Carolyn Whitener
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47 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And I meet Carolyn Whitener. I'm 76, soon be 77. She...
Will you have a beer with me? No, I can't. I'm a diabetic. I can drink a little, but not much. Thank you. And I've got some brownies over here.
Well, tell me about yourself.
She actually told me, like, up front, she's like, I'm proud of the young women. I have a granddaughter that's 23 or 24.
Generation. But see, my name was never tied in with it. It was always Craig's name. So, you know, it wasn't that big a deal.
I was an oil field trash. That's what we were called, oil field trash.
But my dad, he taught all three of us how to weld. He was a welder. How to work on a car.
And what attracted you to him? His mind. He had an excellent mind. And he was just a farm boy with no education. He never went to college. But he could have been about anything he'd have wanted to have been.
I was somebody new in town.
But I married him when I turned 18. Yes. I don't know who that is. I'm going to turn that off. And when I married my husband, I was equal to him except the money, and he didn't think anybody could handle that but him. He acted like he was raising me, and he probably was.
But he just was pure German girl. Have you ever met a German man? OK, they are in total control.
We didn't know what homecoming was. Had no idea what homecoming was. But shortly after moving to Stillwater, they opened the doors to the Hunk and Holler. And where we went in was just about three blocks, four blocks from the college. And we went into business there. A drive-thru convenience store. It was like the real old gas station with the oil pit in the floor.
And you'd have to go out and wait on them, come back in and get what they wanted and take it back out. So it's a lot of in and out and in and out. All night long. You wear tennis shoes out real fast. So it was all sheer energy and guts. Homecoming night. We were supposed to close at 11. The store is flooded with customers. Till I think two or three o'clock in the morning.
And it, yeah, I never did get to see Homecoming. All I saw was cars coming in and out.
So one day I was behind the counter. People coming in and out. Mark Walker walks into the honking holler. The young man came in to talk to me. She doesn't really have time to talk. She's running in and out. But he stood there waiting patiently. I bet he was in there four hours and he was looking at the beer license. He looks at the license and he notices that Carolyn's name is the one on it.
Anyway, at a certain point, in between all the hunks and hollers, he asked me what I thought about the beer laws. And I told him. I was very vocal about it. I always had been. She says it doesn't make any sense. We send these young men off to war. They were being drafted at 18.
So eventually when Mark Walker asked for her help, he said he was going to do a term paper. She's like, sure, why not? I was always willing to help them because they had helped us get started. And I still thought it was a term paper. So was he not being completely honest with you then? Well, I didn't hear half of what he said. I was busy every time he came in.
So, you know, it wasn't that important at the time. So I didn't think any more about it. He left. My husband was gone. He was out of state working. And I didn't even say anything to him about it. It wasn't important. You know, I just thought it was a conversation.
But I think it was a couple of months later, because my husband was out of state every month.
No. No idea. And I got a phone call. My husband was on the phone. Well, I had salesmen in, and I had people coming in and out. And he was irate. He was furious. I couldn't figure out what was going on. She was like, case? What are you talking about? Well, he had picked up a newspaper in North Carolina in a bank, and it was on the front page of the newspaper. with my name and about us suing.
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