Bartlett Square Fountain

[bacjz00]

The Bartlett "Square" fountain is about the most UNinspiring design I've seen for a public fountain.  It's small, it has no character, it's just basically UNDERwhelming.  Kansas City could crap out a better fountain than that.  Another example of how Tulsa strives to be "mediocre" in just about everything it does.

[SXSW]

I think the fountain is lame and should just be removed.  My vision for Main Street in the distant future would be to see Main extended from 3rd Street to 1st Street like it used to be.  Of course it would require some modifications to Crown Plaza and the Williams building but nothing too drastic.  That way you can drive/walk/bike from the heart of Brady through the business district, past the church district, and into Uptown.  Maybe one day there could be a streetcar line there as well.

[OKmetro]

Then where well all the bums meet if we get rid of the fountain? []

[BKDotCom]

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

quote:Originally posted by BKDotCom

Melissa, Melissa....
Next time, if you need a ride.  Give me a call.

You have a Moustache Bk..?

Indeed I do.[}:)]

[SoonerRiceGrad]

Oh my goodness, that's Melissa Medlock?

I think she mistook the fountain for me...

[ttownclown]

OK Melissa, the Cowboys season is officially over.  Please come home and fix our fountian.

Why isn't this thing fixed?  I know it's Winter, but 6 months is a bit much.

[PonderInc]

Every time I walk by this very round roundabout fountain and read the words "Bartlett Square," I wonder if this was done to confuse people, or just to make us look dumb.

I think the fountain is just the right size for a New Year's celebration...if you filled it with Champaign.

[robbyfoxxxx]

They should have left it alone, with the terraced water fountain from the 1970's and shade trees, the renovation was supposed to open up the street and bring in business, wheres the beef? All that money was spent on renovation, and for what? Its just as abandoned as it ever was. And its just as purposeless as the the first fountains, which were torn down. It just made downtown Tulsa even blander...

Pass the Salt and Pepper please

[TheArtist]

^Patience padawan learners, patience.

[PonderInc]

Until some new buildings with shop-front windows are built on Main (to replace all those that have been torn down for parking or random empty space), I'm afraid that Main street is doomed.  

Because you would have to have enough capital to build new buildings, there's no place for spunky entrepreneurs to play a role (as they can in Brady and the Blue Dome areas...where all the little buildings were not torn down).

[Rico]

quote:Originally posted by carltonplace

quote:Originally posted by inteller

she wasnt drunk, owasso doesnt have roundabouts so the idiot simply didn't know what to do.[}:)]

They probably aren't used to seeing fountains in the middle of the street either. Maybe we should paint the fountain with a cow pattern.

At this point... this may be a better suggestion than anyone had realized.

Either this or a few well placed bollards .......

[carltonplace]

And it gets hit again
Bartlett Square Fountain Damaged In Overnight Crash  Thursday January 25, 2007 7:31am    Posted By: Kevin King  www.KOTV.com
Tulsa - The Bartlett Square fountain in downtown Tulsa was damaged overnight after a driver ran into it.

According to police, the woman was driving south on Main when she hit the fountain, cracking the car's windshield.

The woman then got out of her car and ran away, hiding in an alley near 4th and Boston.

Police arrived and later found the woman and arrested her on suspicion of DUI.

[BKDotCom]

I say replace the fountain with a giant obelisk with the all seeing eye of Sauron.

[RecycleMichael]

I say we build a big nude statue there that drivers could see at night.

I am a big fan of the Golden Driller and think we need similar sized statues all over town.

One could be peeking in a city hall window, another wading the Arkansas river, maybe one that straddles route 66...

[dsjeffries]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

I say we build a big nude statue there that drivers could see at night.

I am a big fan of the Golden Driller and think we need similar sized statues all over town.

One could be peeking in a city hall window, another wading the Arkansas river, maybe one that straddles route 66...

That's hilarious, and you know, it's odd enough to give Tulsa that icon the Vision planners were so keen on making the BOk Center into...  :-) Wading in the river... :-P