OKLAHOMA: Forgotten, Fading Rural Towns - Far Off The Interstate
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2022
- I visited 10 small Oklahoma towns who's best days are behind them.
Oklahoma towns visited:
Waukomis
Hennessey
Okeene
Canton
Fairview
Cleo Springs
Carmen
Cherokee
Jet
Goltry
Garfield County
Kingfisher County
Blaine County
Major County
Alfalfa County
Travel Vlog: 171
I was a Canadian trucker. Ran Canada and all USA for 40 years. My favorite loads were the ones going off the beaten path. The people were more social and friendly. Almost everyone had interesting stories to tell. No matter how small the town was, they could talk for hours about its history. I picked up a load of charcoal in the middle of nowhere in the Ozarks. One of the workers wanted to know about Canada and invited me to his home for dinner. well, talk about hillbilly heaven lol. I had one of the best dinner and visit I could remember. What a great family. But seeing those types of things disappearing is a real crime.
This is the result of the demise of AGRICULTURE. This is what happens when the government "fixes" something. Now the "agriculture" that appears around these areas is actually AGRI-BUSINESS. The people they hire to operate their machinery don't even speak English. So, these people leave to go to either OKC or Tulsa for a GRUNT JOB. If they get one, then they can live in a plastic suburb.
I am disabled and don't travel much ! but I really enjoy riding along with you !
Awesome, Ross! That's why I do it. :)
Same here, Ross! Taking a nice drive to look at little towns was a hobby and a pleasure of mine. Hang in there!
Same here love the tour......
Ditto here. Lord Sparda and his wife has awesome videos. I really appreciate and enjoy them.
My father covered the church steeple in sheet metal in 1978 using scaffolding. This was his first job after starting his own Sheet Metal Company.
I’m originally from Enid. Many of the people who live in these towns work in or around Enid. I have been to every one of these towns. They all originated primarily as farm towns built around their grain elevators.
Shout out from Cherokee Ok. Thanks for featuring our small town. Next time you're near Cherokee check out some of the sights. We have the salt flats that host the only place in the world to dig Hour Glass Selenite Crystals. There is the Great Salt Plains Lake and Devine Waters Artisian Well about 15 min. N.E. of Cherokee. Main Street has the pocket park that's just a cool little park that was put in between two of the downtown buildings when the middle building had to be brought down and there was just an empty gap there. Also thought you might be interested to know that the old hotel you highlighted is a veterans museum.
Cool! :)
Thanks for mentioning this. I spent 3 summers in Norman at OU studying geology and made a visit to the Salt Plains. I still have selenite crystals down in my basement from that time 50 years ago. While I enjoy these videos, I wish he would vary his descriptions a little. Too much statistics. Stop at a coffee shop, a museum, an antique shop, something interesting from each town, rather than poverty levels and house values over and over.
I've been up your way (in Alva) a couple of years back. Nice area up there, a lot of farmlands and ranches if I remember correctly...I'm from Muskogee way btw.
I’m enjoying these stories, they tell part of why America is the way it is.
Unreal, I have never seen these towns in my own state. Thanks, a lot!
thank you for sharing stay safe and comfortable in driving ....
I live around the Chickasha area. I have been to Fairview, Hennessey, Okeene, Canton, and Cleo Springs. Love the small towns in my state!
I used to haul cows out of the Fairview sale barn.
I went to high school in Fairview
The Gloss Mountains are beautiful to see as well in Fairview!
I love our rural communities too. I stay off the interstates whenever possible. We haul pigs to Dover, OK, north of Kingfisher...
Living in Australia, it's interesting "visiting" these towns.Thanks for sharing.
