A small town in South Dakota and its AMAZING Modern Engineering Marvel
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- A small town in South Dakota and its AMAZING Modern Engineering Marvel - In this episode of SightseeingSally we explore a small South Dakota town and the amazing modern engineering marvel that brought this forgotten town to life.
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What's amazing is that the record discharge levels in 2011 of 170K CFS is but a quarter of its 636K CFS outflow capacity. Dam operators in today's world have a tough job. They are always caught in the middle of opposing political, economic and environmental concerns. The best they can hope for is to make as many people mad above the dam as they make mad below the dam. Great video!!
Thanks! Sounds like the operators deserve some recognition for the balancing act they are required to do in decisions they make.
Wow there’s so much history in that little town, thanks Sally & Marty for sharing this town’s story!
You're welcome! If you ever get out that way, I highly recommend stopping at the museum.
Dear Sally and Marty - IMHO this is perhaps your best video yet. I especially enjoyed Sally’s cheerful presentation and interesting historical comments. It was a great idea to tie old Kodachrome family photos with stories about living there and then revisiting years later. Well done. “Kodachrome: They give us those nice bright colors Give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day”
Thank you! I thought the old family photos would be a nice touch. I'm glad you liked them.
Isn't it interesting as we age our interests change. I used to care less about history, but now I love it and most of my CZcams viewing is through channels like yours.
THANKS FOR THE HISTORY SALLY ❤WHAT UP MARTY 😅
You're welcome!
Love your travelogs. Thanks for letting us tag along.
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Absolutely! Glad we can share these sights with you.
$195,000,000 in 1956 is worth $2,252,357,536.76 today. Fort Randall Dam. I like how they threw in the 76 cents.
Yeah, like the 76 cents really makes a difference at this point.
Hello, Sally. Thank you so much.
Any time! This one is rather personal. Hope you enjoyed it.
Child hood memories part of your life not much but still . P.S. love SALLY & MARTY HISTORY YOU TWO GIVE , PEACE ✌ OUT !!! ❤😊
Thank you ☺️ There are only a few things I recall from the trip - Pickstown, the stuffed horse at Wall Drug, Deadwood, and vibrating beds in one of the motel rooms we stayed. Ahh, memories!
Thank you, Sally and Marty! That little town has a very interesting history, I enjoyed seeing it and hearing about it.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. This one was personal and going back meant so much to me.
Hey Sally and Marty from Jasper, Texas. Thanks for the great video! Enjoyed it and looking forward to your next adventure.
Awesome, thanks! A new one is just around the corner.
I think barking squirrels is actually a better name for the critters myself.
Do prairie dogs actually bark?
@@SightseeingSally More like a squeak, or chirp. I guess I just don't like the dog part of the name. I like chirping prairie squirrel, or squeaking ground squirrel.
I always wondered why they were called prairie "dogs" when they aren't like dogs.
Cool, Sally. I'm a control room operator at the next dam upstream from Fort Randall dam. Big bend dam @ Fort Thompson, SD. Previously @ Byron Nuclear Power Station in Northern Illinois.
Wow, imagine that! I had no idea.
Hello from Tahlequah Oklahoma, thumbs 👍, enjoyed the video ❤
Hellooo and welcome!
Thank you very much. 😊
Another great effort guys!
Many viewers here have probably passed over Lake Francis Case using I-90, at Chamberlain, South Dakota and not know the connection to the Fort Randall project.
I like the perspectives you and Marty provide, allegedly. 😉
Allegedly... bahahaha 🤣
Thanks, appreciate it!
Thank you for making the visit, my grandparents farmed on the west side of the river south of the town of Chamberlain. They were paid for their land as it was swallowed up to prevent flooding downstream. And kudos to you for knowing what IOOF stands for and not calling it the 100 F club.
That was interesting. I rode my bicycle through there in 1995, and probably didn't spend a lot of time thinking about how Pickstown is named after the same guy that Pick City, North Dakota is named for. I attended first and second grade in Pick City. It, too, had a lot of construction workers and families who moved on to the next dam on the Missouri River after their work on the Garrison Dam was done. I remember when President Eisenhower came out to dedicate the dam in 1953. It was the first I became aware that there was such a thing as a President Eisenhower. Construction workers were relatively well-paid while there was work, but it was a hard life, moving from place to place, and was very different from the lives of the Russian-German farmers in the area. The school had kids from both kinds of families.
I imagine it was difficult for families to always be moving from place to place.
Thank you so very much for sharing this video! I vaguely remember visiting there back in the summer of 1961. I was 5 years old and my family was traveling back to Colorado from my mother's relatives in South Minnesota. I remember the church ruins and the dam. Great memories. Thank you again. In February of 1962, my dad died of a heart attack at 44 years of age.
Excellent historical tour.
Thank you!
My son, his significant other, grandson, and me camped and boated at North Point State Recreational Area over July 4th holiday. Awesome place.
