Mid-Continent Oil Co Refinery & Tulsa Skyline

Penny Postcard and Short History

I don't have a date for this postcard but it's probably in the 1930s

The beginning of the refinery show in the Penny Postcard

It's impossible to separate Tulsa from oil. Oil put Tulsa on the map and it was oil that spurred the growth of Tulsa from the discovery of the Glen Pool in 1901 until the oil crisis in 1986.

The above postcard picture was taken from the west side of the Arkansas River looking east across the river at Tulsa's skyline.

Begun in 1913 and having gone through many name changes the refinery is not as active as it once was but it is still in business.