All these towns were wonderful in their heyday when the wheat fields were thriving and the oil fields were booming. There was a German prisoner of war camp just west of Alva by the cemetery and at Freedom it has alabaster caverns where you can go way below ground in the caves. Little Shara state park is out there too with the sand dunes and the great Salt planes state park east of Cherokee. Don’t forget Twister was filmed out there in Wakeeta. Thanks for touring our state 😊. Come back again
That big gun "tank" is called a self-propelled howitzer. I saw loads of them in Ft. Sill, OK. Love that state, and I'm from Southern California. Just loved the small towns I saw while in the military.
I live in Lawton/Ft sill. I know all about them, I don't care for the town because the city only does things to get the soldiers money and nothing for the citizens. But yes it's a howitzer.
In 1999 and part of 2000, I lived in Claremore and worked in Tulsa. On the weekends I would go for drives out in the country. Even then many of the small towns I drove through looked the ones in your video. The farther away from a large city, the more quiet and desolate looking.The area east of Tulsa, going toward Arkansas has some very nice hills/foothills.
Lots of really pretty country East of Tulsa
My dad 👤 use to take us to small towns thank you God bless you
Thanks for proving to my wife I'm not crazy! I'm always driving through small towns touring their downtowns and every time I see a theater I point it out as well! I'm originally from Eufaula, OK, I vibrant small town, but no theaters, they had two in the fifties.
Thank you, Steven. Old theaters are my favorite buildings.
I'm from McAlester Eufaula is where I gave spent many summers.
I love driving through small towns. One thing I also like to do is visit old cemeteries. There is a lot of history there.
Small towns have so much character
Your wife will just say that both of you are crazy
The grain elevators are always where the railroad tracks are or used to be. The roads are usually named railroad, railway, front, commerce, or named after the railroad. The towns that have a future still have railroad traffic. Where the railroad has left the towns are usually fading.
Fading back to nature
@@jj-eo7bj feels & looks more like walking dead in some of the towns around here except the dead are on bicycles!
If the rails are still running through these towns, they are likely spurs or branch lines, often with locomotives owned by the grain companies. The smaller operations probably truck their grain to Enid. I service the grain industry and have been to most of these towns and have customers in 3 of them. This is wheat country. Enid, which isn't far from here, was the wheat capitol of the world. It is still has several massive elevators in operation, some of the largest in the world are there.
Canton has one of the best walleye lakes in the state,that being Canton lake
Have an excellent week everyone!
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I will spend my entire life living a nice peaceful quiet small town life, being considered living in poverty, then spend one day living in a city.
I appreciate your filming style and commentary. Always searched for something in a style like this, finding your channel was like finding a treasure. Thanks and have a good journey!
Thank you for the. kind words. :)
I fee the same
I saw the plane in Jet and I shouted "Tweet! That's a Tweet!" Lol. They made an old T-37 Cessna into their guardian. Way cool.
As an okies I love these towns. The grain elevator is neat, however Hutchinson Kansas has the biggest grain elevator at a mile long. Poverty rate in Canton is due to more business than population. Also part of reservations counted differently.
I will be checking that out in Hutchinson in time.
Used to be called Garvey Grain Elevator .Nixon took Krushchev there to show the Russian how great it America is at feeding it`s people compared to the higher latitude Russia . I had a childhood friend who drowned inside that elevator .I am still sad about it all these years latter.
Explore Southeast and Southwest - Medicine Park, OK, Davis, OK and McAlester, OK are pretty cool!
Traci Christy Hurt ; I agree on McAlester but, I guess I'm partial. I was born there but moved away while I was young. I've visited many times since because of family living there. My last visit was last November 2021 when I lost my 98 year old father.
Yeah, down town McAlester is interesting. I've seen places my parents told of visiting when they were very young.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all the other folks visiting rural Oklahoma.
Stan in Idaho
I will be going there.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I'll definitely be looking forward to that episode.
My late father told us about having a big mixup with a fellow in the Aldredge Hotel in downtown McAlester when he was a young man before he entered into the Army. Daddy walked away by himself, the other guy didn't. He had to be helped out.
