A Palace of Corn
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- I admit that when chatting with people around the nation and world, it can be a tad difficult to explain a corn palace. But not only is it a real thing, it is history that deserves to be remembered.
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I have a photo of my grandparents on their wedding day, on a horse-drawn wagon, in front of the Corn Palace in 1929. ❤😊
My favorite South Dakota hangout is "Hooky Jack's" in Rapid. It's named after Jack Leary, a man who suffered a mining accident and lost both of his hands. He became the town ambassador as well as a policeman and they gave him the bar to keep him out of trouble. The town so loved him that when students from the School of Mines left him hanging up by his hooks from a fence, they were publicly caned in the town square. If there was someone who deserved a short video about a unique person from SD, I think it is him.
That's really cool! You should consider recreating that photo with your sweetheart in the same place in 2029, to commemorate the centennial of your family's history.
Back in the 1970s, my cousin was named Corn Palace Queen, which I think was an annual beauty pageant held during the corn festival.
Driving back to Arkansas from Montana, I laughed at my husband for even suggesting the “Corn Palace” but it was so much fun! We were able to bring our puppy with us too. It was definitely an experience!
My father was a professional truck driver his entire working career. He drove car carriers for several years, delivering new Ford cars to every state in the USA. He made several trips to Mitchell, SD to deliver new cars to the local dealerships and took many photos of the Mitchell Corn Palace with his slide camera. Somewhere in his old slide decks is a series of photos with the yearly updates to the Corn Palace murals.
I'm from St. Louis (b 1951). In July, 1966, my family drove to Yellowstone via the recently openned I-90 through Mitchell, SD. Dad wanted to visit the Corn Palace. Ten years later I moved to Honolulu. One of my roomies, two years my junior, had recently been mustered out of the Navy. He was from Madison, SD., about an hour northeast of Mitchell. We become inseprable, bonding over our love for the Corn Palace. Two years later I was back on the mainland. In late September, a friend and I drove from Columbia, Mo. to Pullman, Wash. Along the way we stopped in Madison to visit my roomies' mother. Naturally we made a pilgrimage to the Corn Palace. Surprise! It was during the Corn Festival. My companion was a quick convert.
I'm a Texan and had never heard of a Corn Palace. About 35 odd years ago I found myself in Mitchell S.D. for a week and there the Corn Palace was, in all it's glory! It's quite a curiosity to see, that's for sure.
Good morning fellow Texan; Watauga
Good morning from Cleveland, TX my fellow Texans. ✌️🤠
I'm a North Dakota and I was not expecting the friendly slam at the end of your video! Did make me laugh.
It's better to be a state than to be in a state.
You are a North Dakota and that man over there is a Wyoming.
In my opinion Theodore Roosevelt NP beats Badlands NP anyways!
Ordinary people from ordinary places can amaze you with their ability to make extraordinary things from ordinary objects.
That shade at North Dakota at the end was SAVAGE. Gotta love regional rivalries. As a Kentuckian, I can tell you those hoosiers from across the river in the land of corn and soybeans cant drive a lick.
what, Ohio? nah ohio drivers are some of the best. Maybe not the city folk yuppie in the big cities, but thats everywhere. The real issue is, city folk cant drive for shit.
I live in Arkansas. Missouri always calls itself the "Show Me" state. We call it the "show me how to drive" state 😂
Regional rivalries are hilarious
@@CD-CH-EB Michigan drivers are the worst I've encountered. I agree, Ohio has good drivers.
@CD-CH-EB you seem a bit lacking in the reading comprehension department, but that's standard for a buckeye. He clearly said Hoosier, which is a nickname for those of us from the fair state of Indiana
Rivalries are great! As a proud Wisconsinite, I assure you that FIBs (our name for Illinoians) are horrible drivers. Almost all of them seem to drive north every weekend. They don't understand the concept of turn signals and can't navigate a roundabout to save their lives.
In 1970, when I was 10, my family took a road trip across the contry from Pennsylvania to California. The Corn Palace was one of the stops we made. It was well worth the time to stop and see the unique artwork and learn the history of the place. I am thankful that I had the oppertunity to experience it. Thank you for telling others of our history.
I remember going to the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD back in 1977 when we took a family vacation around the USA. Art work was well done and my mom loved it.
