Storyteller: Hubbard, Cynthia

Interviewer: Bertalot, Lorretta

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Cynthia Hubbard is interviewed by Lorretta Bertalot about her career as an Executive Assistant at Reading and Bates while they were redesigning the Mid-Continent Tower. Ms. Hubbard has given many of the artifacts she collected from that time to the Tulsa Historical Museum.

Subjects: Reading & Bates, cantilever, Cosden Building, Josh Cosden, 4th and Boston in Tulsa, Richard Rollo, Mid-Continent Building, Mid-Continent Tower, HTB Architecture Inc. of Oklahoma City, Keith Hinchey, Doug Hyde, Victor Thompson, Italian marble, Quebec City, copper roof made green, terra cotta roof, Charlie Thornton, Manhatten Construction: Rooney Company, Tulsa Club, Miss Jackson's Top of Tulsa Tour, pigskin wall coverings, executive offices on the west side of building, Cosden Refinery, Holly, Mid-Contenant, Texaco, Sinclair, dome with three-story spiral stairs, Charles E. Thornton, Jay O'Melia.