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.
Ole Anthony and the God Thing
In which Joe Bob Briggs, America’s irreverent drive-in movie critic, gets religion.
Ole Anthony was the only preacher I ever met who wanted to talk about getting laid. To be fair, he mostly talked about
not getting laid and the crimp it put in his lifestyle. But there were nights in the early ’80s when we would hang out at smoky, boozy joints like Arthur’s, the notorious upscale pickup bar in North Dallas, and svelte elegant women with bedroom eyes would linger for a long time at Ole’s side and then, at some point, click away in their 4-inch pumps, bound only for the parking lot.