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Mary Lynn Chess, 54, who opened the Okie Girl barbecue restaurant and brewery in 1990 alongside Interstate 5 about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, could turn everything from a minor skirmish...
Promoting a restaurant in the remote Tejon Pass wasn’t easy, but the “Okie Girl” went at it with aspirations higher than her hairdo. Mary Lynn Chess, 54, who opened the Okie Girl barbecue...
In the early 1990s the California Department of Transportation refused to allow the name of the "Okie Girl" restaurant to appear on a roadside sign on Interstate 5, arguing that the restaurant's name insulted Oklahomans; only after protracted controversy and a letter from the Governor of Oklahoma did the agency relent. [16]
May 23, 1991 · The dust bowl has been stirred once again in the feud between highway officials in Sacramento and the owner of the Okie Girl restaurant at the northern edge of Los Angeles County.
Nov 7, 1991 · " Rasmussen, a native Oklahoman who operates the restaurant off an isolated stretch of Interstate 5 about 75 miles north of Los Angeles, officially has ended her battle with Caltrans. She forced the bureaucracy to rescind its decision to ban her restaurant name and logo - a scantily clad country girl leaning on bales of hay - from a highway ...
- David Zizzo
In the early 1990s the California Department of Transportation refused to allow the name of the "Okie Girl" restaurant to appear on a roadside sign on Interstate 5, arguing that the restaurant's name insulted Oklahomans; only after protracted controversy and a letter from the Governor of Oklahoma did the agency relent. [16]
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Jul 25, 2022 · In the early 1990s the California Department of Transportation refused to allow the name of the "Okie Girl" restaurant to appear on a roadside sign on Interstate 5, arguing that the restaurant's name insulted Oklahomans; only after protracted controversy (and a letter from the Governor of Oklahoma) did the agency relent.