I visited there in 76 or 77 as well. My grandfather grew and sold sweet corn at a local market here in Ohio. My father wanted to visit as an homage to his dad.
As a child in rural North Carolina, I was told stories about the "Great Corn Palaces." My Paternal grandmother would tell me about them, and lament how farmers here were looked down on as 'dirt poor dirt farmers' and wished we had the respect that the midwesterner's showed farmers. I think one of my uncles that had been hired to migrant farm tobacco up in Canada around the turn of the last century even got to see one of the palaces.
*Edited for misspellings
I got to go to The Corn Palace back in 2008. Pretty cool place!
That jab at North Dakota at the end had me rolling!
I stopped here with my dad during a road trip back from Yellowstone as a child. There’s still a picture somewhere of me standing in front of the palace with a corn cob shaped hat
On a 2018 road trip, after the Iowa State Fair, we stopped at the Corn Palace along with Rushmore, Bad Lands NP, Wall Drugs, and Mammoth dig site. And then headed south to Colorado.
My Granny was from Canistota, South Dakota. My summers included a trip up there from our home in Texas, with my Grandparents, to visit family and the sites. The Corn Palace was part of the necessary destinations. Wonderful cherished memories!
In 2012 my husband and I took a cross country road trip during which we came upon the Mitchell Corn Palace. We were lucky enough to be able to view a competition called a "Pedal Pull". Quite interesting. My husband also partook of his first corndog! What a lovely memory.
We stopped at the Corn Palace on our way to disneyland in the mid 60's. I got mexican jumping beans.
Many years ago, my Son and I stopped at the Corn Palace for a visit. The very precocious young man surprised me with His great interest and attention to it's yearly construction techniques. He normally would like video games, etc. We had camped and visited several National parks and historical sites the previous days. We had stopped in Mitchell for the night where my Son wanted to stay for at least night in a motel. After breakfast the next morning we saw a procure showing the palace and we decided to see it.
9 yrs ago on a trip from Georgia to Washington we stopped in Mitchell SD to see the corn palace. It was very impressive and I hope to make a return trip someday.
This episode is just another reason they should be selling History Guy shirts at Wall Drug!
🤣🤣
And now at The Corn Palace too! 👍👍
Between the Jackalopes and the Porcupine Eggs (cockle burrs).
I went to South Dakota for the first time in 2019. My gg grandmother was born in Vermillion and I wanted to see that place as well as Mt. Rushmore and DeSmet. It is a beautiful state and full of interesting sights and lovely people. I would love to see the Corn Palace one day.
That closing tag was brutal.
I'm reminded of a saying from my Air Force days:
Why not Minot?
Freezin's the reason.
My family stopped by the Corn Palace on two separate summer cross country camping trips in the late 90s and early 2000s. Sadly the photos from those trips were destroyed when there was flooding due to heavy rain. One thing that stuck in my memory from that time was across the street from the Corn Palace was this doll museum - absolutely full with those creepy looking turn of the century porcelain dolls.
In the 70's I went on a Station wagon trip with my parents and my little brother from NY to California and back. Rolled in to see the Corn Palace. It was a quiet day. On our way back to the car of course we were checking out the exterior.Coming out of one of the dormers jutting out of the roof were flames! Dad ran back inside. Somebody came out to look with him. Probably thought he was crazy. Soon enough a fire truck pulled into the street between the Palace and a gas station to the right and quickly extinguished the flames.
😰Whew, thanks dad! 👍
The Dakota prairie can get very dry at times.
Fire scares us all.
Back in 1992 I spend a day at the Mitchell corn Palace on route to North Carolina from the San Francisco Bay Area. I had a good time and took lots of pictures. So I really enjoyed this episode. Then again, I enjoy everything you do, History Guy!
We journeyed on a lengthy road earlier this year, and one stop was to the Mitchell, SD Corn Palace. It's visually impressive, and reminded me of so many of the floats in the Rose Parade. We also went through Sioux City, not realizing it was the "corn birthplace" of corn palaces.
Thanks for elaborating on the history!
Thank you so much for this episode! It was so cool to hear The History Guy mention Plankinton, which is where we live now, and finding out that the first corn palace was in Iowa, my home state. I'm tickled right to my toes!!
