Sunday Timeloop: Fall break, what’s coming up and Sapulpa’s “Preposterous” bombing

Good morning! Welcome to the Sunday Timeloop, the subscribers-only newsletter that catches you up on what you might’ve missed from the town that we love. Let’s dig in!

If you only read one story this weekend:

I’m not at all surprised by the number of people who don’t know who Max Meyer was. The man was, by the best account we have, so much larger than life that if someone told you about him you’d be asking yourself if he was real or some hero of local folklore like Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. Meyer was full of entrepreneurial spirit, and the very definition of “eccentric rich personality.” He came to Sapulpa as a retailer to a dusty but growing town right as the oil boom hit, and he became a millionaire. Naturally, he used his wealth in odd ways, such as building his own island in a lake on his property off Route 66 between Sapulpa and Kellyville. His story is wonderfully told by his son in his book “Preposterous Papa,” which, when it was released, was every bit the imaginative escapade the man embodied.