OKLAHOMA: Forgotten, Fading Rural Towns - Far Off The Interstate

2022 ж. 21 Қар.
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I visited 10 small Oklahoma towns who's best days are behind them.
Oklahoma towns visited:
Waukomis
Hennessey
Okeene
Canton
Fairview
Cleo Springs
Carmen
Cherokee
Jet
Goltry
Garfield County
Kingfisher County
Blaine County
Major County
Alfalfa County
Travel Vlog: 171

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  • I was a Canadian trucker. Ran Canada and all USA for 40 years. My favorite loads were the ones going off the beaten path. The people were more social and friendly. Almost everyone had interesting stories to tell. No matter how small the town was, they could talk for hours about its history. I picked up a load of charcoal in the middle of nowhere in the Ozarks. One of the workers wanted to know about Canada and invited me to his home for dinner. well, talk about hillbilly heaven lol. I had one of the best dinner and visit I could remember. What a great family. But seeing those types of things disappearing is a real crime.

    @mikepech6822@mikepech6822 Жыл бұрын
    • This is the result of the demise of AGRICULTURE. This is what happens when the government "fixes" something. Now the "agriculture" that appears around these areas is actually AGRI-BUSINESS. The people they hire to operate their machinery don't even speak English. So, these people leave to go to either OKC or Tulsa for a GRUNT JOB. If they get one, then they can live in a plastic suburb.

      @bobburnitt5761@bobburnitt57617 ай бұрын
  • I am disabled and don't travel much ! but I really enjoy riding along with you !

    @rosseganjr9402@rosseganjr9402 Жыл бұрын
    • Awesome, Ross! That's why I do it. :)

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • Same here, Ross! Taking a nice drive to look at little towns was a hobby and a pleasure of mine. Hang in there!

      @WhereShallWeGoToday@WhereShallWeGoToday Жыл бұрын
    • Same here love the tour......

      @johnpepe180@johnpepe180 Жыл бұрын
    • Ditto here. Lord Sparda and his wife has awesome videos. I really appreciate and enjoy them.

      @oklahomafreedom5536@oklahomafreedom5536 Жыл бұрын
  • I’m originally from Enid. Many of the people who live in these towns work in or around Enid. I have been to every one of these towns. They all originated primarily as farm towns built around their grain elevators.

    @wademarquardt5296@wademarquardt5296 Жыл бұрын
  • Shout out from Cherokee Ok. Thanks for featuring our small town. Next time you're near Cherokee check out some of the sights. We have the salt flats that host the only place in the world to dig Hour Glass Selenite Crystals. There is the Great Salt Plains Lake and Devine Waters Artisian Well about 15 min. N.E. of Cherokee. Main Street has the pocket park that's just a cool little park that was put in between two of the downtown buildings when the middle building had to be brought down and there was just an empty gap there. Also thought you might be interested to know that the old hotel you highlighted is a veterans museum.

    @MrTwiztid1234@MrTwiztid1234 Жыл бұрын
    • Cool! :)

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • Thanks for mentioning this. I spent 3 summers in Norman at OU studying geology and made a visit to the Salt Plains. I still have selenite crystals down in my basement from that time 50 years ago. While I enjoy these videos, I wish he would vary his descriptions a little. Too much statistics. Stop at a coffee shop, a museum, an antique shop, something interesting from each town, rather than poverty levels and house values over and over.

      @lesmolyneaux5267@lesmolyneaux5267 Жыл бұрын
    • I've been up your way (in Alva) a couple of years back. Nice area up there, a lot of farmlands and ranches if I remember correctly...I'm from Muskogee way btw.

      @kituwahband@kituwahband Жыл бұрын
  • I live in Tulsa and grew up in Muskogee. The small towns in Oklahoma got hit really hard after Walmart ransacked the state. Local business stopped being prioritized and the small towns died. It’s sad. The small towns surrounding OKC and Tulsa do fine. Sapulpa is a cute one.

    @williamcallawaydavis8845@williamcallawaydavis88459 ай бұрын
    • I was born in Tulsa. 👍😀

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip9 ай бұрын
    • born in Muskogee

      @jimmywilson4809@jimmywilson48095 ай бұрын
    • My Dad was born in Muskogee. My Mom was born in Wewoka.

      @justmyopinion9883@justmyopinion98832 ай бұрын
  • thank you for sharing stay safe and comfortable in driving ....

    @erikalfan1027@erikalfan1027 Жыл бұрын
  • I’m enjoying these stories, they tell part of why America is the way it is.

    @pgrant7688@pgrant7688 Жыл бұрын
  • My father covered the church steeple in sheet metal in 1978 using scaffolding. This was his first job after starting his own Sheet Metal Company.