I accidently discovered the Corn Palace while driving from Charlottesville Virginia to Missoula Montana. I was so surprised such a place still existed I stopped and took a bunch of pictures to send back home. I was delighted to see it pop up on the History Guy! You should do one on Wall Drug as well, another amazing place I didn't know existed until I turned off the highway looking for coffee and a restroom.
This is one of those charming episodes that resembles the tales and history recounted in small town half sheet newspapers found in American diners.
Btw, part of the ice festival in Montreal includes the Canôt de Glacé - where they race canoes on the ice of the St. Lawrence River.
Thanks for the reminder. Drove through on my way home to LA (1980). There was a carnival in town and a polka championship. Then I saw the Corn Palace!
I tell you the only other thing that impressed me as much was the first time I drove through Las Vegas. Two slices of America, same ridiculous moment of glee & national pride.
It is a site to see.
I was fortunate to spend 10+ years in Beautiful South Dakota and enjoyed our yearly visit; the people of South Dakota make the difference & experience worth the drive
I went through Mitchell, SD in the 1980s. Had to stop at the Corn Palace. Absolutely fascinating. It's a sight to see.❤
My bride and I visited the Corn Palace in Mitchell on our honeymoon and we will visit it again in May 2025 on our 50th wedding anniversary.Thanks Lance for another wonderful video.
Drove by the Mitchell palace several times on the way to Woonsocket, but never stopped.
When driving from Oregon to Minnesota to visit family, we exited the freeway in Mitchell several times to to view the Corn Palace. We always just drove past, but never stopped to go in. Seeing the outside was enough. Thanks for presenting its history.
We stopped to see the Corn Palace during a trip west in the late 1990s. Loved it and have always remembered it.
I loved seeing the doll museum across the street, too, with many doll houses, if I recall correctly.
It was a very nice stop in Mitchell. Would love to see the Corn Palace again sometime.
LOL on North Dakota! I have not been able to visit there yet. Maybe some day...
In about 1960, my family made a classic American road trip. I remember two things. Going to the Corn Palace in Mitchell. It was the kind of thing my mother thought worthy of seeing. I remember pigeons eating away on one of the scenes on the front. Hundreds of pesky pigeons. And when they weren't eating, they were dropping their greeting cards on the crowd. The other memory is of Dad renting an air conditioner for the car. It hung out the passenger side window and didn't work very well, but it was otherwise miserably hot in South Dakota. In 1960, I think. Thanks for the memory, Mom and Dad and thanks H.G. for bringing it to mind.
“Oh it’s beautiful!”
Having grown up in eastern South Dakota, the thing I remember about the Corn Palace is that my Huron-area high school's band were the pep band for a basketball game there for some reason. (This was almost 30 years ago. I misremember why. Maybe a tournament where we got the band duty for that night, from being one of the schools whose team was in the tournament? idk.) One of my classmates in the percussion section liked to bring a decibel meter when we were in different places to what we were used to, and that was one of our loudest performances I remember it measuring.
I have a postcard from this place! I think it's from the 20s or 30s!
Montana native here. North Dakota has the legacy of the Non-Partisan League, a major part of which is the Bank of North Dakota.
Wife and I made a road trip to California from Illinois in 22. My family had old pictures from the early sixties of the corn palace so we had to stop. Interesting place from a simpler time. We spent a couple of hours enjoying it. Then off to minute man, badlands, wall drug and Rushmore.
I hope you stopped at Crazy Horse too. It’s not only the most amazing overwhelming thing in SD but in the United States- it’s like watching the building.
of the Spinx of Egypt.
Mount Rushmore will fit on Crazy Horse’s head!
I grew up in the Twin Cities but went to college in Rapid City. So I drove by the Corn Palace multiple times during those years without stopping. This was back in the late 1980s. I finally stopped by the palace in 2009.
As a former resident of North Dakota, I must agree! They have nothing like it. 👍🏿
The final jab at N. Dakota was funny. I hope they have a good sense of humor! 😄
Delighted to learn that this kind of thing isn't just relegated to the pages of history, but is still alive and well
My family is from Vermillion. My dad used to tell me about the Corn Palace until I found pictures of it in Encyclopedias and read its history in the early 1970s. Need to stop there the next time I visit my cousins.
