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A forgotten town in Kansas
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- A forgotten town in Kansas
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Most of the counties in Southeast Kansas have lost population since the 1980s. It is sad because SE Kansas is a lovely area. Great video.
Thank you! We agree - Southeastern Kansas has some really nice little towns that are worth exploring.
That's because the people running our towns want them to be a retirement town. So they remove everything family oriented and deny businesses so the towns are suffering and people with families are leaving..it's happening here where I live in sek now.
That's exactly right Canton, ks is a prime example of that. Their board is out of control and dont care about the community as a whole or even the city employees.@melanielynn9346
That’s true we just don’t have many job opportunities, or at least any close.
I agree. We were in Pittsburg, KS last year looking for an old farm the family owned 150 years ago. It’s a beautiful area.
The old Sinclair gas station is mine and I welcome you to tour the inside anytime. It's currently on the market for sale. Great history
Fantastic building and beautiful old pumps.
I moved from a Large Metropolitan Area to a small town in Kansas. Took me 40+ years to do so, but I never gave up on the dream of doing so.
In my three years here, I have only heard Police/Fire/Ambulance sirens less than 6 times as to where, in the larger metropolitan area, every 5 to 10 minutes
People here are more relaxed, more respectful towards their neighbors, and more helpful.
I told my old landlord before I moved here, that I was going home.
I AM AT HOME
Kansas has many beautiful areas and I've never seen skies as beautiful as the Kansas skies.❤
Arizona
I've heard Montana's is bigger.
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I personally would like to see old towns like this filled back up with kids having fun going to school and living the life that was once enjoyed by small town populations. We have definitely lost something in our lives when the heart of a country gets hollowed out.
We've lost decent and good leaders. Vote Kennedy jr.
I will be 80 in May. I went to a two room country school, the first small room was at the entrance which housed our coal burning furnace. Our air conditioning was opening the windows. We had a maypole, two outside outhouses and a small horse barn. I have a BS teaching degree with 33 graduate credit hours. The best teacher I had was in that school, Mrs Nellie Ramage. Yes, from the time was eight, I road my horse to school. I could get the saddle off, but couldn’t lift it on, Mrs. Ramage would help me, or a 7th or 8th grader. The farm I grew up on was 11 miles South of Holton Ks and 4 miles from Mayetta. Back to our two room school and Mrs. Ramage. We usually had around 12 kids in school, enough for a softball team, our short stop was really short, my position when I was a 4th grader. Our conference consisted of 3 schools. Our art was to decorate the windows, we had the solar system hanging from the ceiling, we would go to the timber and creeks for science. We would have two plays a year, one for Christmas and one in the late Spring. I had my first kiss behind the play curtain, she was freckeled face and very cute, thinking I was 7 or 8. I traded my horse for a car when I was 14, a freshman. I went to Holton HS so was allowed to get a license at an early age. Just over all, a great place to grow up.
I was raised in Chetopa, as was my mom, grandma, and great-grandma. My mom still lives there. It’s sad to see how it’s died off. I would love to see Chetopa come back to life. Thank you for this video.
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Hey sis! -Trent
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I agree with Cuz. We need the small towns in KS to stay around.
The beautiful big red building was the Former city Hall building, they inhabited that location until the new city complex was built on the west end of town. Unfortunately, our grocery store is now closed. I believe the old Mill restaurant was there in the next red building. Next time you make it to town be sure and visit The Hornet’s Nest down on the west end of town, it was originally a drive in, then later had a dining room added on, and eventually purchased by my family in 1981! We have been serving Chetopa as a family restaurant since then, and you’re absolutely right, WE LOVE OUR TOWN!!!
Love The Hornets Nest. Been eating there on our way to the lake for 20 years.
Drove truck through that town for fifteen years and always admired that funeral parlor
It’s such a neat looking old mansion. I imagine it was quite beautiful back in the day.
Our favorite place to stop on the way to grand lake. My grandpa used to pull 100 pound flatheads out of the river by the spill way.
When I lived there the Sinclair station sold toys and other little trinkets and second hand stuff
Outstanding video thanks for sharing. Be safe on your travels.
Very enjoyable tour of Chetopa, KS. Great job, you two!! 👍👍
Thanks Darrell! Chetopa has some neat old buildings for sure.
Thanks
Hi I live in Chetopa and the Lumans lab is my grandpas his name is Carol Luman and the lab is still running
That is really cool! What does the lab do?
I used to drive through Chetopa on my way to Tulsa, this part of Kansas is quite interesting. The Pecan groves to the east of town are eye-catching!
I was raised in Chetopa! Such a great small town when I was a kid. I lived on the west end of town remember riding my bike all the time. My cousins dad and him use to live in the funeral home. Chetopa has always had a special place in my heart. Too bad how much it has declined now.
