It’s a dangerous shit hole ridden with gangs, drugs, crime, violence, run down buildings and neighborhoods and ruined roads. Pete Butigeg was a terrible mayor.

BS

I had no idea Seed Savers Ex was in IA, let alone not far from me! Nice!! plus...I'm loving your tours!!! I just moved to IA but there's not even a walmart in town, so hitting the road is the only option. Nice to know what's around, just by watching these YT videos.

My dad was an instructor at Winona State in the late 60s, early 70s. Lots of great memories from my childhood. I loved the annual Steamboat Days event.

The headgear shown on Julien Dubuque in so many pictures is a romanticism derived from pictures based on the thought of a “French fur trader” without much actual basis on the man himself. The old jail museum in Dubuque has an entire exhibition on more historically accurate history of Julien, including a reconstruction of his face from his skull (and he looks a lot more like what you’d expect a businessman of the time to have looked like)

Is their any jobs at Michigan city Indiana?

Springfield is nothing but meth heads and homeless people anymore. I've watched this city decline over the years.

Good man! Good show!

The Quad Cities as a whole rules. We hosted the very first professional football game, home of the infamous John Looney, birth of modern agriculture, home of the very first national Bank in the US, and we literally invented sliced bread. 😎

Also have popular Blue chip casino and down a little ways hit New Buffalo Michigan ❤and have four winds casino people come from all over also for the casinos😊

I own a restaurant here (Ronneburg). Come visit!

Hopefully one of you isn’t drinking

Pin pls

Van-dale-ee-ah

I've lived in Madison for 24 years, it's great, I love Madison! I love it, but to just dwell on the few bad things about it for a moment: • the homeless beggars can be aggressive • Most mid-priced restaurants are of low quality • Lots of marijuana, lots, it’s everywhere • traffic is bad bc the lakes bottle things up • Housing and rents are too expensive • Good luck trying to find a dine-in coffee shop open after 8 p.m.

Marquette is the largest town in Upper Michigan. the Yoopers are so proud of their region, they want to separate from the Lower Peninsula. Yoopers and Trolls don't get along very well.

As a former resident of Austin, Thank you for this wonderful episode. It makes me miss it, thankfully my youngest sister still lives there so we make a trip there from Rochester a few times a year.

I'm looking for places to move to on the Great Lakes. If anybody has any suggestions, I would be grateful. 😊

So sad that Nick’s closed in 2024. They had the best fries in town. I loved that their kitchen was in the basement and that food was brought upstairs on a dumbwaiter.

Communal is so interesting, better than either communism or capitalism

shithole

Learn to pronounce the towns correctly. Vandalia, the accent is on the second syllable. (vanDALis)

I have heard of Galena for years, and have seen pictures. Nice video.

Need to learn how to pronounce Vandalia, former state capital of Illinois. Its Van - dale - ya not Van - da - lea. Not much of Illinois historian if they can't get that pronunciation right. SMH

National hockey chamipons in 91 not football. Football team hasn't been good since 91.

