I’ve heard stories about Oologah, too.
“I’ve heard stories about Oologah, too.”
Could have been.
I remember Big Cabin because the truck stop there was always one of my fuel stops.
When the truck stop owner first put up a sign he bought an old lighted mobile sign that is built onto a towable trailer. Unfortunately he needed to run electricity to the sign and he planted an iron post in concrete to secure the sign so no one could steal it.
The county charged him with illegally erecting a permanent sign, erecting a permanent sign too close to a roadway and several permitting violations. It ended up costing him several thousand dollars.
He then used a trailer with a home made sign that he moved every few days.
Back in the day Oklahoma towns that were just off the interstate would annex land so they would have a small bit of interstate frontage.
They would keep a deputy on their small bit of interstate and he would write tickets all day.
There were stories of towns getting upwards of 90% of their proceeds from those tickets.
Not just picking on Sooners.
I remember back in the 70’s that two small towns in Virginia were in the top ten worst speed traps in the country.
Kansas had some back road towns that were on major short cut routes that kept themselves going by ticketing people from out of town and truckers.
Most of them are ghost towns now.
Here is a very interesting article about Hampton, Florida. A typical speed trap town.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/us/hampton-florida-corruption/index.html