URGENT: You Can Help Change OKC’s National Image
Is this the image we want to leave with the national TNT audience Saturday night?
Don’t you hate all those shots of a sleepy Bricktown Canal taken eight years ago shown on TNT? You can help change everything. Here’s an alert from the Bricktown Association. I urge everyone to take time out from their day to stroll the Bricktown Canal. Devon Energy, Continental Resources, SandRidge, Sonic – here’s your chance to show your civic pride – give your employees a special break today to gather in Oklahoma’s premier urban entertainment district. This is a great step in the right direction for the association (I hope the association will consider placing a few extra patio seats on any of the empty balconies to help fill in any development gaps):
Are you all as happy as I am about the GREAT Thunder win last night?! WOW! On that note, Charles Barkley will be in Bricktown this afternoon, touring the Bricktown Canal on a Water Taxi around 1:30 p.m. I’m letting everyone know this because we would love for people to take that time to be out and about along the canal, maybe taking a walk or grabbing lunch on a patio. It’s a beautiful day and Bricktown always looks better when there is life in the streets and on the canal. We do ask that you show Mr. Barkley nothing but respect – despite anything he may have said about Oklahoma City prior to this visit, he is still a guest in our city and we should show him just how amazing this city really is!
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@Erick . . .so sorry you don’t have transportation or you haven’t heard of it. Maybe you could catch one of the city buses to take you to the canal. I suppose you’d consider Edmond the hinterlands since we are 12 miles from OKC. And yes, Edmond has bus service that you can take into OKC. With the metro-area population of 1,252,987, I doubt if most of them consider they live in the hinterlands. So we’ll have to drive. Big deal, we drive everywhere else. Unless you are a displaced or misplaced New Yorker, we knew how to drive at an early age. If you don’t like OKC then leave–no one will miss you or your pessimism!
Not enough people live in the immediate area; they’ll all have to drive in from the hinterlands.