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notes on tulsa circa 1920s

=Organizations=


 * Chamber of Commerce (W.G. Skelly)
 * Junior League

=Aviation people=


 * Herman DeVry
 * Leonard Bonnie
 * Robert F.F. "Bob" Garland (big man of Garland Airport)


 * Charles W. Short
 * manager, Tulsa Municipal Auirport
 * documents are in the Tulsa Airport Authority collection at the Tulsa Air/Space Museum


 * Duncan McIntyre: "Father of Tulsa Aviation"*
 * New Zealander
 * WWI background.
 * 'air force' (probably army air corp back then?)
 * 1919: comes to tulsa
 * friend of Bert Brookins
 * took Junior league people on flights?
 * starts McIntyre Airport (Admiral and Sheridan)


 * Tulsa Airport Founders
 * 47 local business people

= Airports of the time =

First Airport: 1923


 * McIntyre Airport (1923)
 * Brown Airport
 * Commercial Airport
 * 15th Street Airpark
 * Cotton Field
 * R.L. Jones Airport
 * Tulsa Municipal Airport (1928)
 * Garland Airport / Garland-Clevenger Airport / Tulsa Commercial Airport (1st location) / Mayo Airport / Brown Airport, Tulsa, OK (1929)

= Aircraft of the time =

= Misc stuff =


 * 1944 US Army/Navy Directory of Airfields
 * "The Tulsa Spirit" periodical
 * old "Sectional Charts"
 * old USGS topographic maps
 * 1929 Rand-McNally "Standard Indexed Map with Air Trails of OK"

= Refs =