Stan in Idaho
East of I-35 the terrain gets hillier than the western half. Also, there are still some of the old freed Black towns still around such as Boley, Clearview, etc. in the eastern half.
If you ever get back to Oklahoma would like to see Lawton. I was born on the army base there in 1958. Fort Sill. My parents then retuned to Colorado when I was about six weeks old.
Medicine Park is AMAZING
Waukomis survives on speeding tickets in their 45mph section.
many small towns nation wide also.
Here's an idle thought. How about obey the law? Slow down to 45 MPH, put on your mask.
This looks like a day on the road for me! Haha! I provide fumigation and safety equipment for grain elevators. Those big tall structures are used for wheat storage. If you ever get the chance, you should try to have one of those that isn't busy give you a tour. What you don't see is that they go deep into the ground too. Many were also the local nuclear fallout shelter for the town.
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I love it when you mention the time that you are driving through the town, please do so more often.
I live in Tulsa and grew up in Muskogee. The small towns in Oklahoma got hit really hard after Walmart ransacked the state. Local business stopped being prioritized and the small towns died. It’s sad. The small towns surrounding OKC and Tulsa do fine. Sapulpa is a cute one.
I was born in Tulsa. 👍😀
born in Muskogee
My Dad was born in Muskogee. My Mom was born in Wewoka.
Love the Waukomis statue of the man who was holding the windmill blades and looking up to the windmill body. He was anticipating installing the blades. That is a clean, beautiful town.
I had to spend many weeks in Nebraska, and it was the most depressing place. There were almost no trees anywhere in or around the city. These roads you're showing here in OK with mature trees on both sides makes such a difference, at least to me.
Lincoln, Nebraska is really nice the farms in Nebraska are super clean, nicely painted and beautiful not filled with garbage like the big cities elsewhere ?
Nebraska has roads?
I took a road trip across the US this summer. Unlike many people the big cities weren’t my favorite part, rather the random small towns we passed through. The simplicity is so fascinating
I live in the most isolated town in my state. No box stores, most stores are closed on Sunday’s, and the nearest city is 3.5 hours away and one is over 5 hours away one way. I only go to the city twice a year and hate it. It is mostly for a Costco run.
@@26skogenI live in a big city Silicon valley San Jose CA I never go to Costco here . Way too crowded
@@user-wy1dl2me2p i bet down there. I can’t stand the city any more.
Canton, Oklahoma is mentioned in the movie Twister made 26 years ago. A "Twister" movie museum is located in Wakita, Oklahoma.
Wakita has the Twister movie museum,very small town....also a movie was made there about 5 yrs ago called Wildlife with Jake Gyllenhaal...👍🌻
Great your videos, I live in QLD Australia and a lot of these small towns are the same here, slowly declining in population. Love your work
That mural was wonderful. Best I've seen on your vids...and that cat in the street seemed like a real laid back southerner lol
Not only are you a great tour guide, you also provide education. Curious about the "Oklahoma Land Rush" you mentioned, I did some research and learned that it was really quite a big deal, and is why OK is called the Sooner State!
That's right!
Land run
It's called the Sooner state because during the Land Rush, a lot of people crossed the start line ( state line) ahead of the start. The start was a cannon shot into the air. Wagons, horses, people on foot, mules, ect. People wanted to join in this Land Rush the Federal government created. After locating land, you staked it out and started home building while sending a person to register your land lot. Sooner: those who crossed early.
We have a street in my hometown called Indian Meridian that is built on where the start line was made between land available for the Run and left for the tribes.
Looks peaceful, quiet and safe to me..... if people can work remotely now why wouldn't you live here instead of a big city?
Great point.
City people can't handle the lack of services. When there is no Starbucks or McD's within 30 miles, when night falls & it is DARK like they've never experienced, anxiety sets in.
Amen ! From Goldthwaite Texas 76844
I am like my mother. I prefer to live further away from the city. Close enough to get to a store but far enough to not have to deal with all the hustle and bustle of the city.
