Cassidy McCants

For more than a decade, Bike Club has enriched the lives of thousands of kids in Tulsa’s elementary and middle schools, offering bike lessons, cycling gear, and general life skills to boot. This year, their after-school programming spans 37 TPS locations, reaching just under 700 students. It takes a ton of often invisible work to maintain a far-reaching program like this, and now comes a visible, hard-earned reward as payoff: their very own standalone headquarters next to Bales Park in West Tulsa.

READ MORE BOOKS! Each character of this directive is painted in bubbly letters on a pane of a large gridded window of Cherry Street’s newest gem: Meadow Market Books, located in the space formerly occupied by Gas Petal Flower Shop. On my first visit, I sense immediately this isn’t your run-of-the-mill bookseller. Near the entry stands a rack of FREE (according to a handwritten sign) zines, books, and other odds and ends.

Many customers on ConsumerAffairs mention positive experiences with PODS, praising the team’s prompt and professional delivery and helpful customer service. Paul from Gray said the customer service was “outstanding”: “The assistant manager, Rich, was extremely helpful. There were a couple of things that happened and he stepped up. After the pod had been at the house, they moved it to their storage facility in Wethersfield. They loaded it even further afterwards.