Holy Cow, post: 420676, member: 50 wrote: When I was about three or four my family went to the Pueblo, Colorado area to visit my mother's sister and family. While there, my sister and I walked down the road with my cousins to visit with some neighbor kids. They asked where we were from, so we told them. One of the older girls in that family announced that we were "foreigners". I had no idea what that meant but it made me madder than an old wet hen. I left the group and stomped all the way back to my aunt's house to find out what it meant.
There's a big difference you know:
Peter Lothian - MA ME, post: 420838, member: 4512 wrote: I usually sing along to "Oakie from Muskogee" when it comes on the radio.
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 II
and there are many more...;)
Steve Gaines was one who didn't survive the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash. He was honored with the title on their live recording when Ronnie Van Zant said "watch out, we're going to sick a okie on you")
paden cash, post: 420865, member: 20 wrote:
and there are many more...;)
Chet Baker
paden cash, post: 420865, member: 20 wrote:
and there are many more...;)
Chet Baker
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Dont forget Ray Wylie Hubbard was born in Soper, OK.
backspur, post: 422061, member: 11896 wrote: Dont forget Ray Wylie Hubbard was born in Soper, OK.
Although he was born in Roswell, NM, Henry Deutschendorf Jr.'s mother was from Oklahoma. Went to school with his cousins. He use to rent out the whole go-cart track amusement park on S. MacArthur for a day in the summer for his family reunions.
paden cash, post: 422064, member: 20 wrote: Although he was born in Roswell, NM, Henry Deutschendorf Jr.'s mother was from Oklahoma. Went to school with his cousins. He use to rent out the whole go-cart track amusement park on S. MacArthur for a day in the summer for his family reunions.
I've always said Ol' Henry was a heck of a lot better pilot than he was a singer.
I also have my okie license. Do a little bit of work in No-man's land. Have family in Norman and surrounding towns. Also have mineral rights near Jet. Grandmother was from there. Does that mean that I am a okie?
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Scotland, post: 422076, member: 559 wrote: I also have my okie license. Do a little bit of work in No-man's land. Have family in Norman and surrounding towns. Also have mineral rights near Jet. Grandmother was from there. Does that mean that I am a okie?
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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. 😉
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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