Posted on 07/21/2023 8:49:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Thank you. Your turn: what should Okie and Dokie look like?
>And during the cold Winter months in Oklahoma, do they close?<
The kids will be in school.
EC
Where I live, over the last 20 years, it was very publicly announced that some people were going to build a NASCAR track, and another announcement that some people were going to build a billion dollar sports complex. There were artist’s renderings of the facilities, etc. As far as I know not one acre of land was ever purchased for either project. I’m wondering if this is a real thing or some kind of grift.
No need to build such a ride. Oklahoma provides the real thing nearly every day for five consecutive spring and summer months.
The final scene from the 7 Ups was filmed on part of the old Freedomland site. Co-op City is there now. High rise apt buildings built on a swampland and amazingly 50yrs later are still standing
Here in Brooksville,FL we had Leadfoot City. A place for car shows and swap meets. Also an enclosed drift pad so the kids with thier rice rockets can have at it off of the streets and plans are supposedly in the works for a 1/8 mile dragstrip. The place closed suddenly and we’re all thinking WTF??!? Apparently the site is up for sale
That’s what I meant. Didn’t clearly get that across, sorry.
It does bring up the question of where thousands of park visitors would find shelter during any of OK's daily twister alerts. Locals take it all in stride. Visitors from outside Tornado Alley might not be so blasé.
Lived in Oklahoma for 28 years. It snows maybe 2 days a year. Cold weather, (40s, 50s), starts in November, stops in March. That's not Summer vacation time, anyhow. Never saw a white Christmas. By May, it's in the 80s.
You've watched too many movies.
Rush uses William Bradford's own words from his journal. At first, they established a commune, and not everyone worked as hard as they could.
From Bradford's Journal: “For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense,'” without any payment, “‘that was thought injustice.’ Why should you work for other people when you can’t work for yourself? What’s the point? … The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive."
Then Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family. The production soared, and people could sell/trade whatever they did not use themselves.
Heck, there could be an entire building/area for Rush, with the Rush Revere books; get permission to animate Rush Revere into video; show Rush's first foray into radio, that gadget his mom bought so he could 'broadcast' in the house; his Jeff Christie years, and a room for Bo Snerdley.
Not movies. Visiting friends in Oklahoma City and watching the daily weather forecasts with doppler radar maps. Alerts seemed to be a daily occurrence. We have tornadoes here in Ohio, sometimes quite bad ones (Google Xenia). Have seen a couple here, and one really major one in eastern Texas. But in Oklahoma I was struck with how they seemed to be a normal part of summer weather. Hence the comment.
New parks always get me thinking of this one in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Discovery Channel’s show “Moedrn Marvels” did an episode on it’s creation. By the time the the show aired and the park opened, the Hard Rock name was gone. Four months after it opened under the new name it closed forever. Was the quickest park to fold I’ve ever seen not due to accidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_Music_Park
Over half of the rides ended up in Vietnam.
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