You just drive by the big guy and there he is. Jul You should for sure stop and have a photo op. Full view. All photos Tours and Tickets. Tulsa Scavenger Hunt: Center of the Universe. The area. Best nearby. Fair Meadows Sports Grill. Panda Express. Jim's Coney Island. Brownie's Hamburger Stand. McAlister's Deli. Burger Street. Table Jimmy John's. See all. Expo Square. Safari Joe's H2O. Philbrook Museum of Art. Woodward Park. Woody Guthrie Center. Speciality Museums. The Cave House. Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
Gilcrease Museum. Write a review Upload a photo. Most Recent. Very good. How often can you see a statue 76 feet tall and take pictures right at its feet? We took all kinds of shots from various angles. A fun and unique attraction that only Tulsa has for you to view. Read more. This is a huge statue and one of the iconic sites on our Route 66 roadtrip. Got some good pictures and enjoyed seeing him.
Brian W Atlanta, GA 69 contributions. Tulsa has few iconic pieces of imagery. An authentic artifact from Tulsa's oil capitol past, the Golden Driller is a left-over piece of large-scale advertising from an International Petroleum Exposition that took place, I think, in the s. In any event, it's definitely worth your time to drive by and snap a few photos. Also take a look at the Exposition Center behind - it is one of the largest buildings of its type in the world at least, in terms of its interior exhibition space.
The art deco details of the Expo Center are fantastic and one-of-a-kind. You could probably spend a good two-to-three hours walking around the area and see some pretty neat architectural marvels. Sadly, Bells Amusement park is gone but there's plenty else to see. I lived about six blocks south of the Tulsa Fairgrounds until I was 22 so I was around this guy a lot!
I was too young to remember the original version of The Golden Driller but I do recall the second version and I also recollect it was damaged by a windstorm or possible small tornado. Then in about they built the third and, in my opinion, best version of all which is still standing!
It was no small ordeal. I remember seeing him laying close to where he now stands while they built him. We used to call him "Big George" although I know other Tulsans have had many different nicknames for him. It was built from a steel frame, covered with concrete and plaster.
It is the sixth-tallest statue in the United States and has been located in front of the Tulsa Expo Center since Six years later, one was erected again for the show. Due to the positive attention it attracted, the company donated the statue to the Tulsa County Fairgrounds Trust Authority which had it anatomically redesigned and permanently installed in front of the Tulsa Expo Center for the International Petroleum Exposition.
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