Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1971.001.001 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Mayo, John Daniel |
Object Name |
Recording |
Date |
September 1970 |
Digital Link |
Click here to listen to recording. Click here to view the PDF file. |
Scope & Content |
Audio recording containing an oral history interview of John Daniel Mayo (1881-1972) of Tulsa, OK, conducted by Pendleton Woods in the Mayo Building, dated September 1970. The recording is 59:40 in length. Mayo discusses his early settlement in Tulsa, and he described Tulsa and its leaders since 1903. 00:01 Mayo's origins in Missouri, furniture business, and move to Tulsa 10:00 early tulsa, oil & gas discoveries, & Glenn Pool Oilfield 12:40 types of merchandise sold by Mayo Furniture 22:06 other early Tulsa businesses 26:16 early "Booster Train" railroad trips 37:40 growth of Tulsa, road paving, building of banks, Mayo Hotel & Mayo Building 48:00 early leaders of Tulsa 50:30 horses on muddy 1st Street 53:00 fire at the Mayo Building 56:15 Spavinaw water project 58:20 opening of Mayo Hotel |
Search Terms |
Beane-Vandever Dry Goods Company booster trips & trains early Tulsa fires First National Bank furniture stores Glenn Pool Lynch Building Mayo Building Mayo Furniture Company Mayo Hotel National Bank of Tulsa oral history interviews Petroleum Building Philbrook Museum of Art Philtower Red Fork, OK Robinson Hotel Spavinaw Dam Spavinaw water project street paving |
People |
Daniel, Richard T. Forsythe, Jay Mayo, John Daniel Mayo, Sr., Cass Allen Phillips, Waite |