![]() If “dizzyingly pleasurable” and “Oklahoma City” aren’t words you expect to see in the same sentence, Anderson’s book wants to convince you that the capital of America’s forty-sixth state is the most secretly fascinating place on earth, “one of the great weirdo cities of the world,” as Anderson writes. I thought about that drive repeatedly this week as I read “ Boom Town,” Sam Anderson’s dizzyingly pleasurable new history of Oklahoma City. and ale.) That two-hour drive through numb prairie was the inevitable prelude to commerce, entertainment-all the stuff we couldn’t get much of in the little dwindling oil town that was home. It had fancy restaurants, like Applewood’s, where you could get fried apple fritters dipped in powdered sugar, and Steak & Ale, whose TV ads left me with a borderline religious conviction that it must be the finest restaurant in the world. It had a zoo, bigger than but, my family felt, not as nice as the one in Wichita, two hours in the other direction. It had malls and roller coasters and a water park. It was where you bought your school clothes and where you did your Christmas shopping and where you went for field trips (there was a science museum where you could have your shadow frozen on the wall, like the victims at Hiroshima), and it was where you rode on late-night school buses to football games and where you ate at late-night Burger Kings after debate tournaments. If you were from Ponca, Oklahoma City was where you went for anything important. This was a drive we made dozens, maybe hundreds, of times. ![]() When I put the book down, I’d rest my forehead on the window and watch the long wire cattle fences rise and fall gently, like failed sine waves. As a child, I would sit in the back seat with my face suctioned to a paperback. For most of the drive, the scenery seemed to come not so much from the middle of nowhere as from the kind of off-center, peripheral nowhere in which Oklahoma specializes: distant hay bales, grassy horizons, ponds the color of Ovaltine powder, oil wells. First you went west, on US-177, and then, for a long time, almost due south, on I-35. paper option is equivalent to 379 GSM.ģ.375" x 2.125" (85.7mm x 54mm) European size business cards and credit card size business cards are also available on our website.Ponca City, Oklahoma, where I grew up, is about a hundred miles north of Oklahoma City, which sits just slightly south of the middle of the state, in the same way that Oklahoma itself sits just slightly south of the middle of the country. Standard US size business cards are 3.5" x 2" (88.9mm x 50.8mm) Our thick 16pt. We not only offer online pricing and convenience, but one of the things that make us special is that we are also available in person too! Visit us in Manhattan at our 252 West 38th Street location, New York, NY 10018. and send you a PDF proof to review before we print your cards.Ĭome in for a free consultation about your business card design and to see and touch paper options. If you already have a design we can usually edit your existing business card design and edit the name, title, phone number, emails, etc.Visit us so we can discuss a design that will work best for you.Order online and use our award-winning online business card designer.Other custom papers are available offline.Ĭome in or contact us for even more customized lux printing and paper options to make a unique card that will make you stand out from your competitors.Non-rush cards are printed on our high-quality offset presses.Our high-quality offset printed full-color beautiful business cards are available online in thicknesses ranging from 12pt.Skilled prepress professionals will take great care to make sure your business cards will look professional and portray you and your business as an industry-leading company.NOT your "typical" online, mass-produced business cards.High quality printed business cards will make a lasting impression on your New York City clients and prospects. Please note: If a PDF proof is requested for a Next Business day order, it will delay the job by one business day. Manhattan business cards are printed on our high-quality digital presses with rush turnaround for your important meeting, presentation, seminar or conference or trade show.īusiness card orders placed by 4:00 pm EST any day Monday through Friday w ill be available for pickup the Next Business Day at 4:00 pm EST Monday through Friday (excluding Holidays). ![]() Wait an additional one or two business days and save on cost.We can also deliver your business cards by messenger or courier service the day they are printed anywhere in Manhattan. ![]()
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