My 1st guess of where you were was Fredonia. I was shocked when you said where you're at. I knew you were near there.
You have a very enjoyable channel. Especially like your looks at places in NE Wisconsin with which I was familiar as a young boy. Great memories.
Thank you 😊 I enjoy hearing that!
Hi, Sally. Thank you for your video.❤. Have a good week.
Thank you! You too!
The old funeral home was purchased by a trucker. He works on it when he is in town. Actually the place was made in such a way there was plenty of room for funerals.
In these stressful, anxious times, your videos are always a breath of relaxing fresh air. The camera work is steady, you research the history of what you are showing us, and it's just a great time. Thank you.
Marty, your enthusiasm and boundless energy gets me everytime!!😃😃
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Enjoyed this virtual walk through history. Am really looking forward to seeing it in person soon
Someone else did a video on Chetopa -unlike you and Marty they didn’t bother to get out of the car. Thanks for caring about towns you feature
Excellent video. That's your best one yet
Fun fact for Marty, former NASCAR driver Ken Schrader now races dirt modifieds and his main sponsor is Federated Auto Parts, AND Automotive Supply Co. in Menominee, MI sells Federated Auto Parts.
I love watching your videos Sally and Meandering Marty!!
Thanks! 👍
@phunlovin72 - I love discovering connections between the places we visit. Two thumbs up on the fun fact!
Thanks for the nice video! Glad you’re both feeling better.
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😂no luck with quiz fantastic video 📷 you two enjoy your journey thank you for sharing 👍👍
Great video of a small town and its fascinating history. Keep ‘em coming !!!
Thanks for the video!🐾
Another fun video Sally and Marty! How were your pecans?
So good I haven’t shared any with Marty lol 😂
Delightful and soft speech diction with clear enunciation. Sally appears to casually talk with you not talking at you with a non hurried relaxed tempo making the mundane appear more interesting. You just gotta like the character under the hat!
That mansion is still beautiful. I would love to see inside. What an unusual name for town. Named after an Osage chief is nice. Love looking through old cementaries. Interesting about the Cathiolic church. Love that old Sinclair gas station. Wow Pecan capitol of Kansas. Love pecans! Sad that buildings burn down and not built again. Love old drug stores( since I am a pharmacist). Cool gift shop!! Sad to hear about the stores closing down. Glad they have a museum to help preserve their past. Love that old mill! Looks like a good place to fish. I am glad to see the veteran memorial!!
You have very interesting videos also it's helps me for studying English you speak very clearly
Great video!
Would love to visit this place!
Heard the name Chetopa many times up to teen years. My Dad’s family from nearby. I love that area of Southeast Kansas. Would like to see my Dad’s family history here. Some were pretty well known way back when.
Thanks for a stroll back in time and a cool history lesson all set to a relaxing tone.
at 12.15 that auto parts store was listed for sale about a year ago for 15 k with parts it did sell the auto parts before that was also for sell for about the same i had to move from a place i was renting for about 25 years and was looking at moving to Kansas but i found a new place to rent here and got to stay in the land i love
My father was from there. We spent a lot of summers in Chetopa. Dad had moved back there after my mom and he divorced when I was about 4 years old.
The Gas Pump max's at $9.99?
Sally and Marty.....great video and thanks for making our Saturday morning! Cinnamon rolls, coffee and you two!
Doug and Pam
Our pleasure! 😁
Hello Sally and Marty from Longview Texas.
Helllooo from Chetopa KS 😁
Hello 👋
Great video!! Love the Cook Mansion video
You and Marty are hilarious! 😂
I live in KC now, but I once canoed down the Neosho river at night from Oswego to Chetopa with my cousin, back in '96. I had lots of fun down in that area back then while attending Labette Co CC.
I hope you are well. I love your videos!
I went to high school with a Stephen Eggers. His Dad was a professor so maybe from your area. I grew up in Atchison, KS. ❤ YOUR CHANNEL!
Born and raised in Atchison Kansas still here
Another great video! You do a wonderful job Sally. I still think a TV station should pick your program up.
Ha! I had a feelin it was about the horseshoe but I didn't know the proper position for one to be mounted and now realize I coulda googled the answer.
Thanks for the tour of Chetopa you two! Itsa fine little town.
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You must have eagle eyes like Marty because I didn’t even know that horseshoe was there until he pointed it out to me lol 😂
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It makes and excellent roof
I am new to your channel. Im really enjoying it! Do you have a home base? I was curious, if so, where that is. Sorry for all the questions. I suppose I’d find a video eventually explaining but I don’t know how long it would be lol
Hey Sally while you were in that area, did you get a chance to stop and check out Picher and Cardin OK?? Its not far from where you were in this video. Neat abandoned place, caused by toxic contamination. Great video, glad you out and about again making videos... 🙂
We visited Picher and Cardin a few years ago. Here’s the link to that video:
Most Toxic Towns in Oklahoma Today - Picher & Cardin
th-cam.com/video/8d8kAdvNu5U/w-d-xo.html
If you're still in the area, you should stop in Commerce Oklahoma and talk with Charlse at the Dairy king.
