Age and Location

[Garin]

Just curious how many people on this this site are originally from Oklahoma and what their ages are. I will go first

I'm 38 and have lived in Oklahoma all my life.

[Tavia]

I am 45 and have lived in Oklahoma all of my life.

[hoya]

I'm 35, born and raised here, moved to DC for law school. Now I'm back.

[Of Sound Mind]

44, have lived in Oklahoma since 1986.

[bchris02]

28, military brat. Lived in Oklahoma in the '90s for a few years and moved away. Moved back from Charlotte, NC in 2012 for the economic opportunity.

[LocoAko]

23, born and raised in NYC and moved to Oklahoma (Norman) last year for grad school.

[soonerguru]

23, born and raised in NYC and moved to Oklahoma (Norman) last year for grad school.

Awesome! I had the great pleasure of living in NYC. Did you grow up in Brooklyn? Queens? Manhattan?

[LocoAko]

Awesome! I had the great pleasure of living in NYC. Did you grow up in Brooklyn? Queens? Manhattan?

I'm actually from Jersey City, so I guess claiming NYC is a bit of a misnomer, but we associated more with NYC than any part of Jersey... you get the idea. :P

[PWitty]

23, born and raised on the KS side of the KC metro. Graduated from KU in July 2013. Currently living up in Pennsylvania/New York for field training, but will be moving to OKC within the next year.

[bradh]

34, born in Chicago but was only there a few months before my folks moved back home to Katy outside of Houston. Went to college outside of San Antonio, then back to Houston for a few years. Picked up and moved to Phoenix on a whim for a couple of years, then met my wife and moved to Grapevine/DFW for a couple of years before being transferred here.

[AP]

24, raised in Tulsa area. Went to OSU, graduated in 2012, moved to OKC for work after that.

[Richard at Remax]

29 born and raised in OKC (mostly Edmond) area, including going to OU

[adaniel]

27, Born at Mercy in NWOKC in 1986. My dad's job in the USAF moved us to Altus shortly after that, before leaving OK for good to Alaska, then UK for a while, then back to the US for a few more bouts of base hopping before my dad finally retired and we moved to DFW in the late 90s. Lived there until 2004, when I came to OU. Graduated in 2009 (three cheers for the 5 year plan!) and been in OKC ever since.

[OKCisOK4me]

35, born in Norman, raised in Edmond, only lived in NC Missouri for my sophomore thru senior years of high school. Went to OSU for a couple of years and then moved back down here and have lived in OKC since '99.

[Bellaboo]

60...ouch. Lived in OKC and Yukon forever. Attended OSUOKC, UCO and SWOSU. Have visited about 50 countries in 4 continents over the years. And there's No place like home.

[RadicalModerate]

I guess it doesn't count if you've lived here in Oklahoma longer than some of the "native-born" have lived. =)

[OKCisOK4me]

I guess it doesn't count if you've lived here in Oklahoma longer than some of the "native-born" have lived. =)

Come on Rad....you can do it. Let us know you're the record oldest hack on the net, lol.

[ctchandler]

OKCisOK4me,
I'll let RM off the hook, I think I'm older than he is. I'm 70, and except for my time in the U. S. Navy have lived here all my life. Born at St. Anthony. Raised in South OKC but have lived in N. E. OKC since 1975.
C. T.

Come on Rad....you can do it. Let us know you're the record oldest hack on the net, lol.

[RadicalModerate]

Come on Rad....you can do it. Let us know you're the record oldest hack on the net, lol.

Moved here in 1973 at the tender age of 21. Jones . . . Crutcho . . . Nicoma Park . . . Midwest City . . . Jones . . . Oklahoma City . . . The Village.

To spare you the math, I'm 61.

Sometimes I feel--at least mentally--like I'm about 25. Or at least what I imagine I recall it was like to be 25. But I'm old. I forget. =)

[OKCisOK4me]

Moved here in 1973 at the tender age of 21. Jones . . . Crutcho . . . Nicoma Park . . . Midwest City . . . Jones . . . Oklahoma City . . . The Village.

To spare you the math, I'm 61.

Sometimes I feel--at least mentally--like I'm about 25. Or at least what I imagine I recall it was like to be 25. But I'm old. I forget. =)

My sister was born in 73. She's 40 so thanks but I'm a Grandmaster at addition ;-)

[Jim Kyle]

Come on Rad....you can do it. Let us know you're the record oldest hack on the net, lol.

Not likely; I'll be 83 next March (but going on 35 mentally). Born in Stillwater, family travelled through Arkansas and Louisiana before moving to Elk City where I started school in 1936. Spent most of WW2 in Southern California but came back to OK in 1946. Graduated from OU in 1952. Spent 13 months in Korea during the big shoot there. Moved to the L.A. area in 1959 to get into the electronics industry as a tech writer, came back to OKC in 1962 and have been here ever since.

