Western Oklahoma - Ghost Towns & Abandoned Places
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- Join me as I tour around western Oklahoma in search of abandoned places and ghost towns. If there are any places I should have visited please let me know.
The building in Alva, OK was a food mill. - Jak na to + styl
Even though I'm from Russia, I really like your videos. It's always sad to see abandoned places where people lived.
Hey there from America
Greetings from America. And yes, decay places can be both interesting & also bittersweet.
So am and do I
My grandparents lived in Gate Oklahoma. Seeing it featured on your video brought back many wonderful memories. I remember going to Avery's and Curtis' grocery stores with my Grandma when I was a little girl...
Glad you enjoyed it
Bro my great grandparents lived there too. That’s crazy. Now they’re in the panhandle of Oklahoma
Chris, The building in Alva was a flour mill. Also the grain elevators you showed are still in operation. One of them used to be owned by my grandfather.
Thank you!!
Love to see people document these little towns, they were the Wild West once
Sorry to see people have to leave their home places for financial reasons these last 30 yrs and glad people in other parts of the country can see them because you explored them
I'm old enough to remember when these little towns were bustling with life.
I even remember the trains with the wooden cars, the transition to steel cars was just beginning.
Me too
OMG!!! Crying room? They need to bring that back. Also, make them for planes too! Amazing... 👶👶👶👶👶
I loved this tour - it was so fascinating!
Thank you!
The memories made in all of these towns and buildings is something we think about as we travel. So much life was lived before everyone left.
Gage, with over 400 people, I would not consider a ghost town, though a lot of downtown does seem abandoned. A couple of interesting things about Gage >>> First, the National Weather Service still maintains a weather station here, which has been keeping area weather data for over one hundred years. Second, Gage has an Artesian Park, consisting of a spring-fed, artesian lake the size of five football fields. The Park, located just east of town, functions as a large outdoor swimming pool, with a water depth that ranges from 3 feet to 14 feet. At one time, the park was so popular that is supported a motel nearby. Nice video. There are several additional ghost towns, or ghost towns-in-the making, in western Oklahoma, that I am aware of.
Thanks for sharing! I am eager to visit again, I really enjoyed the area. I'll check out that park next visit.
Do you know any Clark's there?
I remember growing up in Tulsa the local TV station would always list the temperature for Gage.
it s incredible the enormous amount of abandoned towns in Usa. I enjoy so much see the users who are dedicated to documenting him. Greetings from Bs As , Arg .-
Thank you!
@@attrell what is the name of the mayor of the town Gotebo OK in the thumbnail with the Massey Ferguson tractor sitting abandoned on the street ?
Don't know how I missed this video when it came out. Many familiar places. Very well done. I'm sure you know, but rural towns lived by the railroads and schools. When trucking killed the minor rail lines and consolidation killed the local schools,.....
Thanks for sharing that, I was surprised that rail at Keyes doesn't operate anymore.
@@attrell Apparently the farm trade was not enough to keep them going. Of course, many unused rails were pulled during WW II for their steel to support the war effort. After the war, many of the elevators consolidated but were finally abandoned. There is a rail bed you can still follow on google starting a mile south of Keyes going east to Hooker.
I grew up 7 miles east of Putnam, Oklahoma on the family farm. I attended the Putnam Schools from 1st through 4th grade. I still have the family farms and travel out there and through Putnam almost daily. The first building you showed was the lumber yard and general store.
Thank you!
Little mayor looks great 😊
I think so too!
Been thru some of these towns in my previous job.
Hahaha, that same cat in Kenton is in my most recent video. She gave me a tour!
Too funny!!
Chris, beautiful decay, good stuff man, yet, sad!
Thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. It is very interesting.
Thank you!
The factory @17:42 is a food mill. Look up ADM Mills in Calgary
I grew up in Aline the garage was my uncles it served as a garage for the town
Thanks for all that info! Great town, I am glad I checked it out. ALmost missed it because it was so foggy I missed the turn off from the highway.
