The Vintage Reader

Mr. Vintage Reader told me the other day that he was trying to come up with a way to explain the area of Tulsa we're moving into to his co-workers, mostly female librarians fairly close to our age who understand our pop culture references. It occurred to us that we're moving square into the middle of the area that The Outsiders was about: the Will Rogers school district. It's not as run-down as the neighborhood in the movie—we're a little west of there, I think, although since we haven't actually SEEN the house we're renting, who knows? I wonder if I need to worry about the socs and the greasers rumbling in the street or, y'know, doing cartwheels across the yard? There is a park with a fountain in it just two blocks away (although it's not the one in the movie).