{"id":136,"date":"2014-01-28T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:38:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:38:51","slug":"a-tour-of-downtown-tulsa-cold-freezing-weather-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"A Tour of Downtown Tulsa, Cold Freezing Weather Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the old Cities Service Company<\/a> headquarters here in Tulsa. Remember Cities Service? At one time they were one of the largest oil companies in the world. Well, an outmoded cost structure and Boone Pickens took care of that so they ended up being part of Occidental Petroleum. Oxy as they are called is completely out of Tulsa now. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"#coldfront<\/a><\/p>\n

I went for a walk today, taking pics. On real cold days like this not too many office workers are out and about. It’s construction guys and homeless guys and gals. I don’t know about you but I get really tired getting asked for spare change. I got hit up just before I took this pic. Tulsa has the most polite panhandlers I’ve ever encountered. My heart goes out to them but not my cash. Sorry if you think less of me. I mean I don’t go out at noon because I have a lot of cash and don’t know what to do about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Librarium\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I used to walk to the downtown library every day when I didn’t have anything else going on. They closed the main library under the guise of renovating the building. Of course they don’t have the money to renovate yet so I guess that… well I don’t have any idea what the plan is. So they have opened a temporary satellite library on the edge of downtown in an old Safeway grocery store. It is all flash and dash with nice tables and chairs and a technology center and a few books. The books are displayed like they would be in a book store. A small bookstore at that, with not much of a selection. Still they have free wi-fi so I can play Words with Friends and check out Instagram and all that other stuff that the gas company doesn’t pay me to do on their time and bandwidth.<\/span>

<\/span>It is kind of a rough crowd at the Librarium. At the Central Library the security was relatively non obstrusive and you had actual families in the building. Not very many families at the Librarium but you get one or two security guards. I’m supportive on the library system but I am not happy with the Librarium. I wouldn’t take my family there.<\/span>

<\/span>What do you do at lunch? Do you feel comfortable in your local library?<\/span> <\/p>\n

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