Beautiful Scenes Tulsa OK in 1960s - Historic Film American City

See what TULSA OK looked like in the 1960s. Scenes from what events were happening in this American city around 1965. See everything from the BA Expressway, to downtown store Brown Dunkin, to a giant man arriving at Tulsa International Airport. Colorized and enhanced 16mm film using AI programs and photoshop.
You’ll notice in these films:
Broken Arrow Expressway opens to 31st and Yale Ave
World's Tallest Man arrives at Tulsa Airport, gets into Volkswagon
Tulsa County crews spray for mosquitoes in Union school district
Mansion House apartments open near downtown Tulsa, next to University Club
Downtown Street scenes including Orpheum Theater, Brown Dunkin Department store
University of Tulsa students celebrate football win over Arkansas
Civil Rights march
car crash involving Checker Cab
Groundbreaking for St. Francis Hospital at 61st and Yale with William Warren
Ceremony at newly opened Tulsa Assembly Center (now Cox Business Center)

[@Tulsa_Films]

What's your favorite part in this video? I liked the giant man and seeing downtown in the 60s

[@chuckf6163]

Reminds me of my childhood, brings back many Tulsa memories.

[@Tulsa_Films]

Thank you

[@jeremiahboolfrawg2274]

I was born and raised in Tulsa as a child of the 1960s. And I spent so much time downtown since I lived just over the bridge in West Tulsa and could walk over the bridge to downtown. That is what I liked seeing the best and love seeing the Rialto and those old movie theaters I spent so much time in. I loved seeing this video.

[@Tulsa_Films]

Thank you

[@OspreyFlyer]

My Mom loved Brown Dunkin department store! 😂

[@patrickwallace8186]

So many memories Thankyou.

[@michaeldethrow3873]

Another great film showing Tulsa's visual history. Thanks Jack for all you do.

[@Tulsa_Films]

Thank you

[@youtubeintrojob279]

Seeing the BA Expressway and 31st & Yale was so neat. I'd love to see more videos of Tulsa highways under construction. Thanks for these videos.

[@Tulsa_Films]

Our pleasure!

[@spnkysy791]

Thank you and more please of old Tulsa!

[@Tulsa_Films]

Thank you. We will keep posting

[@JPGdesigngroup]

Wish there was still a Walgreens downtown.

[@Tulsa_Films]

Me too. That building at 4th and Main is still there though

[@johnreitz5676]

Yet another great video! I wish I could have spent time in Tulsa back then. Question: What is (was?) the tall round building shown very briefly? Round buildings were kinda a fad back then.

[@Tulsa_Films]

That is the University Club Tower which is the round yellow building near Riverside and Denver Ave.

[@BattleBound]

I tool around all these places today driving for work. Wild to see it back in the day, I recognize every location. There's a strip club on that entrance to the BA Expy. now lol. Imagine their surprise back then.

[@Namdrac]

So glad Tulsa was able to grow past the centralized "Downtown" phase of the city. I wish we'd wake up again and stop trying to redevelop that obsolete wasteland.