    @davidswanson8243@davidswanson8243 Жыл бұрын
  • That big gun "tank" is called a self-propelled howitzer. I saw loads of them in Ft. Sill, OK. Love that state, and I'm from Southern California. Just loved the small towns I saw while in the military.

    @Surfguitarist59@Surfguitarist59 Жыл бұрын
    • I live in Lawton/Ft sill. I know all about them, I don't care for the town because the city only does things to get the soldiers money and nothing for the citizens. But yes it's a howitzer.

      @staylebutler9135@staylebutler91354 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for proving to my wife I'm not crazy! I'm always driving through small towns touring their downtowns and every time I see a theater I point it out as well! I'm originally from Eufaula, OK, I vibrant small town, but no theaters, they had two in the fifties.

    @stevenb6462@stevenb6462 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you, Steven. Old theaters are my favorite buildings.

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • I'm from McAlester Eufaula is where I gave spent many summers.

      @sigspearthumb5116@sigspearthumb5116 Жыл бұрын
    • I love driving through small towns. One thing I also like to do is visit old cemeteries. There is a lot of history there.

      @26skogen@26skogen Жыл бұрын
    • Small towns have so much character

      @chrismcree9366@chrismcree9366 Жыл бұрын
    • Your wife will just say that both of you are crazy

      @Blackadder75@Blackadder753 ай бұрын
  • My dad 👤 use to take us to small towns thank you God bless you

    @juliogonzales5441@juliogonzales5441 Жыл бұрын
  • Waukomis survives on speeding tickets in their 45mph section.

    @patticriss2238@patticriss2238 Жыл бұрын
    • many small towns nation wide also.

      @jerrysullivan8424@jerrysullivan8424 Жыл бұрын
    • Here's an idle thought. How about obey the law? Slow down to 45 MPH, put on your mask.

      @keithhyttinen8275@keithhyttinen82752 ай бұрын
  • All these towns were wonderful in their heyday when the wheat fields were thriving and the oil fields were booming. There was a German prisoner of war camp just west of Alva by the cemetery and at Freedom it has alabaster caverns where you can go way below ground in the caves. Little Shara state park is out there too with the sand dunes and the great Salt planes state park east of Cherokee. Don’t forget Twister was filmed out there in Wakeeta. Thanks for touring our state 😊. Come back again

    @cyndyrn1@cyndyrn1 Жыл бұрын
  • If you ever get back to Oklahoma would like to see Lawton. I was born on the army base there in 1958. Fort Sill. My parents then retuned to Colorado when I was about six weeks old.

    @tweetspie@tweetspie Жыл бұрын
  • I live around the Chickasha area. I have been to Fairview, Hennessey, Okeene, Canton, and Cleo Springs. Love the small towns in my state!

    @octoberkitten949@octoberkitten949 Жыл бұрын
    • I used to haul cows out of the Fairview sale barn.

      @chrispurse3931@chrispurse3931 Жыл бұрын
    • I went to high school in Fairview

      @jimhere1@jimhere1 Жыл бұрын
    • The Gloss Mountains are beautiful to see as well in Fairview!

      @octoberkitten949@octoberkitten949 Жыл бұрын
    • I love our rural communities too. I stay off the interstates whenever possible. We haul pigs to Dover, OK, north of Kingfisher...

      @normacook8325@normacook8325 Жыл бұрын
  • Canton has one of the best walleye lakes in the state,that being Canton lake

    @steveheras7109@steveheras7109 Жыл бұрын
  • In 1999 and part of 2000, I lived in Claremore and worked in Tulsa. On the weekends I would go for drives out in the country. Even then many of the small towns I drove through looked the ones in your video. The farther away from a large city, the more quiet and desolate looking.The area east of Tulsa, going toward Arkansas has some very nice hills/foothills.

    @tuberoast@tuberoast Жыл бұрын
    • Lots of really pretty country East of Tulsa

      @anderander5662@anderander5662 Жыл бұрын
  • I will spend my entire life living a nice peaceful quiet small town life, being considered living in poverty, then spend one day living in a city.

    @wtsdms7998@wtsdms7998 Жыл бұрын
  • I had to spend many weeks in Nebraska, and it was the most depressing place. There were almost no trees anywhere in or around the city. These roads you're showing here in OK with mature trees on both sides makes such a difference, at least to me.

    @redpine8665@redpine8665 Жыл бұрын
    • Lincoln, Nebraska is really nice the farms in Nebraska are super clean, nicely painted and beautiful not filled with garbage like the big cities elsewhere ?

      @77.88.@77.88. Жыл бұрын
    • Nebraska has roads?

      @hungryburger1170@hungryburger11702 ай бұрын
  • Explore Southeast and Southwest - Medicine Park, OK, Davis, OK and McAlester, OK are pretty cool!

