Jodie, TX Is that a real place in Texas?

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Lockdain

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Hello!

I'm so curious to get a new frantic facts about 11/22/63 since i recently (finally!) read it. Lately i tried to google some information about Jodie, TX (in fact i avid to see some photos of that place) but i failed - i only gone over wrong hyperlinks, that leads to pages, dedicated to persons named Jodie and etc. So i wonder if Jodie is a real town in Texas? Could someone please help me get any information about it? Will highly appreciate!
 

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Hello!

I'm so curious to get a new frantic facts about 11/22/63 since i recently (finally!) read it. Lately i tried to google some information about Jodie, TX (in fact i avid to see some photos of that place) but i failed - i only gone over wrong hyperlinks, that leads to pages, dedicated to persons named Jodie and etc. So i wonder if Jodie is a real town in Texas? Could someone please help me get any information about it? Will highly appreciate!
No, it's a fictional location. I don't know why Stephen chose that name for the town.
 

Lockdain

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I'm not even sure Texas is a real place some days.
Can't wrap head around, is it a kinda of wordpay or there is an undertone in this phrase? (i'm not native speaker).

....Jodie Texas sat by me in Homeroom.....true story, ask anybody.....:rolleyes:
GNTLGNT, only two days past since i'm on SKMB, but i already like your sense of humour, i've got that joke :)
 
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A joke. I live in Texas and some of the stuff that happens here is beyond belief.

Texas is like a pocket universe with like five different pocket worlds within - North Central Texas, East Texas, South Texas, etc. I moved from Illinois to Texas and came through the thinnie at the Oklahoma border just south of Thackerville. Is that the thinnie you used?
 

The Nameless

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No, it's a fictional location. I don't know why Stephen chose that name for the town.
I'm actually quite saddened to learn this. I love the idea of places like jodie. Do you know if it's based loosely on any place in particular, or did he just make it a generic quiet sleepy town just far enough away from a major city?
 

EasyGoinDFW

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I've lived in Dallas / Fort Worth area since 1967. I went to college in Arlington, and lived in Arlington for 5 years. Yes, Arlington is indeed right on the Dallas / Tarrant county line... smack in the middle of Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex. Lee Harvey actually lived in Irving (a Dallas suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth), as I remember.

It's true, though...No Jodie, TX, at least not in DFW area. I've been here almost 50 years and never heard of it.

In fact, even in 1967 when I moved here, it was pretty much solid city between Dallas and Ft Worth... not really any small town feeling to it unless you got out of the metroplex.

It IS pretty awesome, though, to walk around Dealy Plaza and visit the 6th Floor museum in the old Texas Schoolbook Depository building.
 

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I've lived in Dallas / Fort Worth area since 1967. I went to college in Arlington, and lived in Arlington for 5 years. Yes, Arlington is indeed right on the Dallas / Tarrant county line... smack in the middle of Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex. Lee Harvey actually lived in Irving (a Dallas suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth), as I remember.

It's true, though...No Jodie, TX, at least not in DFW area. I've been here almost 50 years and never heard of it.

In fact, even in 1967 when I moved here, it was pretty much solid city between Dallas and Ft Worth... not really any small town feeling to it unless you got out of the metroplex.

It IS pretty awesome, though, to walk around Dealy Plaza and visit the 6th Floor museum in the old Texas Schoolbook Depository building.
Welcome Easy!
 
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I've lived in Dallas / Fort Worth area since 1967. I went to college in Arlington, and lived in Arlington for 5 years. Yes, Arlington is indeed right on the Dallas / Tarrant county line... smack in the middle of Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex. Lee Harvey actually lived in Irving (a Dallas suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth), as I remember.

It's true, though...No Jodie, TX, at least not in DFW area. I've been here almost 50 years and never heard of it.

In fact, even in 1967 when I moved here, it was pretty much solid city between Dallas and Ft Worth... not really any small town feeling to it unless you got out of the metroplex.

It IS pretty awesome, though, to walk around Dealy Plaza and visit the 6th Floor museum in the old Texas Schoolbook Depository building.

I moved to Dallas in '64 and Arlington was already a thriving town. Six Flags Over Texas had been open for three years. The General Motors assembly plant was already there too. Now since Arlington has become home to the Rangers Ballpark and Cowboys Stadium, I think of Arlington as a traffic jam rather than a town lol. We moved to the country a few years ago and had to move more than 40 miles outside of Dallas to escape freeway overpasses and get the small town feeling lol.
 
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