@@robertcarlclayton7724 I am from rural northeast Arkansas but now I live one half block from Bourbon Street. I am listening to the whooping and hollering outside while watching this video! Quite the contrast.
One of the challenges for a retiree, in these small towns, is access to healthcare.
As bad and expensive as healthcare is becoming nationwide, it may not matter if you live near a hosptal.
YOU ARE THE BEST AT THIS!!!!
Yes he is!🎖🏆🏅
Thank you for that, Michael!
Agreed!
I live in Fairfax Oklahoma, another little dried up town, in 1970 we had a population of 1800, the town had 3 grocery stores, 2 Barber shops,2 new car dealerships, 2 Dr offices, an otasco and a western auto, 2 restaurant's, and a tastee freeze, and another hamburger grill place,a pool hall, a place called The Big Hill, where you could buy clothes, a boot factory, a dime store, 3 full service gas stations, this being the bible belt there were 9 churches, a train depot for grain and cattle, and a haliburton and several more businesses, there were cars parked all along main street, 2 little city blocks everyday for business, a busy town at one time, but that was back when the oil boom was in effect and the cattle business was profitable, and all that I just mentioned, is all gone, it's a sleepy little town now, hardly any businesses around, this is an old indian community ,and HOLLYWOOD did come to town the summer of 2021 for several months to film a movie, with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in it and Martin Scorsese as director, it's about the History of the Osage Indian, theme being, about the oil money they received from the land they owned, which were some of my relatives, 2 of my nieces will be in the movie as extras, it comes out in May supposedly, it's called, Killer of The Flower Moon, our little town was all a buzz for awhile, it was fun,,,,not much is left of Fairfax, but we're still here, may the GREAT SPIRIT in the sky bless you all!🌞🌛🌟🙏
Didn't the Roadrunner have a 383?
Very interesting. I love seeing the old towns. The first town was one of the towns my family lived besides Enid. Thanks for the tour!
I lived in Fairview when I was a baby. My family moved to Enid by the time I was 3. Your last video showcasing Enid was randomly suggested and I watched it. Pretty nice. If I had boatloads of money I would fix up some of the houses in these towns, build some businesses.
I moved from Tulsa to Cleveland OK, and the culture change was shocking and well needed. Liveved there an Pawnee City for 6 years, then I needed to move back to Oklahoma City for a job I could not refuse. Miss the small town pace. I would still live in Pawnee today if we had the remote work option.
East Central Oklahoma has many rolling hills like the hill country down by Kerrville and all. The further east you travel the more hills and such. I live in a town off any major interstate in Chickasaw Nation.
I've been to Fairview on one of my trips to explore more of Oklahoma. Nice looking towns and interesting things to see if you like rural towns and country side.
That San Antonio de Padua church is beautiful, reminds me of St Mary's in Kansas, beautiful big churches in small towns
I live in Broken Arrow, which is a thriving town but will tell you Oklahoma is a well kept secret. These fading towns are more appealing than bustling big cities any day . All these little towns need is some people to care and alittle ingenuity.
On the west side of Cherokee you passed right by a vintage/antique brick silo which deserves more attention. As for the low poverty rates I suspect many are living off oil royalties. Also payments from the US government to indians under treaties may have something to do with it.
From 1778-1871, the US government entered into over 500 treaties with Native American Tribes. All of these treaties have since been violated or outright broken by the US government. Native Americans and First Nations People are still fighting in federal courts and the United Nations for our treaty rights. The Oklahoma Land Run was theft on a grand scale. We get no government money just for being Native.
And by the way...we are not indians, we are Native.
