Tulsa-area amusement parks also flourished. In 1907 Samuel Orcutt opened his lake outside of Tulsa to boating and swimming. By 1910 Orcutt Park, the last stop on the street car line, offered rides, a dancing pavilion, and moving pictures; the owners added a six-hundred-foot roller coaster, Tulsa's first, the next year. Orcutt Park became Swan Lake and slowly gave way to residential development.....

Location: Keystone Comments: Bowl-a-rama @ Sheridan & King! Also I remember a manual pin set alley on 18th or 21st east of Boston, on the south side. It was next to the RR track and a good sized market.

"Swan Lake" @ 18th & Utica was an amusement park site from the 20s. One of Tulsa's newspapers did an article some years back.

Sand Springs Lake I think was AKA Shell Creek Resort. An old friend long deceased had told of meeting his bride when they were teenagers there, and riding many powered rides at its park! Mr. K. died several years ago @ 98



CREDITS: EXCERPTS: Tulsa, Oklahoma City Library