I'm from Iowa. We know from corn. Mitchell's Corn Palace is similar to Riverside's Trekfest, a small town gets a good idea and runs with it. Sucess follows.
Growing up, our only real family vacation was a trip to South Dakota in 1984. It included a stop at the Corn Palace. The outside was interesting to see, but at the time, the only thing going on inside was a non-exciting flea market. It was nice to see it though. I'm hoping to repeat the trip with my grandkids someday.
Great finish!!!!
As soon as North Dakota gets the telegram about what he said I'm sure they'll be very upset
@@bobbymac9877 🤌👌🤣
Thank you for sharing!
Minnesota native here. Very familiar with the Corn Palace in Mitchell. I didn’t know there were others in the past and certainly would never have thought there was any connection to the St. Paul Ice Palaces. Interesting.
Visited the corn palace in 1973 with my parents. In 1988 while riding to Sturgis I went by it again on the way to the Congo Club lol
🤣Kongo Klub.
Aka ‘North Barn’ to the locals. 👍
I had $100 worth of fun there once, and it only cost me 20 bucks!
“With all the pizazz they could muster”. That is amazing and hilarious.
We had a great time there at the beginning of an epic trip my wife and I took last fall. We’ll be back.❤
Well here are some childhood memories. I grew up in Sioux City and had occasion to visit Mitchell a few times. Like Wall Drug and the Badlands, the Corn Palace is a must see on any family road trip through South Dakota.
It's a gymnasium decorated with corn.
I was more excited to find an open shop on a Saturday morning so i could get my car on a lift to drain the AC box and floorboards before going on to Red Power Roundup.
The Platte valley used to be a major sugar beet centered around Grand Island. The Stuhr museum has info about it.
With efficient irrigation, the sugar industry got pushed up the North Platte, centered around Scottsbluff and Gering.
If you ever get out that way, be sure to stop at the Legacy of the Plains museum beside the monument.
I have relatives in both South and North Dakota. Most of them are cousins. Never saw the Corn Palace, though. Creston, Iowa had a Corn Palace that is now the elementary and high school grounds. When I lived there it was within recent memory. Missed seeing that one, too.
Took my lady to the Corn Palace last May. Great place to stop and find a little history. Thanks for remembering.
My parents drove my siblings and me in a station wagon across South Dakota, a trip that included stops at Mitchell's Corn Palace, Wall Drug (follow the signs) and Mt. Rushmore. It was inevitable: our paternal grandfather was born in Dakota Territory.
As full time RVers we traveled across the Northern part of the country and visited the Corn Palace several times. I also found the pre historic Indian village archeology dig just North of Mitchell to be worth a visit as well.
I always remember my mom, who grew up on a homestead in South Dakota (later in the small town of Fairburn), talking about her family trip to the Corn Palace. I always wanted to visit.
We now have our son’s family in North Dakota, so go easy on them!😊
Stopped there 2 years ago. Pretty cool
As someone who has lived in Mitchell for over 20 years now, it is always interesting to see stories about the Corn Palace.
"I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." - Theodore Roosevelt
Corn for the corn god, cobs for the cob throne!
I feel there's a kernel of truth in this.
I'll show myself out. :-)
@@FreihEitner it was corny, but shucks, popping in with a pun is always sweet to the ear.
That joke made me so mad I yelled at the screen so much my voice is husky. When you're ready to apologize for that awful pun, I'm all ears. Just don't follow me online- I won't tolerate a stalker.
😂😂😂❤
I stalk punsters 😂
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Smooth as silk, Lance. No smutty puns allowed.
Can always tell a native South Dakotan when they pronounce our capitol as "Peer" rather than "Peeair" and takes a jab at North Dakota whenever possible. Thanks, great vid.
Sturgis native on the West Coast.
@@daveraatz1328 I grew up in Hot Springs
I remember now as a kid my dad talking about it and saying how cool it was. He was in Larchwood Iowa close by. Thanks for the memories.
I went there while on a road trip. It was really really cool. Mainly the history of it and the fact it's a community center is the cool part.
On a summer morning in 2018, we got in our car in Indiana. At the end of our street, I asked, "Do we turn right or left?" 18 hours later, we wandered up to the front of the Corn Palace.
