The exterior of a home used for the 1983 film “The Outsiders,” based on S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 novel, appears in Tulsa, Okla., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. The home, which was purchased by rapper Danny Boy O’Connor, was converted into The Outsiders House Museum.
Street signs for The Outsiders Way and Curtis Brothers Lane appear at the intersection of St. Louis Avenue and East Independence Street in Tulsa, Okla., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. The home at the intersection, used for the 1983 film “The Outsiders,” based on S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 novel, was purchased by rapper Danny Boy O’Connor and converted into The Outsiders House Museum.
The exterior of a home used for the 1983 film “The Outsiders,” based on S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 novel, appears in Tulsa, Okla., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. The home, which was purchased by rapper Danny Boy O’Connor, was converted into The Outsiders House Museum.
Danny Boy O’Connor of House of Pain performs at BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival at Napa Valley Expo in Napa, Calif., on May 27, 2017. O’Connor bought the Tulsa home that was used in the 1983 film “The Outsiders” and converted it to The Outsiders House Museum. The film is based on S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 novel.
TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) — This summer, it was Leonardo DiCaprio. Then it was Green Day. A tiny museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dedicated to a movie classic and run by an entertainer, is drawing big names in the Heartland.
The Outsiders House Museum was created by Danny Boy O’Connor, formerly of the hip-hop group House of Pain. It’s been a labor of love for O’Connor, who bought the house several years ago and renovated it.
The modest white bungalow with a wide front porch was used as a central set in the 1983 film “The Outsiders,” which was based on S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 novel of the same name.
“That was our ‘Gone with the Wind.’ That was our ‘American Graffiti.’ Every generation finds the cool archetypes of who we could be, and that for me was the movie,” O’Connor said in a recent interview inside the house. He said visitors have ranged “from 8 to 80 — to everything in between. It’s usually the whole family. It’s a family museum.”
Director Francis Ford Coppola shot the film in Tulsa with a young cast of future A-listers, including C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise.
The museum also includes memorabilia from the film set, including furniture, photos, posters and the leather jacket worn by Dillon’s character, Dallas Winston.
