paden cash, post: 420865, member: 20 wrote: That's a unique song Merle Haggard blessed us with years ago. I still enjoy listening to it also.
Funny thing is Merle's folks moved from Cheotah, OK. in 1934 to Bakerfield, CA where Hag was born in '37. But us Okies still consider him one of our own. Here's a list (not comprehensive by any means) of some musicians over the years that we're proud to say hailed from Oklahoma.
Leon Russell
Reba McEntire
Garth Brooks
Blake Shelton
Carrie Underwood
Toby Keith
Woody Guthrie
Vince Gill
Bob Wills
Patti Page
Jimmy Webb
Hoyt Axton (whose banjo is sitting next to me as I type)
J.J. Cale
Elvin Bishop
Leonard Sipes (aka Tommy Collins)
Wanda Jackson
Sam River
Ronnie Dunn
Joe Diffie
Norma Jean
Barry "Eve of Destruction" McGuire
and one for the books: Oscar Hammerstein IIand there are many more...;)
Merle Haggards house is on Route 178 at the mouth of the Kern River Canyon.
I grew up in Bakersfield, AKA little Oklahoma.
Buck Owens...the Bakersfield Sound.
paden cash, post: 422089, member: 20 wrote: My daughter-in-law has family in Jet. All named Wolf, Krausse, Platt or Potter. I think there are still a few left up there. Jet is small, but they get smaller north and west. At least Jet has a gas station that sells fried chicken by the piece and fried cheddar poppers. 😉
Never been there. Googled it though. Grandmother was a Scott.
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Dave Karoly, post: 422091, member: 94 wrote: Merle Haggards house is on Route 178 at the mouth of the Kern River Canyon.
I grew up in Bakersfield, AKA little Oklahoma.
Buck Owens...the Bakersfield Sound.
"Little Oklahoma"...that is so true. Before they all passed away or moved off I had two uncles and an aunt (all with families and a slew of cousins) that all wound up in Bakersfield....via the 'Steinbeck' migration in the '30s. My mother use to refer to her recordings of relatives in her family bible as "the Grapes of Wrath".
Scotland, post: 422092, member: 559 wrote: Never been there. Googled it though. Grandmother was a Scott.
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If you are ever surveying around Jet here is a tidbit of info:
Almost every section corner up there is (or was) marked with a 36" x 1" iron drift pin. And they're all about 3' deep. Damnedest thing I've ever run across. No corner records and nobody I've ever talked to knows where they originated. But they are there...and they are good when compared to the GLO records. At 3 or 4 feet deep they can evade a pin finder in the hands of someone with little patience....but they are there.
One small detail; no 1/4 corners. Worked up there extensively for a few years and the only 1/4C I ever found were recently set.
Don't know who set the bars, but they did a good job.
paden cash, post: 422095, member: 20 wrote: If you are ever surveying around Jet here is a tidbit of info:
Almost every section corner up there is (or was) marked with a 36" x 1" iron drift pin. And they're all about 3' deep. Damnedest thing I've ever run across. No corner records and nobody I've ever talked to knows where they originated. But they are there...and they are good when compared to the GLO records. At 3 or 4 feet deep they can evade a pin finder in the hands of someone with little patience....but they are there.
One small detail; no 1/4 corners. Worked up there extensively for a few years and the only 1/4C I ever found were recently set.
Don't know who set the bars, but they did a good job.
Wow. I did work near Springfield CO. GLO did a resurvey and set brass caps. Found them suckers in the middle of the county roads and 2ft under. 2 of them the land owner moved to his fence corners. Lol. Thanks for the info.
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He grew up in Oildale (adjoins Bakersfield on the north)...
http://www.bakersfield.com/entertainment/merle-s-biggest-fans-won-t-wait-to-see-house/article_3f91844d-35c2-5df5-8788-a9e0b9dfe1e6.html
paden cash, post: 422089, member: 20 wrote: My daughter-in-law has family in Jet. All named Wolf, Krausse, Platt or Potter. I think there are still a few left up there. Jet is small, but they get smaller north and west. At least Jet has a gas station that sells fried chicken by the piece and fried cheddar poppers. 😉
As an Aside to this thread.
a Couple of weeks ago I had an online "Chat" with a fellow from around Pawhuska that tried to tell me that US 60 running west from Pawhuska ends at Jet. He insisted on that and wouldn't listen to reason otherwise. Poor feller. Didn't have brains enough to "Listen and Learn".
I personally know that it keeps running all the way to California. How far East it goes I haven't researched.
Stephen Johnson, post: 422163, member: 53 wrote: As an Aside to this thread.
a Couple of weeks ago I had an online "Chat" with a fellow from around Pawhuska that tried to tell me that US 60 running west from Pawhuska ends at Jet. He insisted on that and wouldn't listen to reason otherwise. Poor feller. Didn't have brains enough to "Listen and Learn".
I personally know that it keeps running all the way to California. How far East it goes I haven't researched.
According to my map of US Highway Routes US 60 either stops at Quartzite, AZ or now runs concurrent with I-10. It's eastern terminus looks like it loops around the north side of Virginia Beach, VA with a possible term point at the I-264 Jct. It's by no means a hitchhiker's paradise through these parts anymore.
Here's US 60 as it leaves Ellis Co., OK and enters Lipscomb Co., TX. A view only Kent could admire...
paden cash, post: 422171, member: 20 wrote: According to my map of US Highway Routes US 60 either stops at Quartzite, AZ or now runs concurrent with I-10. It's eastern terminus looks like it loops around the north side of Virginia Beach, VA with a possible term point at the I-264 Jct. It's by no means a hitchhiker's paradise through these parts anymore.
Here's US 60 as it leaves Ellis Co., OK and enters Lipscomb Co., TX. A view only Kent could admire...
I was born about 5 miles East and 15 miles North of where that picture was taken.
I have traveled through there Many times.
US 60 changes to CA60 at the Colorado River. The state line of CA & AZ. I used to live about a mile south of it in Moreno Valley CA in the late 80's.
As to Quartzite, I tell people that I spent a month there one week and I was only there 3 days.
Temps were hitting 125å¡+ there and not getting below 100å¡ until after midnight. June, 1990.
