The Choctaws are well known in Ireland. In the 1840s they heard the Irish people were starving so they collected some money ($170) and sent it to Ireland. This was only 14 years after the Trail of Tears, they were still struggling themselves, which made their act of humanity all the more moving. There is a sculpture in Ireland called "Kindred Spirits" to commemorate this act of kindness.
In 2020 the Irish people raised money for the natives hit hard by Covid as a little payback for the help the natives gave them during the famine. It’s so nice to see people helping each other throughout history.
Yes the sculpture is in Middleton in county Cork, it's very beautiful and especially at night when it's lit up, beautiful story and bond between 2 communities thousands of miles apart who's help is always remembered by us Irish, much love and peace to the chacktaw people
I love hominy. Heat up some yellow hominy, put butter, salt and pepper on it. It's great! There's nothing strange about it. It's just another of the 1000's of ways to prepare corn. And it's pure corn. Nothing added (except salt and butter). So completely natural.
@@heatherstephens9295 Walmart carries canned hominy. Found near the canned corn. It's very cheap, around a buck a can. All it is, is regular corn, with the outer shell dissolved away. That causes each kernel to absorb water and swell up. It comes in two basic kinds, white, and yellow. We always ate it as a side dish, like you would regular corn. Restaurants here in Missouri serve it too. Hominy alone is pretty bland, so you have to drain it, and put butter, salt and pepper on it.
Grits are just corn, butter, salt and pepper, but isn't made using lye. I guess someone has to like it for it to be sold. I'll stick with grits. I have no idea how they can taste so different, but I can't do hominy.
Wow has Hominy changed since I was a kid some 40 years ago. My grandparents would take us to a burger restaurant there and a country western store. The boots from that store are still engrained in my mind.
Watching this from a wild and windy seaside town in the south of England. Cat on my lap and British tea in a mug. So wish I was on my travels. Thanks so much! I LOVE your videos
I was raised in Hominy. And ran around the Pawhuska area, as well. I know what a few of those buildings are, that you wondered about, in Hominy. The one old building out by itself, that you think was built in the 70’s, is the old Sale Barn. They used to have a livestock auction every week! It was loud and smelled bad! LOL Also, fun fact, in Pawhuska, you drove past my brother’s house! LOL the Rexall Drug Store in Hominy was a really neat place to go and buy things besides prescriptions! AND, the train depot, (in Hominy) in the 80’s, used to be a restaurant!
You should be recognized as an outstanding citizen for your excellent work covering many parts of the country that we don't get to see. Happy New Year and safe travels!
Joe, I've trucked 4.5 million miles across this big ole beautiful country..... 40+ years and I can't tell you how many times I've said to my wife on the phone calls back to her.... it looks like they just all got up and left... Our youth went to chase the taxman and the old folks are just fading away. Once their health fails them they can't keep their property's up and they more or less just survive until they can't. The American dream has been hijacked into the taxmans dream. Both parents have to work to afford a starter house anymore. Boomer rant over, just wish the youth would realize that
Do you think our youth don't realize that? My kids, nieces and nephew range from 16 to 34. They are well aware that no matter how hard they work, they are unlikely to ever be able to afford a home.
I appreciate this video a little extra. I was born in Pawhuska while my father worked in the oil fields. We were only there for two years. I lived in Tulsa for three years; so, I still have an affection for NE Oklahoma. Your knowledge of architecture is impressive. I took art history in college; but must have dozed off a little too much. 🙂
I used to live in Wynona , just north of there. Hominy used to have a café called The Silver Dollar that was AWESOME but it's a Mexican restaurant now. I still live in OK and have gotten into photography and traveled back to that area and took photos of those exact same murals you showed. The tile from the original stores is still on the ground.
After watching your channel for years now, I can truly say you guys have really done the right thing by helping tie us to each other. Thank you both, for sharing that. Be well.
Thank you for your video. I never knew about Boy Scouts starting there! The picture was so cool! Also loved the art on the buildings! Prayers of safety for your trips! God bless your endeavors!
Hominy is an interesting town. I'd live in the caboose right where it is so there would be interesting things to watch. That old county courthouse in Pawhuska is imposing and intimidating when you look up all those stairs. They were thoughtful to have benches on the sides. I like seeing all the towns you show us. Thanks. Happy New Year!
I was in Oklahoma in 1970-74, summer '71 in Avant and drove round Osage county, Barnsdall, Avant and such. And, now being some 70's am recollecting great memories. Thanks for these scenarios Joe and Nic! Looking forward for more.
Greeting from El Reno Oklahoma, the home of Fort Reno to the south, and the Chyenne Arapaho Reservation just to the north. This is a very interesting and well-done video that you have made! Fort Reno was the site of an Axis prisoner of war camp during WWII and has a well-maintained cemetery of German and Italian POWs interred there. The is another cemetery there also that has U.S. Cavalry trooper interments as well as some Native American graves. Well worth a visit, as part of the old fort is still maintained to visit. Fort Reno is now an Agricultural Research station. Close by is the Federal Correctional institute, also known as Club Fed. You can see the tennis courts from the highway! A lot to see here, as Historic Route 66 is also in El Reno. Thanks again for this very interesting video!
My grandparents, the Yorks, lived in El Reno and raised 4 children, my dad the youngest. Their house was built in 1910 and my grandma lived in it until she passed away in 1984 at age 93. My grandpa worked for the Rock Island Railroad for 50 years. Both were very involved in the El Reno school system. We used to visit for my Dads vacation and always in August. We always said you could fry eggs on the sidewalks, it was so hot. 😅 My mom, sisters and I lived there back in the early 60s. My older sister met her future husband there. So I have a lot of family ties and good memories of El Reno.
