How The Nation Looks At Our State!

[Red Arrow]

Ed, I miss the old Owasso just like I miss the old Broken Arrow and Bixby. There were no more 20,000 people among the three of them.

I believe Bixby's population was around 5000 in '71 when we moved here.  There was still stuff in "downtown" Bixby.

[erfalf]

My in-laws came here expecting to find nothing but dirt streets.  My bro-in-law thought everyone would be driving enormous 4WD trucks everyday.  As far as they knew, Oklahoma was still Indian Territory. 

When I worked in New York City, people would ask after learning I was from Oklahoma, if I used to ride my horse to work. They were not joking either.

[Red Arrow]

My in-laws came here expecting to find nothing but dirt streets.  My bro-in-law thought everyone would be driving enormous 4WD trucks everyday.  As far as they knew, Oklahoma was still Indian Territory. 

I had better expectations.  My dad had been through Tulsa shortly after WWII with some friends on a road trip from the East Coast (New Jersey) to California. He was also here in the very late 50s for one of the Oil Expos.  I remember he brought back a set of combination wrenches he won as a door prize.  I still have most of them.  The real clincher was a National Geographic article about Oklahoma/Tulsa very shortly before we moved here.

I also knew I was going back to school to finish my degree and then get drafted into the military and get killed in Viet Nam so I wasn't worried about living here. 

[jacobi]

I was wondering how it was that your family ended up here.  You often reference being from PA, so I had to wonder.

[Red Arrow]

I was wondering how it was that your family ended up here.  You often reference being from PA, so I had to wonder.

Our move was part of the Sunoco/Sunray DX "merger".

[jacobi]

When I was in MA this summer, all they said they knew about OK was the Oklahoma Dust bowl.

[Hoss]

Our move was part of the Sunoco/Sunray DX "merger".

Ah, I see.  I have two generations in my family that worked there (my Dad, from 1979 to 2001, and my grandfather -- my dad's father in law -- who retired from there in 1977).  I almost worked there when I moved back from Houston in 1994, but decided against it.