Western Oklahoma - Ghost Towns & Abandoned Places

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  • @History_v_detalyax
    @History_v_detalyax 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    Even though I'm from Russia, I really like your videos. It's always sad to see abandoned places where people lived.

    • @tylerjones2695
      @tylerjones2695 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Hey there from America

    • @NoName-rl3fh
      @NoName-rl3fh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Greetings from America. And yes, decay places can be both interesting & also bittersweet.

    • @noworriesmate2323
      @noworriesmate2323 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So am and do I

    • @sealstech8087
      @sealstech8087 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Since life usually has such a desire to exist in spite of the world being in our opposition, its off putting to see when things failed.

  • @rjn6953
    @rjn6953 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    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...

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Glad you enjoyed it

    • @shinybudlv-kg7ok
      @shinybudlv-kg7ok 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bro my great grandparents lived there too. That’s crazy. Now they’re in the panhandle of Oklahoma

  • @JeffreyBarkley
    @JeffreyBarkley 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    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.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you!!

  • @carolobrien7071
    @carolobrien7071 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    My husband and I took a trip to Oklahoma in September to see Fort Sill in Lawton, where he was stationed when he was in the Army. Seeing this video made me want to take a side trip to Gate and he agreed. It took us 5 hours to drive up there from Lawton and we arrived around noon. Yes, luckily for us Laurie's Cafe was open for business, so we were able to get some lunch there. Several people stopped to get some take-out while we were there. Afterwards we checked out all the wonderful murals. I wish we could have found out who painted them and when they were painted. It was very hot that day and it was a long drive but well worth it. Thanks for the upload!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thanks for watching!

  • @tylerjones2695
    @tylerjones2695 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    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

    • @billzeralsky2969
      @billzeralsky2969 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You did a nice job showing these dwindling little OK towns. I enjoy seeing them & what you're doing here.

  • @reedsilvesan2197
    @reedsilvesan2197 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    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.

  • @johnleak8396
    @johnleak8396 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I know Kenton, OK pretty well. My great grandfather, John Duncan, used to run the Kenton Mercantile. He passed away in the late '70's at the age of 103,. I also had a couple of my mother's aunts and uncles, that lived at each end of town.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I enjoyed my visit to Kenton

  • @docshreck4
    @docshreck4 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you!

  • @MrDarkTenebrae
    @MrDarkTenebrae 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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 .-

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

    • @LisaCabelarow
      @LisaCabelarow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@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 ?

  • @kenthompson5723
    @kenthompson5723 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    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.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for sharing! I am eager to visit again, I really enjoyed the area. I'll check out that park next visit.

    • @aaronshoyt
      @aaronshoyt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you know any Clark's there?

    • @chriscosby2459
      @chriscosby2459 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember growing up in Tulsa the local TV station would always list the temperature for Gage.

    • @garnerjoyce606
      @garnerjoyce606 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fund comptrollers, need their ear to the ground and maybe they can come up with necessary people/ funding / labor to get things done. Hope

  • @jeroberts7228
    @jeroberts7228 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I loved this tour - it was so fascinating!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @MaryDunn-e7k
    @MaryDunn-e7k หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I really enjoyed your video. I was born in Snyder, OK it's just a few miles from Cooperton, OK and Gotebo, OK. My family moved from Snyder in 1955, when we moved
    I was only 5 years old, we moved to Jones, OK. I remember when we would go visit family members we drove through both Cooperton and Gotebo. It's sad to see what the town's look like today. Thank you for sharing.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for sharing!

    • @diambo4life
      @diambo4life 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Used to drive through Snyder on my way to Mangum where my ex was from. Very ghost like towns down there. Sayre is another one...

  • @lefturn99
    @lefturn99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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,.....

    • @attrell
      @attrell  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for sharing that, I was surprised that rail at Keyes doesn't operate anymore.

    • @lefturn99
      @lefturn99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @latanyadavis8700
    @latanyadavis8700 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @brendasaunders4956
    @brendasaunders4956 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love these old buildings from the past wish they could be restored some good memories of people who once were there

  • @vic88-i4p
    @vic88-i4p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My favorite channel. Organized, no rambling, informative and fascinating. Sometimes the distant past makes me ponder that life is just a short journey.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow, thank you!

  • @planetbell1
    @planetbell1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Hahaha, that same cat in Kenton is in my most recent video. She gave me a tour!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Too funny!!

