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  1. Here's another flashback to 1983.

    I was the orientation director at the University of Oklahoma that year. I was 30*. This photo was taken right after the student volunteers I mentored got me in the face with a pie as a token of their affection. One of the student housing dorms, Walker Tower, is in the background.

    *Edit: sorry, was 30, not 29!

    #UniversityOfOklahoma
    #NormanOK

  2. I have owned a couple of SUVs in my life, including this Chevrolet S-10 Blazer I used to tow the 22-foot Windrose sailboat I co-owned with a friend from work.

    Photo taken in 1983. Oklahoma is a hugely popular sailing location, with manmade lakes everywhere, most in state parks...and the wind really does come sweeping down the plains.

    When I lived in Norman, the largest Hobie Cat dealer in the US was there.

    #ClassicCars
    #WeirdCarMastodon
    #Sailing
    #Oklahomna
    #NormanOK

  3. Here's a photo from a happier Fourth of July, taken near the bank of the South Canadian River*, which runs just south of my childhood home, Norman OK. 1957, I think.

    In Oklahoma, there's a saying, "the rivers are a mile wide and an inch deep." Except after storms, they're mostly wide flat strips of sand.

    *Celebrated in song by Michael Martin Murphey

    #SouthCanadianRiver
    #NormanOK
    #MichaelMartinMurphey

    youtu.be/9GKOnPcA8p0?feature=s

  4. Is it me or is Unite Norman acting like a bunch of bullies to the City of Norman? WTH Norman?

    Unite Norman files court protest over mayor's signature petition
    oklahoman.com/article/5673233/

    #oklahoma #normanOK