    @g1vemec0ffee@g1vemec0ffee Жыл бұрын
    • Traci Christy Hurt ; I agree on McAlester but, I guess I'm partial. I was born there but moved away while I was young. I've visited many times since because of family living there. My last visit was last November 2021 when I lost my 98 year old father. Yeah, down town McAlester is interesting. I've seen places my parents told of visiting when they were very young. Happy Thanksgiving to you and all the other folks visiting rural Oklahoma. Stan in Idaho

      @harrisonmantooth7363@harrisonmantooth7363 Жыл бұрын
    • I will be going there.

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • @@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I'll definitely be looking forward to that episode. My late father told us about having a big mixup with a fellow in the Aldredge Hotel in downtown McAlester when he was a young man before he entered into the Army. Daddy walked away by himself, the other guy didn't. He had to be helped out. Stan in Idaho

      @harrisonmantooth7363@harrisonmantooth7363 Жыл бұрын
    • East of I-35 the terrain gets hillier than the western half. Also, there are still some of the old freed Black towns still around such as Boley, Clearview, etc. in the eastern half.

      @hermanschepers4739@hermanschepers4739 Жыл бұрын
  • I saw the plane in Jet and I shouted "Tweet! That's a Tweet!" Lol. They made an old T-37 Cessna into their guardian. Way cool.

    @marksnyder8189@marksnyder8189 Жыл бұрын
  • There's no need American geography book, your audiobook best 👏☺️☺️☺️

    @nikBEST88@nikBEST88 Жыл бұрын
  • Love the Waukomis statue of the man who was holding the windmill blades and looking up to the windmill body. He was anticipating installing the blades. That is a clean, beautiful town.

    @TheSkeetergirl@TheSkeetergirl4 ай бұрын
  • This looks like a day on the road for me! Haha! I provide fumigation and safety equipment for grain elevators. Those big tall structures are used for wheat storage. If you ever get the chance, you should try to have one of those that isn't busy give you a tour. What you don't see is that they go deep into the ground too. Many were also the local nuclear fallout shelter for the town.

    @mikemorgan5015@mikemorgan5015 Жыл бұрын
  • One of the challenges for a retiree, in these small towns, is access to healthcare.

    @BirdDogey1@BirdDogey1 Жыл бұрын
    • As bad and expensive as healthcare is becoming nationwide, it may not matter if you live near a hosptal.

      @jerrysullivan8424@jerrysullivan8424 Жыл бұрын
  • Have an excellent week everyone!

    @ReconPro@ReconPro Жыл бұрын
    • 😃👍

      @johnnymidas5879@johnnymidas5879 Жыл бұрын
    • RP - Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍗🍻

      @bthomson@bthomson Жыл бұрын
  • I live in Broken Arrow, which is a thriving town but will tell you Oklahoma is a well kept secret. These fading towns are more appealing than bustling big cities any day . All these little towns need is some people to care and alittle ingenuity.

    @kem9649@kem9649 Жыл бұрын
  • Great your videos, I live in QLD Australia and a lot of these small towns are the same here, slowly declining in population. Love your work

    @BuckleysProperty@BuckleysProperty Жыл бұрын
  • Unreal, I have never seen these towns in my own state. Thanks, a lot!

    @olinwright7628@olinwright7628 Жыл бұрын
  • Not only are you a great tour guide, you also provide education. Curious about the "Oklahoma Land Rush" you mentioned, I did some research and learned that it was really quite a big deal, and is why OK is called the Sooner State!

    @jimmyday9536@jimmyday9536 Жыл бұрын
    • That's right!

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • Land run

      @loralarose9615@loralarose9615 Жыл бұрын
    • It's called the Sooner state because during the Land Rush, a lot of people crossed the start line ( state line) ahead of the start. The start was a cannon shot into the air. Wagons, horses, people on foot, mules, ect. People wanted to join in this Land Rush the Federal government created. After locating land, you staked it out and started home building while sending a person to register your land lot. Sooner: those who crossed early.

      @marlachapman3874@marlachapman3874 Жыл бұрын
    • We have a street in my hometown called Indian Meridian that is built on where the start line was made between land available for the Run and left for the tribes.

      @brittmariemays@brittmariemays Жыл бұрын
  • Living in Australia, it's interesting "visiting" these towns.Thanks for sharing.

    @RichardFelstead1949@RichardFelstead1949 Жыл бұрын
  • I appreciate your filming style and commentary. Always searched for something in a style like this, finding your channel was like finding a treasure. Thanks and have a good journey!

    @lightsandstars@lightsandstars Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for the. kind words. :)

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • I fee the same

      @squidlover7615@squidlover7615 Жыл бұрын
  • As an okies I love these towns. The grain elevator is neat, however Hutchinson Kansas has the biggest grain elevator at a mile long. Poverty rate in Canton is due to more business than population. Also part of reservations counted differently.