Melungeon here, (Cherokee, N African, Iberian decent) and was raised on hominy and fry bread in Tennessee Appalachia. We also eat sweet potato, rice, turkey . History has changed and all we can ask for is kindness and respect.
Not only does Martin Scorsese's movie depict the true story of the "Reign of Terror" in the 1920s, during which several members of the Osage Nation were murdered in Oklahoma, but much of "Killers of the Flower Moon" was shot in or around Pawhuska.
Thank you for this video as I used to live there and employed as a Master Plumber in Oklahoma. They do have an Osage tribal museum you should look at as well. Many Bison surround it.
Pawhuska is a very beautiful town. Have only been there a couple of times and the Mercantile is well worth the visit. You were closer to my neck of the woods In Pawnee which is about a 30 to 40 minute drive due North from where I am in Cushing straight down highway 18. Have been there several times and always love the appeal of the town. As for hominy, the food not the town, it is really good if you mix it in with fried potatoes and smoked sausage. Was great to see you here in Oklahoma. Maybe one day you may make it to Cushing, the pipeline crossroads of the world. Will be watching for the video from Missouri. Until then, stay safe, God bless and may you and Nicole have a happy new year. Steve in Oklahoma
Hope your trip is going well. The fall off of the oil field back in the 80s really hurt towns like Hominy. With the majority of the businesses consolidating in Houston these towns did not rebound. The murals in Hominy are lovely and deserve to be cared for. Marland was one of the oil barons of the heyday, if you have not visited the Marland Mansion in Ponca City it is worth a visit.
My grandma introduced me to Hominy when I was a kid, believe it or not I liked it. Although I don't eat it very often I get a craving for it now and then, and this video made me crave it.
"Killers of the Flower Moon" is a movie directed by Martin Scorsese and much of it shot in Pawhuska. Many of the "quaint" shops with window lettering of the time period of the movie were already abandoned buildings, storefronts "restored", and used as movie sets. The movie came out in 2023, but much of it was shot years earlier. So, some of what you showed is not what it actually was.
Wow, you are the oldest of 8 siblings, I love it! ❤ And I immediately knew about Pawhuska because I am a fan of The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond, a cooking/lifestyle producer. Happy New Year Joe and Nic 🎉🎉🎉
My grandmother lived on Washunga St in Hominy when I was a teen. She ran the mailroom at the penitentiary there. They’re easily missed, but there are several large Indian sculptures on the hilltop west of town. They’re really neat to see in the evening. I do remember the town being a lot less run down.
My aunt Evelyn (No blood relation, she was married to my mom's brother) was part Native American (Chickasaw, I believe). Her mother was named 'Ada', and HER father was an early settler and business owner in Oklahoma. He named the town of Ada, Oklahoma after her. Great video, Joe. Nice to hear about your proud heritage. Thank you.
I love the simplicity of this channel. Always wanted to do a US roadtrip. Still would like to one day but I’m taking these as ‘inspo’ and vicariously living the experience through these videos Love the artwork on the walls by the way
Happy New Year from Phillipsburg Missouri! Its been a while since you viewed the General Store here when you drove past a few years back, drop in anytime your near next time.
In Hominy, the pretty house belongs to the famous Drummin family of Pawhuska. It's currently a museum and the nice white house just north of it was also a family member of the Drummins
I hope you and Nic had a good Christmas. Great vid exploring 3 towns. Some beautiful homes going to ruin. Also the old Mercedes under the portico. I've been to Pawnee when I was delivering new vans in Texas and Oklahoma awhile back. I'm looking forward to new vids in 2025. Happy New Year.
One of my maternal great grandmothers is buried in the Hominy, OK cemetery. Family was also in the Oklahoma Land Rush. Thank you for a very personal (to me) vlog. Thank you for all of the posts you post. Happy New Tear, Joe and Nic.
I think Pawhuska is where Native actor Larry Sellers is from, he played Cloud Dancing in Dr Quinn Medicine Woman I loved his character and his acting was great RIP Larry ❤❤❤
Another interesting ramble through small town America. My favorite way of having hominy is in Chicken Pozole with Green Chile. Yum! Regarding train cars as tiny houses, I know of several places where you can spend the night in one (for example the Railroad Park Resort in Dunsmuir CA). Have a happy new year you two!
Vanessa is related to Quanah Parker, her great grandfather was a Parker (direct relation to Quanah). I heard my grandmother was half indian but i know nothing about my family. I think alot of texans and oklahomians have some indian descendants. Hominy Oklahoma is a very interesting place. Oklahoma is definitely the 2nd state we will try to explore after we get done with Texas. Safe Travels, thanks for the great vodeos.
Love your videos. Catching up today! Hope you and Nicole had a Merry Christmas! You’re awesome! Love the murals. A record of the town’s history. Love the idea of turning a caboose into a tiny home! The law calls that disintegrated home an attractive nuisance. A landlord can sometimes be held liable if a child is injured on the property.
I used to work out of a 1940's box car.. (in train station/could never be moved) we ran water lines through station floor from sub-basement.. in my 29 nine years.. we've never had a roach in our HQ.. sitting high off ground on tracks.. unheard of in psny..
I like Menudo a Mexican soup that has Hominy with homemade flour tortillas on the side. My mother used to make Menudo all the time. Loved it especially during the Christmas and New Year Holiday. My mother learned from my grandmother who lived in Marfa, Texas and worked at a Truck stop and cooked for all the Truckers.
