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notes on tulsa circa 1920s

Organizations

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  • Chamber of Commerce[1] (W.G. Skelly)
  • Junior League[2]


Aviation people

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  • Herman DeVry[1]
  • Leonard Bonnie [1]
  • Robert F.F. "Bob" Garland (big man of Garland Airport) [3]
  • Charles W. Short
    • manager, Tulsa Municipal Auirport [4]
    • documents are in the Tulsa Airport Authority collection at the Tulsa Air/Space Museum[4]
  • Duncan McIntyre: "Father of Tulsa Aviation"*
    • New Zealander [1]
    • WWI background. [2]
    • 'air force' (probably army air corp back then?)[2]
    • 1919: comes to tulsa[2]
    • friend of Bert Brookins[2]
    • took Junior league people on flights?[2]
    • starts McIntyre Airport (Admiral and Sheridan)[2]
  • Tulsa Airport Founders
    • 47 local business people [5]

Airports of the time

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First Airport: 1923 [6]

  • McIntyre Airport (1923) [6]
  • Brown Airport[4]
  • Commercial Airport[4]
  • 15th Street Airpark[4]
  • Cotton Field [4]
  • R.L. Jones Airport [4]
  • Tulsa Municipal Airport (1928)[4]
  • Garland Airport / Garland-Clevenger Airport / Tulsa Commercial Airport (1st location) / Mayo Airport / Brown Airport, Tulsa, OK (1929) [3]

Aircraft of the time

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Misc stuff

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  • 1944 US Army/Navy Directory of Airfields [3]
  • "The Tulsa Spirit" periodical[3]
  • old "Sectional Charts"[3]
  • old USGS topographic maps[3]
  • 1929 Rand-McNally "Standard Indexed Map with Air Trails of OK"[3]

Refs

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  1. ^ a b c d The Early Birds, tulsaairandspacemuseum, retr 2010 9 18
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Duncan McIntyre: "Father of Tulsa Aviation" , tulsagal.net, retr 2010 9 18 . She cites BFC/RCT/TCL/THS = Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa/Tulsa County Library/Tulsa Historical Society
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Eastern Oklahoma, by Paul Freeman. retr 2010 9 18
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Our History, tulsaairandspacemuseum.com, retr 2010 9 18
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference tap1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b [http://books.google.com/books?id=DFHsypA_nDIC Insiders' Guide to Tulsa ], Elaine Warner, p 10
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