interesting show. i work in bloomington, quite extensively. seeing the choices of what is and isn't featured in this show is curious. you can't go to Bloomington without hyping up MOA. i remember the days of the ice rink at Mayfair Mall. i'm surprised John is so dazzled by an amusement park inside MOA, given he grew up in Milwaukee. did you forget Old Chicago? i guess i'm not as amazed by an amusement park in a mall given I was born in NW Indiana and went to Old Chicago once during my youth. no, Old Chicago didn't last 30 years, but given it came and went before MOA was ever imagined, Nickelodeon Universe isn't so amazing to me. cool to see unique, local businesses such as Mhiripiri Gallery and Wally's Roast Beef featured. QBP is interesting and noteworthy, but i'm at a loss to figure out why it warranted as much time as it did. and while it's mildly interesting to note that DQ now calls Bloomington its corporate home. why not feature Toro, which is now 110 years old and has had a presence in Bloomington for more than six decades? that's certainly more notable than DQ. you have to know where to look, but the Japanese garden is hardly a secret. it's a shame that was glossed over, yet you spent a few minutes talking about pickleball. sure, Bloomington has been a leader in making the game available through its parks, but the game wasn't invented in Bloomington. very odd choice for an extensive feature. the old farm is noteworthy, no doubt. although the family has been farming there for nearly a century, they're willing to sell for the right price, and it won't be bought for farming. they were going to sell out to the city many years ago if Minnesota landed a World Expo. that didn't happen, so the city didn't buy the land. but that land is worth millions of dollars, and when the price is right, you won't see sheep there. nobody will say so, but it'll be sold. a shame that you spent time in Bloomington and didn't show off the 100-year-old bridge that leads to the river, and was restored at a cost of more than $10 million as a pedestrian access to the other side of the river. or show the miles of trails along the river, providing largely unpaved access for bicycling... at least for now. some day we may have a paved path all along the river. the ski jump has interesting history, and it's unique, just as our little suburban "mountain" is down the road. yet downhill skiing in the middle of a huge suburb like Bloomington doesn't warrant inclusion? the Bloomington Ferry Bridge would have been another old bridge that has been repurposed and is deserving of recognition over pickeball. that old town hall building you showcased is now the historical society. folks there can talk about how why the town hall was there once upon a time. lots of trails and unique recreational spaces that would have been worth including, too. and speaking of museums, there's one dedicated to preserving the memory of Northwest Airlines, and it's in Bloomington's South Loop District. that would have been more interesting to see than how they make a roast beef sandwich at Wally's. you can't feature it all in one half-hour program, and if you ask 10 people, they'd have different ideas about what should be prioritized in less than 30 minutes. i will be eternally baffled by some of the choices in this program.

no more "🎶Rocky Rococo, pizza amore!🎶" on State Street?

what happened to the Elvehjem Museum of Art? pushed aside by fatter donors I guess - that kinda bloated ego stuff is creepy

I love this show. Best travel and history show on daytime tv.

As a Waukesha native, I got to go "I know where that is" a ton.

Anyone know who that hostess is?

Excellent video, a great overview of State Street. Madison is a fine town indeed !

The whitefish at the Verling is awful. But the lake perch is good.

The Fever River was from a french word for fiber. Local legume trees produce bean pods - that was likeky the origin of the name.

I couldn’t even go to this park the junkies were using and selling drugs there. That was two days ago

Dale Anderson is my buddy

been in Springfield 42 years have never been to Abraham Lincoln Presidential museum. Been inside his home 3 times. Even though I have walked though that park 1 thousands of times though. Been to Maid Rite 3 times. Been to Cozy Dogs once will never go again. Foul mouth employees. Governors mansion that last 4-5 State Governor's refused to live in. Choosing Chicago or fairground home to stay in. Never been in Obed and Issac's never will its just a bar. Transforming a home into a bar is not preservation, but it is what happens in Springfield either a bar or split the house up into apartments. It's sad seeing a home built as a single family home converted in to a apartment with 6 tenants. All that could be seen in Springfield could be done in 1 hour, its a pass by city and nothing more.

To be fair, both fairlight and emu was already on the market when this thing came around, wich was in 1984, not 1980. However it was the first rompler as far as I understand.

My family is from Decorah. Love that Decorah is getting some ❤. Made me hungry for Lefse.

Most enjoyable, but John left out Frozen Custard and did not try Arni's Pizza!

And the pedestrian bridge was the Main Street bridge I used to drive on. There was a Brown Street bridge which was demolished in the late 1970s as it was unreliable to drive on.

Do you remember a club named middle earth in rockford nineteen seventy five

Lakenenland...not Lakeland.

There used to be an old blind man who did the caning years and years ago.

My father was born in the Homestead Hotel in 1926, and my grandparents ran it. Later on, Bill Zuber bought the hotel and had a restaurant there for years.

Because we don't have many sturgeon as much as we do bass and I think they were all caught up a long time ago when people first named the town

How about the. Veterans Hospital?!

I spend a good portion of my life in Rockford. It was a great place to live in the 60's and 70', but, now it's a dump. It was at one time considered the most dangerous city in the country. The happiest day in my life was when I crossed the Illinois border for the last time. I went to Northern Wisconsin where it's a safe place to live. I'd NEVER go back to Illinois!

Bass bay ain’t bad

I lived in Red Wing for 21 years and graduated from Central High in 1977.