Loretta Murphy, the “owner” of Big Splash Water Park in Tulsa on Monday agreed to an interview with KOTV to present her “side” of the story regarding the recent shut down for safety reasons of water slides at Big Splash. Of the failure to replace rotten support beams discovered by state inspectors in December and [...]
The southeast corner of the Tulsa Fairgrounds is dominated by the big tower that supports the Flumes and the Silver Bullet, the two tallest water slides in Big Splash Water Park. According to Oklahoma State Department of Labor which inspects water parks, when its inspectors examined Big Splash during a “dry inspection” last December, the [...]
It appears to this writer that a concerted effort is underway to purge the Tulsa Fairgrounds of anything not horse show related. And it now looks as if another long-term Tulsa Fairgrounds tenant, the Tulsa Flea Market, is doomed to follow Bell’s Amusement Park out the gates of the Fairgrounds. The owners of the Tulsa [...]
KOTV Channel 6 in Tulsa in a recent report titled, “Inspectors Uncover Problems With Fair Rides” does a good job of covering the issues arising from the high number of injuries on midway rides at the 2007 Tulsa State Fair and the operation of those rides. Accompanying KOTV’s report are copies of official documents created [...]
The 2007 Tulsa State Fair is history, just like Bell’s Amusement Park at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. So how did the Tulsa State Fair do without it’s mainstay tenant of the past 50 plus years? Attendance at the 2007 Tulsa State Fair was down 7 percent over last year. Food and beverage concessions were down 4 [...]
One may be inclined to wonder how may fairs are going on in Tulsa currently judging from various news media reports. In a report titled, “Fair is fairly safe – so far” the Tulsa World proclaims in regard to the Tulsa State Fair, “The first days are relatively free of accidents and crime.” There there’s [...]
