Midcentury Modern and Asphalt

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #36

Today we’re in Tulsa, Oklahoma, looking at the Tulsa County Election Board office building. It’s located here, in a somewhat odd location for a civic building, in a dreary, highway-choked section of town.

Those empty blocks nearby are “urban prairies.” Here’s the street-level view from Google Maps. Just take a look at that. These are—were—residential blo…