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Looking Back
Star Power
Tulsa Historical Society & Museum 2445 S. Peoria Ave., Tulsa
All photos courtesy of Tulsa Historical Society & Museum
Tulsa’s Wilson brothers formed The Gap Band, named after three streets in their neighborhood: Greenwood, Archer, and Pine. From left are Robert, Charlie, and Ronnie Wilson in the cover shot from their 1983 album, “Gap Band V - Jammin’.”
The Liberty Theater, located at 402 S. Main, took over a space that was previously occupied by the Majestic. In this 1919 image, the lobby is decorated like a newspaper office for the film “The Fourth Estate.” “The Outsiders” was filmed in Tulsa in 1982. Actors Tom Cruise (left) and Emilio Estevez are pictured in the foreground with Patrick Swayze standing behind Estevez.
Well-dressed men and women stand outside the Tulsa Theater (then Brady Theater) downtown as a KOTV Channel 6 News truck covers an unknown event, circa 1955.
This Month in History
SEPTEMBER 1, 1985: Titanic
Wreck Found
Seventy-three years after the RMS Titanic sank to the North Atlantic Ocean floor, the wreck was located. Efforts to recover the ship began immediately after it sank, but technical limitations and the sea’s vastness made it difficult. After an unsuccessful expedition in 1977, former Naval officer Robert D. Ballard successfully used Argo, an experimental, unmanned submersible. It spotted the Titanic‘s massive boiler at about 13,000 feet, and the body of the ship was discovered the next day.
SEPTEMBER 4, 1957: Arkansas
Troops Block “Little Rock Nine”
Arkansas governor Orval Faubus attempted to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. Armed Arkansas militia troops surrounded the school while 400 whites booed and threatened to lynch the teenagers. This set the stage for the first major test of the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racial segregation in educational facilities is unconstitutional.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1981: Picasso’s
“Guernica” Returns to Spain
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s anti-war mural “Guernica” was received by Spain more than 40 years after it was painted, and eight years after Picasso’s death. Inspired by the destruction of the town of Guernica by the Nazi air force during the Spanish Civil War, the artist loaned the painting to New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1939. Picasso decreed that it not return to Spain until democratic liberties were restored in the country.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1971: Donny
Osmond Hits Number 1
Donny Osmond began his career in the 1960s as a dimpled, 5-year-old frontman of the family quintet, The Osmond Brothers. He is still a Vegas nightclub draw, an occasional star of touring Broadway musicals, and a host of television chat and game shows. For one golden period in the 1970s, he was a superstar. On September 11, at 13, Donny Osmond earned his first solo number one hit with “Go Away, Little Girl.”
SEPTEMBER 18, 1973: Jimmy
Carter Reports a UFO Sighting
Future President Jimmy Carter filed a report in 1973 with the International UFO Bureau, claiming he had seen a UFO in October 1969 while waiting outside a meeting in Leary, Georgia. He was forthcoming during his 1976 presidential campaign and called it “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen.” Ten or 12 other people described the object as “very bright [with] changing colors and about the size of the moon.”
SEPTEMBER 18, 1974: Doris
Day Wins Lawsuit
Actress Doris Day won a $22.8 million malpractice suit against her former lawyer. Day, one of the biggest stars of the 1950s and 1960s, had allowed her third husband, Martin Melcher, to handle her finances. After his death in 1968, she discovered her $20 million in life savings had disappeared, and she sued her lawyer for mismanagement. Day was unable to recover the full value of the award and settled for $6 million.
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Designed for novice and seasoned writers alike.
Presented by writers Nikki Hanna and Carol Johnson.
Tuesday, September 27 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Southminster Presbyterian Church 3500 S. Peoria, Tulsa
* Turn west on East 35th Place then right in a half block.
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