    @renayvance-moser9434@renayvance-moser9434 Жыл бұрын
    • I will be checking that out in Hutchinson in time.

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • Used to be called Garvey Grain Elevator .Nixon took Krushchev there to show the Russian how great it America is at feeding it`s people compared to the higher latitude Russia . I had a childhood friend who drowned inside that elevator .I am still sad about it all these years latter.

      @dwaynecope1914@dwaynecope1914 Жыл бұрын
  • That mural was wonderful. Best I've seen on your vids...and that cat in the street seemed like a real laid back southerner lol

    @brendad3570@brendad3570 Жыл бұрын
  • The grain elevators are always where the railroad tracks are or used to be. The roads are usually named railroad, railway, front, commerce, or named after the railroad. The towns that have a future still have railroad traffic. Where the railroad has left the towns are usually fading.

    @poowg2657@poowg2657 Жыл бұрын
    • Fading back to nature

      @jj-eo7bj@jj-eo7bj Жыл бұрын
    • @@jj-eo7bj feels & looks more like walking dead in some of the towns around here except the dead are on bicycles!

      @robertcarlclayton7724@robertcarlclayton7724 Жыл бұрын
    • If the rails are still running through these towns, they are likely spurs or branch lines, often with locomotives owned by the grain companies. The smaller operations probably truck their grain to Enid. I service the grain industry and have been to most of these towns and have customers in 3 of them. This is wheat country. Enid, which isn't far from here, was the wheat capitol of the world. It is still has several massive elevators in operation, some of the largest in the world are there.

      @mikemorgan5015@mikemorgan5015 Жыл бұрын
  • I took a road trip across the US this summer. Unlike many people the big cities weren’t my favorite part, rather the random small towns we passed through. The simplicity is so fascinating

    @TheRyneee@TheRyneee Жыл бұрын
    • I live in the most isolated town in my state. No box stores, most stores are closed on Sunday’s, and the nearest city is 3.5 hours away and one is over 5 hours away one way. I only go to the city twice a year and hate it. It is mostly for a Costco run.

      @26skogen@26skogen Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@26skogenI live in a big city Silicon valley San Jose CA I never go to Costco here . Way too crowded

      @user-wy1dl2me2p@user-wy1dl2me2p8 ай бұрын
    • @@user-wy1dl2me2p i bet down there. I can’t stand the city any more.

      @26skogen@26skogen8 ай бұрын
  • YOU ARE THE BEST AT THIS!!!!

    @michaelgreen4838@michaelgreen4838 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes he is!🎖🏆🏅

      @bthomson@bthomson Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for that, Michael!

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • Agreed!

      @jennylynn82173@jennylynn82173 Жыл бұрын
  • I moved from Tulsa to Cleveland OK, and the culture change was shocking and well needed. Liveved there an Pawnee City for 6 years, then I needed to move back to Oklahoma City for a job I could not refuse. Miss the small town pace. I would still live in Pawnee today if we had the remote work option.

    @StevenOliverzeus@StevenOliverzeus Жыл бұрын
  • I love it when you mention the time that you are driving through the town, please do so more often.

    @buttergirlist@buttergirlist Жыл бұрын
  • Canton, Oklahoma is mentioned in the movie Twister made 26 years ago. A "Twister" movie museum is located in Wakita, Oklahoma.

    @mikemullay5622@mikemullay5622 Жыл бұрын
    • Wakita has the Twister movie museum,very small town....also a movie was made there about 5 yrs ago called Wildlife with Jake Gyllenhaal...👍🌻

      @judyblueyes1275@judyblueyes1275 Жыл бұрын
  • I live in the oldest town in Oklahoma, Fort Gibson. About 3500 people live in Ft. Gibson. I’m from Tahlequah, 20 miles east of Ft. Gibson, the headquarters of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma tribe. Tahlequah has about 15,000 people that live in city limits. Coming from a small town and living in a smaller town, I wouldn’t change it for the world.

    @Kaya084@Kaya084 Жыл бұрын
  • Nice video, with very simple residential houses. All the towns seemed to have some production and manufacturing units. Although small, but must be giving employment to many in the towns to live a decent life. Thanks 🙏

    @busybeenature9092@busybeenature909211 ай бұрын
  • If an Oklahoma town has a school I consider them blessed… our school was closed in the early 2000’s..

    @kinderjenni@kinderjenni Жыл бұрын
  • East Central Oklahoma has many rolling hills like the hill country down by Kerrville and all. The further east you travel the more hills and such. I live in a town off any major interstate in Chickasaw Nation.

    @marthaanderson2346@marthaanderson2346 Жыл бұрын
  • I lived in Fairview when I was a baby. My family moved to Enid by the time I was 3. Your last video showcasing Enid was randomly suggested and I watched it. Pretty nice. If I had boatloads of money I would fix up some of the houses in these towns, build some businesses.

