Don't listen to him, you would miss the trees.

Haha, yeah I live here now

@Lorajay We have trees. Central Texas and all of East Texas are heavily wooded. North Texas and West Texas, not so much. ☺

@Sticks48 El Dorado is part of the Piney Woods area of Northern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas. I remember traveling from Shreveport to El Dorado once and getting claustrophobia because of all the pine trees on both sides of the road. If I remember right Jefferson Texas has that many trees as well.

@Lorajay I grew up in Lawton, so I know how people have this idea Okla is this flat featureless state. We both know this could not be farther from the truth. People in other parts of the country think all of Texas looks like Lubbock. I believe movies have shaped people's ideas of how different parts of the country look. Remember "Gunsmoke"? The opening always had a view of Dodge City with these small mountains in the background. You have to look down at your feet to see the highest point in Kansas.

@Sticks48 wow I grew up in Lawton too. Are you old enough to remember the Southern Club?

@Lorajay Yes, and Bianco's, the Vaska theater, Doe Doe Park, and Medicine Park.

@Sticks48 Do you go to the Facebook page Lawton then and now? My parents ran the Southern club for years. I posted some neat band pictures there that you might like if you are a musician.

@Lorajay That's cool your folks had the Southern club. I will check it out. Thanks.

@Sticks48 did you know Tommy Allsup?

@Sticks48 Otis on that site are in albums. There is a Southern Club album.

@Lorajay I certainly know that name. I just can't place him.
When I graduated from LHS in 66 I left town only coming back to visit my Dad and Grandmother occasionally. Then me Dad, who managed KSWO radio at the time moved to IIlinois to run a station up there. I moved back there in 95 for a little over a year out of necessity, and I haven't been back since, so I am a little fuzzy on some things.

@Lorajay I will definitely check that page. When did you leave Lawton?

@Sticks48 Tommy was the guitar player that didn't get on the plane with Buddy Holly. He was the band leader at the Club for a couple of years in my youth. He ended up producing records and stuff out of Fort Worth, Lubbock, and Nashville. Since you are in Texas, I thought you might have known him from that.