The Vintage Reader

Well, and of course, there's that whole Texas thing. I don't really see how, as an Oklahoma native, I could in good conscience move there; but then, many of my fellow Okies would no doubt say that I couldn't move to New York either, and yet here I am.

Anyway, they clearly have much better garage sales in Houston than what we've got here. One of the problems with living in a place that has experienced a steady exodus over the last 25 years is that the people who had neat stuff in the 30s, 40s, and 50s left long ago. They probably moved to Houston, to get away from the cold.