True, think about the CN Tower, the one in San Antonio (whatever it's called). There are others too...we just don't pay attention to them anymore because they are so "common".

Besides...you can see all the city from the I-235 bridge over 23rd.

I don't think he said he regrets passing on the American. I'm glad we did, we'd be foolish to put our momentum and efforts into a lost cause, that's why Mick Cornett and the City bowed out. Tulsa is still about a decade behind us in development and urban revitalization, they were desperate for the project and took it. It's still going nowhere. Instead of OKC talking about what "could possibly" happen in years down the road, we are working on what WILL happen. I agree the American is much nicer design than this oil derreck, but that doesn't mean either one will happen without funding in place. My guess if the State spent pocket change on our Centennial Celebration (not sure but I think it was $2 million). I'm not sure how this lawmaker is proposing the state give $100 million to this oil derreck. I'm a dreamer but you have to be a realist too.

Dallas has a tall structure that has a giant ball on the top doesn't it? An observation and retaurant and all.

Reunion Tower. 560 feet tall.

Calgary, Toronto, Dallas, San Antonio, Seattle, Las Vegas, and maybe a few other cities in the U.S. and Canada have towers as a part of their skylines. The design of this thing looks horrible, and if I am thinking right, is there not a giant oil derrick at Six Flags in Dallas? In my opinion we should come up with something unique. Why not have an iconic pedestrian bridge built across the river, something that everyone who passes over the river will see and remember? This is just off the top of my head, but we need something unique. When I think of Paris I think Eiffel tower, when I think of Dallas or Seattle, or San Antonio, I never really consider their towers, it has already been done. Same thing with the Statue of Liberty, if we had a giant Native American, I would not be that impressed, same of we had a large arch. The cities that many people think of as top tier cities, created a unique landmark that made the city worth going to just to see it. Did I go to Paris almost solely to go up in the Eiffel Tower, yes; would I go to Seattle for the same reason, no.

Yes, there is.

It's only 300 feet tall but the concept is almost exactly the same.

It's the Oilfel Tower!

Or the Awful Tower, depending on your perspective.

For the anti-oil rig crowd try and come up with something else that would be iconic that hasn't already been done some where. Of course, doing nothing unique is also an option. Maybe "we" could buy several Navy ships that are in mothball outside San Francisco and transport them to the Oklahoma River. We could have the worlds first in-land Navy.

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Well for starters, forget anything tall. It doesn't have to be tall to be iconic.

> We could have the worlds first in-land Navy

The submarine Batfish remains in the Arkansas River outside Muskogee, a subtle reminder that modern day Oklahoma has never been successfully invaded by sea.

i really like the oil derrick at six flags...

it can be cool looking, just please not anything like the cgi they showed.

I would rather see a giant pumpjack.

I'd rather see a giant dill pickle. Set up as a Tesla coil, with lightning bolts coming out of it.

well hell... if that's the case, i'd love to see one of those statues people have of the little boy peeing. but like a 300 ft one... and he's peeing into the river.

that or a huge garden gnome.












or perhaps a huge garden gnome peeing into the river.

Maybe we could offer them a trade. The Sonics for their Space Needle. It's not nice to steal.

No thanks - I would rather have the Sonics.

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I vote for the Sonics and the huge garden gnome peeing into the river.

That would be cool. But we will be more likely, when it's all said and done only end up with a huge Sonic peeing into the river.

sonic... the hedgehog?

How about building an exact life size Seattle "Space Needle" tower and then a HUGE mascot of our new NBA team (whatever it may be) peeing on the tower.

The mascot would probably have to be the largest "statue" in the world for the Space Needle to be lower than waist high! This would be enormous!!!

Oh....did I say that out loud.....

I hear Disney is going to build it.

7/10

Your idea might gain more traction if it were a half-sized replica of Seattle's Space Needle and the twice-the-height mascot was peeing on it.

They are already building one at the Winstar Casino. It's going to pee on Texas.