Tag: defensible places
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Today is…
Today is ‘Festival of Life in the Cracks Day’! Saluting a hardy survivor that lives in the cracks, reprinted from Sept 2019. = = = = = This week’s big rain triggered a ferocious sprouting of a ‘ground cover’ plant in ALL of the street cracks. The streets are a dense web of cracks now,…
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Depression?
A 1933 aerial photo of Enid’s square, shortly after the old courthouse burned and before the WPA built a new one. Note especially the solid rows of parked cars. What depression? This goes along with my earlier personal and numerical observations on the non-depressed parts of the country.
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NYC envy?
Vaguely related to recent realization that my surname is an Oil Name…. This 1909 advertisement in an Enid historical FB page shows two impossibly dapper young men attending an impossibly elegant party at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC. The caption says: The men in the scene are wearing Benjamin Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits. The…
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Noblesse oblige?
Thinking about the instant response of Medium’s algorithm to my futile insults in comments, which was definitely a good thing. Kicked me out of a place I shouldn’t have bothered to enter. Facebook has never cancelled or banned me despite some vastly harsher comments about the demons in charge, especially during the first year of…
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Yankoleth
EnidBuzz asked about former or current CB handles. Most of the commenters are women, and most had handles that would be ferociously illegal in today’s inquisitorial climate. Every non-Yankee knows that CBers were poets. Every Okie knows the meaning of Two Dogs.
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