How did you discover Tulsa Now?

[MichaelC]

With me, it was the Forum.  I was searching for info on things like "The American" and Vision 2025.  And it seemed like through several searches on several projects, I kept coming across this forum.   I didn't too much care for forums as a rule.  I'd never found one that was all that informative.  But this one had some info and discussion I wanted, so I stuck around.  Plus, it was over-run by OKC folks bashing Tulsa, figured it would be a crime if I didn't help take care of that.

Since that time, I've learned a lot of things that I wasn't aware of before.  I didn't know that preservation was a real issue.  I didn't care about zoning codes, and walkability.  I certainly didn't give a rip about our City Council.  I thought it was a natural step to put a double-decker highway down Riverside.  Seriously.

So I discovered Tulsa Now through the forum, and the experience has been one of learning.

[TUalum0982]

quote:Originally posted by MichaelC

With me, it was the Forum.  I was searching for info on things like "The American" and Vision 2025.  And it seemed like through several searches on several projects, I kept coming across this forum.   I didn't too much care for forums as a rule.  I'd never found one that was all that informative.  But this one had some info and discussion I wanted, so I stuck around.  Plus, it was over-run by OKC folks bashing Tulsa, figured it would be a crime if I didn't help take care of that.

Since that time, I've learned a lot of things that I wasn't aware of before.  I didn't know that preservation was a real issue.  I didn't care about zoning codes, and walkability.  I certainly didn't give a rip about our City Council.  I thought it was a natural step to put a double-decker highway down Riverside.  Seriously.

So I discovered Tulsa Now through the forum, and the experience has been one of learning.

the same.  I was searching for updated pics of the tulsa area and this site came up several times.  Now I am a member.  It is interesting reading/seeing people's varying opinions on things despite the sometimes heated arguements.

[LisaPeace]

For me, it was back when Paul Tay was getting into trouble for cruising around town on his bicycle toting a huge penis.

I did a search for "Paul Tay" and "Penis" and wound up here.  When I reflect on the possibilities that could have come up, I consider myself fortunate.

[booWorld]

I don't remember precisely how or when, but I think it was through this discussion forum when there was a proposal on the table for a new downtown park on a full city block near 9th and Cincinnati.

[kylieosu]

through word of mouth

[RecycleMichael]

I was reading the internet, page by page, alphabetically.

It was between TulsaNot and TulsaNox.

[Renaissance]

It was between my first and second years of law school when I was working downtown for a judge (was parking my old Explorer where center court on the BOK center is now).  This was when the Tulsa World tore down that beautiful Bruce Goff building for a parking lot and it just seemed like such a crime.  I wondered what was going on with downtown development, and not too many Google searches took me here.  I more or less lurked for a few years, didn't check in all that much, but it's become such a valuable source of discussion and info that I check in multiple times per day--I just try to avoid negatively impacting my productivity.

[EricP]

Googling for tulsa forums... I needed somewhere to ask why the hell <insert idiodic thing happening to Tulsa> was happening at that moment in time

[YoungTulsan]

I honestly forget how I came across this place.  Might have been looking for a Tulsa forum on google.  Maybe it'll come back to me later.

[jamesrage]

I wanted to find a local political forum so I did a google search and found this site.

[okieinla]

While researching properties a few years ago I googled Tulsa Neighborhoods & TulsaNow popped up.

[dayzella]

I was googling before the move here - and Tulsa Now came back in a search for "Vision 2025" and Tulsa Now forum was returned on a search for "Tulsa forum."

And so I bookmarked the Tulsa Now home page, thinking that maybe someday I'd want a link or a forum or a now! type of dealio ...

Riveting story, no?

[mr.jaynes]

And for me, it was just sitting down at my laptop (like I'm doing right now), looking to make long-term plans about coming back to town, trying to find blogs and anything else pertaining to Tulsa, when i came by this purely by accident.

[Ed W]

If I remember right, I blundered into this forum via a search function on Bloglines.  I have on-going searches for a variety of subjects, and something turned up that lead me here.

If anyone is curious about how that works, just take a look at this:

http://www.bloglines.com/public/CycleDog

[booWorld]

quote:Originally posted by Floyd

It was between my first and second years of law school when I was working downtown for a judge (was parking my old Explorer where center court on the BOK center is now).  This was when the Tulsa World tore down that beautiful Bruce Goff building for a parking lot and it just seemed like such a crime.

The Skelly Building destruction was the event that prompted me to register one single user name (per forum rules and regulations) and join the discussion.  Before then I lurked from time to time, but there wasn't much activity on the forum back then.  As I recall, neptune74137 suggested a Skelly Building protest, and that evolved into a series of public demonstrations.  I met a number of other users in person on the corner of 4th and Boulder in the summer of 2004.

Actually, I knew a number of members of TulsaNow, and some of them invited me to join in 2004.  Last time I tried to renew my membership was on September 21, 2005 at Harwelden when I handed the presiding officer a check for $20.  That check has never cleared my account...

So I haven't been a member for a long time now, but I do attend public forums and presentations from time to time.