After a soak in the hot tub at 102 degrees, my internal body temperature made me believe that a ride this frosty morning would be pretty, pretty, pretty good. I didn't feel like riding my Domane on my regular Sunday route, so I decided to take an old bike out on the MUP and maybe get a cup of coffee.

Sooner Park play tower designed by architect Bruce Goff after being commissioned by the wife of the founder of the H. C. Price Company. The Same company commissioned Frank Lloyd Write to build the Price Tower as its headquarters. The tower is just a year older than me. I climbed it as a child, I climbed it with my children, and I climbed it with my grandchildren. It was restored a few years ago for I believe the 50th anniversary.


Reproduction of the Nellie Johnstone Number 1. Derricks like this were built and if the well did not produce, they were torn down and tried on another well site. The Nellie Johnstone Number 1 was the first commercially productive oil well in Oklahoma. It was abandoned as a well in 1964, a year after the above play tower was built and the year I was born.


There are still several producing oil leases along this MUP.