    @DaltonHBrown@DaltonHBrown Жыл бұрын
  • That San Antonio de Padua church is beautiful, reminds me of St Mary's in Kansas, beautiful big churches in small towns

    @cdiz765@cdiz765 Жыл бұрын
  • God bless Oklahoma!

    @redneckrevolt1@redneckrevolt1 Жыл бұрын
  • Interesting to see these rural towns thanks for sharing

    @heatherdawn545@heatherdawn545 Жыл бұрын
  • I live in Fairfax Oklahoma, another little dried up town, in 1970 we had a population of 1800, the town had 3 grocery stores, 2 Barber shops,2 new car dealerships, 2 Dr offices, an otasco and a western auto, 2 restaurant's, and a tastee freeze, and another hamburger grill place,a pool hall, a place called The Big Hill, where you could buy clothes, a boot factory, a dime store, 3 full service gas stations, this being the bible belt there were 9 churches, a train depot for grain and cattle, and a haliburton and several more businesses, there were cars parked all along main street, 2 little city blocks everyday for business, a busy town at one time, but that was back when the oil boom was in effect and the cattle business was profitable, and all that I just mentioned, is all gone, it's a sleepy little town now, hardly any businesses around, this is an old indian community ,and HOLLYWOOD did come to town the summer of 2021 for several months to film a movie, with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in it and Martin Scorsese as director, it's about the History of the Osage Indian, theme being, about the oil money they received from the land they owned, which were some of my relatives, 2 of my nieces will be in the movie as extras, it comes out in May supposedly, it's called, Killer of The Flower Moon, our little town was all a buzz for awhile, it was fun,,,,not much is left of Fairfax, but we're still here, may the GREAT SPIRIT in the sky bless you all!🌞🌛🌟🙏

    @roadrunner381@roadrunner381 Жыл бұрын
    • Damn bout to watch that thanks

      @streetsharkz@streetsharkz Жыл бұрын
    • Didn't the Roadrunner have a 383?

      @kenwolff8253@kenwolff82538 ай бұрын
  • Thanks a lot for this. I'm from Europe and rural America fascinates me.

    @Skyduke@Skyduke Жыл бұрын
  • You have to respect the cats, they own the towns. I love watching these videos. I've lived in Oklahoma most of my life, born in Texas, transplanted several times between Oklahoma, Texas and California. I have lived mostly in Stephen's, Jefferson, Pontotoc and Murray Counties. Most of the towns you show I have never even heard of much less visited.

    @Jaynlena69@Jaynlena69 Жыл бұрын
  • Love the vids, but how have you not gotten tickets for rolling stops? I live in Oklahoma and every time i have ever done that, boom ticket.

    @boballen3851@boballen3851 Жыл бұрын
  • I left Dallas area for rural Oklahoma 15 years ago, best decision I made.

    @rk-ec7kx@rk-ec7kx Жыл бұрын
  • I like these videos showing fading places in the united states. What puzzles me is how its difficult to see a person walking even in the down town. From Nairobi, kenya.

    @murageful@murageful Жыл бұрын
  • Brother I don't know that how normal life in Rural and small towns in the State Texas and Nevada but my dream is to live in those areas for the very quiet circumstances!!! Love 💕💕 USA from India

    @Rajkumar-nh5tp@Rajkumar-nh5tp Жыл бұрын
  • That is a tribute to to windmill that allowed water to be pumped for people/ animals/crops

    @evelynboatwright6003@evelynboatwright6003 Жыл бұрын
  • I used to live in Lee's Summit, MO till 2010 when I had to come to India. Now that parents expired and I have no one in family, I wonder how can I make it back to US. And, I loved the South always when I was there 7 years ! ❤ people are humble and more community oriented down South than the mix in the cities. For a simple guy like me, this is always way better, yeah.

    @ranjittyagi9354@ranjittyagi9354 Жыл бұрын
  • I've been to Fairview on one of my trips to explore more of Oklahoma. Nice looking towns and interesting things to see if you like rural towns and country side.

    @ejohnson1767@ejohnson1767 Жыл бұрын
  • The bank in Jet looks like one Bonny and Clyde robbed!

    @jJ-pq4tk@jJ-pq4tk Жыл бұрын
    • It could be. :)

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
  • Great video as always . I always have interest in those Masonic Lodges in rural areas. Just seeing them in the background sparks curiosity .

    @realestatepierre@realestatepierre Жыл бұрын
  • Dang...you didn't make it to Alva. Sad. Its the crux town for all the towns you drove thru. It has the only Walmart between Woodward and Enid, so all the area townies flock there for their needs (including nearby southern Kansas).

    @JudyMenzel7@JudyMenzel7 Жыл бұрын
    • It will be on a different drive through.

