MARCH 5
The Golden Driller Plaza in Tulsa, Oklahoma is undergoing a $3 million renovation project.
The Golden Driller is a 76-foot tall, 43,500 pound statue of an oil field roughneck created in 1966 about two miles off 11th Street (Route 66). This would have explained why I hadn't seen it. This is considerably larger than the ever-popular Muffler Men.
Reputedly, it is the 6th tallest statue in the United States.
The Oklahoma legislature in 1979 declared it a state monument.
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MARCH 7 More details have been found about the World War II MIA whom is memorialized at Cool Springs Camp in Arizona.
Tech Sergeant Thomas Walker went MIA in 1944. There is a section on an inside wall as a tribute to him. He helped his family run the business there before the war.
--RoadDog
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