No oil in this part
I live in the oldest town in Oklahoma, Fort Gibson. About 3500 people live in Ft. Gibson. I’m from Tahlequah, 20 miles east of Ft. Gibson, the headquarters of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma tribe. Tahlequah has about 15,000 people that live in city limits. Coming from a small town and living in a smaller town, I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Nice video, with very simple residential houses. All the towns seemed to have some production and manufacturing units. Although small, but must be giving employment to many in the towns to live a decent life. Thanks 🙏
That is a tribute to to windmill that allowed water to be pumped for people/ animals/crops
Wow! 10 towns in a 35 minute video! Way to hustle! Always interesting to hear the stats on these places. Some you'd think the poverty was high aren't. Looking forward to seeing west Texas!
West Texas was something else, RR. I'm looking forward to getting that video up. A lot of really vivid imagery.
Thanks a lot for this. I'm from Europe and rural America fascinates me.
If an Oklahoma town has a school I consider them blessed… our school was closed in the early 2000’s..
Dang...you didn't make it to Alva. Sad. Its the crux town for all the towns you drove thru. It has the only Walmart between Woodward and Enid, so all the area townies flock there for their needs (including nearby southern Kansas).
It will be on a different drive through.
I usually stop and get fuel there right next to Atwoods.
I left Dallas area for rural Oklahoma 15 years ago, best decision I made.
Great video as always . I always have interest in those Masonic Lodges in rural areas. Just seeing them in the background sparks curiosity .
Thanks for the ride along, I think the old Land Grab found it's end game. Brian down below asks a great question.
The bank in Jet looks like one Bonny and Clyde robbed!
It could be. :)
Travel videos are a dime a dozen, well made and with excellent narration are your specialty.
Thank you, Pedro. :)
I used to live in Lee's Summit, MO till 2010 when I had to come to India. Now that parents expired and I have no one in family, I wonder how can I make it back to US. And, I loved the South always when I was there 7 years ! ❤ people are humble and more community oriented down South than the mix in the cities. For a simple guy like me, this is always way better, yeah.
You have to respect the cats, they own the towns.
I love watching these videos. I've lived in Oklahoma most of my life, born in Texas, transplanted several times between Oklahoma, Texas and California. I have lived mostly in Stephen's, Jefferson, Pontotoc and Murray Counties. Most of the towns you show I have never even heard of much less visited.
I enjoyed the ride today. Thank you for sharing.
You kept your word: 10 towns shown! As always, sights worthy of reflection, such as, that handsome brick church at the literal end of Goltry--noticed a house made of the same brick in the back, almost certainly the pastor's residence. Except for a cat or two, he's likely alone, with a backyard that is an empty Oklahoma prairie except for windmills in the dim distance. Nearly as lonely as living in a lighthouse.Two of the demographic statistics given in this video are, I believe, the lowest you've shared with us yet: 1) 2.7 poverty rate in Jet; and 2) $57000. avg. house sale price in Carmen. A funny comment about the noticeable lask of even Dollar Generals in these communities. Well, even they need a minimal proximate population base to survive, I'm supposing, and numbers such as 197, 287 and 360 may fall below that minimum. A very natural question for 'outsiders (rhetorically expressed with full respect):' "I wonder how it is to live here."
That is what these videos give us an inkling of. What it's like to live in these small towns! Priceless!
Interesting analysis, David.
I really enjoyed watching this. You do a great job. I’ve lived in or worked in all of these towns.
Only suggestion I have is if u had the time to dig a bit more history up on these towns you would find not only farming but railroad, cattle drives, lakes, and Sandhills are just a few things that helped create these towns and even help keep them going.
Love this channel.I lived in Ft.sill Oklahoma from 95 to 99... Military family...
Thank you, Stacy!
Those houses are so beautiful.Beautifully built.
I'm from Oklahoma and you went thru some good towns. Not even close to the dieing towns in Oklahoma. I've known lot smaller dead towns then the ones you've gone thru. Canton also has a huge sheet rock factory outside of it along with Canton lake. But any town you go thru with silos is known for its farming. Especially in Oklahoma.
