Midwest City grew up alongside Tinker Air Force Base. The city was laid out in the 1940s to house the people working at the base, and Tinker still sits right next to both Midwest City and Del City. Rose State College, on SE 15th Street, is less than a mile from the base.
For Midwest City, we are just across the line. Del City's eastern edge is Sooner Road, so the moment you turn off Sooner and head west on SE 29th, you are in Del City and about a mile from our door. From Rose State, the whole trip is around six minutes.
It is a city that runs on shifts. Base schedules, class schedules, early mornings and late nights. That rhythm shows up in when people from Midwest City come see us, and it is a big reason late hours matter on this side of town.