later buying william g skelly's oil, another prominent tulsa family. w.g. skelley was a great tulsa philanthropist. ultimately john paul bought his complete. others include wade phillips. wade phillips to me and to many native tulsans is the father of modern tulsa. he and his brother started in the oil fields in bartlesville. they split up their properties. freight stated and started phillips 66. -- frank stayed and started phillips 66. wade moved to tulsa and began his oil career here independent of his brother. we are standing across the street from the second of two glorious buildings constructed by wade phillips. it was built as a construction -- as a commercial endeavor. wade had already constructed his masterpiece, the elapsed how were -- the phillips tower directly across a couple years previously and had his offices in there. he wanted to protect his investment. hence, he bought it to -- built it to draw independent oilmen back. the ground before is an arcade, hence it is known as the philc ade. it had 14 stores and shops. and again, prior to air-co

later buying william g skelly's oil, another prominent tulsa family.ely john paul getty bought his complete. others include wade phillips. wade phillips to me and to many native tolleson's -- tulsans is the father of modern tulsa. he and his brother started in martinsville. they split up their properties. frank stayed. wade moved to tulsa and began his oil career here independent of his brother. we are standing across the street from b's second of two glorious buildings constructed by wade phillips. it was built as a construction -- as a commercial endeavor. wade had already constructed his masterpiece, the phillips house directly across a couple years previously and had his offices in there. he wanted to protect his investment. hence, he bought it to -- built it to draw independent oilmen back. it had 14 stores and shops. and again, prior to air-conditioning. remember this. when we go inside, which we will soon you will see it is set up for natural ventilation. above, largely for independent oilmen and he had a few of his own offices in there as overf