Camelot Hotel is Tulsa's Coolest in 1965 - TV Report

TV news report on construction of the Camelot Inn at Interstate 44 and Peoria Avenue which opened in 1965. The 330-room hotel resembled a medieval English castle, complete with a moat, drawbridge, turrets, a throne and a replica of Excalibur. Later is was also as the Camelot Hotel and the Camelot Parkside Hotel. TV reporter Mike Miller interviews Camelot co-owners Ainslie Perreault and Dick Wheeler, and architect Richard Piland about the unusual hotel on Interstate-44 also known as the Skelly By-pass The building, which was sold by the second owners in 1991 to a company called Lata Enterprises. Lata was foreclosed on, and the building changed hands several times until 1995, when the deed was transferred to Maharishi Ayur-ved University, a school for teaching Transcendental Meditation and the teachings of the founder of TM, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The site where the Camelot stood is now occupied by a QuikTrip convenience store. This 16mm film footage was enhanced using Topaz Video Enhance AI and colorized with Photoshop by Jack Frank Productions