Pugs On the Road Again

The Pugs, Duchess & Sadie, have been panting on the road again with NW Okie as she makes a trip into NW Oklahoma.

AND... We found that gas prices in eastern Colorado are cheaper than on the western slopes of the rockies.

As we got closer to and into Oklahoma Territory we found gas prices almost 4-cents cheaper than those prices in and around Bayfield and Durango, Colorado.

We left the cool, mountain temperatures of the mid-70's in SW Colorado for the warmer temps of the mid to high 80's in NW Oklahoma.
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Colorado Gas Prices - gasbuddy.com

OkieLegacy Survey Questions

These are just a sample of the two survey questions that we asked last week in our OkieLegacy Survey to see how voters were feeling about politics & Election 2008 coming upon us.

If someone else has a comment or response to these two questions and their answers, please keep it clean and leave your response by clicking the Add Comments link below this post. Thanks!

1. If you could send a message to the 2008 Presidential candidates, what would it be?
* We are tired of the fear tactics, character assassinations and lies that you use to patronize us and win our votes. It is a turn off! Stick to the Issues and what you can honestly accomplish as our next leader.
* State the facts and stop bickering as well as state what you stand for.
* Start telling the truth and stop accusing everyone of wrong doing.
* Cut spending
* Be fair and take charge
* As a Candidate I would like to know just how you are going to keep all the promises that you have made when you know that it takes a partnership with Congress to get these promises enacted?
* This country needs to take care of its own, not everyone else's. We as American citizens earned those things for which we feel entitled...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....we did not earn them so you and all of your Washington friends can lavish them on an ungrateful world. Take care of our own. Feed, Clothe, House, Educate, and keep every person in this country healthy before you even suggest doing it for every little pet project that crosses your mind!

2. If you were President or running for President, what would you do to give the economy an upward boost? Why?
* The government needs to and must live within their means, just as we the people do. I'd cut funding to all other countries, and all in the loans. Take care of the USA first - then look at other countries that may need help.
* Drill for more oil in the United States.
* Lessen regulations and lower taxes.
* I would try to curb spending and would certainly like to have "pork" cut out of any budget prepared and approved.
* Stop foriegn aid, flat tax every dollar earned, eleminate all tax deductions, socialize medicene. It solves every problem this country has and gives every person an upward boost economically.
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Screen Legend Paul Newman Dies

Screen Legend Paul Newman Dies -- Let us set our sights back to the days of memories and remember those certain superstars that we had a crush on. for example, actor, Paul Newman.

Newman died this weekend at the age of 83 after a long illness with lung cancer. Even at that age he still had that sexy hunk of a man look. AND... I loved all his movies: the Verdict, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Absence of Malice, Hustler, etc... Other films of Paul Newman's.

To this NW Okie in her younger days, Paul Newman was a superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud" and "Cool Hand Luke."

Paul Newman, some might say, had a strong, classically handsome face and piercing blue eyes, and was a heartthrob in my younger days.

It has been written that Paul Newman had a soft spot for underdogs in real life, giving tens of millions to charities through his food company and setting up camps for severely ill children. Passionately opposed to the Vietnam War, and in favor of civil rights, he was so famously liberal that he ended up on President Nixon's "enemies list," one of the actor's proudest achievements, he liked to say.

Is it no wonder that this Liberal NW Okie would be one of those admirers of Paul Newman. Newman in his aging years was still a classically handsome heartthrob with his piercing blue eyes.
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'55-'56 Horace Mann School

"Is that Donna Bush next to Mrs Highfill?" -- Ellis R. - OkieLegacy Comments

"Gosh, Kathy, you sure brought back some memories with that photo grouping. There are some faces and names that I had completely forgotten. I wished I could help identify the question marks, but I'm stumped. Thanks for the memories." -- Terry S.
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Saline Game Preserve (Dog Ranch)

"The 'Orville' who worked at the Dog Ranch that Grace Wessels wanted to know about was my Uncle Orville Clover and the hunters were his son and grandsons. Grace (my SIL) has already contacted me. My mother Banna Clover Caywood and several other relatives of mine have worked there." -- Lois Caywood Guffy - OkieLegacy Comment
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Music of the 50's

"The 50's saw a great change in popular music. In the beginning of the 50's it was a carry over from the Big Band/Easy Listening era, but as the years moved forward we began to hear Doo Wop music. And then, when Elvis entered the music kingdom, it was the birth of Rock & Roll. Teenagers came forth with a new type of dancing at the sock hops, and the popular fashion for the girls was poodle skirts and bobby sox, and white t-shirts and jeans for the boys.