Hello Sally and Marty from Longview Texas
Hello from Pickstown SD!
4 skips, impressive. 20:52
Much like how the unknown graves buried near the railroad out West are unmarked because they were Chinese Laborers.
Interesting point.
i was born and lived in pickstown from 1964 until 1971,have lived in lake andes since.Nice article
Thank you 😊
They built duplexes there for the engineers and their families to live in. Some of those duplexes got sold & moved out of town. My first teaching job was in Wagner, not far away from Pickstown. I rented one of those duplexes.
Lots of history in little Pickstown. Also, someone has some mean stone skipping skills.
Thanks! It's one of my hidden talents.
G"Day Sally and Marty .Very enjoyable video. You know how to "Pick" great locations.
Thank you both 👍 for sharing your journey appreciate it very much Best wishes 👍👍 amazing content I feel like I was there
Sometimes it's harder going back than going forward, though somewhat rewarding.
Yes!!!
A Lazy Susan altar, that's different.
I thought it was rather unique, too.
A friend of mine helped move buildings out of the river valley before they flooded it. Couple more friends helped build the dam.
These are the sights I like to see! Thanks, Sally 😊
You're so very welcome 😊
Summer of 1980 I was in West Berlin so missed out on the heat wave but do remember Richard Pryor burning his face.
I think the Richard Pryor story made national news.
Did they flip a coin and Pick won thus Sloan didn't get the town named after him?
Sloan was an inventor/scientist while Pick was a Lt. General.
Good stuff
Thanks!
Awesome walk back in time! ❤
Thanks Bonnie! It was really exciting to come back here as an adult and learn more about the dam that my grandfather work on.
Hi Sally & Marty , having another surgery Tuesday ! Just a hernia ,!
No big deal !
Another great video as always !
Thanks Glenn! Good luck with your surgery. Keep us posted.
@@SightseeingSally I will !
I wonder if them barking squirrels got their name from the same person as named the barking wolf spider?
Marty speaks of barking spiders, too, but I can tell you the ones he's referring to are NOT wolf spiders.
@@SightseeingSally it's been reported through the ages that there's several different sizes and flavors of the Barkin wolf spiders. Some you may have to approach with extreme caution ⚠️ 😏. Be careful 😉
When I was 16 I have power cleaned the floor in the old VFW. After dances. Alit of memories there in Picks town . You think you went to Lake Andes public schools.
Nice! There's just something about this comment that feels so nostalgic. Thanks for sharing.
Another well done video! Nice to hear and see about your younger days. I know you mentioned before about working nuclear and would like to know sometime about Marty’s past and what you two do now outside of traveling. I think you mentioned once about a daughter -does Marty have any family.? Don’t mean to get personal but for me getting to know a bit more about you two makes it seem like watching old friends enjoying what life has to offer
i’m rooting for the indigenous peoples, they kind of got screwed
What a fascinating story. Too bad this is not much of a town now. It's a beautiful area. I enjoyed this video. 😊❤
Pickstown has come a long way since we were there in 1980. There's still life to be had and new beginnings just over the horizon.
I live in Rapid City SD - there are some fascinating towns in SD - we welcome everyone to visit here and move here - it's a friendly place.
Interesting sign about the Prairie Dogs. I don’t live far south of Pickstown but have never read the sign. Anyway that sign is 100% incorrect. Lewis & Clark discovered the prairie dogs on September 7th down stream from Pickstown north of present day Lynch Nebraska. It’s well documented in their journals and “The Tower” that was documented on September 7th is one of the few spots that historians can say for sure that this is exactly where the Corps of Discovery stood. The prairie dog town was at the base of “the tower” referenced in the journals.
Excellent!❤
Thank you! Cheers Darrell 😁
I'm sure Pickstown is proud and rightfully so, I thought it a tad bland, meh so to speak, I'm sorry Pickstown.
All I can say is sometimes when on a severe hangover I would sound like Tom Brokaw to myself. It doesn't happen anymore 'cause I can't have hangovers anymore.
Stayin tuned you two!
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Hangovers are overrated anyway lol 😂
Where did the dirt come from? Big hole somewhere? 1 square mile 3 feet deep is 3 million.
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
@@SightseeingSally you're welcome
And of course your 9 year old self has come back.
Of course!
Interesting,,
Thanks!
Last. A day late, and a dollar short.
lol that’s ok. Usually it’s me who’s a day late.
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And you said it again you worked in nuclear
There is a now decommissioned nuclear generation station at Kewaunee Wisconsin. Sally was most likely referring to it.
So Sally something you said in one of your videos made believe you may be a physicist? So are you?
First. Pin my comment.
Done!
Now, if only you can get Tom Brokaw to watch and comment. I'd be over the moon thrilled if he actually did.
@@SightseeingSally I can mimic his lisp, will that do?
@@joewenzel5142 Tom Brokaw has a lisp?
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