You're the eldest of eight children, Joe! No wonder you're so stoic. Pawhuska, was my favourite town it had so much character and looked like 1920/30s America. Pawnee, was my second favourite town. Thanks for the Americana ride. 🚗🇺🇲👍
I like hominy but haven’t eaten it for years,my mom used to make it a lot! Another town I’ve never heard of so another trip with y’all. Thanks for sharing your experiences! Hope you had a great Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
If you ever do Galveston Island don't forget to ride the ferry and do Bolivar peninsula. They are redoing the Old lighthouse. It also has Fort Travis with lots of history. Happy New Year to all from Crystal Beach Texas!!!
My partner of 25 years was from El Reno Oklahoma.. he moved to CA but his 2 sisters stayed and brother , 1 sister lost a house in a tornado once , she said thats one of the reasons houses so inexpensive
I have been able to watch many of your videos in recent years. Great Job! I am a retired Real Estate professional, but I am amazed at the extent of blighted cities and towns that exist in the U.S. It is hard to grasp that as well off as America generally is, that this is possible. I wonder why there is no mechanism to raze these communities and restore these areas to vacant land. I know in some cases there are considerable contamination issues that no one wants to deal with - which I have seen first-hand several times. These areas do provide a historical glimpse. It would be interesting to do the same thing in Canada. Please keep them coming.
Many of the small towns in Oklahoma have declined due to mechanization of agriculture resulting in less need for farm workers,also due to the demise of the oil business in Oklahoma
Really enjoyed this video....always very interesting, informative and relaxing. Thanks for taking us along! I also wanted say that l hope you, Nicole and your families had a Very Merry Christmas! Hopefully the new year will bring more prosperity and a bunch more outstanding videos! 😊💞
It's like getting another Christmas present to have you post a video today! Thank you, Joe and Nic! Like you, it never ceases to evoke wonder at the rampant blight and decay in small towns, homes vacant that folks just up and left to go to seed. Did they skip out on mortgages and property taxes? And thanks for sharing a bit about your personal history. You are the oldest of eight??!!! Wow, that is an honor and a blessing. My favorite house is the prairie-style with the very old abandoned vehicle in the carport. There is likely a very interesting back story there.
Another great travel video you just mentioned making cabooses into homes how about 20 years ago I did live in a caboose that was sitting on a friend's property outside Philadelphia it had a two-burner stove and a really small bathroom and I slept up in the cupula which I had to access using a ladder sleeping up there was a little bit like sleeping in a coffin the Caboose was very small didn't take much to keep it clean I think using them for affordable housing is a good idea
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I took a picture of that same car and house about 2 years ago. The nice house was a Drummond house and was where Ree Drummond had their honeymoon night. It is a museum now.
Good video. I'm also from Oklahoma 1/8 Chickasaw. Have lived in Texas afor more than 60 years. Hominy was poor people food. When I was a kid in the late forties my mother used to make it out in the yard on our farm. She soaked dry corn kernels then used lye to take the hulls off. The Osage tribe was the richest group of any people in the United States in 1920. Because of the oil money.
Thanks for another great video. I really like the painting on the old brick wall. With some fallen bricks, the colors blend together, and it looks interestingly different. Great "OK" video
I’m a lot of like you John as well. I’m part Black, Cherokee, Irish, English, French, German and Scandinavian on my mothers side and on my fathers side I’m half black and half East Asian.
My sisters and I did a road trip to Pawhuska a couple years ago. Loved that town! The old buildings are so cool. It must’ve really been something at one time.
Me, I am Scotch / Welsh / Native American ( Muscogee Creek ) Bldg 1): my guess a feed store Bldg #2) : Broken window was a WPA project you can tell by the stone work ldg #3) Oil bldg some companies never recovered from the 1980''s oil disaster . Isn't there a prison in Hominy ? City Hall Pawhuska, another WPA build. The last bldg in Pawhuska looked like a Rectory, I have seen a bldg like that and it was Rectory, could be from a Missionary group Pawnee Oklahoma home of the earthquakes . ( Sept 2016) The stone home in Pawnee is another Depression built structure, again you can tell by the stone and the it is built. That is it from Eufaula.
Thanks for sharing these towns with us. They are interesting for sure and full of history. Have a great day and safe travels. Hope you had Happy Holidays
Great video and thank you for sharing your Native American heritage with us. I thought in your last video you said you were going to still be in Kansas…
Owners eventually die off. Property tax goes unpaid, county ends up owning it. Costs too much for demo and cleanup, so there these places sit, slowly going back to 'dust'.
How did your grandma make it? I like it in posole. I made it once with chicken and green Hatch chile no pork . Some like red hot Chile. Spices, onions, sliced radishes and thinly sliced cabbage! Yum!!
At the 2:15 mark you are passing the Pioneer Store and coming up to a blank wall on the right with a Gazebo in the lot. This is where the Bank used to sit. It seemed like a grand place with marble everywhere. At least that is what I remember. At the 2:29 mark you have on your left, what used to be the Frazier Auto Parts store that was later renovated into an ice cream parlor in the 90s, utilizing the soda fountain pulled from one of the drugstores, the one next door if I am not mistaken. At 3 minute mark, you parked in front of the lot where the 3 story hotel used to stand. The murals were done by Cha' Tullis, you pass by his shop at the 6 minute mark. He also did some sculptures up on the hill, you can almost make them out at the 2:48 mark just above the red car on the right. Just above the blue faced building down the street. By the 2:50 mark, the building is covering them. At the 8:25 mark through the 9:49 mark you pass oil field supply businesses. Including as someone has already stated, Hominy Welding and Machine. Those empty lots next to the buildings and the one across the street behind the caboose all had pipe racks and pipes when I was a little kid. At the 10:09 mark you can see a building on the right, where the City Hall and Police and Fire station used to be located and you cut to the building that currently houses the Police and Fire Station. I found this Ironic. 10:31 OAY building- Cattle Auctions. They closed down in the 70s. Around the same time the trains stopped coming through. Later in the late 70s or very early 80s, I remember my dad taking me there for breakfast once. Someone had reopened the restaurant on the first floor. Its been so long, but I think he said the OAY stood for Osage Auction Yards. 13:16 mark you pass the Drummond Home.