[bchris02]

Not likely; I'll be 83 next March (but going on 35 mentally). Born in Stillwater, family travelled through Arkansas and Louisiana before moving to Elk City where I started school in 1936. Spent most of WW2 in Southern California but came back to OK in 1946. Graduated from OU in 1952. Spent 13 months in Korea during the big shoot there. Moved to the L.A. area in 1959 to get into the electronics industry as a tech writer, came back to OKC in 1962 and have been here ever since.

If you lived in Elk City in 1936 you probably had first hand experience with the dust bowl. You mention being in California during WWII, was it the depression/dust bowl that lead you out there? As somebody who actually experienced most of the 20th century, would you consider life better today or back during the postwar era?

[Jim Kyle]

If you lived in Elk City in 1936 you probably had first hand experience with the dust bowl. You mention being in California during WWII, was it the depression/dust bowl that lead you out there? As somebody who actually experienced most of the 20th century, would you consider life better today or back during the postwar era?

I do remember at least one dust storm, but remember that was when I started first grade. My earliest clear memory of those days is of hearing the break-in on WKY about Will Rogers and Wiley Post being killed in that Alaska plane crash, which was 1935. The worst dust storms I ever experienced, though, were both in Southern California -- one in 1943 and the other in 1961.

I did have lots of theoretical knowledge about the Dust Bowl, though. My father was in civil service, with the Shelterbelt program of the Forest Service from 1935 through 1940; its purpose was to combat the dust storms by planting trees as windbreaks. He was in charge of the Elk City district; we did spend a couple of years in OKC around 1939-40 but always considered Elk City to be home. That project shut down in late 40 or early 41, and he left civil service and took advantage of his lifetime teaching certificate (which he had never before used) to become the Vocational Agriculture teacher down at Dibble beginning in September of 1942. A couple of months later his old boss from Shelterbelt days asked him to come back to the Forest Service and manage a 1040-acre plantation to grow sagebrush for its natural rubber content, part of the Emergency Rubber Project that ran from 1942-46. The Dibble school board released him from his contract and we settled down in the middle of the plantation, between Beaumont and Banning in Riverside County. When the war ended, he transferred into the Veterans Administration and we came back to OKC.

As for whether things are better today, as compared to the immediate post-WW2 era, I'd have to say it's a mixed bag. Downtown OKC was far nicer then. The urban renewal debacle had not yet destroyed downtown, nor had the rush to the suburbs that prompted same yet begun. The trolley cars still ran, for a couple of years. Retail hadn't even begun to go as far out as Midtown, although Kerr's and Street's did expand up there before very long. As a teenager I felt absolutely no fear at going downtown by myself, or walking home from school (from NW 18 and Ellison to NW 20 and May). However when we first returned to OKC, we had to live for three months in a two-room "efficiency apartment" which was a converted single-car garage, at 313 NW 13. That definitely was no fun.

My classmates in the last few years of the 40s were all fully literate, and were able to make change without the help of a calculator, unlike many of today's high school graduates. So a lot of things were better then than they are now.

However it wasn't all a bed of roses. We didn't have computers, or even television until WKY finally came on the air from its makeshift studio in the Municipal Auditorium. TV networks were in their infancy, and shows broadcast on either coast didn't get here until a week later, being sent on 16-mm movie film. Since the state was still legally bone dry, much of the law enforcement structure was more than a trifle corrupted by influence of bootleggers; I had no trouble at all buying anything I wanted at the tender age of 19.

Medical science today is infinitely better than it was then; for more than a decade I've been living with a diagnosis that would have been almost immediately fatal before heart transplants became available, and would have required a transplant for a couple of decades after that. An implanted pacemaker and skilful medication have kept me around, with the heart failure apparently in full remission, though. The cost of such care may be unreasonably high, but I'm quite thankful that it exists.

So as I said, it's a mixed bag. The only two things of which I'm certain about this subject is that life has changed dramatically in the past 60 years, and that it will continue to do so during the next 60, with some things improving and others getting worse...

[Just the facts]

44. Born in Oklahoma and lived in Oklahoma on four different occasions bouncing between OK and California. I have been in Florida since '94. I've lived in Dustin, Graham, Healdton, Norman, Altus, and Moore.

I also like walking in the rain, piano music, and the sound of running water. .

[Dubya61]

43. Born in Oklahoma and lived in Oklahoma on four different occasions bouncing between OK and California. I have been in Florida since '94. I've lived in Dustin, Graham, Healdton, Norman, Altus, and Moore.

I also like walking in the rain, piano music, and the sound of running water. .

Now if you like Pina Coladas ... rats. I just gave away my age!