Daily photos from Oklahoma City and the surrounding
metro area
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Pop's
This is a great tourist site called Pop's, off of I-40 east of Oklahoma City. It's a gas station, but it has over 100 different flavors of bottled soda pop and a restaurant inside. Its just off Route 66 and the parking lot was packed on this grey, rainy day as we drove past. The giant bottle with the straw sticking out of it that is its trademark lights up in neon at night.
Oklahoma is called the Sooner State, because when the state was opened up land was given away not by lottery but by land run, in a "shotgun start" style. At a certain time, all the settlers lined up at the starting line took off at a dead run and ran as fast as their buggies, coaches, buckboards, horses and legs could take them until they could find land that no one had claimed, 160 acres at a time. Unfortunately, not everyone waited for the starting shot and took off Sooner than they were supposed to: hence, the Sooner State. This bronze statue, actually a series of statues depicting the land run, is found along the canal in Bricktown, in downtown Oklahoma City (OKC) and when finished will be the largest bronze statuary in the world.
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