Thanks SALLY LET'S GO FISHING MARTY 😊
Ice fishing is the best, sit in a warm shack drinking beer!
Great show from Venice CA
Thanks from Venice CA 😁
Safe travels
Sunday coffee with Sally and Marty
Spoonbill are popular in the lake of the ozarks also
"More Than useless Junk R Us" Right Marty's alley.
lol it sure is!
@@SightseeingSally Mine too, unfortunatly.
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The Sinclair station is actually posted now and up on multiple real estate sites. If anyone on here is interested in coming to Chetopa and making it a tourist attraction!
The war memorial is not for only Chetopa veterans; but for all of Labette County. The county Courthouse grounds in Oswego 6:32 didn't have room for it, Chetopa volunteered to provid a site for the memorial.
The building with the arched stain glass windows is the former city haul.
Former resident of Chetopa
@ 5:48 you can see that the gas was $0.49 per gallon. Only two digits, so it couldn't go above $0.99. Nostalgia!
I picked up a load of charcoal here for Dollar General 8 years ago, closed now, of course.
My mom.and grandma are from
Chetopa my grandma and her second husband owned and operated the old flower shop and huntsman camper manufacturer which is now home to ottawa manufacturing on the north side of town
When I lived in Quapaw,ok I would drive through chetopa to go to work for Amazon in coffeyville,ks which Amazon is longer there
Thanks!
Thank you! I somehow missed this when you originally did it and just want you to know that it is much appreciated.
The catfish capitol of the world! I knew Grandma's house was onlyv45 minutes away after going through Chetopa!
How is that possible when Kingman is the catfish capital of Kansas?
Wow it's been like 20 years since I have lived there and that drug store was still open. A lot of business are gone. The Buckboard was a restaurant that had pretty good food.
I understand that the horse shoe is pointed down to hold your luck in. But, thinking you can keep your luck to yourself can also create a problem. I mean, wouldn't you want to pass it forward? That's like dam if you do, or visa versa.😊
Interesting perspective, one I hadn’t thought of.
Last I checked that sinclaire gas station is for sale
I grew up in chetopa.
The Sinclair gas station is currently for sale at $85,000
No -pumps- ❌
No -holding- -tanks- ❌
No Sinclair -hat- ❌
5:43 ... gas pump.
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That is why the ❌❌❌
What does XXX mean?? There's an X by holding tanks and hat too??@@sapphiresword139
Library with pretty windows in it
Fireplace in gas station
I don't know what bothers me more: an old town were the main company died out or an old town where the founding industry got erased by a new one...
My hometown
you should go to glasco ks. may only have 300 or so still liveing there now......
I grew up between Pittsburgh and Girard
You will like hope kansas it's a nice small town my families originally from
City hall but was moved to another part of town.
Wow you are in my backyard...so to speak.
That building that is painted in the mural was City Hall.
Thank you! I couldn’t remember and appreciate the help with that.
@@SightseeingSally you’re very welcome! 😊
Shitopa!! it would be nice to have that house on Lake Michigan somewhere but where it is its almost useless
Hi, Sally…. Did you get a tour of the old funeral home??
I think the unknown building might be a court or municipal building
Tell Marty that old Sinclair Gas Station is for sale.
I'm from Oklahoma and I go there to hunt
You should try Morrill KS or Sabetha only town in US with that name
GO THROUGH NIOTAZE ,KANSAS...POPULATION.... 85....... OR, GO TO FORAKER, OKLAHOMA ... POPULATION... 5..... INTERESTING TO FIND, QUICK TO DRIVE THROUGH....
I live in Kansas and the town I live only has 500 people so that bigger than some towns in Kansas
I'm grew up in Kingman, lived 12 years in Humboldt, and now live in Wichita.
🎉dont make enough to keep it
Hardware store or diner. Cant read the sign
Grrreat
Thanks! 🥸
as a kansas resident i can confirm. other than the chiefs or the legends in wyandotte.... kansans see drunk driving as the 2nd best national sport after patrick mahomes.
In the 70's the government established new requirements for underground storage tanks .. too many were leaking and creating environmental problems. Because the mom and pop stations couldn't afford the removal and installation of new tanks, most simply went out of business. Hope you get to Ft. Scott and tour the history center.
Great video but I think you meant before the war 1857 was before the war unless you misspoke and meant to say 1867
If your ever in sek area again stop in at eastside cafe I'm girard
No ventilation or up to code
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