For the decades before convenience stores, jug milk outlets and easy travel, milk was delivered daily to urban homes. Bread and other products were delivered too, but milk was the most popular before refrigeration became common.
Oklahoman
With electric vehicle manufacturer Canoo planning to build a manufacturing plant in Pryor within the next two years, Oklahoma s auto industry is poised to roll vehicles off the line for the first time in nearly two decades.
It s the return of an industry that s more like a little brother to Oklahoma s other economic powerhouses of agriculture, aerospace and oil. But while it may not employ as many people or bring in anywhere near the revenue, automobile manufacturing here is nearly as old as the state itself.
In 1909, two years after Oklahoma became the 46th state, an independent automaker briefly operated a shop in Frederick, a small town between Lawton and the Texas border.