I love the smell of fresh pressed rubber tires.

The Golden State/Sooner State connection.
Having grown up in a tiny house near a major industrial area in Los Angeles, we were just down wind from the B F Goodrich tire factory. Almost in the shadow of the Willard Battery water tower. Just north of the railroad tracks near the Union Pacific switching yards. A straight shot from the Pillsbury grain elevators.
Now around the corner back then from the East Los Angeles railroad station was the US Royal Tire company. Later known as UniRoyal Tire. The UniRoyal Tire company was housed in an old movie studio building. A very large facility. The front side of the UniRoyal building with its Romanesk façade was use as a backdrop for the chariot race scene portrayed in the movie “Ben Hur with Charlton Heston.” Now the facility houses a unique shopping mall called the Consortium.
To start with, the B F Goodrich tire factory was shut down in the mid-1960s. Its machinery and some of its jobs were moved to Miami(pronounce Miam-ah)Oklahoma. Our family moved out of the East Los Angeles area about ten years previous. But miss the rubber tire volcanizing smell. Something you get use to living in Los Angeles.
Next, the UniRoyal Tire factory a few years after the Goodrich move to Oklahoma, also moved to Oklahoma as well. UniRoyal moved to Ardmore just down I-35.
But later both tire factories were taken over by larger international brands and left Oklahoma. Not sure where they went. It is my understanding now the only American made tires are Cooper tires in Finly, Ohio. So one could only conjecture that the two tire companies of Goodrich and UniRoyal have left the continent. Roll on you rubber dowgies.