BOK Tower (originally One Williams Center) was constructed in 1976 for The Williams Companies Inc. a petroleum producer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Williams, the CEO at the time, liked the look of the recently completed World Trade Center so much that he hired the original architect to build essentially a half-scale version of WTC Tower 1.

The lobby even has marble walls and wall hanginga similar to the old World Trade Center.

  • Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

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    This is actually really cool. I would check it out next time I’m out traveling. But I can’t seem to find whether they’re open to the public or do tours or not. No observatory or restaurant on the top floor either, that I can find.

    Guess it’s time to start “looking at office space” in the Tulsa area :P

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Also, downtown Tulsa is super cool. Sweet Art Deco everywhere (we had oil money when the Depression was raging). Wasn’t any nightlife when I was a teen, but it’s lit now!

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Worked there a bit in '98! It was sweet then, can’t imagine how cool it is now.

      It’s open to the public, AFAIK, always was. Everything above the 3rd floor or so is just typical office space, though I’ll bet there’s some cool one’s in there now.

      • Trapped In America@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Dude, hell yes, thank you for this! The place is definitely going on the list for my next road trip now. I usually run a big loop and I’ve been to Texas more than enough, so I’ve been looking for other things to check out on my way through the south western states.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Get out anywhere in downtown Tulsa, have a walk! One of the coolest metro areas I’ve seen. Sweet Art Deco buildings, Echo Point, Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Massacre site, lots to see and do. Lord only knows what they’ve added since, but downtown seems to get cooler every year.

          I know the massacre site sounds depressing, but it’s American history you need to experience. It was worse than merely depressing when I was a teen. No monuments, no bullshit, just a couple of acres of mown grass, concrete basement and sidewalk and street outlines. Nothing else. “Jesus. This was a thriving community?” Most eerie experience of my life puling up there in '89.

          Anyway, don’t miss Echo Point on the bridge! You can stand in an 18" concrete circle and hear your voice echo back at you. No one outside that circle hears it!