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • I usually stop and get fuel there right next to Atwoods.

      @chrispurse3931@chrispurse3931 Жыл бұрын
  • You're in Oklahoma. Watch out for the potholes!

    @gailwright4326@gailwright4326 Жыл бұрын
  • Looks peaceful, quiet and safe to me..... if people can work remotely now why wouldn't you live here instead of a big city?

    @anderander5662@anderander5662 Жыл бұрын
    • Great point.

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • City people can't handle the lack of services. When there is no Starbucks or McD's within 30 miles, when night falls & it is DARK like they've never experienced, anxiety sets in.

      @robertcarlclayton7724@robertcarlclayton7724 Жыл бұрын
    • Amen ! From Goldthwaite Texas 76844

      @waltershoults8803@waltershoults8803 Жыл бұрын
    • I am like my mother. I prefer to live further away from the city. Close enough to get to a store but far enough to not have to deal with all the hustle and bustle of the city.

      @ejohnson1767@ejohnson1767 Жыл бұрын
    • @@robertcarlclayton7724 I am from rural northeast Arkansas but now I live one half block from Bourbon Street. I am listening to the whooping and hollering outside while watching this video! Quite the contrast.

      @louisskulnik7390@louisskulnik7390 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for the ride along, I think the old Land Grab found it's end game. Brian down below asks a great question.

    @dennisromero4757@dennisromero4757 Жыл бұрын
  • I really enjoyed watching this. You do a great job. I’ve lived in or worked in all of these towns. Only suggestion I have is if u had the time to dig a bit more history up on these towns you would find not only farming but railroad, cattle drives, lakes, and Sandhills are just a few things that helped create these towns and even help keep them going.

    @ryanmavity7697@ryanmavity7697 Жыл бұрын
  • I love this video. I live in a crowded suburb of Oklahoma city and am retired with enough to do pretty much anything I want to do. I've been thinking of selling out and moving to a town like this just to get away from it all. I could sell my house for much more than a house could be bought for in these towns. I just want to live in peace. Not spend hours at stoplights and dealing with rude people every day. I just want to be left alone. Thanks for this video.

    @unti419@unti41920 күн бұрын
  • I live in a small Oklahoma town which got ravaged by the flood. Mostly everybody came back. Not much too look at but its home. I love the fact that u have not degraded one house or town while driving thru.

    @Fpjao16@Fpjao16Ай бұрын
  • Travel videos are a dime a dozen, well made and with excellent narration are your specialty.

    @pedrofernandez8729@pedrofernandez8729 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you, Pedro. :)

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
  • You kept your word: 10 towns shown! As always, sights worthy of reflection, such as, that handsome brick church at the literal end of Goltry--noticed a house made of the same brick in the back, almost certainly the pastor's residence. Except for a cat or two, he's likely alone, with a backyard that is an empty Oklahoma prairie except for windmills in the dim distance. Nearly as lonely as living in a lighthouse.Two of the demographic statistics given in this video are, I believe, the lowest you've shared with us yet: 1) 2.7 poverty rate in Jet; and 2) $57000. avg. house sale price in Carmen. A funny comment about the noticeable lask of even Dollar Generals in these communities. Well, even they need a minimal proximate population base to survive, I'm supposing, and numbers such as 197, 287 and 360 may fall below that minimum. A very natural question for 'outsiders (rhetorically expressed with full respect):' "I wonder how it is to live here."

    @daviddecelles8714@daviddecelles8714 Жыл бұрын
    • That is what these videos give us an inkling of. What it's like to live in these small towns! Priceless!

      @bthomson@bthomson Жыл бұрын
    • Interesting analysis, David.

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
  • My sister lives in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. Maybe you should check it out it is a very small town

    @sandramulholland9975@sandramulholland9975 Жыл бұрын
  • Wow! 10 towns in a 35 minute video! Way to hustle! Always interesting to hear the stats on these places. Some you'd think the poverty was high aren't. Looking forward to seeing west Texas!

    @45AMT@45AMT Жыл бұрын
    • West Texas was something else, RR. I'm looking forward to getting that video up. A lot of really vivid imagery.

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
  • Love this channel.I lived in Ft.sill Oklahoma from 95 to 99... Military family...

    @stacyharrington9224@stacyharrington9224 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you, Stacy!

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
  • Interesting thing about Oklahoma: The Central part of the state was settled 4 years before the Northern part of the state (separate land runs). So a town like Hennessey is older than Waukomis (which literally means--"walk home us"--no, not a Kiowa word). So for the first land run entering from Kansas, they had a stroll about 60 miles from the Kansas state line to starting line for the Unassigned lands. I'm suprised no one ever wondered about the Cherokee Outlet--the land between the Unassigned lands and the Kansas state line? Why didn't the state of Kansas ever just claim that area as their own. The Cherokees weren't living there--they were leasing it out to cattle drives coming from Texas

    @impalaman9707@impalaman9707 Жыл бұрын
  • On the west side of Cherokee you passed right by a vintage/antique brick silo which deserves more attention. As for the low poverty rates I suspect many are living off oil royalties. Also payments from the US government to indians under treaties may have something to do with it.

