Uncle Sam Posted March 3, 2013 #1 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Oklahoma Trivia If you love the summer there is: Poolville, Oklahoma Sunray, Oklahoma Want Something To Eat? Corn, Oklahoma Grainola, Oklahoma Hominy, Oklahoma Olive, Oklahoma South Coffeeville, Oklahoma Sweetwater, Oklahoma Cookietown, Oklahoma Why Travel To Other Cities? Cleveland, Oklahoma Orlando, Oklahoma Miami, Oklahoma Pittsburgh, Oklahoma Santa Fe, Oklahoma St. Louis, Oklahoma Chattanooga, Oklahoma Peoria, Oklahoma Burbank, Oklahoma Fargo, Oklahoma Don't Forget The Wildlife! Wolfe, Oklahoma Lone Wolf, Oklahoma Eagle, Oklahoma Buffalo, Oklahoma Fox, Oklahoma Bison, Oklahoma Deer Creek, Oklahoma Elk City, Oklahoma Beaver, Oklahoma We Have A Town Named After A Number... Forty-One, Oklahoma And A Town Who's Letter's Don't Spell Anything... IXL, Oklahoma And For The Sportsman Who Wants To Get Away From It All... Fisherman's Paradise, Oklahoma We Even Have A City Named After Earth's Only Satellite! Moon, Oklahoma And A City Named After Our State! Oklahoma City, Oklahoma And A City Named After Another State! Kansas, Oklahoma Feeling A Bit Chilly? Snow, Oklahoma Slick, Oklahoma Cold Springs, Oklahoma Oklahoma Is Full Of Love! Lovedale, Oklahoma Loveland, Oklahoma Lovell, Oklahoma Bigheart, Oklahoma Loyal, Oklahoma And Women To Love! Sharon, Oklahoma Ada, Oklahoma Martha, Oklahoma Carmen, Oklahoma Wynona, Oklahoma Blanch, Oklahoma Hanna, Oklahoma Maud, Oklahoma One Town is Named After a Movie Star! Gene Autry Like To Read About The Presidents? Adams, Oklahoma Taylor, Oklahoma Fillmore, Oklahoma Grant, Oklahoma Taft, Oklahoma Johnson, Oklahoma Lincoln, Oklahoma Jefferson, Oklahoma Reagan, Oklahoma Wilson, Oklahoma Roosevelt, Oklahoma Carter, Oklahoma Clinton, Oklahoma Washington, Oklahoma Other City Names In Oklahoma Just To Make You Smile..... Frogville, Oklahoma Loco, Oklahoma Bushyhead, Oklahoma Bugtussle, Oklahoma Hooker, Oklahoma Slaughterville, Oklahoma Bowlegs, Oklahoma Slapout, Oklahoma Oolagah, Oklahoma And Regardless What Side Of The Fence You're On... Gay, Oklahoma Straight, Oklahoma Here Are Some Little Known But Very Interesting Facts About Oklahoma. 1. The bread twist tie was invented in Maysville. 2. The shopping cart was invented in Ardmore in 1936. 3. The nation's first parking meter was intalled in Oklahoma City in 1935. 4. The first Girl Scout Cookie was sold in Muskogee in 1917. 5. Cimarron County, located in the Oklahoma Panhandle, is the only county in the U.S. bordered by 4 separate states...Texas, New Mexico, Colorado & Kansas. 6. The Oklahoma State Capital is the only capital in the U.S. with working oil wells on its grounds. 7. Boise City, Oklahoma was the only city in the United States to be bombed during World War II. On Monday night, July 5, 1943, at 12:30 a.m., a B-17 Bomber based at Dalhart Army Air Base, Texas, dropped six practice bombs on the sleeping town, mistaking the city lights as target lights. 8. WKY Radio in Oklahoma City was the first radio station transmitting west of the Mississippi River. 9. The nation's first 'Tornado Warning' was issued on March 25, 1948 in Oklahoma City minutes before a devastating tornado. Because of the warning, no lives were lost. 10. Oklahoma has the largest Native American population of any state in the U.S. 11. The name 'Oklahoma' comes from two Choctaw words, okla meaning 'people' and humma meaning 'red'. So the name means, 'Red People.' 12. Oklahoma produced more astronauts than any other state. 13. Oklahoma has more man made lakes than any other state. 14. During the 'Land Rush', Oklahoma City went from a vast, open prairie to a city of over 10,000 in a single day. 15. The nation's first traffic 'Yield' sign was erected in Tulsa on a trial basis. 16. Pensacola Dam is the longest multi-arched dam in the world at 6,565 feet. 17. The 'Port of Catoosa' (just north of Tulsa) is the largest inland port in America. 18. The aerosol can was invented in Bartlesville. 19. Per square mile, Oklahoma has more tornadoes than any other place in the world. 20. The highest wind speed ever recorded on earth was in Moore, Oklahoma on May 3rd. 1999 during the Oklahoma City F-5 tornado. Wind speed was clocked at 318 mph. 21. The 'Will Rogers World Airport' and the 'Wiley Post Airport' are both named after two famous Okies....both killed in an airplane crash!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted March 3, 2013 #2 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Some more "Okie" facts... Electric Guitar: Beggs, Oklahoma Bob Dunn, a musician from Beggs, Oklahoma, is the first musician to record an electrically amplified instrument. Dunn was primarily a jazz trombonist, but soon became a pioneer Western Swing steel guitarist. It is certain that he wasn't the first to try merging electricity with guitars, but he is often credited as the first to successfully electrify his guitar. There is an old story that relates that Dunn hooked his guitar up to a car battery during an outdoor dance in order to be heard. Historian Kevin Reed Coffey indicates that Dunn wanted to accomplish more than volume with electrification. He writes, “Not content with just being louder, Dunn experimented with ways to capture the brassy resonance of jazz horns. According to surviving contemporaries, he emulated musicians such as Texas trombonist Jack Teagarden and the great trumpeter Louis Armstrong, and his approach to the steel was based on their styles, their tone, their phrasing and attack.” Bill C. Malone states that “Dunn converted a standard round-hole Martin guitar into an electric instrument by magnetizing the strings and raising them high off the box. He then attached an electric pickup to the guitar, which in turn was connected to a Vol-U-Tone amplifier.” Dunn’s first use of electric guitar on a recording was in January, 1935, with Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies. Dunn was elected to the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1992. The "Ditch Witch" compact ditch digging tractor, was invented in Perry, Oklahoma - and has it's world HQs there still. The Pressurized Flight suit was invented (by Wiley Post) in 1934 in the town of Mayesville... NEXRAD weather radar was invented by two professors at the University of Oklahoma... and... Chuck Norris was born here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohio traveler Posted March 3, 2013 #3 Share Posted March 3, 2013 If we could saw off Cleveland and its' surrounding counties, and let them sink into Lake Erie, my state would be much much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted March 3, 2013 #4 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Nice! An interesting and entertaing list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickian Posted March 3, 2013 #5 Share Posted March 3, 2013 I've been to the Gaylordsville, Connecticut fire department before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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