FC Tulsa Gear Has Arrived! AKA our Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Gear Has Arrived!

 Kansas City, MO

My FC Tulsa Hat and a silly smile

Quest for FC Tulsa Gear Completed

It all started back on July 1st when we first entered central Texas.  While I was driving I saw what I thought was a very fancy bird with a long tail out of the corner of my eye.  I described it to Donna and said she should look up Scissor-tailed Flycatcher because I think that is what it was.  She looked it up and said, "Oh Fancy!"

National Geographic's Filed Guide to the Birds of North America pg. 344

Donna read about them to me as we drove and I looked for another.  Soon we both got good glimpses of them sitting on wires as well as flying awkwardly across the highway.  It was cool but we wanted to see one close up and really get good views (as birders say) of them.  When we stopped at one of Texas's cool rest stops for lunch we got good views!

Here is one we were able to study while eating our leftover ribs from Amarillo at that rest stop.

During our stay in Texas we looked for them every day and saw them when we weren't in urban areas.  They tended to like fields with power lines or trees to fly-catch from.  They were great to watch.  

Fast forward 1 month to July 31st and we were in Tulsa, OK checking out the city.  We were impressed by the Art Deco we saw and learned that the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was their state bird, we also learned that the local Football (Soccer) Club has an Art Deco Stylized Scissor-tailed Flycatcher on their uniforms.  This began our quest to get some gear!  On the drive out we stopped at a few sporting good places and weren't able to find what we were looking for.  It was a Monday and the team store didn't open until Tuesday so our best bet was to order something online.  When we arrived in KC we learned that mail was going to be easy for us so we ordered our gear and it arrived!

I ordered a hat for me and a T-Shirt for Donna but the marketing email did this cool thing where it took my last name from the shipping address and applied it to a jersey.  Really clever stuff.

Our stuff!  

That's it for our "adventure" today.  In reality we went grocery store shopping, baked a cake, and then stayed inside because it was close to 100 degrees.  It is trending cooler this week so we will be out exploring again soon.  If you missed yesterday's post check it out here.

The Garment District Museum, Pinball, and The Green Lady Lounge

 Kansas City, MO

Trying on hats at The Kansas City Garment District Museum

The Museum Across the Street

During our adventures in the area we ran across The Historic Garment District Museum. It's a free museum and it is open from 11am to 2pm 2 days a week so we had to schedule it.  We went there today at around 11:30.  The door says to check in across the street so we tried to do that but the office was empty so we crossed back over to look more carefully.  It turns out those are old instructions and all we had to do was press the buzzer and someone came down to let us in.  It's a small museum but it was fun seeing old photos and old clothing as well as trying on hats!

Confusion about how to get in to the museum across the street

A segregated photo taken at the company picnic

Using a cloth cutter to cut stacks of panels that will be sewn together

Sewing together the panels

It looks like you used to be able to try this but it wasn't working

My new 4th of July hat (I wish)

A banner celebrating their unionizing 

Up-Down Arcade

After making some early dinner we headed out to Up-Down Arcade KC via the KC Streetcar. Up-Down Arcade is a chain here in the mid-west.  The one near us has specials every day.  Today the special was 10 tokens for a dollar vs 4 on normal days.  Every arcade machine and pinball machine runs off 1 token so you get a great deal on Thursdays.  I hear it gets really crowded but we were there from 3-5 so it wasn't bad at all and they had a great tap list.

KC Streetcar Incoming

Lots of classic machines in great condition

My beer in front of a Tapper machine

Donna's beer

The toilet was straight edge I think.

Kiss in its attract mode begging for quarters (or tokens)

The Green Lady Lounge

After Up-Down we headed over to The Green Lady Lounge for opening at 5pm.  We had read it gets really busy so we wanted to make sure we got our seat.  It's a $5 cover and music starts at 6pm.  We arrived an were the only ones there for at least half an hour.  We had the place to ourselves to take photos and explore.  The bar tender was really nice and gave us a lot of good local tips.

Photos of the Mercury room look awesome so we thought we would check it out on our walk over to The Green Lady.  It's upstairs so we didn't go in and later found out that the cocktails are $30 each!!!!

Green Lady Lounges doesn't look like much from outside

But inside it is AWESOME

I am sure I took way too many photos.

It reminded us of a cool bar and Haunted Mansion wrapped up into 1 place

There was a separate floor that wasn't open yet that would have a different jazz band.  The bartender let us go down there and check it out.

This was a tiny booth between 2 normal booths right in the isle.  

The cocktails were pretty good, not amazing but they were also only $11

That was our adventure for today.  Tomorrow we head back to Kansas.

If you missed yesterday's adventure you can read about it here.