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About Okie Without Borders |  | | To briefly explain, Okie without Borders is all about Okies growing up outside the borders of Oklahoma. A
story beginning with hopeful Okies car pooling with all earthly possessions out to the west coast to escape the harsh memories
of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and 1940s. Many of our parents along with our older siblings migrated out
west, leaving the parched Red Dirt behind. Therefore, This journal is dedicated to those Oklahomans
who chose to remain behind. My intent here is to only explain what had finally happened after we all settled
down out on the west coast. Stories of jobs, school, and transplanted Okie culture. All postings are from
a California Okie boy's perspective and with a little pinch of tongue in cheek. So, what you will read here is my family and my experiences living as transplanted
Okies in wild and wooly East L. A. How we survived. Where we lived. What
we saw through Okie eyes. And, finally, how Los Angeles survived the intrusion. Chuck
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From the Red Dirt Plaines to the Blue Pacific. Okies on the
go.
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Some recent postings to my journal:
Let's go to the hop! After the big grab we counted our Halloween treasu... Wilson Oklahoma, the final tour.
Okies and others at the Weed Patch Federal camp near Bakersfield Photos and Essay on Okies and others in the California Imperial Valley 1937-38 The "Okie Sub-culture" in California
Okies and others traveling west on route 66 Link to our official Route 66 website Stories of Okies in California Book
suggestion: Worst Hard Times by Timothy Egan Early history, how it affected
the southern plaines, and the Dust Bowl outcome. A must read about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Also, coming soon,
Ken Burns' Dust Bowl on PBS.
Wikipedia: An over view of Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | Icon
of the Mother Road | 
| | 66 the Okie concrete river to California. |
Cool information about Historic Route 66: Did
you know Motel 6 got it only half right?
| Fill'er up with regular? | 
| | Texaco station on Route 66 |
Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Blog: "I'm an Okie" Other books about Okies Blog: Okie invasion of California
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