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Free Tulsa Music Festival - outdoor music event in Downtown Tulsa; Hound Dog Blues Festival - in west Tulsa's Chandler Park, in September; Jazz on Greenwood Festival; Juneteenth Blues and Jazz Festival; Reggaefest Green Country Eco-Expo & One Love Music Fest - July, at Jenks Riverwalk Crossing; Rocklahoma
SageNet Center, originally known as the Exposition Center from 1966 to 2007 and QuikTrip Center, until 2012, and River Spirit Expo from 2013 to 2021, is the center of the Tulsa State Fair and one of the largest clearspan buildings in the world.
The 1931 bond issue of $500,000 provided funds to construct the art deco-style Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion and make other necessary improvements, which led to the 1935 legislation that elevated the small local free fair to state fair status. [3] In 1949, the Tulsa State Fair merged with a spring livestock show to bring livestock events to the ...
Rated as the nation's best Oktoberfest, the Tulsa event has kicked off and runs through the weekend. Here's what to know.
Homes and businesses burned in Greenwood. The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [25] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [26] [27] massacre [28] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed ...
Following its closing, the 2007 Tulsa State Fair saw a 7% drop in attendance and a 29% hit on midway ticket sales. [12] Some vendors told the fair board that the board's decision not to renew the park's lease was the reason for the drop, and there were some reports that the loss accounted for some of it. [ 13 ]
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It was home to the Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team from 1947 until the opening of the Tulsa Convention Center in 1964, the Tulsa Oilers Central Hockey League team in the 1983–84 season [2] and the Tulsa 66ers, of the NBA Development League, until they moved to the SpiritBank Event Center in 2008.