A Forgotten Town in Kansas Mini Documentary

[@SightseeingSally]

Hey Sightseers 👋 as I was researching Bloom, I came across one news report claiming Bloom has made a “comeback.” Thoughts?

[@JohnShinn1960]

Bloom has made a comeback? If so It didn't show in your vid. I wonder if those that hold property deeds came back or sold out?🤔 I couldn't find anything about it on Wikipedia but I did find these old photos there that you may have already seen.📷 web.archive.org/web/20070211181635/specialcollections.Wichita.edu/kw/towns.asp?town=Bloom&county=Ford.

[@duanelogan9633]

Some people must have passed by and seen all the money in the junk LOL The comeback must be the cleanup ✌️

[@edvalentine5127]

Very interesting, Sally. Little forgotten towns which hopefully someday will once again come alive.

[@corkel2140]

Lived in Gburg and served residents in Bloom. It was always an eye opener of major decay and poverty in rural America

[@howitzer8946]

I would love to convert that old service station into a home. THANKS Sally, you are awesome. 2 thumbs up

[@SightseeingSally]

That would be such a cool home!! My pleasure, thanks for the thumbs up 👍

[@Livefreestaywild]

I really liked how you did This video. The cinematography was on point the town was cool this is the stuff I love to explore. Perfect video before bed.

[@JohnShinn1960]

👍🛌

[@faithford9143]

Wow! Kansas is fading away. Thanks for the video. You are the best

[@garybryant6148]

Outstanding video thank you

[@livinwithcovid1845]

Sightseeing Sally and some Coffee Happy Wednesday everyone 🐫🎙👍

[@deangray1823]

Thanks Sally for taking us along to places we might never see! I'd like to roam that area that looked like a possible bank with a metal detector!

[@jamesrockford6700]

I really love your "out of the way" places videos. It allows all of us to see places we probably would never see. God bless Sight Seeing Sally and Marty for bringing all these places to us. You guys are the best!

[@anderander5662]

That constant wind.....I couldn't take it...

[@toms6756]

Your videos are always one the highlights of my time on YT! Hmm... if this is making a comeback, I wonder what it looked like 6 months ago!.

[@bonniekaye]

*Awesome video!!*

[@ahmedhumayunrasheed2434]

Sally your glasses and cap match! Bloomberg reminds of Bloomberg TV!

[@JSB1882]

I always like hearing from Marty.

[@badgerpa9]

Town looked like someone with a skidsteer could keep busy for a week. Sad all the old buildings end up falling apart. Stay safe guys.

[@allencrabbe8543]

Hey there my friends Sightseeing Sally and Marty! New video, so I had to stop and say, Hi. Take good care of yourselves, and stay well, stay safe my friends!🖒🖒😃❤

[@katiemoyer8679]

🕊💖🕊 Thanks Again‼️🕊💖🕊

[@duanelogan9633]

Hello Sally and Marty a great mini documentary always a pleasure seeing great videos and documentaries thanks Sally stay healthy and safe 🌺🏆👍✌️💯

[@SightseeingSally]

Thanks Duane!! It was my pleasure to share this with everyone. Wishing you the same! ✌️💖☀️

[@davewinter2688]

Sad but there a many others like it stretched across the plains. Victims of the dust bowl days, Great Depression of the 1930’s and other economic forces too great to discuss here. The large white structures in the background are called grain elevators, not granaries. A granary is a relatively small structure, usually made out of wood in the days when they were commonly in use, on farmsteads, that were used to store small grains like oats that were used to feed livestock on the farm. Sometimes the granary was a part of a building and not necessarily a stand alone structure. A grain elevator is where farmers take their crops to be stored if they don’t have enough storage on their farm. The grain is elevated to the top of the structure then distributed to and falls down into one of the storage bins or pits depending what the product is and sometimes separated by the quality of the grain or its protein content. The farmer is charged a fee for storing the grain, usually around 5 cents per bushel per month until he sells the grain to the elevator which in turn can then sell that grain on the open market. The tall structures with the blades turning are wind generators not wind mills. They produce high voltage, high amperage electric current to be sold to the electric grid just the same as other types of power plants. A large group of them are commonly called wind farms. Wind mills are small structures, some times made out of wood, sometimes all metal, commonly located on a farm and used to operate a pump to pump water out of a well before enough electricity was available to run those pumps. ,Interestingly there were very small wind generators on farms before the days of the rural electric systems. They produced 32 volt DC current that charged a group of batteries that could power a few lights and possibly radios. They were commonly called light plants. DELCO was the most common brand. I still have one of the wooden propellers from a light plant in the basement of our home on our farm here in Kansas.

