South Urbana Avenue in Tulsa now has a historic marker that explains why a 2,500-foot-long stretch is unusually wide and flat – it used to be an airport runway.
The marker was placed for a Troop 153 Eagle Scout project of Barrett Prather, a Bishop Kelley High School graduate, now in college.
What was Tulsa Commercial Airport operated on 150 acres near 61st and Yale, from 1940 – 1954, according to the Museum of Tulsa History, which has several historic photos of the airport in operation. What’s left of it is a 50′ wide stretch of asphalt from 61st to 56th Place. The history is well documented, but there was no marker at the site until Prather took on the project…