Place may be deserted but still leaves a somewhat nice calm ☺️ presence, Joey . Hope you and Nicole had a wonderful Christmas 🎄 and happy Hanukkah 🕎 or Kwanzaa
A couple years ago Homily had a Mexican restaurant in the Depot.. Im from Tulsa and part chactow & Cherokee, Irish, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish. Talk about a cocktail..
So" Enjoyable Joe" really liked this video, very interesting,. Keep doing what you do, it makes all the difference in a day, stay safe in your journeys..all the best to you an Nicole as you travel, Thank you!🌼
Tear that old courthouse down.......? Hell Joe, I'm 65..........old and aging too..LOL. That one building you were asking about? I've worked as a medic (nurse) for most of my life. It resembles a small community health clinic, but perhaps a school as well.
My Aunt and Uncle were good friends of Chester Gould and would visit his farm outside of Woodstock, Illinois. There is (or was) a Dick Tracy museum located in Woodstock, Illinois. Worth the visit if it still exits.
I enjoyed this show, but unfortunately you missed the two main historical attractions in Pawnee. First, there is the Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum that showcases his life and the renowned Wild West shows he starred in. The second was the Pawnee Bathhouse built in 1939 by the WPA, which is on the National Historical Registry.
The Choctaws are well known in Ireland. In the 1840s they heard the Irish people were starving so they collected some money ($170) and sent it to Ireland. This was only 14 years after the Trail of Tears, they were still struggling themselves, which made their act of humanity all the more moving. There is a sculpture in Ireland called "Kindred Spirits" to commemorate this act of kindness.
@@draoi99 That’s amazing.
I've heard that history also. Great love given!
Wow! That's a beautiful story ❤
In 2020 the Irish people raised money for the natives hit hard by Covid as a little payback for the help the natives gave them during the famine. It’s so nice to see people helping each other throughout history.
Yes the sculpture is in Middleton in county Cork, it's very beautiful and especially at night when it's lit up, beautiful story and bond between 2 communities thousands of miles apart who's help is always remembered by us Irish, much love and peace to the chacktaw people
You appear to be so genuine, no satire or cynicism which is so refreshing, thanks.
@@hermanprez Thank you!
I love hominy. Heat up some yellow hominy, put butter, salt and pepper on it. It's great!
There's nothing strange about it. It's just another of the 1000's of ways to prepare corn.
And it's pure corn. Nothing added (except salt and butter). So completely natural.
I’ve never heard of it? 👍🇳🇿🇳🇿
@@heatherstephens9295 Walmart carries canned hominy. Found near the canned corn. It's very cheap, around a buck a can. All it is, is regular corn, with the outer shell dissolved away. That causes each kernel to absorb water and swell up. It comes in two basic kinds, white, and yellow. We always ate it as a side dish, like you would regular corn. Restaurants here in Missouri serve it too. Hominy alone is pretty bland, so you have to drain it, and put butter, salt and pepper on it.
Grits are just corn, butter, salt and pepper, but isn't made using lye. I guess someone has to like it for it to be sold. I'll stick with grits. I have no idea how they can taste so different, but I can't do hominy.
@@heatherstephens9295 You've missed nothing. You'd have to be brought up eating it, or you wouldn't like it. Can't stand it myself.
@ thanks for your reply 🫶🏻🇳🇿
Wow has Hominy changed since I was a kid some 40 years ago. My grandparents would take us to a burger restaurant there and a country western store. The boots from that store are still engrained in my mind.
Watching this from a wild and windy seaside town in the south of England. Cat on my lap and British tea in a mug. So wish I was on my travels. Thanks so much! I LOVE your videos
I was raised in Hominy. And ran around the Pawhuska area, as well. I know what a few of those buildings are, that you wondered about, in Hominy. The one old building out by itself, that you think was built in the 70’s, is the old Sale Barn. They used to have a livestock auction every week! It was loud and smelled bad! LOL Also, fun fact, in Pawhuska, you drove past my brother’s house! LOL the Rexall Drug Store in Hominy was a really neat place to go and buy things besides prescriptions! AND, the train depot, (in Hominy) in the 80’s, used to be a restaurant!
Yeah, me & my cousin would go to the cow auction & pretend we were bidding!😂
Hi! From Cleveland!
You should be recognized as an outstanding citizen for your excellent work covering many parts of the country that we don't get to see. Happy New Year and safe travels!
what for driving up with a camera
I enjoy this very much❤
Joe, I've trucked 4.5 million miles across this big ole beautiful country..... 40+ years and I can't tell you how many times I've said to my wife on the phone calls back to her.... it looks like they just all got up and left... Our youth went to chase the taxman and the old folks are just fading away. Once their health fails them they can't keep their property's up and they more or less just survive until they can't. The American dream has been hijacked into the taxmans dream. Both parents have to work to afford a starter house anymore.
Boomer rant over, just wish the youth would realize that
I couldn’t agree more. A very sorry situation.
Amen.
America is like a third world country! What happened?
