Leon Russell Road.........

[Rico]

Blue Dome area picked for 'Leon Russell Road'


By SARAH HART Assistant Scene Editor
Published: 4/20/2010  3:13 PM
Last Modified: 4/20/2010  4:53 PM

The first step in the process to get a downtown Tulsa street renamed for Oklahoma music legend Leon Russell has been set into a motion.

Mark Brown of Tulsa's Public Works installation of street lights division says an area has been roped off for placement of street signs honoring Russell.

"Leon Russell Road" will be on Second Street from Detroit to Elgin avenues, in the Blue Dome District.

Now that the city has approved the signs, several designs will be drawn up.

"It will probably be blue signs with some sort of a white legend," said Brown.

Tulsan Charles Roden submitted the proposal to the city of Tulsa for the honorary signs.

Brown says the process will have to be streamlined to accommodate all the requests being made to get streets renamed in honor of famous Tulsans.

"We've got people who made huge contributions, not just to Tulsans, but to mankind," he said.

Tulsa currently has honorary signs for the GAP Band (Greenwood and Pine) and Bob Wills (Main Street). The Russell sign will be different from these, Brown says.

"We took a picture of the GAP Band sign and we want it to look different from that," he said. The GAP Band sign is dark green with white lettering, while the Wills sign is white with red lettering. Several months ago, Leon Russell was hospitalized for a chronic condition. Afterward, a Facebook page was created to request a downtown street be named for the musician, whose career stretches back five decades. As of Tuesday afternoon, the group
had 2,827 members.

To see the page, see tulsaworld.com/leonstreet, but you must have a Facebook account.
By SARAH HART Assistant Scene Editor

Tulsa Time..

[fotd]

Bad choice...should be, Brady Street renamed. Brady was the guy who led the KKK into the race riot in 1921...or even 3rd street that runs by his old studio....oh well.

Of course, what would some geek in Public disworks know....they have hicktown in OKshitty....here? Carney Town.

Great album cover Danny!

[heironymouspasparagus]

Tate was a member of the "Sons of the Confederacy", not the klan.  Subtle (no) difference.
Kind of like the John Birch Society compared to the KKK.  With the leading candidate for governor, Randy Brogdon.

fotd,
You must realize how much of this there still is in this state.  I suspect we will elect Brogdon.


 

[Rico]

The story was regarding Leon and Downtown...

Jake
Take your knowledge of "some white folks" somewhere else please.



Story emailed to me by a friend some years back.

No Room For Fences

You may know that Jackie Robinson was one of the first African Americans to play major league baseball. In his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson faced hostility nearly everywhere he traveled because of his race. Pitchers threw fast balls at his head. Runners spiked him on the bases. Brutal epithets were written on cards and shouted by players in the opposing dugouts. Even the home crowds in Brooklyn saw him as an object of reproach.

During one game in Boston, the taunts and racial slurs seemed to reach a peak. To make matters worse, Robinson committed an error and stood at second base humiliated while fans hurled insults at him. Another Dodger, a Southern white man by the name of Pee Wee Reese, called timeout. He walked over to Robinson and, with the crowds looking on, put his arm around his friend's shoulder. The fans grew quiet. Robinson later said that arm around his shoulder saved his career. Jackie Robinson eventually went on to become one of baseball's all-time greats.

An arm around his shoulder made the difference. It said to the crowd and anyone who cared to notice, we are one.

Though we have made headway, race still divides us. As does religion and politics and ideologies. And, though we are learning better how to put our arms around people who are different, our global community is not yet unified.

It's been said, there is just enough room in the world for all the people in it, but there is no room for the fences which separate them.


Here is a link to a slideshow of the music in Norman this weekend...

Maybe that will help get this back to a story about a Tulsan and a Road named for him.
Bless him and his wife Mary for all they have given to Tulsa over the years.


Link http://vuvox.com/presentations/024b1767bf

rico

[Conan71]

Right on Rico, nevermind the name-dropping idiot.

[fotd]

The story was regarding Leon and Downtown...

Jake
Take your knowledge of "some old white folks" somewhere else please.




Link http://vuvox.com/presentations/024b1767bf

rico

Rico, are you mister bad example?

[carltonplace]

I agree with fotd that Leon's street should be in the Brady not the Blue Dome..but for different reasons. "If" the POP Museum gets built it will most likely be located in the Brady and either Archer or Brady should have the designation "Leon Russell Road".

[fotd]

I agree with fotd that Leon's street should be in the Brady not the Blue Dome..but for different reasons. "If" the POP Museum gets built it will most likely be located in the Brady and either Archer or Brady should have the designation "Leon Russell Road".

You know my logic by now....it's twisted but it's true!

[heironymouspasparagus]

Hey, here's an idea...if Tulsa wants to honor him, why not make it 2nd street out by Utica where he had his studio in the old church on the south side of the street?

Maybe that could inspire some effort to renew that area a little bit.

[SXSW]

Hey, here's an idea...if Tulsa wants to honor him, why not make it 2nd street out by Utica where he had his studio in the old church on the south side of the street?

Maybe that could inspire some effort to renew that area a little bit.

His studio was at 3rd & Trenton so renaming 3rd would make more sense.  Is it just an honorary name or actually a renaming of the numbered street to Leon Russell Rd? 

[heironymouspasparagus]

Who is Jake?


3rd and Trenton.
Saw that Swinney's Hardware is gone now.  Sad.

Whole area pretty raggedy-a**. 

[fotd]

Actually, the immediate area looks 100 times better than 10 years ago. That hardware space could be real potential with Tulsa's intelligentsia cinema right there and building more screens. This area was Tulsa's oldest suburban shopping center. Great schools near by including TU! 3rd street is improved as well. At 4th, yes. The center there could stand updating and re-tenanting.

And John Belushi is Jake.....

[heironymouspasparagus]

Ahhhhh....yesssss.....

Was too close to the forest to see the tree.