    @edwinreece438@edwinreece438 Жыл бұрын
    • From 1778-1871, the US government entered into over 500 treaties with Native American Tribes. All of these treaties have since been violated or outright broken by the US government. Native Americans and First Nations People are still fighting in federal courts and the United Nations for our treaty rights. The Oklahoma Land Run was theft on a grand scale. We get no government money just for being Native. And by the way...we are not indians, we are Native.

      @joeparker4468@joeparker4468 Жыл бұрын
    • No oil in this part

      @cowboywoodard2569@cowboywoodard2569 Жыл бұрын
  • It’s a little heartbreaking to see how Oklahomas small towns are drying up. The nicest people you will ever meet live in these small towns of this state. I lived in one of the small Oklahoma towns when in the Air Force 1966-1970. Oklahoma deserves better is all I can say.

    @tigerbeforyou181@tigerbeforyou181 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm from Oklahoma and you went thru some good towns. Not even close to the dieing towns in Oklahoma. I've known lot smaller dead towns then the ones you've gone thru. Canton also has a huge sheet rock factory outside of it along with Canton lake. But any town you go thru with silos is known for its farming. Especially in Oklahoma.

    @DavidGonzalez-yg2ok@DavidGonzalez-yg2ok Жыл бұрын
  • My parents grew up and lived in McAlester, Hartshorne and Gowen, Oklahoma. Gowen originally in the early 1900s like many places in southeast oklahoma were coal miners. My recollection of childhood we spent in Gowen was being around my great uncles, aunts, grandmother, and living on their farms. Both grandfathers were in WW1, and came back to the Gowen area to mine coal and raise families. Sadly, we moved my parents near to Tulsa where I’ve been since 1978, and both have passed away. They had a really nice rural country home and much land which we had to sell. All those small towns are still hanging on, but it’s not like it was in the 1950s.

    @bwbw1341@bwbw13414 ай бұрын
  • Very interesting. I love seeing the old towns. The first town was one of the towns my family lived besides Enid. Thanks for the tour!

    @jackie9834@jackie9834 Жыл бұрын
  • I love Oklahoma. Have and had relatives in Enid,Fairview,Cleo springs, perry and sand springs.

    @thebruteforce1@thebruteforce1 Жыл бұрын
  • I’m just stumbling across your videos but I really enjoyed this. I know it’s a few months old but I wanted to comment anyway. If you ever decide to visit an 89’er City (think of us as Land Run OG’s😅) take exit 98 off I35 and come see our SpiderBug off Highway 77! It’s definitely an interesting piece of Okie history! We also had a very, very old bridge up until a few years ago, but it almost crumbled hundreds of feet to i to the Canadian River so now we have a much less cool and historic, but much safer bridge. It’s a town of about 2k but most of our residents are out of city limits, so it is actually much more than that. That’s also not counting the population of the two prisons 8 miles east of us. One of those prisons being the place where every prisoner in the state of Oklahoma gets received. So basically, if you go to prison in Oklahoma, you will be transported right past my house on your way there. That sounds kinda strange saying it out loud lol, but I’ve been here far too long to even notice anymore, it’s just normal here. My town is named after a fairly big city in another state. I hear they make good pretty good chicken there. Any guesses what my Oklahoma small town is named? C’mon y’all, play along!

    @kale_xo@kale_xo8 ай бұрын
    • The population is 6,651 people and that bridge is something else.

      @staylebutler9135@staylebutler91354 ай бұрын
    • And your town starts with the letter L

      @staylebutler9135@staylebutler91354 ай бұрын
  • 6:15.. I found the house on google street view and it looks like it's now occupied and the owners have removed the collapsing portion of the roof and the 4 pillars. It's good to see it's being saved before the damage grew worse but there's still work to be done on it. (302 E Kansas St for reference)

    @DanielDavis1973@DanielDavis19733 ай бұрын
  • I enjoyed the ride today. Thank you for sharing.

    @jonathonhansen6005@jonathonhansen6005 Жыл бұрын
  • enjoy your series

    @2csmoke@2csmoke Жыл бұрын
    • Me too.

      @bthomson@bthomson Жыл бұрын
    • Me 3💫😽🌟

      @summerz8867@summerz8867 Жыл бұрын
  • I used to live there I live in Enid now

    @jhonmcwane2036@jhonmcwane2036 Жыл бұрын
  • I work EMS in this area just North of Hennessey. In a town called Lacey was some crazy shooting involved with quite a few dead one flown from scene and the suspect was arrested in Florida fleeing.