Do you think our youth don't realize that? My kids, nieces and nephew range from 16 to 34. They are well aware that no matter how hard they work, they are unlikely to ever be able to afford a home.
Haven’t been to hominy since the late 70s
I appreciate this video a little extra. I was born in Pawhuska while my father worked in the oil fields. We were only there for two years. I lived in Tulsa for three years; so, I still have an affection for NE Oklahoma. Your knowledge of architecture is impressive. I took art history in college; but must have dozed off a little too much. 🙂
I think Pawhuska is where Native actor Larry Sellers is from,he played Cloud Dancing in Dr Quinn Medicine Woman,I LOVED his character ❤
I used to live in Wynona , just north of there. Hominy used to have a café called The Silver Dollar that was AWESOME but it's a Mexican restaurant now. I still live in OK and have gotten into photography and traveled back to that area and took photos of those exact same murals you showed. The tile from the original stores is still on the ground.
My Fathers name was Fred Taylor and married a girl from Hominy 🤪
After watching your channel for years now, I can truly say you guys have really done the right thing by helping tie us to each other. Thank you both, for sharing that. Be well.
Thank you!
Those street lamps are gorgeous.
I've done road trips and stayed thru the Ponca City area. Oklahoma is very interesting.
Thank you for your video. I never knew about Boy Scouts starting there! The picture was so cool! Also loved the art on the buildings! Prayers of safety for your trips! God bless your endeavors!
Hominy is an interesting town. I'd live in the caboose right where it is so there would be interesting things to watch. That old county courthouse in Pawhuska is imposing and intimidating when you look up all those stairs. They were thoughtful to have benches on the sides. I like seeing all the towns you show us. Thanks. Happy New Year!
Thanks, gator!!
Hominy is so good if you fry it in bacon grease. Love the old Rexall sign.
How do you fry Rexall signs? Sounds good.
I can see the Choctaw in you. Thanks for sharing with us a little bit about your family heritage. It's very important.
I think he looks more Creek than Choctow.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣think I know why you said that!
I was in Oklahoma in 1970-74, summer '71 in Avant and drove round Osage county, Barnsdall, Avant and such. And, now being some 70's am recollecting great memories. Thanks for these scenarios Joe and Nic! Looking forward for more.
Greeting from El Reno Oklahoma, the home of Fort Reno to the south, and the Chyenne Arapaho Reservation just to the north. This is a very interesting and well-done video that you have made! Fort Reno was the site of an Axis prisoner of war camp during WWII and has a well-maintained cemetery of German and Italian POWs interred there. The is another cemetery there also that has U.S. Cavalry trooper interments as well as some Native American graves. Well worth a visit, as part of the old fort is still maintained to visit. Fort Reno is now an Agricultural Research station. Close by is the Federal Correctional institute, also known as Club Fed. You can see the tennis courts from the highway! A lot to see here, as Historic Route 66 is also in El Reno. Thanks again for this very interesting video!
El Reno has a beautiful old downtown. :)
Just bought new house in Beggs, Oklahoma
My grandparents, the Yorks, lived in El Reno and raised 4 children, my dad the youngest. Their house was built in 1910 and my grandma lived in it until she passed away in 1984 at age 93. My grandpa worked for the Rock Island Railroad for 50 years. Both were very involved in the El Reno school system. We used to visit for my Dads vacation and always in August. We always said you could fry eggs on the sidewalks, it was so hot. 😅 My mom, sisters and I lived there back in the early 60s. My older sister met her future husband there. So I have a lot of family ties and good memories of El Reno.
Great information.
Melungeon here, (Cherokee, N African, Iberian decent) and was raised on hominy and fry bread in Tennessee Appalachia. We also eat sweet potato, rice, turkey . History has changed and all we can ask for is kindness and respect.
That's awesome Joe. I'm Cherokee Irish Scott and cajun lol we are just human beings. Love your channel.
Not only does Martin Scorsese's movie depict the true story of the "Reign of Terror" in the 1920s, during which several members of the Osage Nation were murdered in Oklahoma, but much of "Killers of the Flower Moon" was shot in or around Pawhuska.
Thank you for this video as I used to live there and employed as a Master Plumber in Oklahoma. They do have an Osage tribal museum you should look at as well. Many Bison surround it.
Pawhuska is a very beautiful town. Have only been there a couple of times and the Mercantile is well worth the visit. You were closer to my neck of the woods In Pawnee which is about a 30 to 40 minute drive due North from where I am in Cushing straight down highway 18. Have been there several times and always love the appeal of the town. As for hominy, the food not the town, it is really good if you mix it in with fried potatoes and smoked sausage. Was great to see you here in Oklahoma. Maybe one day you may make it to Cushing, the pipeline crossroads of the world. Will be watching for the video from Missouri. Until then, stay safe, God bless and may you and Nicole have a happy new year.
Steve in Oklahoma
Hope your trip is going well. The fall off of the oil field back in the 80s really hurt towns like Hominy. With the majority of the businesses consolidating in Houston these towns did not rebound. The murals in Hominy are lovely and deserve to be cared for. Marland was one of the oil barons of the heyday, if you have not visited the Marland Mansion in Ponca City it is worth a visit.
I had Ponca City planned, but ran out of time. I will be visiting there soon.
My grandma introduced me to Hominy when I was a kid, believe it or not I liked it. Although I don't eat it very often I get a craving for it now and then, and this video made me crave it.
