This month's postcard is a newly produced greeting featuring Oklahoma's old friend, The Golden Driller.

The Driller was introduced at the 1953 International Petroleum Exposition. In 1966 he found a permanent home at the Tulsa County Fairgrounds. The statue weighs 43,500 pounds and stands at 76-feet. The derrick he rests upon was relocated from an oil field in Seminole, Oklahoma.

Tulsa's hulking man stands in front of the International Petroleum Exhibition Building, which struck notoriety as "the world's largest unobstructed interior volume." Which means, with its sunken floor and extended roof, the statue could easily fit inside of it - and at first did.

Postcards from the Edge showcases mail greetings pulled from Back on Tack's roadside archive. A different card is featured each month.

The Driller stands not only as a momument to the major petroleum industry upon which Tulsa was built, but also as proof that you can't keep a golden man down. Capable of withstanding 200-mile-per-hour winds, it has made it through tornadoes, sporadic attacks by vandals; random shotgun blasts and even took an arrow in the back.

Although he wears many name tags such as Golden Boy, Golden Driller, and even Larry, most passersby on 21st Street just call him damn big.

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