The other day I left downtown Tulsa after work and drove across the Arkansas River to do some geocaching and I caught this sunset with my Ipod. West Tulsa is on the wrong side of the river and the railroad tracks. I was at a park tucked just north of a cement plant, next to some Section 8 apartments and in between two refineries.
Yep, I felt pretty comfortable there. West Tulsa is what made Tulsa the Oil Capital of the World back in the day and it is still the “soul” of the city. Sure we have an opera and two world class museums and all sorts of other stuff. The money came from the oil wells, refineries, tank farms, power plants, railroad yards, trucking yards, and oilfield fabrication shops of west Tulsa: the wrong side of the river and the wrong side of the tracks and the most interesting part of town.