  • @JoeBachmann-ry7wm
    @JoeBachmann-ry7wm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. It is very interesting.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @Route66BothLanes
    @Route66BothLanes 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @apocyldoomer
    @apocyldoomer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Chris, beautiful decay, good stuff man, yet, sad!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks!

  • @RealityUrbex
    @RealityUrbex 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Nice video. I like to see the differences between abandoned places in the US and over here in germany.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Must be amazing stuff over there!

  • @anthonybaroni3285
    @anthonybaroni3285 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Seeing old towns like this is why I take my road trips...Great job!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank yhou!

  • @michaell8645
    @michaell8645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My father was born in avard went to school in Alva and graduated from nwosu in Alva. Two of my sisters and myself were born in Alva hospital which is now a museum. All three of my sisters graduated from nwosu. Our parents and one set of grandparents are buried in Alva.

  • @mjeanhibbs3272
    @mjeanhibbs3272 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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❣

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Oh good! I am thrilled you like the video! Thanks!

    • @REGINALucas-n7m
      @REGINALucas-n7m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Our Family Farm still exists outside of Gotebo

  • @zacharycranor7071
    @zacharycranor7071 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for the tips! Next time I a there I will!

  • @hensen5309
    @hensen5309 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a native Oklahoman, it’s really really cool seeing this. I hope I can find the time to visit these amazing places

    • @attrell
      @attrell  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching!

  • @helmhamburgerhand
    @helmhamburgerhand 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love seeing places like this. Hope one day i can travel to so many of them. Just imagine the old life they had in them

  • @vaclavshabanov8511
    @vaclavshabanov8511 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Little mayor looks great 😊

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think so too!

  • @waynehawkins9090
    @waynehawkins9090 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Been thru some of these towns in my previous job.

  • @pattylawson1696
    @pattylawson1696 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I grew up in Aline the garage was my uncles it served as a garage for the town

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

  • @Bud1632
    @Bud1632 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Could you please show the firehouses in the old towns you showcase?

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Good idea, I will do that!

  • @dougrobinson5830
    @dougrobinson5830 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You could get many more ghost towns in Okla. Ive been to many. We are moving to the town of Depew soon. Pop. 400.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

  • @bearingcee
    @bearingcee 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    If you haven't already. Be sure to make your way to Roosevelt, OK and Gotebo. The only thing keeping Roosevelt from dying is Parts World the junk yard. The only thing keeping Gotebo going is the grain elevator. You can find Cooperton between Mt View, Roosevelt and Gotebo. Good luck and safe travels. Oh, Dill City and Lone Wolf oklahoma are Ghosttowns as well.

    • @bearingcee
      @bearingcee 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Lol you made it to Go Tee Bo. 😂

    • @attrell
      @attrell  27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hey thanks! I will go check those out!

  • @sailingaeolus
    @sailingaeolus หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spent time in Lawton and Altus as a kid - that was 45 years ago. Oklahoma then had the nicest people I've ever met. Hurts my eyes to see those towns falling apart.

  • @weekendwithbevoblog2171
    @weekendwithbevoblog2171 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Have to love the humour in the antique shop sign.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah I liked that one too.

  • @jjnich4915
    @jjnich4915 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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.

  • @cherylspelino2365
    @cherylspelino2365 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you I will!

  • @jefferylee3121
    @jefferylee3121 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I live in Alva Oklahoma and that abandoned brick building you came across on was a grain elevator

    • @attrell
      @attrell  26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh thank you!

  • @nickmerrick18
    @nickmerrick18 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great HD and camera work. The colors really stand out.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @sunnyskye213
    @sunnyskye213 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video/material/history.....Enjoyed; THANK U.....

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you too!

  • @kimberwest7304
    @kimberwest7304 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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 😂)

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @jasonsmith8756
    @jasonsmith8756 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.👏👏

    • @attrell
      @attrell  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @ddoppster
    @ddoppster 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'll never get there, so thank you for the tour, it is captivating!!

  • @mikenichols4889
    @mikenichols4889 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I am going in spring to the rest of Oklahoma!

  • @drummersagainstitk
    @drummersagainstitk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks Chris for your work. W. Ok is a very interesting vibe. GAGE was really interesting.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!!

  • @lostvlog6857
    @lostvlog6857 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Really good with locations! I look forward to watching your other videos!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you!

  • @mattcero1
    @mattcero1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yes, it had a motel. It was only open on prom night though.

