No, what is too bad is that the out-of-town visitors are likely not to return to Tulsa because of the sorry situation of the city's streets, the difficulty in finding first a place to park, then a reasonably intact sidewalk on which to walk to the theater.

At least, that was what some of the out of town people I spoke with had to say.

"This could be a nice city," one said, "if you ever get around to building it."

Which is sadly true -- Tulsa no longer looks a city that oil, or that people with a coherent vision, has built. It has become a city that, more and more, looks cobbled together and patched over, from the street level on up.