HELP!!! TULSA or Oklahoma Cty???

[Bideshi]

I'll throw in my bias and say Tulsa. I lived there some time back and love the people. Nothing wrong with OKC either, but I need to show some loyalty to the home team.

FWIW:I saw the actor Gene Wilder many years ago in a pool/darts pub, playing some respectable pool against the local hot shots. He came in from time to time for several weeks and I finally asked him what he was doing hanging out in Tulsa, and he said " I like it; people are real here.".

[Goodpasture]

It's actually about 45 miles each way........I know, I live there

[Nameless]

Originally Posted by Howest2008

Wonder No More just move halfway (down or up) on the Turner
Turnpike..somewhere in the middle and COMMUTE THE 35 Miles
Into Suburban Oklahoma City Or Tulsa......

I've always wondered why Stroud hasn't grown at all over the years? It is only about a 45 minute drive to each downtown when there is normal traffic. I wouldn't want to do it but it's certainly possible to commute to either city if need be (say one of you works in OKC and the other in Tulsa).

[happytown]

Interesting article...Although it doesnt mention Core to Shore, New mass transit, Maps 3, Devon tower, etc. for OKC. It does give a great perspective from a Tulsans point of view...
A Tale of Two Cities - Tulsa and Oklahoma City have a great deal in common, but has competition helped or gotten in the way? - Cover Story - Cover Story - Urban Tulsa Weekly

The Tulsa-Oklahoma City rivalry is a source of almost limitless fascination to some, including Dr. Bob Blackburn, director of the state Historical Society.

"It's one of my favorite subjects," he said.

Blackburn has spent so much time pondering the nature of that conflict, in fact, that he created "Two Sides of One Coin: The Urban Histories of Oklahoma City and Tulsa," an exhibit dealing with the subject for display at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City in November 2005. Before that, he and the late Danney Goble--considered one of the state's pre-eminent historians before his death in 2007--spent decades kicking it around, trying to figure out how the rivalry got started and what kept it aflame.

"We got so frustrated over the course of 30 years by this urban rivalry," Blackburn said. "Our question was, 'What is the basis of this, and is there any reality to this besides the differences people have in their minds?' "

Ultimately, Blackburn said, he and Goble concluded the Tulsa-Oklahoma City rivalry was simply artificial, a product of the imagination more than anything else. And yet, to this day, the rivalry persists, though it seems to have gone through one of those periodic cycles in which the balance has shifted.

Tulsa, perhaps for the first time in decades, has been playing catch-up with its sister city down the Turner Turnpike. And that fact is hard to swallow for a number of its residents."

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by happytown

Interesting article...Although it doesnt mention Core to Shore, New mass transit, Maps 3, Devon tower, etc. for OKC. It does give a great perspective from a Tulsans point of view...
A Tale of Two Cities - Tulsa and Oklahoma City have a great deal in common, but has competition helped or gotten in the way? - Cover Story - Cover Story - Urban Tulsa Weekly

The Tulsa-Oklahoma City rivalry is a source of almost limitless fascination to some, including Dr. Bob Blackburn, director of the state Historical Society.

"It's one of my favorite subjects," he said.

Blackburn has spent so much time pondering the nature of that conflict, in fact, that he created "Two Sides of One Coin: The Urban Histories of Oklahoma City and Tulsa," an exhibit dealing with the subject for display at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City in November 2005. Before that, he and the late Danney Goble--considered one of the state's pre-eminent historians before his death in 2007--spent decades kicking it around, trying to figure out how the rivalry got started and what kept it aflame.

"We got so frustrated over the course of 30 years by this urban rivalry," Blackburn said. "Our question was, 'What is the basis of this, and is there any reality to this besides the differences people have in their minds?' "

Ultimately, Blackburn said, he and Goble concluded the Tulsa-Oklahoma City rivalry was simply artificial, a product of the imagination more than anything else. And yet, to this day, the rivalry persists, though it seems to have gone through one of those periodic cycles in which the balance has shifted.

Tulsa, perhaps for the first time in decades, has been playing catch-up with its sister city down the Turner Turnpike. And that fact is hard to swallow for a number of its residents."

Either City are great Up And Coming Cities , but TULSA made the
World Class Cities Honorable Mentioned List Before Oklahoma City DID
..........

GaWC - The World According to GaWC 2008

[AlphaRam]

Move to Stroud - I think it is midway between Tulsa and OKC.

[donald stanford]

Hello my name is Donald Stanford,Im trying to find out if I have any reletives in Oklahoma,My grandfather was raised their,He married Lilla Bea Chandler and before my father was born he moved to california,my grandfathers name was Albert Stanford and was born in the 1920's,my father passed away when I was 10 months old Im 44 now,But my family came from Oklahoma and I was looking for any one who might be related,Im trying to find out what nationalty I am,almost all my family in california that I knew has passed away or don't know anything,My grandfathers dad was Ike Stanford,If anyone could help me,Please contact me at [email]dstanford60@yahoo.com[/email] thank you

[Bill236c]

I found a court case on page 123 of the Pacific Reporter Vol. 130 (from 1913) that mentions an Ike Stanford as a witness in a robbery case in Briartown, Oklahoma. Seems like about the right era.
The Pacific reporter - Google Books

[Jammie]

If you can't find him through the court records, try posting here~

//www.city-data.com/forum/people-search/

You wouldn't believe the lengths that some of those regulars go to in helping someone find their lost person.

[Bill236c]

Originally Posted by Jammie

If you can't find him through the court records, try posting here~

//www.city-data.com/forum/people-search/

That's good to know!