Remember the boys hair style called the DA or Duck's butt with a lot of grease to keep it in place. AND... let us not forget the true girlish eeny bopper's poni-tail. It was the time of'bubble gum' music, teen idols and Dick Clark's American Bandstand." -- stinalisa.com - 50's music
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Old 45's & Rock 'n Roll

When did rock'n roll start? Some people think it started in 1953 with Ike Turner's "My Rocket 88," or Big Joe Turner with "Honey, Hush" in 1953, or "Shake, Rattle and Roll" 1954. Personally, I believe it started with the premiere of the movie Blackboard Jungle in theaters across the country, in 1955. This movie featured the song "Rock Around the Clock" by "Bill Haley and his Comets," which helped to propell Rock and Roll as a musical genre. It was reported that teenagers jumped from their seats to dance to the song." -- Old Forty Fives and Growing up in the '50's
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Col. Bob Kirkbride

"Robin Wilson Kirkbride was my grandfather. He was not killed when hit with a piece of shot, but was blinded in one eye. His death at age 59 (1947) was from kidney cancer, complicated by diabetes, I sure, and the fact that he probably weighed close to 300 pounds. Don't think he ever went on a diet. His wife, Pearl, lived on until around 1972. My mother just adored him; she is Margery Kirkbride Clyne born 1914 and still living today at age 94. So hope that is a little help, oh his other daughter, Mary Doris Kirkbride Powers is also still living at age 88." -- Robin Clyne - OkieLegacy Comment
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Mitch Miller's K-K-Katy Song

Here is a nice version of the K-K-Katy song done by Mitch Miller. Mitch Miller Songs and K-K-Katy
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Growing Up In Oklahoma &

We are in the process of taking down Kenneth Updike's stories and ramblings of "Growing Up In Oklahoma" because Kenneth asked us, "To remove all of my previous writings to you about my Ramblins. Personal stories that I told you and your readers. My Son has had all of my writings, and notes copyrighted so that we can put them in a book or booklet. His idea. I really have no objections to this, but he insists we can be viewed by more people. I leave it up to him. Thanks for your help in the past, and I still read your Okie Legacy nearly every week."

If you find some of Kenneth's Ramblings that I have missed, Please email me the link with Vol. and Iss. numbers so that this NW Okie can remove them. Thanks for your help!
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Wilbur Warwick's Headstone Pics

"These gravestone photo's are for Wilbur Warwick. The lettering was raised ... but not a whole lot. Catherine Warrick is buried about 1/2 way down in BLOCK 9, south side/edge, near the fence. You can see the fence in the longer shot. Tthere is also a small tree nearby. Wilbur is buried on the south side/edge of BLOCK 8.. The lane running beside is Fuller Lane. He is buried about 1/2 way down in BLOCK 8. Gravestone reads: WILBUR - Son of Mr. & Mrs. J.R. Warwick - Born Oct. 13, 1895 - Died May 26, 1896.

Catherine WARRICK gravestone information: wife of L.W. Warwick - Died: Dec. 25(?) 1900 Age 66 Years, 3 Months, 16 Days. The last number on the date of death was extremely hard to figure out, so I hope it was a 5. Had to get down on my hands and knees to read it! [Does the last line of Catherine's gravestone read: "He giveth his beloved sleep."?]

FOWITZ was a cousin of my grandfather, Louis Miller, and came to live with my grandfather and his wife when he was about 8. His parents were killed in a fire in their home in Pennsylvania. He eventually bought my grandfather's mortuary business and established Fowitz Mortuary. He was killed in a car wreck on that nasty curve near Cherokee in 1935 when his windshield iced over.

One person was seeking information/photo on David C."Pat" Oates. Contacted her once and told her I'd take a photo of his headstone and sent her another email with the article information I found on on him under your site." -- Kathy Racette
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Middle Name Was

I was curious as to why my middle name was, "Alva", and began searching regions known to have possibly been Indian encampment areas in the 1830's.......I am 66 years old and want to pass on to my grand-children where they came from. Until we meet again, thanks." -- Emmett Alva Walker View/Write Comments (count 3)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe