Hi Toney.
I see your address is Drumright Okla. I was born in Sasakwa Okla. about 100 air miles southwest of your town -- very near the Canadian River, though I never could figure why they named it that.
I only lived in Sasakwa until about 5 years old then WW-2 started up and the oil wells my dad worked at dried up. Then like Jed Clampet we loaded up the truck and moved to Kalifornia. We sort of looked like the Grapes of Wrath.
I'll be 70 come Feb. 7th, so I've seen the elephant in the past 7 decades.
Sure would like to see the dried up oil fields and the company house we once lived in...but expect there is no trace of any of it today.
Though the town is still there and probably just as small today as it was in the early 40s.
As a young child I remember the abundance of game around where we lived on a Midcontinent oil lease. We had a two acre garden my dad had plowed with our horse named Toney. No kidding, that was his name. We had chickens, eggs and fried chicken, and a milk cow to make butter and cream.
As a kid the down side was them danged fireants, crawling and flying types. Snapping turtles big as wash tubs, water mocasins snakes.
Speaking of wash tubs, that's what we took a baths in with water heated on a gas burner stove, the gas came off the oil rig a 100 yards away. It also furnish us with gas jet lighting in the company house. Our well water was pumped out of the ground but no potible, we got drinking water from a natural spring gushing from the ground and only 5 miles from the house.
No electricity, our Montgomery Wards console radio ran on 12 volt battery, and radio in those days was a wonderful intertainment instrument.
Ah memories.
Bigbore44