[@gregwyatt9840]

Thanks!

[@SightseeingSally]

You’re welcome! Thank you 😊

[@searkpslendorman]

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the chicken knew SightseeingSally was in town and wanted to be including in her new video!

[@DeeMoback]

Nice video

[@bobandlucas]

Wish some scrap iron dealer comes in and buy all those rusting junks. It's worth something. Clean up the place a lil bit and plant native grass /trees. Tq for the tour.

[@Catlife247]

I think Marty should prank and scare you more and include those clips at the end of your videos with bloopers and stuff 😉

[@donnawoodford8145]

Kansas has so many of these "hole-in-the-wall" places.

[@bextar6365]

Looks like many towns in Missouri and Arkansas ..

[@ahmedhumayunrasheed2434]

Sally you looking like Ernie and Bert in cap! Sense of Adventure! Well I got some!

[@gregelliott5016]

You and Marty ever stop at any good or descent stores at places like this?

[@orlandogustar1717]

Come to think of it, hundreds of thousands of people even families becoming homeless & languishing on the streets of cities while there are a lot of forgotten & abandoned towns like this needing residents.....hhmm i wonder?

[@michaelmyers3892]

I know I'm a day late and a dollar short on this isn't this off of highway 50? If I run across a lot of these forgotten towns when I drive 50 back to Colorado

[@ahmedhumayunrasheed2434]

Man of few words like Heisenberg said to the kid!

[@stevegray9674]

Don't give Marty any ideas LOL

[@orionwarren4244]

You guys must be heading back home (WI). Can't say as I blame you, this climate is getting REAL bad here out West (AZ). Not to put too much personal stuff out but I'm dumping my 11 year relationship and heading back east, myself!

[@JohnShinn1960]

Or maybe a tornado shelter? 4:49 👍👍👍

[@michaelroucoulet3294]

what part of kansas did dorthy live on the wizard of oz?

[@donnawoodford8145]

SW Kansas. Can't remember the exact name of town, but every year at end of February, they hold an international Marti Gra pancake race.

[@ryanfulton8421]

​@@donnawoodford8145 Liberal Ks

[@GailWoodyard-ov5lw]

Irving, KS now a ghost town in Marshall County. In the Wikipedia page for Irving, Dorothy Gale is a fictional person from Irving. In 1879 the town was hit by two different tornado storms that killed a high percentage of the population and made newspaper headlines nationally. The book was being written at the same time and it was decided to base the story in Kansas.

[@emiliadeleon2828]

Do you know ray Lawrence hobbs

[@michaelroucoulet3294]

65 chevy impala! impalas are my favorite chevys.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

The Neosho falls flood destroyed everything and everyone.

[@oldrustycars]

Sometimes our back yard smells like skunk. Usually after I visited one of our fine Illinois legal dispensaries.

[@SightseeingSally]

Hahaha I don’t think that’s what I smelled coming from the field

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

No offense, but Marty usually comes across as a grumpy Tom Hanks.

[@SightseeingSally]

Hahaha none taken. And I totally get why you’d say that

[@daviddaughenbaugh1080]

Hey!!

[@SightseeingSally]

Hey!!

[@donnavaughn5393]

First silly thanks you Sally see you soon

[@SightseeingSally]

Very cool, thanks Donna see you soon!

[@Travel726Gossip]

Hi sweet

[@homermiers8393]

pole cat

[@SightseeingSally]

Lol I get it now