Native American Statue in Tulsa

[Sooner51]

What are your thoughts about this?

[RacerX]

I wish it was in OKC.

[Eddie Money]

That's going to be awesome - I wish OKC had gotten it. Is gotten a word? Anyway, I think it will be really amazing.

[Jason White's Third Knee]

"...Oklahoma City doesn't have great people," Gray said.


What a bastard!

[saucysoonergal]

I am glad that OKC didn't get it...Tulsa does need it more.

[RacerX]

It would've been cool to see it from the I-40/I-35 interchange.

[DCSooner]

Somebody will just steal it, like they stole my families land.

[Jerk]

Man, OKC just can't compete with all of those superior folk up there in Green Country.

[SoonerInKCMO]

Somebody will just steal it, like they stole my families land.

Maybe they'll steal it and move it to OKC like was done with the capitol from Guthrie.

[OU4LIFE]

heh, he originally wanted it in OKC.

[yermom]

JWTK i read it that way at first as well

this is pretty big, actually, here is the height for the Statue of Liberty:

Height from base to torch 151' 1"
Foundation of pedestal to torch 305' 1"

compared to 176' and 220' for the thing in Tulsa

but who would travel to Tulsa just to see it?

[The Fake Don Dokken]

I think it looks like a giant statue of an Indian...I guess it works in Oklahoma. I was never so happy as to leave Tulsa last May...talk about a city with an identity crisis.

[Cam]

It will be open year-round and will draw visitors from around the world -- an estimated three to four million a year. If those visitors were to stay over in Tulsa one night, the estimated economic impact would be about 562 million dollars a year and would create an additional 95-hundred jobs.

Isn't this being a little over ambitious? Not that Tulsa's a bad place, but the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument are in cities that have a little bit more going for it than just those sites.

[RacerX]

heh, he originally wanted it in OKC.

Yep. In Bricktown. But the city was concerened that it wouldn't fit in with the overall plan. I was surprised to hear that they had a plan.

[The Fake Don Dokken]

That would have been boss...a giant Indian statue in the middle of OKC...I like it. Unique.

[Sooner51]

This is kinda bizarre.

It also has plasma screens.

Gray, who admits he doesn’t like windows, says the statue will be equipped with big screen televisions inside, so when tourists exit the elevators at the midway point of “The American,” they will see video of the outside vista—not the vista itself.

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[Czar Soonerov]

So it will be 396' from foundation to top?

[Mjcpr]

I was never so happy as to leave Tulsa last May...talk about a city with an identity crisis.

We were excited as well.

[Cam]

That would have been boss...a giant Indian statue in the middle of OKC...I like it. Unique.

Wichita's had one for years. Not as big, but pretty damn big.

[Mjcpr]

Wichita's had one for years. Not as big, but pretty damn big.

Yeah, but Wichita has lots of things other cities don't have. Like.....serial killers, for example