You sure about that, it would make you prob the oldest person on earth. The Trail of Tears was in the 1830s
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@@CoachesAquatics Huh? your reply got me scratching my head
"Killers of the Flower Moon" is a movie directed by Martin Scorsese and much of it shot in Pawhuska. Many of the "quaint" shops with window lettering of the time period of the movie were already abandoned buildings, storefronts "restored", and used as movie sets. The movie came out in 2023, but much of it was shot years earlier. So, some of what you showed is not what it actually was.
Did you put your head in the sand and not mentioned the movie that was shot in Pawhuska? What goes?
You probably didn't know but Pawhuska is the home of Ben Johnson who was a real cowboy before becoming a movie star.
Wow, you are the oldest of 8 siblings, I love it! ❤ And I immediately knew about Pawhuska because I am a fan of The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond, a cooking/lifestyle producer. Happy New Year Joe and Nic 🎉🎉🎉
My grandmother lived on Washunga St in Hominy when I was a teen. She ran the mailroom at the penitentiary there. They’re easily missed, but there are several large Indian sculptures on the hilltop west of town. They’re really neat to see in the evening. I do remember the town being a lot less run down.
That's crazy I knew someone who lived on that street on the corner
My aunt Evelyn (No blood relation, she was married to my mom's brother) was part Native American (Chickasaw, I believe). Her mother was named 'Ada', and HER father was an early settler and business owner in Oklahoma. He named the town of Ada, Oklahoma after her. Great video, Joe. Nice to hear about your proud heritage. Thank you.
Thats awesome! I've been to Ada, will probably do a video soon.
Very similar story to that of the naming of Aline, Ok in the NW part of the state
I love the simplicity of this channel. Always wanted to do a US roadtrip. Still would like to one day but I’m taking these as ‘inspo’ and vicariously living the experience through these videos
Love the artwork on the walls by the way
Wow, thank you!!
Happy New Year from Phillipsburg Missouri! Its been a while since you viewed the General Store here when you drove past a few years back, drop in anytime your near next time.
In Hominy, the pretty house belongs to the famous Drummin family of Pawhuska. It's currently a museum and the nice white house just north of it was also a family member of the Drummins
*Drummond
That is also where Ree Drummond spent their honeymoon night. It has been a museum
Osiyo brother Indian. I am Tsalagi Nation! There are no coincidences I've come upon your video for a reason. Happy New year!
Kelli
I guess if I ever run across you, I won't hafta tell ya, that's a Phoenix on my left shoulder, and you won't ask me what CWY means.😅
Can't wait for the SW Missouri video. I have some good friends there. I have also been there many times.
I'm all over that area every week. I love the history and old homes.
I hope you and Nic had a good Christmas. Great vid exploring 3 towns. Some beautiful homes going to ruin. Also the old Mercedes under the portico. I've been to Pawnee when I was delivering new vans in Texas and Oklahoma awhile back. I'm looking forward to new vids in 2025. Happy New Year.
Thanks, Daniel!
I remember watching Charlie Brown Christmas the very first time it aired....also the original Grinch and Rudolph. Yes....I'm that old.
Me too!
So interesting and the comments also. Greetings and thanks from England.
One of my maternal great grandmothers is buried in the Hominy, OK cemetery. Family was also in the Oklahoma Land Rush. Thank you for a very personal (to me) vlog. Thank you for all of the posts you post. Happy New Tear, Joe and Nic.
Wow, that's awesome.
I think Pawhuska is where Native actor Larry Sellers is from, he played Cloud Dancing in Dr Quinn Medicine Woman I loved his character and his acting was great RIP Larry ❤❤❤
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Toronto. Thanks Joe for this beautiful video. Enjoyed watching it.
Thank you!!
Hi Joe & Nic thanks a lot for the video and l think turning a caboose into a tiny home is a great idea 👍
Right!!
Another interesting ramble through small town America. My favorite way of having hominy is in Chicken Pozole with Green Chile. Yum! Regarding train cars as tiny houses, I know of several places where you can spend the night in one (for example the Railroad Park Resort in Dunsmuir CA). Have a happy new year you two!
Vanessa is related to Quanah Parker, her great grandfather was a Parker (direct relation to Quanah). I heard my grandmother was half indian but i know nothing about my family. I think alot of texans and oklahomians have some indian descendants. Hominy Oklahoma is a very interesting place. Oklahoma is definitely the 2nd state we will try to explore after we get done with Texas. Safe Travels, thanks for the great vodeos.
Interesting. I've been thinking about going to Cache (where he died). It looks really interesting.
Love your videos. Catching up today! Hope you and Nicole had a Merry Christmas! You’re awesome! Love the murals. A record of the town’s history. Love the idea of turning a caboose into a tiny home! The law calls that disintegrated home an attractive nuisance. A landlord can sometimes be held liable if a child is injured on the property.
I used to work out of a 1940's box car.. (in train station/could never be moved) we ran water lines through station floor from sub-basement.. in my 29 nine years.. we've never had a roach in our HQ.. sitting high off ground on tracks.. unheard of in psny..
Full kitchen/antique dining room table with matching chairs.. we could get to anywhere in minutes thu sub basement tunnels
Thanks for the tour. 😊
politicians who say this country is doing so well need to come to places like this. we must fix our own problems before helping others
Politicians only care about big cities, state capitals or the states on the East or West coast.
As someone from a place like this, how do you suggest our government go about fixing this?
I like Menudo a Mexican soup that has Hominy with homemade flour tortillas on the side. My mother used to make Menudo all the time. Loved it especially during the Christmas and New Year Holiday. My mother learned from my grandmother who lived in Marfa, Texas and worked at a Truck stop and cooked for all the Truckers.
