The best thing about Hooker, Oklahoma, besides the name Hooker, Oklahoma, is that the citizens seem as proud as can be about hailing from the town named for the world's oldest profession.
When it comes to naming businesses, Hookerites take the George-Foreman-Christening-a-kid strategy: only one name will do.
So, here's the Hooker Chamber of Commerce. And then here's so much more, as captured by your Crap Archivist on a trip through Hooker last week.
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Well , I think its great to learn something new everyday and for one; two get there 15 ...of fame! COOL AnD
if they were to merge together..... Dildhookerdo could make another Townname. Just saying ;}
I actually think that the town and the actual "hooker" got the name from thomas "hooker" the town was named after him and he brought in female companionship for the men there... they were called hooker's girls, then later just hookers. I don't know if it is true or not, just another story I heard.
my personal favorite tshirt says 'I'm a Hooker Street Walker'
my husband has several shirts from there. One says "All my friends are hookers", "Support your local hookers" and another completely innappropriate to wear to church (even under your dress shirt) saying. It is all in good fun and I find it funny when I tell people my grandparents used to live in Beaver, but then moved to Hooker. yep, thats funny
We grew up in Hooker and raised our Son there. Now we go back to HOOKER reunions. LOL! I worked at the FNB. Fun on name tags at the Bank meetinjs top Have FNB Hooker. Or at church activites on the name tags to put FUM Church Hooker. LOL!!! It was a great place to frow uo and to raise our Son.
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Both my kids "graduated from Hooker High" (daughter said it sounded like a bad "b" movie). When she matriculated into Oklahoma City University, she was asked to introduce herself, tell her hometown, and say what she wanted members of her college class to remember about her in four years. She groaned and I told her to beat them to the punch. So she introduced herself, said Hooker, OK, was her hometown, and that she wanted everyone to remember that Hooker was her hometown and not her profession. Everyone lost it!! You have to know that OCU is a United Methodist University and her dad was the pastor of Hooker United Methodist Church at the time!
I'm from Hooker and in the Miss Hooker pagent...but I don't know if I really wanna be known as "Miss Hooker" lol
Why not mention how Hooker actually got its name? Per Hooker History, the town got its name from John (Hooker) Threlkeld
Why not really say how Hooker got it's name? Per the book Hooker History, the town got its name from a man by the name of John (Hooker) Threlkeld.
Hooker is a great "all american" town...no pun intended there! When we first moved there my dad was so proud to say "now my daughters are hookers!". Guess we have to have a sense of humor to live there. Not a bad place, Go Lady Dogs and Hooker Horny Toads...and don't forget, right down the road is Beaver, OK Home of the Beaver Dusters!!! yes, i said it...
The Hooker Soda Fountain now thats a good place to eat. It has pretty good prices too!
I visited Hooker OK in 2009 and loved the brick streets. Enjoyed the drive through both the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle and popped into Liberal Kansas. Now my niece wants to visit Texas so back to Amarillo and and also do the OK Panhandle and will stop in Hooker.
Hey, get a checking account at the historical "First National Bank of Hooker," and you, too, can ask, "Will you take a Hooker check?"
I treasure my original "Hooker Reunion 1989" T-shirt. (Took my mother to her reunion.) Have great memories of that town.
The Hooker High School mascot is the Bulldogs, and their girls' sports teams are named the Hooker Lady Dogs.
That's interesting, Thomas. Kansas likewise has a rich history of full-blooded socialist politics, especially back around the 1890s and early twentieth century . . . although this would be news to most Kansans! Is this history well known in Oklahoma?
Also, I wrote "anti-scoialist" based on some hilarious anti-Obama talk I heard in a gas station just outside of Hooker!
Historically, Oklahoma isn't anti-socialist country; it had the largest socialist party in the US at the beginning of the 1900s. It's not really surprising, given Oklahoma's agrarian/labor roots. Stillwater maybe even had a socialist mayor. Of course, in recent history, Oklahoma has gravitated significantly toward the Republican party, and so could be called anti-socialist in that respect.
I ***** hate Hooker, Oklahoma. If I ever go back it will be with an RPG launcher.
I like how in True Blood Lafayette calls his female friends "Hooker." Makes me laugh every time.
Just to add to the fun, I live in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. About an hour away is a town named Dildo! Now if a man from Dildo got together with woman from Hooker . . .
Of course, the town was NOT named for the oldest profession but for a cowboy who was talented at "hooking" a calf out of a herd and earned the nickname, "Hooker." And the best thing about Hooker, Oklahoma is the great people who live there.
I was in F.F.A. on our official dress jackets it had Oklahoma Hooker in bold letters, when we were at official events talk about funny looks.
I graduated from school in Hooker. I remember seeing a bus-load of girls going down the highway to an out of town event. On the side of the bus (full of young girls)...it said "Hooker Activity Bus". I didn't know that was funny till about five years ago.
I am from Hooker. Another good one is that every year we have a Miss Hooker Sweetheart Pagent!
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