Really cool video. My grandmother grew up in a dugout on the side of a cliff in rural western Oklahoma in the 1920's. I understand it was somewhere West of Watonga. I have been all through the West there. She ended up in Geary, Oklahoma and even seeing houses there collapsed and boarded up only to realize people still were living in them. It was like going to a different world since I am from Canada.
Nice video. I like to see the differences between abandoned places in the US and over here in germany.
Must be amazing stuff over there!
Love your video!! I grew up in western Oklahoma! I had to chuckle a little when you said town of Gotebo! I think you're the first person to say it correctly. Great job on the video❣
Oh good! I am thrilled you like the video! Thanks!
You could get many more ghost towns in Okla. Ive been to many. We are moving to the town of Depew soon. Pop. 400.
Hello and I agree! I wish I had 2-3 more days on that trip. Will go back next year. I added Depew to my Route 66 abandoned video I uploaded today. I enjoyed that town.
Great HD and camera work. The colors really stand out.
Thank you!
I recommend trying the Mexican restaurant in Cherokee or "Ingersol" BBQ (on the Hwy from Cherokee and Alva) or if you're in Alva, Taco Village is a long time multi generational local eatery! And a Family Favorite for my wife and her mother!
Thanks for the tips! Next time I a there I will!
Great video. 😊😊Its always good to see other ghost towns history that can be related to Saskatchewan in some ways. 😊😊Thanks for sharing these moments Chris.👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
The dust bowel of the 1930's took a toll on that area. Most of the original inhabitants are still nearby ... at the cemetery.
Much LOVE from Roumania
Your NEW SUSCRIBER love a Lot This place , This vídeo 😊🙌 Huge Hug from Ensenada bajá MÉXICO 🇲🇽
When I lived in S California we used to go to Rosarita Beach and Ensenada
Thank you!
Could you please show the firehouses in the old towns you showcase?
Good idea, I will do that!
Nice job Chris.
Thanks!
Seeing old towns like this is why I take my road trips...Great job!
Thank yhou!
Have to love the humour in the antique shop sign.
Yeah I liked that one too.
I hope you go to the other end of Oklahoma when I was a youngster back in 1995 I was young man and we built the movie twister and a lot of the towns. I think it was Enid Oklahoma was one of the places we built I remember going in the back vacant town and putting fake store, friends and building fake homes over the pre-existing homes. The town was 95% deserted. It was right next to Kansas and I believe the story goes that a twister scared everybody out of town. I would love to get back there and see what the town looks like now.
I am going in spring to the rest of Oklahoma!
Picher, Oklahoma is a ghost town as well. Both of my parents were born and raised there, and I spent some of my childhood there.
I drove thru that town, so sad. Out of respect for the residents who remain, I didn't include that. I feel just awful what happened.
Addington looks like Shattuck, back in the Gage area of the video because of the windmill museum 😊 thanks for your content! Arnett, Oklahoma here… (the armpit of Oklahoma 😂)
I was in that town in 2013 when I was chasing a potential tornado. Had to turn around when I got to Canadian because the storm was moving too fast. I may have even took some photos in Arnett.
Great video/material/history.....Enjoyed; THANK U.....
Thank you too!
This is my first time watching your videos. I really enjoyed it. I love looking at abandoned buildings and older things. Please post more videos.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thank you I will!
I'll never get there, so thank you for the tour, it is captivating!!
Really good with locations! I look forward to watching your other videos!
Thank you!
I live about 45 minutes west of Tulsa, so pretty much the northeast of the state. There is a town in south-west creek county, called Depew, and most of the businesses are gone. But some person, group, organization idk, came and painted the windows of the abandoned buildings downtown, so it looks like there still open.
I enjoyed my visit to Depew
Very good job!
Thank you!
It looks pretty ok shape after such a long time. Ether weather is not that harsh or build quality is great. I guess the second most likely.
I love your videos it's like a time travel. Thanks from Canada
Thanks for watching!