It was our first tourist stop on a week long meandering trip through South Dakota. Definitely in the top 3 vacations ever. No schedule. Just, "Wonder what's over that horizon?" There is always something interesting.
A buddy and I left Eastern South Dakota for a week or so in June 1989 with just one general objective, Montana.
Got hungry, found a local cafe, chat with the locals.
Oh look, there's a rodeo happening, slammed on the brakes and took it in.
Trail riding in the Gallatin Forest, awesome!
Countless other impromptu adventures, too many to list.
Best trip ever.👍
I haven’t gone but one summer my sister and two of our cousins convinced my grandma to take them on a trip up to ND from her house in SD so they could add it to their list of visited states (a little contest they have) and they sent pictures from when they stopped by the corn palace on their way.
I was just there two weeks ago. It’s really breathtaking. I had last been there back in the early 80’s as a teen, and I had a new appreciation for it this time around.
Thank you for covering Sioux City’s influence on this subject!
Thanks Lance. Sounds like a fun tradition. It's not as if they could've preserved the USS South Dakota on the Missouri or Big Sioux rivers as a museum ship - though that would've been cool. I'd never been told a thing about "corn palaces".
We were just there a month ago on our South Dakota/Wyoming vacation swing. My wife finds these hidden gems.
I recall part of why the Corn Palace was a thing:
they were not going to just stand around while up the road, stupid old Chamberlain was stealing all their thunder.
And commerce.
Back in 1962 my sister and I visited our grandparents in PA (we had moved to AZ in 1955). Grandpa drove us back to Phoenix the long way - meaning we got to see many things thst were “off the beaten pass” - one was the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD - which I still remember vividly,y here in 2024! What an amazing building!!! And all the colors!!!
In 2004, after flying to see the Iowa State Fair from CA, we drove north to Yellowstone. We passed through Mitchell, SD, and toured the Corn Palace. Wow!
As a South Dakotan, you may be pleased to learn that, on Usenet back in the 1980s, the official position was that North Dakota does not exist.
We stopped by when driving through on a vacation in the early 2010s/late 2000s. I didn’t really appreciate the history as a kid, just thought it seemed like a regular old conference/expo center with an interesting motif. I appreciate you for making this video!
An old boyfriend and I visited the Corn Palace on our way to see Mt. Rushmore. It was definitely time well spent. Thanks for sharing!
When we cleaned out my Great Grandparents house in 1974, we found post cards of the Corn Palace that had been sent to Stuttgart Germany, which read, They all speak German here, and they have so much seed, they cover this building, the way we cover our Harvest Towers.
1903
Good morning History Guy and everyone watching. Have a good day and weekend
One of these days we're gonna have to go see the Corn Palace. and Yes, I got a big laugh at the very end. LOL
Loved the last crack(corn).
Mitchell, SoDak! A must-stop on the way west from MN!
Been there twice. Worth the trip.
Striking out across South Dakota starting from Vermillion`s undeniably unbelievable music instrument museum, per a sisters`s suggestion we dipped down to Mitchell to see the Palace. It was a highlight of the trek. Gotta love Middle America. Where would this country be without it?
The Mitchell Corn Ppalace and Wall Drug are must-stop places for anyone venturing west. My first visit was in1956. It has changed some over the years but it still holds true to its origins.
Spent three years as Public Health doc in SD. loved the Corn Palace!
Started going there in the 1950’s still going, and it is always a treat to see the changes. A tourist must see.
I have heard about this for years, since the 70s when I first saw it in The Weekly Reader. I have always thought that it was a neat idea and it would probably be a fun thing to actually see one.
Hahaha, I’ve been to “The Corn Palace” before and it was among the most bewildering tourist trap I’ve ever seen. Today it’s just a community center with corn glued all over it. 😂
Used to work with a company that made commercials for concert tours. "...at The Corn Palace in Mitchell..." came up pretty regularly. Mostly Country bands, but some Rock too.😊
You might think that the Mitchell High School spells Colonel's that way. Oh no, this being the Corn Palace, Mitchell High calls their sports teams the Kernals.
So glad you're doing a piece on my father in law's residence.
Wakka wakka.
Been to the SD Corn Palace twice! Great Ag museum inside.
I saw the Corn Palace on a trip from Alberta to Mount Rushmore and Niagara Falls. I love small town tourist attractions.