  • @alexzildjian
    @alexzildjian 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Your NEW SUSCRIBER love a Lot This place , This vídeo 😊🙌 Huge Hug from Ensenada bajá MÉXICO 🇲🇽

    • @tylerjones2695
      @tylerjones2695 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When I lived in S California we used to go to Rosarita Beach and Ensenada

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @marshajones5317
    @marshajones5317 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My Dad is from Gotebo... enjoyed the video...look forward to more 😊

    • @attrell
      @attrell  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome! Thank you!

    • @mikefightmaster
      @mikefightmaster 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@attrell
      Pronounced
      Go tee bow.

  • @honeybeeharbour1625
    @honeybeeharbour1625 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I live in this area. While the area and people are charming it does come with it's own challenges. Declining populations, increasing commutes for work, lack of employment opportunities, good luck finding groceries locally in many of these small towns. With the increasing encroachment of businesses like Dollar general and Walmart pricing out local business and then even those closing, goods and services are in short supply.

  • @NBZW
    @NBZW 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What’s amazing to me is the number of unbroken windows in these places. Shows there is still some respect, thank goodness...Research the history, the collapse of the homeowner farms began under the Regan Administration when the corporate owned farm was said to be much more efficient, Regan applauded this.

  • @danielclayton7524
    @danielclayton7524 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's an old flower mill. Critic mills used to have them. There's another bldg. ,same design in Beardstown il.

  • @MichaelNehring-p4v
    @MichaelNehring-p4v 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Avard, Okla. two railroads, former Frisco/BN& Former Santa Fe, now both belong to the BNSF, the Frisco ends there, but heads back East through Hopeton, Dacoma,Carmen, McWillie,Helena,Goltry,Carrier & then Enid, continuing on to Tulsa, Springfield,Mo. former Santa Fe runs East West, it's called the Transcon, LA to Chicago.

  • @soonerstatefirephotography
    @soonerstatefirephotography 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I enjoyed my visit to Depew

  • @bmichaud1000
    @bmichaud1000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nice job Chris.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks!

  • @dallasdillmon6653
    @dallasdillmon6653 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How about doing this same thing in north central Oklahoma? Around Medford, Wakita, Deer Creek, Lamint.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes! I am eager to go! Thanks.

  • @Blazefork
    @Blazefork 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I'm guessing the building in Alva was a flour mill, my grandpa grew up in Waynoka

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

    • @Blazefork
      @Blazefork 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@attrell your welcome, enjoyed your work!

  • @mikehaney6922
    @mikehaney6922 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice winter weather for the most part of the trip

    • @attrell
      @attrell  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes it was!

  • @stuartpage5696
    @stuartpage5696 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Should have checked out Freedom OK. 25 miles straight west of Alva.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I put it on my list for next trip, thank you!

    • @suttonmaple-pr4nh
      @suttonmaple-pr4nh 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My dad and his siblings are from Freedom..the French family..pug and Nellie are my grandparents.

  • @CyrusToweh-z7q
    @CyrusToweh-z7q 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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

    • @CyrusToweh-z7q
      @CyrusToweh-z7q 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 👍💯🙏

    • @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244
      @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Corporate farms killed off the small farms, so the towns died.

    • @vjbull8172
      @vjbull8172 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Neoliberalism

  • @W5alz
    @W5alz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rumor has it the old high school gym/roller skating rink in Avard, Oklahoma is haunted!! There is supposedly a portal to the other side!! Vina Rae’s grill and graze restaurant was there!! Lots of paranormal activity went on there!!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I got to check that out!

  • @marrissadonet698
    @marrissadonet698 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your videos it's like a time travel. Thanks from Canada

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching!

  • @valerienewton908
    @valerienewton908 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There was a man here in Norman named Cecil Woods that owned tons of commercial real estate. His family still runs everything.Wonder if it is the same person?

  • @riverraisin1
    @riverraisin1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I feel like I know your shadow, personally! lol
    Very interesting and enjoyable walk thru old time OK. Thanks.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching!

  • @pattylawson1696
    @pattylawson1696 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And the ioof building was on the end where we had Eastern

  • @pattylawson1696
    @pattylawson1696 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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

  • @travelvideos
    @travelvideos 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @RRW177
    @RRW177 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thanks for the video. Makes me want to go there.

  • @michaelsmith141
    @michaelsmith141 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My mom was born Gotebo, OK.

  • @jkingsley9385
    @jkingsley9385 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @Lyle_918
    @Lyle_918 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The dust bowel of the 1930's took a toll on that area. Most of the original inhabitants are still nearby ... at the cemetery.

