Tulsa::History: May 2021 Archives

The Coliseum, Tulsa | The University of Tulsa Archival Catalog

Photo of Tulsa's indoor sports arena, taken from a high vantage point (likely from the Philtower), showing lettering on the roof, presumably for the benefit of passing planes, identifying the city as Tulsa, Oklahoma, showing the direction of N, and the direction of airfields 7 miles NE and 4 miles SE. The Midland Valley tracks can be seen running across the photo from left to right behind the Coliseum, crossing the 6th Street Subway (a viaduct that carried the MVRR tracks and Frankfort Ave over 6th) in the upper right. The Coliseum occupied a half-block downtown on the east side of Elgin Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets. It was destroyed by fire in 1951; nothing has been rebuilt on the site, which is now a surface parking lot.