The event attracted all sorts of people to Denver
Avenue that day in 1957. Some thought that
the idea of burying a new car was dumb; others
thought it was brilliant. Raffl e tickets (for the car)
were sold. The person to guess the approximate
population of Tulsa in 2007 would win. “I’ll never
be alive,” said Teddy Baxter, aged 6. “Sure you will,”
answered his brother Henry, who was 19.
“I might not be, but you’ll be around for sure.”
Gene McDaniel, who was 20 at the time,
thought: “In 2007, I’ll be 70—I’ll never make it.”