My great grandma who is 94 or 95 was born and raised in Gate Oklahoma. She told me her dad owned a drug store as in the general store back then. And that it caught on fire. That’s all I remember. So interesting
Great vid.
Thank you so much!
It's an old flower mill. Critic mills used to have them. There's another bldg. ,same design in Beardstown il.
For me it's so sad. Where are the Generation of these people who built all these things, towns and cities? Are they all dead or did they vanish? There should be a cause thanks for your updates
Thanks for escepting my comment.
I feel sad because my late father had a farm planted with Rubber, Coffee and Coco ect. In LIBERIA, West Africa but the generation continue to keep it warm thanks again 👍💯🙏
Corporate farms killed off the small farms, so the towns died.
And the ioof building was on the end where we had Eastern
Yes, it had a motel. It was only open on prom night though.
I'm guessing the building in Alva was a flour mill, my grandpa grew up in Waynoka
Thank you!
@@attrell your welcome, enjoyed your work!
I feel like I know your shadow, personally! lol
Very interesting and enjoyable walk thru old time OK. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
That used to be goodno grocery store the section to the to the north used to be the post office until I moved across the street
I would suspect that the abandoned large building next to the railroad tracks in Alva would have been a flour mill as it is connected to the grain elevators.
Thank you!
This could be called "The Decline of Oklahoma Through Corporatism, A Journy in Pictures".
I saw some of that process occur in my life (1952). But of course, it began during the Great Depression.
I'm from Cyril, Oklahoma.. We have around 2,000 Residents.. Great video man, where are you from?
Thank you!
Thank you!
Glad you put this om I can see what I can no longer travel to. From a small town and I know all to well how so many places get Abaddon, glad I could se, sad that they have lost their [people. If I had the money and the health I would try to bring life back to one of tham
Thanks for watching!
That building was a meat processing in locker plant for many the springers ran it fo ears
If I was ultra wealthy (and maybe had several lifetimes) I'd consider moving to one of these places and just revitalize it like crazy.
That would be fun to do!
As always, the best way to see Oklahoma is: in the rear view mirror! How did you miss Slapout???
I will check out that town!
When was this filmed? Really enjoyed it!
This month! Thank you!
Love those old towns have you ever watched Joe n nics road trip
I think I saw a video from them about texas towns
I like the way he tells you the history what it was what it is n
Now housing prices and what it's like to live there
Takes me back to Lawton in the 1970s😊
I do not know what that building in Alva was used for, BUT my father said they imprisoned high level Nazi's there during WW II. They also made Case Tractors there..
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing
How about doing this same thing in north central Oklahoma? Around Medford, Wakita, Deer Creek, Lamint.
Yes! I am eager to go! Thanks.
There is a cemetery in Aline Oklahoma..has 1,090 graves.
That's a lot of graves!
Hi oklahoma resident here
This is just north tulsa
You gotta go south of admiral to see the nice houses
I'll do that!
That was Otis hasty chiropractor
You know it is sad to see this, but in this day in age, could these little towns be revitalized in some way? People are moving out of the US BIG cities, new industries need areas to build, i know it would take a lot to do so but so many want to move out, to repurposing should be pushed into these little towns. I am not sure what that might or would be, but i think and would hope that something could be looked at doing so.
Should do Hastings, OK , used to have college
THanks! I added to my list.
My mom was born Gotebo, OK.
WITH THIS ABANDON TOWN, OKLAHOMA COULD HOUSE THOSE THAT WANT TO STOP BEING HOMELESS.
There are many homeless people that are
Not on drugs or alcoholics that do want to be productive citizens of society
Doing what?
Общая тенденция в мире, люди ломятся в города, как-будто там мёдом намазано.
Love how you call cats mayors. What are dogs sheriffs? 🐶
YES! :)
It would have been nice if you went deeper into these buildings
Is pronounced al one kids can always go in the bar and get him a pizza or pop anytime
I was born in Woodward, Oklahoma!
