Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2009.120.001 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Patterson, Sidney "Sid" Winfield |
Object Name |
Disk, Optical |
Date |
08/05/2009 |
Digital Link |
Click here to view the video. |
Scope & Content |
DVD optical disk containing a video of an oral history interview with Sidney "Sid" Winfield Patterson, conducted at the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum on August 5, 2009 by Archivist and Curator of Collections Joshua Peck. Patterson, lifelong Tulsan, discusses his various involvements in city politics and the non-profit sector. Patterson was elected as street commissioner four times, serving two consecutive terms in the 1950s, a period of respite, followed by two more terms in the 1970s. As street commissioner, Patterson had a front row seat to Tulsa's mid-century growth to the south, as well as the destruction of historic buildings via Urban Renewal. Patterson also founded the non-profit Up With Trees, which looks to beautify the city by planting trees. 00:01 Patterson tells of how his family got to Oklahoma from New England, his father starts Patterson Steel Company, memories of his father working for John Zink at ONG 07:30 Patterson's memories of growing up on the north side of Tulsa and downtown, schooling pattern, activities in Central 18:00 Life in the Great Depression, goes to Dartmouth for two years, comes back to western OK to work, before enrolling and getting his degree at OU 28:00 Patterson moves back to Tulsa and gets involved in city planning, how he became the street commissioner for two terms in the 1950s 38:00 Tulsa annexes much land to the south in the 1950s 44:00 Patterson goes back to the street commissioner for two more terms in the 1970s, urban renewal, civic center construction, and closing city streets 52:30 Patterson starts Up With Trees in 1975 |
Search Terms |
Central High School Civic Center Plaza Great Depression Medical & Dental Arts Building Oklahoma Natural Gas Corporation Patterson Steel Company Pythian Building Ritz Theatre Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School Tulsa Assembly Center Tulsa Planning Commission Tulsa Street Commissioner Up With Trees Urban Renewal World War II |
People |
Clark, Lilburn Carl LaFortune, Robert James Patterson, Sidney Winfield Warren, Clarence McGregor "Clancy" Zink, John Steele |