  • @michaelgreen4838
    @michaelgreen4838 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Very good job!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you!

  • @shinybudlv-kg7ok
    @shinybudlv-kg7ok 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @horseman942
    @horseman942 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When was this filmed? Really enjoyed it!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This month! Thank you!

  • @puckerbutton7025
    @puckerbutton7025 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi oklahoma resident here
    This is just north tulsa
    You gotta go south of admiral to see the nice houses

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'll do that!

  • @GABYDOW
    @GABYDOW 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Much LOVE from Roumania

  • @ChrisSmith-qq4mv
    @ChrisSmith-qq4mv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fr Toronto 😢 the cat walking around in a abandoned 👻 town scares the s*** out of me 😭

    • @attrell
      @attrell  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They are happy as can be!

  • @thejewishredneckprepper4675
    @thejewishredneckprepper4675 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love all of your videos. Yet I have learned alot from your videos and others.One thing I do on my channel is Ghost towns, here in Ga. and SC. I believe that once the heart of a town,aka business district dies. The town is dead no matter what the cause of the town dying. It is people that make a town not just its business. Once unity is gone and the soul of the town is gone it is dead. Shalom my friend.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks for sharing!

  • @NoName-rl3fh
    @NoName-rl3fh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That would be fun to do!

  • @pattylawson1696
    @pattylawson1696 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That building was a meat processing in locker plant for many the springers ran it fo ears

  • @vladstad8102
    @vladstad8102 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    with that fog, putman ok looks like something out of a silent hill game

  • @zzzzzz1220
    @zzzzzz1220 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Man merkt es regnet dort wenig dort ist alles noch so gut im Schuss

  • @BarryKaiser-tp4lj
    @BarryKaiser-tp4lj 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There is a cemetery in Aline Oklahoma..has 1,090 graves.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's a lot of graves!

  • @Terry9624
    @Terry9624 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching!

  • @jerroldmcley4347
    @jerroldmcley4347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love those old towns have you ever watched Joe n nics road trip

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think I saw a video from them about texas towns

    • @jerroldmcley4347
      @jerroldmcley4347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like the way he tells you the history what it was what it is n

    • @jerroldmcley4347
      @jerroldmcley4347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Now housing prices and what it's like to live there

  • @jewishman2687
    @jewishman2687 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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..

    • @attrell
      @attrell  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh wow! Thanks for sharing

  • @jwrappuhn71
    @jwrappuhn71 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great vid.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so much!

  • @aaronshoyt
    @aaronshoyt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm from Cyril, Oklahoma.. We have around 2,000 Residents.. Great video man, where are you from?

  • @RamblingRodeo
    @RamblingRodeo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @bandaf.2899
    @bandaf.2899 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You totally missed Waurika, OK. The antique shop there Nancy's Antiques is a fantastic antique shop, you totally missed it!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Next time! I was there in 2014. I will be back!

  • @Thomas-yr9ln
    @Thomas-yr9ln 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I went to Oklahoma when I was 17.

  • @evilgenius4213
    @evilgenius4213 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So, the buildings you saw in Putnam that you thought might have been hit by a tornado were burned during the Rhea Fire in April 2018. Also, Aline is pronounced Uh-leen.

    • @attrell
      @attrell  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh thank you!!!

  • @FuHackers-wx9lq
    @FuHackers-wx9lq 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    OMG!!! Crying room? They need to bring that back. Also, make them for planes too! Amazing... 👶👶👶👶👶

  • @FuHackers-wx9lq
    @FuHackers-wx9lq 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love how you call cats mayors. What are dogs sheriffs? 🐶

    • @attrell
      @attrell  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      YES! :)

  • @bettetindel2127
    @bettetindel2127 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Should do Hastings, OK , used to have college

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      THanks! I added to my list.

  • @pattylawson1696
    @pattylawson1696 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That was Otis hasty chiropractor

  • @ReynoldsBerry-xe8np
    @ReynoldsBerry-xe8np 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Takes me back to Lawton in the 1970s😊

  • @Tsukoblue
    @Tsukoblue 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It would have been nice if you went deeper into these buildings

  • @pattylawson1696
    @pattylawson1696 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Is pronounced al one kids can always go in the bar and get him a pizza or pop anytime

  • @tomcaldwell5750
    @tomcaldwell5750 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you!

    • @attrell
      @attrell  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!