Tulsa is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Tulsa Golden Driller, the 76-foot tall, 22-ton statue, one of the tallest in the U.S. While the statue of the driller with his right arm resting on an oil derrick is considered to be one of the most photographed landmarks in Tulsa, the journalism group The Frontier reports how it almost became anything but a muscular-looking oil worker.
In fact, it was going to be—-gasp! A nude goddess! She was going to be called the Goddess of Oil and to be located in front of the International Petroleum Exposition building at Expo Square, right where the Golden Driller now stands.
Read the full story at The Frontier and learn who posed for a local artist.
The Frontier