Interesting thing about Oklahoma: The Central part of the state was settled 4 years before the Northern part of the state (separate land runs). So a town like Hennessey is older than Waukomis (which literally means--"walk home us"--no, not a Kiowa word). So for the first land run entering from Kansas, they had a stroll about 60 miles from the Kansas state line to starting line for the Unassigned lands. I'm suprised no one ever wondered about the Cherokee Outlet--the land between the Unassigned lands and the Kansas state line? Why didn't the state of Kansas ever just claim that area as their own. The Cherokees weren't living there--they were leasing it out to cattle drives coming from Texas
I love Oklahoma. Have and had relatives in Enid,Fairview,Cleo springs, perry and sand springs.
I used to live there I live in Enid now
My parents grew up and lived in McAlester, Hartshorne and Gowen, Oklahoma. Gowen originally in the early 1900s like many places in southeast oklahoma were coal miners. My recollection of childhood we spent in Gowen was being around my great uncles, aunts, grandmother, and living on their farms. Both grandfathers were in WW1, and came back to the Gowen area to mine coal and raise families. Sadly, we moved my parents near to Tulsa where I’ve been since 1978, and both have passed away. They had a really nice rural country home and much land which we had to sell. All those small towns are still hanging on, but it’s not like it was in the 1950s.
Rural Oklahoma in 1924 was definitely Bible Belt territory. Interesting that there were enough Catholics in little town of Okeene to build the stunning Saint Anthony of Padua Church. Great to see the old girl getting a new roof.
It's amazing, especially being in that little town. I saw those spires several miles out.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip You are welcome any time.
Wondering how far people have to drive for decent health care and supplies in remote towns like this. Would be interesting to get some interviews from some locals living in these types of towns.
Enid is 12 Mi north of waukomis. Three hospitals and every major shopping store that you could think of Enid has. There are a lot of healthcare facilities and suppliers there.
@@davidswanson8243 and more than likely they can drive that 12 miles to a clinic faster than inner city residents can drive (or uber /bus ride) the 2 miles to a clinic --
When you live in small town, you don't realize mom n dad had to drive an hour to take you to doctor. Most of our accidents at home was taken care of by mom n dad. Dad had to stitch my sister knee after falling on plow. I was bitten by copperhead, dad cut the bite n sucked poison out. He was a big believer in turpentine. ( It healed everything)
It sort of amazing how badly we healthcare facilities
we really are a nation of sick people
Just as long as we have walmart and a doctor we good 🤣
It’s 23 miles to the closest stoplight from here. Decent hospital is probably 100 or 150 miles but we have air evac. 26 miles to Walmart. 300 people live here. No school but it’s 7 miles away. And crackheads run wild. No law enforcement to speak of. Welcome to the Wild West of nw Oklahoma
Land run was the generational wealth alot of other people couldn't get in them days .. born and raised Muskogee Tulsa area..
Nice work you've created Mr. Spoda.
I'm a big fan from the Philippines.
Awesome, thank you!
enjoy your series
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So weird to be going through these towns and not once did we see a Dollar general. But Dollar general probably wouldn't even make enough of an investment from the store in these towns to keep them open.
Most of these towns have a Dollar General and they seem to do quite well. He just didn’t drive past them.
There were Dallas Generals, but usually they're on the edge of the towns. I pretty much stay in the downtown areas.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I live on the West side of Enid and there 8 Dollar Generals so I'm guessing they do pretty good business. Lol. Drive another 20 minutes out of two and you'll find another 2. We have a Super Walmart and a Neighborhood Walmart within a two mile drive from my house.
I live in a small Oklahoma town which got ravaged by the flood. Mostly everybody came back. Not much too look at but its home. I love the fact that u have not degraded one house or town while driving thru.
I work EMS in this area just North of Hennessey. In a town called Lacey was some crazy shooting involved with quite a few dead one flown from scene and the suspect was arrested in Florida fleeing.
My sister lives in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. Maybe you should check it out it is a very small town
You know why most of these towns had peak population in 1980? Because that was the height of the Oklahoma oil boom period. Those towns had a bunch of oil field workers during that time.
