Shannon Gardner

[LL @ll_Akuba]

🚨No one has ever given me a birthday gift🚨

Charles Bronson was born 11th of 15 children in the coal region of the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania. His family was so poor that, at one time, he had to wear his sister's dress to school for lack of clothing. His father died when Bronson was 10, so Bronson went to work in the coal mines, first in the office and then in the mine until he entered the army during World War 2.

In 1962, Bronson was acting in the TV Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, starring 12-year-old Kurt Russell. Kurt found out Bronson's birthday and gave him a model gas-powered airplane. Bronson took it, didn't say a word, turned and walked off. The crew consoled Kurt, telling him not to worry about it.

Kurt said, "The assistant director came to me and said Charles wants to see you in his dressing room. I knocked on his door. It opened and he looked down, but not at me. He said, 'No one has ever given me a birthday gift.'

"When my birthday came up, Bronson got us both skateboards and we rode around the studio lot. Soon I was told to stop skate-boarding by the studio president. Bronson found out about it, grabbed me and we went into the president's office unannounced.

Bronson said to the president, 'Kurt and I are going to ride our boards around the studio.' Bronson turned, I turned, and we walked out of the office. We skate-boarded around the lot from then on and no one said a word.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

When Kurt Russell was a kid, he worked with Charles Bronson.

On discovering it was Bronson's birthday, Russell gave him a gift.

Bronson took the gift and left without a word, leaving Russell worried he had upset him.

Later, Bronson called Russell to his dressing room and quietly said he had never received a birthday gift before. Bronson grew up very poor, with fourteen siblings, and worked in mines from a young age, never completing school or experiencing much kindness.

Bronson was touched by Russell's gesture. He later gifted Russell a skateboard for his birthday, and they became lifelong friends.

[Shannon Gardner @shannonOKC]

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[Willie Nelson @WillieNelson]

90 photos for 90 years

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[Frank Sinatra @franksinatra]

Frank Sinatra singing “That’s Life” on stage with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra in 1966 🎺

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[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum @ncwhm]

“I am a friend to any brave and gallant outlaw,” Belle Starr, Dallas Morning News, 1886.

To learn more about Belle Starr and other outlaws, come visit "outLAWman" now through May 7, 2023. #TheCowboy

[Oklahoma Historical Society @okhistory]

#DYK? A woman born in Tulsa, OK, was the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter!
Naomi Parker Fraley (1921–2018) worked in a U.S. Navy machine shop in California, at which time she became the subject of this wartime labor poster.

(@USNatArchives poster by artist J. Howard Miller)

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[F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes @F_ScottFitz]

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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[Sylvester Stallone @TheSlyStallone]

You never know where greatness is going to come from, so never stop trying! https://t.co/QiYwXr3pf1

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[Mount Vernon @MountVernon]

#OnThisDay in 1773, holiday visitors amused themselves by competing to see who could throw an iron bar furthest across Mount Vernon's lawn. ⁣Washington took his turn, "striking the ground far, very far, beyond our utmost limits.”⁣
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Read more here: https://t.co/SALdGHQMAQ

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[F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes @F_ScottFitz]

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

[Oklahoma Historical Society @okhistory]

The Oklahoma State Fair starts today! This throwback photo is from the fair in 1938 🎟️

(Clayton E. Soule Collection, OHS) #TBT #OKStateFair #StateFair #Oklahoma @okstatefair

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[Mount Vernon @MountVernon]

Ahead of #ConstitutionDay, check out our film A More Perfect Union, which explores the many challenges facing the new nation and describes how our founding fathers, led by George Washington, created the United States Constitution.

Watch the video here: https://t.co/12plgzFJC7

[JOHN WAYNE @JohnDukeWayne]

Plans for Labor Day, you earned it! 😴

[Shannon Gardner @shannonOKC]

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[Sylvester Stallone @TheSlyStallone]

Just discovered, the new version of the Rocky Mountains! LOL. https://t.co/lbVvVk87At

[CMT @CMT]

K.T. Oslin, one of country music’s most interesting and eloquent voices of the 1980s, has died. https://t.co/PnEIdD9omd