It may not be a big city like New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta or Miami, but Tulsa has more community vibes. They call Reno, Nev. the “Biggest Little City in the World,” but I think Tulsa deserves that honor. The main roads run perpendicular north and south and east and west so it’s easy to find a place if you get turned around.
But aside from what you see in Tulsa King, which has only been filmed in Tulsa for establishing shots, there’s a strange vibe if you find yourself in the downtown area. The first time I went there was July 2002 on a Monday late afternoon. Just about everyone had gone home from work or the nearby Tulsa Community College campus. There was a weird apocalyptic vibe as the streets were almost deserted.
I observed a young man, probably not much younger than I, sitting on his gym bag outside the desolate Greyhound bus terminal. I don’t know if it was a stray kitten or one he had with him, but it looks ragged at he tried to feed it milk.
I took this photo from the Home Depot parking lot at the intersection of South Elgin Avenue and East Eighth Street.
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