Interesting.
I heard that there was a sign in Enid back in the late 80s that said something like, “If you’re the last one out of Enid, please turn the lights off”.
Hi Lord Spoda
That's a real rural trip in Oklahoma. Ten small towns is a series! Very peaceful, clean, well kept. Wide roads, sprawling trees with big trunks, huge open spaces is added attraction. Life in rural small towns is remarkably different. Less the needs; less the civic facilities. Since the visitors in small towns are fewer, I wonder how do the strangers are greeted by the locals. It will be interesting to know about the life of a small family in a rural small town, how the houses inside are. A brief halt at a remote small house in rural town and an interview with a small family will be appreciated.
Thanks for the video.
Thank you, Rajeev. :)
I wouldn't say clean and well kept,,,lol,, to many Oklahoma towns have a problem with trash and unkempt yards, lots of wind also contributes to scattered trash and scraggly looking trees.
MIDwesterners are 'friendly' superficially......
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Brother I don't know that how normal life in Rural and small towns in the State Texas and Nevada but my dream is to live in those areas for the very quiet circumstances!!! Love 💕💕 USA from India
I like these videos showing fading places in the united states. What puzzles me is how its difficult to see a person walking even in the down town. From Nairobi, kenya.
It’s a little heartbreaking to see how Oklahomas small towns are drying up. The nicest people you will ever meet live in these small towns of this state. I lived in one of the small Oklahoma towns when in the Air Force 1966-1970. Oklahoma deserves better is all I can say.
Reminds me of where I’ve lived for the past nearly 50 years of my life.
Could do worse!
I love these videos, I feel like I'm actually in the truck being shown around these places. For me from the UK though, it's weird hearing these places described as "cities", here a city is like London or Liverpool, somewhere with millions of people. I live in a small conurbation in the English Midlands which has a population of 1,100 and it's known by everyone as a "village". But that's just a bit of trivia, thanks for making and posting these wonderful videos.
Next time your on your way through Oklahoma, take a look at Buffalo, OK. Talk about a small town, but it's absolutely beautiful scenery out that way
I will do that!
I live in the city and I like to drive through the state highways and drive through the rural towns with my family on my day off. Take a peek at lakes and state parks. The land is prettier during spring and summer. The brown of fall and winter makes the land look bleak.
Im happy yo see your video. I was living in Canton for 1 year.
I just like your American history it great ..you have nice town in USA too ...thank you so much for sharing ..have a great day..
I've been watching your videos since ~Spring/Summer 2022. You have a good feel for documenting the American landscape (I was a Geography major at University of Northern Iowa) Your personality is interesting - kind of a mix between Charles Kuralt/Peter Griffin - which makes it entertaining to watch. Many things you mention are favorites we have in common. Note: My arrest for disorderly conduct didn't involve alcohol or drugs. A lot of misinformation about me - it's the majority.
6:15.. I found the house on google street view and it looks like it's now occupied and the owners have removed the collapsing portion of the roof and the 4 pillars. It's good to see it's being saved before the damage grew worse but there's still work to be done on it. (302 E Kansas St for reference)
Wakomis has an amazing multi million dollar resort in town. The chapel that is shown is new and a gorgeous venue. It was built within the last few years for weddings, etc. There is a restaurant attached that’s always packed every day. There is also a really cool boutique attached on the other side.
From a small oklahoma town. Thanks for giving them some visibility.
Thanks for this video.
you need to visit the roundhouse jeans factory in Shawnee -one of the last American jeans manufacturing factories left
Good jeans as well. I have the bibs.
I will!
Live in Shawnee.
I live in Pink it's a very small town close to Shawnee
@@mccathernfamilyprojectsandadv. Two in the pink and one in the stink.
Appreciate you.....safe travels
Thank you, RP!
All very interesting, thank you !
Thank you, Bernie!