The Outsiders was first a book by S.E. Hinton, then a break-out movie for a number of young actors who would later become wildly famous.
The movie was shot on location in Tulsa, mostly on Admiral Boulevard and alongside it, in the old neighborhoods that hide behind gravel parking lots where colorful old thugs sell mobile homes. I walked those streets with the wizard from the time he was 14 until he was 26 years old.
He wrote a little about those days a number of years ago. You’ll find that story at the bottom of the next page.
He doesn’t mention me, but I was there. I’ve always had his back.