city’s halal carts, hot dog vendors, and coffee stands dependent on a steady stream of office workers and tourists in areas like Midtown have seen their business dry up during the pandemic and are struggling to survive. But the city’s brick and mortar restaurants and businesses, who view the vendors as competition, have also taken a major blow. And in the social distancing era, competition for street space is fiercer than ever.
Sharon Escobar couldnât recognize her father.
His face was so badly decomposed that she and her mother were eventually able to identify him only because of a scar on his leg.
Ms. Escobar had paid a funeral home in Brooklyn to tend to the remains of her father, Elisha Magosha, after he died in mid-April from complications of Covid-19.
Two weeks later she learned that his body had been disintegrating alongside more than a dozen others inside two U-Haul trucks parked in front of the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home, a small building squeezed between a sex shop and a dollar store.