Friday, November 5, 2010

DID YOU EVER HEAR OF GRADY THE COW?

Keller Williams Realy, 1773 Garth Brooks Blvd., 73099
Yukon, Oklahoma has many claims to fame of human source, but while researching the community to write a series of blogs, none was as fun as that of  Grady the cow. Apparently she came to newspaper and magazine fame in 1949 after becoming entrapped in a silo.

The 6 year old cow panicked after being treated by a vet because of a still birth  and dove for the only light she could see which was a  17" x 25" opening to the silo. The farmer put a plea in the local news paper for someone to come up with an idea of how to get the cow out as the silo was new and very expensive.

People all across the country got involved with suggestions and people from all over drove in and flew in to see the cow stuck in a silo. Finally, she was extracted due to the inventive idea of the farming editor of the Denver Post who actually came himself to help get Grady out.

Grady had become so popular that she became a huge attraction on Route 66 for many years.  The silo was apparently only torn down to build our new hospital in 2001. You might say that they are still saving lives at the old silo location, lol, or is that too much of a pun?