Sand Springs Park Lake just outside Tulsa, Okla. Circa 1930s

[Monty]

The swimming beach, park and a small zoo was located in Sand Springs, Oklahoma just outside Tulsa in the 1920s. Town was fouinded by a wealthy oil philanthropist, Charles page. He also built an orphans home and widows. colony for widowed mothers with children. The springs still exist and are located just east if downtown Sand Springs aling the Keystone Expressway. The springs was once a Creek indian campground and watering hole for cattle drives going north to CoffeeVille , Kansas. These pictures are of circa about 1932. The park is now a housing addition and the lake just a nice place to walk along the trail from Tulsa. My family use to go to the park in the 1950s to shoot fireworks,picnic and swim on the 4th of July. The Polio scare nearly wiped out the swimming activities and caused the park to finally shut down in the mid 1950s.

 

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[hamiddetecting]

Very nice

 

[Steve Clem]

Fun thread! We combed the area around the one-time beach in the 1990's before they put in the fill and walking trail. Found just a few remnants...girl's compact and lipstick case, lots of bobby pins, a few period coins, mostly pennies, nickels and dimes. I do not recall the brand or model of the blue 1970's metal detector, but recall it only was effective to about 3 or 4 inches. Also found lots of beer cans, Coors, mainly, circa the 1960s and '70s.