On Nov. 4, 1959, near the corner of East Apache Street and North Memorial Avenue, a groundbreaking ceremony heralding the official start of construction of the Tulsa Municipal Airport terminal building was underway. State and local officials including Oklahoma Governor J. Howard Edmondson attended the event.
The Airport Authority chose Tulsa architectural firm Murray-Jones-Murray (formed in 1957 by Robert Lawton Jones, with brothers David George and Lee Cloyd Murray) to design the building.
Murray-Jones-Murray firm sent members of its staff to ten airports across the country to study and prepare themselves for the design of Tulsa’s “jet age” terminal. The firm also utilized pre-recorded jet engine sounds to plan for soundproofing of the facility…