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Tulsa, Oklahoma

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The Resume

Why Tulsa, Oklahoma might be annoying:

    An average of 5,7 inches (14 cm) of rain can fall in May, its wettest month.
    The Tulsa Race Riots reported 39 deaths out of a possible minimum of 300.
    A female elevator operator charged a black passenger with rape (May 30, 1921), fueling a mob of armed whites to loot, burn, and murder in the riot.
    The oil glut of the 1980s forced it to relinquish its status as ‘Oil Capital of the World’ to Houston.
    It was greeted by a tornado on Christmas Eve 1982.
    Some residents are embarrassed by the Golden Driller Statue on 21st Street (Tulsa Exposition Center), erected for the 1966 International Petroleum Exposition.
    The Tulsa Artists’ Collection 5-by-5 Event has a thing for fives: on May 5, beginning at 5:55 PM, customers pay a $5 entry fee to peruse artworks on a 5-by-5 inch canvas, which they can buy for $55 each.

Why Tulsa, Oklahoma might not be annoying:

    The average annual snowfall is nine inches (23 cm).
    It is the namesake for the Tulsa Sound musical form (fusion of rockabilly, blues and rock n’ roll).
    Other nicknames include ‘Birthplace of Route 66’ and ‘America’s Black Wall Street.’
    The first oil boom, at Red Fork, took place just after the turn of the century and lasted some six years.
    A second oil boom followed in 1915 and lasted some 15 years.
    The predominantly black Greenwood neighborhood flourished in the oil-boom era as a jazz hotbed — where Count Basie was discovered.
    It did away with the city commission form of governance, deemed wasteful and inefficient, in favor of a mayor-council government (1989).
    To combat a road problem, Mayor Kathy Taylor set up a citizens’ panel.

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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 7 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 154 Votes: 51.30% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 53 Votes: 67.92% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 33 Votes: 48.48% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 63 Votes: 77.78% Annoying