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Fantastic Tulsa Films

Fantastic Tulsa Films Volume 2
Airing December 3, 2007

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Fantastic Tulsa Films

Watch a preview of Fantastic Tulsa Films - Volume 2. The latest show in the Tulsa History Series


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home movies of Bells Amusement Park in the 1950s
teenagers groove on Dance Party
downtown when it was a busy place
East Central High School opens
Lee and Lionel on KOTV
rare films of Oklahoma State Football in the 1920s
Utica Square shopping center shortly after it opened

What's in Fantastic Tulsa Films - Volume 2

  • OSU football games from 1920s when it was Oklahoma A & M
  • Crystal City Amusement Park
  • Utica Square as it looked in the 1950s
  • Bell's amusement Park 1950s and 60s
  • former TV shows and personalities including KOTV's "Dance Party, KTUL's Mister Zing & Tuffy, KTUL anchors Jack Morris, Betty Boyd, Don Woods. KOTV's Lee Woodward and Bill Pitcock
  • demolition of Akdar Temple Mosque
  • construction of current City Hall in 1960s
  • footage of former City Hall at 4th & Cincinnati
  • 1921 Tulsa race riot footage
  • famous Tulsans from the past including former Tulsa Mayors Maxwell, Hewgley, LaFortune
  • famous Tulsa celebrities including baseball great Warren Spahn, song writer Ralph BlaineM
  • drag racing at the Southwest Raceway and Tulsa International
  • War Bonnet race track
  • rare films of Thomas Gilcrease
  • Tulsa Stockyards 1930s
  • KOTV news reporters Clayton Vaughn, Mike Miller, and Bob Brownn reporting on such things at the Skelly Mansion, the Fairgrounds Sky Ride, and Brewsters Toy Store
  • a glimpse at the car factory that produced replica Cords

bonus material on dvd:

  • a drive through Utica Square in the 1950s
  • actual KOTV news reports from the 1960s
  • a KTUL promotional film from the 1960s highlighting the stations anchors
  • some of Jack Franks Tulsa Memories stories from television
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