I was there in 2014 and had to turn around because there was a million storm chasers creating traffic jams
You totally missed Waurika, OK. The antique shop there Nancy's Antiques is a fantastic antique shop, you totally missed it!
Next time! I was there in 2014. I will be back!
Gould OK is well on its way to being a ghost town
I will check it out!
THE MAYOR 🐱
Are any of these for sale?
Likely yes
Raised in pocasset. Miss that little town
12:41 - this Cessna Skymaster, trying to pretend it is an O2 Air Force version is interesting 😁
20:03 - don't worry about that, and if somebody try to whine about it, ask them to pronounce "aluminium" 😁 cause they still think it's called "almnum"...
Ha ha thank you!!
You have a very interesting channel! I have a desire to continue watching it. But the automatic English subtitles are not professional. There are no punctuation marks, the last words in the sentence appear very late. I would really like you to correct these inconveniences. Improvements will help us better understand the content
Thanks, i will see if I am able to make changes to that.
I'm not far from Gotebo.
Everyone in goatee Bo joined Mountain View and now they're both one town
So sad to see the demise of Americas towns. Such a failure of leadership over many decades.
The locals pronounce Gage, OK as “Gay-gee”, not Gage like you would think. Suggestion: when you document towns, ask how the name is pronounced by the locals.
Thanks for that. I got that from a news story I found on CZcams and that is how the reported called it. My error.
iwana go to aline oklahoma and sit in the plane . cool mf tractor
It is a cool plane!
OK, I watched, but not one peep or hint how to buy some suitable land. ( ? )
I didn't even think of that. I am sure each town has something for sale online.
@@attrell Online or realtors is where I don't want to look for land.
All these towns could take all the homeless around America
Get your kicks on Route 66.
You pronounced it wrong it's kooky bow Oklahoma
Kooty bow
I like that pronunciation better. Sorry I messed that up.
Should have visited Corn and Colony.
I'll do that next time
@@attrell Bob Denver has relatives in Corn or did. Originally spelled Korn but name was changed around WW1 since Germans weren’t to popular.. settled in the early 1900s several of the original settlers came up from south Texas after the big hurricane including my grandparents.
The phone number shown on the window at 12:08 for "Seiling Community Hospital" still answers so is apparently still operating somewhere.
That is great, probably moved to larger town
It was not the depression that killed those towns ...during and after WWII they were thriving ...I worked for the AT&SF RR all through there and they had most of their populations into the mid 80s ...but that was the beginning of the end ...for it was reaganomics that killed those small towns ...specifically trickle on economics was what put all those middle class wages and jobs in peril. Yet that is STAUNCH Conservative country and they vote for corporate wealth first and are STILL waiting for the wealth to trickle down even today over 35 years later. Somebody should have told them the USA is a "Consumer driven economy" and reaganomics is the worst case scenario for those towns and this video is proof. You missed Waynoka OK once a thriving town of 3500 before and after the war and is now down to 7-800 It has a storied history of WWII troop trains a Harvey House where Chi- LA celebrities stayed over night as that run was 48hrs ...breakneck speed back in the 20s ...even had a major airport where Lindy and Earhart landed for air shows ...and this is the SAD story of my home stomping grounds ...just SAD! See link below ...the US has gone from number one in 1945 to 164 on the world stage ...certainly one of the greatest declines in world history. Not only over the last decade but but the last 4 decades at least. ...
www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-09-11/a-global-anomaly-the-us-declines-in-annual-quality-of-life-report
The Social Progress Index, which considers itself "the most comprehensive measure of a country's social and environmental performance independent of economic factors," determined that out of 163 countries, only the United States, Brazil and Hungary had slid backward over the past decade. And though the declines were small, the U.S. saw the largest reduction in terms of overall score.
Back n the day ppl didn't have modern transportation n each twn sustained its self
Maybe these Town are Ghost town because of the Evil that was done in Tulsa ,OK
Corporate farms took the small farmers out. No mythic payback.
Capitalism and conservatism killed these small towns.