You're the eldest of eight children, Joe! No wonder you're so stoic. Pawhuska, was my favourite town it had so much character and looked like 1920/30s America. Pawnee, was my second favourite town. Thanks for the Americana ride. 🚗🇺🇲👍
@@Brian17-l4i Pawhuska is a great little town. 😀👍
I like hominy but haven’t eaten it for years,my mom used to make it a lot! Another town I’ve never heard of so another trip with y’all. Thanks for sharing your experiences! Hope you had a great Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
Thank you, Carol!!
23:14 The address is 264 E. 10th Street. I could not find a price listing online, but a couple of nearby similar houses are listed at around $20,000.
Thank you for another fascinating video! I love those courthouses/county seats!
If you ever do Galveston Island don't forget to ride the ferry and do Bolivar peninsula.
They are redoing the Old lighthouse.
It also has Fort Travis with lots of history.
Happy New Year to all from Crystal Beach Texas!!!
I love it there! (Coincidentally, I'm Comanche.)
...adding to the piece. 😁 From Lawton Oklahoma Oklahoma.
9:27 those windows have been broken for so long the glass shards inside are completely covered in undisturbed dust. Abandoned buildings fascinate me.
My partner of 25 years was from El Reno Oklahoma.. he moved to CA but his 2 sisters stayed and brother , 1 sister lost a house in a tornado once , she said thats one of the reasons houses so inexpensive
I have been able to watch many of your videos in recent years. Great Job! I am a retired Real Estate professional, but I am amazed at the extent of blighted cities and towns that exist in the U.S. It is hard to grasp that as well off as America generally is, that this is possible. I wonder why there is no mechanism to raze these communities and restore these areas to vacant land. I know in some cases there are considerable contamination issues that no one wants to deal with - which I have seen first-hand several times. These areas do provide a historical glimpse. It would be interesting to do the same thing in Canada. Please keep them coming.
Real estate professional? Lol good one
Your idea to raze the blight to vacant land is what would truly make America great again.
Many of the small towns in Oklahoma have declined due to mechanization of agriculture resulting in less need for farm workers,also due to the demise of the oil business in Oklahoma
Good Morning Folks. From Canada.
Really enjoyed this video....always very interesting, informative and relaxing. Thanks for taking us along! I also wanted say that l hope you, Nicole and your families had a Very Merry Christmas! Hopefully the new year will bring more prosperity and a bunch more outstanding videos! 😊💞
Thank you, and you too!
It's like getting another Christmas present to have you post a video today! Thank you, Joe and Nic! Like you, it never ceases to evoke wonder at the rampant blight and decay in small towns, homes vacant that folks just up and left to go to seed. Did they skip out on mortgages and property taxes? And thanks for sharing a bit about your personal history. You are the oldest of eight??!!! Wow, that is an honor and a blessing. My favorite house is the prairie-style with the very old abandoned vehicle in the carport. There is likely a very interesting back story there.
Yeah, that was an interesting house. That car looks like it has been sitting there a long time.
Another great travel video you just mentioned making cabooses into homes how about 20 years ago I did live in a caboose that was sitting on a friend's property outside Philadelphia it had a two-burner stove and a really small bathroom and I slept up in the cupula which I had to access using a ladder sleeping up there was a little bit like sleeping in a coffin the Caboose was very small didn't take much to keep it clean I think using them for affordable housing is a good idea
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I took a picture of that same car and house about 2 years ago. The nice house was a Drummond house and was where Ree Drummond had their honeymoon night. It is a museum now.
Good video. I'm also from Oklahoma 1/8 Chickasaw. Have lived in Texas afor more than 60 years. Hominy was poor people food. When I was a kid in the late forties my mother used to make it out in the yard on our farm. She soaked dry corn kernels then used lye to take the hulls off. The Osage tribe was the richest group of any people in the United States in 1920. Because of the oil money.
I'm from Skiatook. I've been to Hominy a lot in my lifetime. Lived in Pawhuska as well
Thanks for another great video. I really like the painting on the old brick wall. With some fallen bricks, the colors blend together, and it looks interestingly different. Great "OK" video
I’m a lot of like you John as well. I’m part Black, Cherokee, Irish, English, French, German and Scandinavian on my mothers side and on my fathers side I’m half black and half East Asian.
Good morning! Merry Christmas!
Thank's for another super video. My father talked about the Penobscot Indians, where some of his ancestors came from.
My sisters and I did a road trip to Pawhuska a couple years ago. Loved that town! The old buildings are so cool. It must’ve really been something at one time.
Me, I am Scotch / Welsh / Native American ( Muscogee Creek ) Bldg 1): my guess a feed store Bldg #2) : Broken window was a WPA project you can tell by the stone work ldg #3) Oil bldg some companies never recovered from the 1980''s oil disaster . Isn't there a prison in Hominy ? City Hall Pawhuska, another WPA build. The last bldg in Pawhuska looked like a Rectory, I have seen a bldg like that and it was Rectory, could be from a Missionary group Pawnee Oklahoma home of the earthquakes . ( Sept 2016) The stone home in Pawnee is another Depression built structure, again you can tell by the stone and the it is built. That is it from Eufaula.
Yes…there is a prison in Hominy. Although it was built years after we moved away.
Those narrow houses were called “ shotgun houses”. If I’m remembering correctly.
Thanks for sharing these towns with us. They are interesting for sure and full of history. Have a great day and safe travels. Hope you had Happy Holidays
Hominy makes a great vegetable curry spicy hot as a side dish. That's how I usually cook it yummy.
Oh a new one. 😊 good morning!!from outer burbs in Melbourne, Australia
Awesome!