    @tawnyprovince-ward2353@tawnyprovince-ward2353 Жыл бұрын
  • I love how your turn signal sounds like a horse clopping along a paved road. 🙂

    @mikeanderton4688@mikeanderton46884 ай бұрын
  • Land run was the generational wealth alot of other people couldn't get in them days .. born and raised Muskogee Tulsa area..

    @fastltg4992@fastltg4992 Жыл бұрын
  • You are showing us the real world of rural America. Sad to see such decline but there are still areas of prosperity. Living in or near the Big City has its advantages, but for many of us living “small” offers the best “emotional” quality of life.

    @billwilliams5889@billwilliams58893 ай бұрын
  • Tulsa in1963; wind would blow me off my feet on the way to school! so I carried several books as "ballast". Would be nice to know the month, day temperature , humidity, and wind. mainly the wind.

    @louisliu5638@louisliu5638 Жыл бұрын
  • I love these videos, I feel like I'm actually in the truck being shown around these places. For me from the UK though, it's weird hearing these places described as "cities", here a city is like London or Liverpool, somewhere with millions of people. I live in a small conurbation in the English Midlands which has a population of 1,100 and it's known by everyone as a "village". But that's just a bit of trivia, thanks for making and posting these wonderful videos.

    @TruckingVideos@TruckingVideos Жыл бұрын
  • You hit all of my hunting spots...lol

    @jonathanscott388@jonathanscott388 Жыл бұрын
    • I saw deers being cleaned in a couple of places!

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • @@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Lots of upland bird and waterfowl hunting up there as well... that's mainly what we do

      @jonathanscott388@jonathanscott388 Жыл бұрын
  • You should have gone to Okeene for the Rattlesnake Roundup if they still have it. Lots of fun and good food, mostly rattlesnake.

    @kennethgates3508@kennethgates3508 Жыл бұрын
  • Rural Oklahoma in 1924 was definitely Bible Belt territory. Interesting that there were enough Catholics in little town of Okeene to build the stunning Saint Anthony of Padua Church. Great to see the old girl getting a new roof.

    @jimfoley8014@jimfoley8014 Жыл бұрын
    • It's amazing, especially being in that little town. I saw those spires several miles out.

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • @@JoeandNicsRoadTrip You are welcome any time.

      @jimfoley8014@jimfoley8014 Жыл бұрын
  • Hi Lord Spoda That's a real rural trip in Oklahoma. Ten small towns is a series! Very peaceful, clean, well kept. Wide roads, sprawling trees with big trunks, huge open spaces is added attraction. Life in rural small towns is remarkably different. Less the needs; less the civic facilities. Since the visitors in small towns are fewer, I wonder how do the strangers are greeted by the locals. It will be interesting to know about the life of a small family in a rural small town, how the houses inside are. A brief halt at a remote small house in rural town and an interview with a small family will be appreciated. Thanks for the video.

    @rajeevdeshpande7666@rajeevdeshpande7666 Жыл бұрын
    • Thank you, Rajeev. :)

      @JoeandNicsRoadTrip@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Жыл бұрын
    • I wouldn't say clean and well kept,,,lol,, to many Oklahoma towns have a problem with trash and unkempt yards, lots of wind also contributes to scattered trash and scraggly looking trees.

      @paradoxstudios6639@paradoxstudios6639 Жыл бұрын
    • MIDwesterners are 'friendly' superficially......

      @sunnyskye213@sunnyskye213 Жыл бұрын
    • @@paradoxstudios6639 quit lying you get tickets for that you know it

      @loralarose9615@loralarose9615 Жыл бұрын
  • Those houses are so beautiful.Beautifully built.

    @seetasingh2032@seetasingh2032 Жыл бұрын
  • Quite enjoyable taking a trip back in time ! May I suggest pausing to look at the classic cars ? I saw the ‘80’s Vette and a closer look at the artillery piece would of added to the drive. Keep on keeping on ✌🏼

    @stevenhicks8625@stevenhicks8625 Жыл бұрын
  • Im happy yo see your video. I was living in Canton for 1 year.

    @rosygallegos4123@rosygallegos4123 Жыл бұрын
  • I live in the city and I like to drive through the state highways and drive through the rural towns with my family on my day off. Take a peek at lakes and state parks. The land is prettier during spring and summer. The brown of fall and winter makes the land look bleak.

    @s.hudson7524@s.hudson7524 Жыл бұрын
  • I just like your American history it great ..you have nice town in USA too ...thank you so much for sharing ..have a great day..

    @annebellette201@annebellette201 Жыл бұрын
  • Nice video. Keep up the good work. The "big gun" seems to be a 155 mm towed howitzer.

    @markh3271@markh3271 Жыл бұрын
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