Great video and thank you for sharing your Native American heritage with us. I thought in your last video you said you were going to still be in Kansas…
Still got another Kansas video coming. :)
Always so sad, when your videos end. Oh well, till next time Joe & Nick. Great video. Safe travels to you both.
Still can't get over how good this turned out!
Love those street lights in downtown Hominy! Thanks for the tour, Joe.
I love that shot at 13:52...the car, the whole vibe.
Thanks!
Thank you!!
I see so many houses just rotting from abandonment, looks like they could still be a nice place if kept up.
I don't get just letting it rot
No demand so no renovation/ upkeep Why would you dump cash into a black hole
Owners eventually die off. Property tax goes unpaid, county ends up owning it. Costs too much for demo and cleanup, so there these places sit, slowly going back to 'dust'.
@santaclause2875 a few, ok, but nothing close to the number we see
Thank you so much and Happy Holiday and Happy New year 🎉
Came to show my support. Thanks for sharing and have a great day. 🌹☕
Love you guys Thankyou for taking us along on your travels Stay safe 🤠
How did your grandma make it? I like it in posole. I made it once with chicken and green Hatch chile no pork . Some like red hot Chile. Spices, onions, sliced radishes and thinly sliced cabbage! Yum!!
She made it plain, with just a bit of salt. That might be why I didn't think it tasted good.
Pozole
Love the Christmas decorations and music. Our town didnt put anything up for Christmas . Why plan on moving to Oklahoma.
Don't be mistaken. There are some wealthy residents in and around Hominy, OK. Home of the Bucks.
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At the 2:15 mark you are passing the Pioneer Store and coming up to a blank wall on the right with a Gazebo in the lot. This is where the Bank used to sit. It seemed like a grand place with marble everywhere. At least that is what I remember.
At the 2:29 mark you have on your left, what used to be the Frazier Auto Parts store that was later renovated into an ice cream parlor in the 90s, utilizing the soda fountain pulled from one of the drugstores, the one next door if I am not mistaken.
At 3 minute mark, you parked in front of the lot where the 3 story hotel used to stand.
The murals were done by Cha' Tullis, you pass by his shop at the 6 minute mark. He also did some sculptures up on the hill, you can almost make them out at the 2:48 mark just above the red car on the right. Just above the blue faced building down the street. By the 2:50 mark, the building is covering them.
At the 8:25 mark through the 9:49 mark you pass oil field supply businesses. Including as someone has already stated, Hominy Welding and Machine. Those empty lots next to the buildings and the one across the street behind the caboose all had pipe racks and pipes when I was a little kid.
At the 10:09 mark you can see a building on the right, where the City Hall and Police and Fire station used to be located and you cut to the building that currently houses the Police and Fire Station. I found this Ironic.
10:31 OAY building- Cattle Auctions. They closed down in the 70s. Around the same time the trains stopped coming through. Later in the late 70s or very early 80s, I remember my dad taking me there for breakfast once. Someone had reopened the restaurant on the first floor. Its been so long, but I think he said the OAY stood for Osage Auction Yards.
13:16 mark you pass the Drummond Home.
Thank You! I knew that I knew some of those buildings back in their heyday, but I couldn’t quite remember… now I do! Thanks! (still a Buck at heart!)💜
Interesting as usual, well done & thank you
Thank you!!
The car at 13:52 is a Mercedes Benz that could have been made in the late 50s or early 60s Joe. And thank you for another road trip as always.
Place may be deserted but still leaves a somewhat nice calm ☺️ presence, Joey . Hope you and Nicole had a wonderful Christmas 🎄 and happy Hanukkah 🕎 or Kwanzaa
My wife simmers bacon and onions with hominy in a lil olive oil… I love it that way… plain hominy is pretty drab. The bacon really makes it!
I always loved anything made from corn. Always preferred plain buttered corn but gladly ate the hominy when it was served
Same here,do you ever fry your corn in butter?
@Jefferson-l7o2j No, l never have and l have no idea why l haven't because it looks so good. I'm going to now that you have mentioned it. 🙂
@@barbaraparker6996 drain the water off of the corn fry it in butter till it just starts to brown a little, really good stuff
@@Jefferson-l7o2j Thank you so much.
A couple years ago Homily had a Mexican restaurant in the Depot..
Im from Tulsa and part chactow & Cherokee, Irish, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish. Talk about a cocktail..
That's quite a mix!
It's still there! 😊
Im sure the view would be much more beautiful in the spring. Especially going up and down those mpressive and unusual steps.
So" Enjoyable Joe" really liked this video, very interesting,. Keep doing what you do, it makes all the difference in a day, stay safe in your journeys..all the best to you an Nicole as you travel, Thank you!🌼
Thanks, Jenny!
Hominy looks like a good time. I live in Austin, which sucks, so I'm moving to hominy. I'll open a disco.
Tear that old courthouse down.......? Hell Joe, I'm 65..........old and aging too..LOL. That one building you were asking about? I've worked as a medic (nurse) for most of my life. It resembles a small community health clinic, but perhaps a school as well.
Very cool heritage Joe! I’m Italian Irish and Cherokee! 😊😊😊
That was a good show thanks Joe and Nic. Happy New year from New York
My Aunt and Uncle were good friends of Chester Gould and would visit his farm outside of Woodstock, Illinois. There is (or was) a Dick Tracy museum located in Woodstock, Illinois. Worth the visit if it still exits.
That's cool.
I enjoyed this show, but unfortunately you missed the two main historical attractions in Pawnee. First, there is the Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum that showcases his life and the renowned Wild West shows he starred in. The second was the Pawnee Bathhouse built in 1939 by the WPA, which is on the National Historical Registry.