Along Route 66 in Shamrock Texas

[@01Lenda]

My great great grandparents are buried there somewhere. Interesting video. I need to visit soon.

[@Bware1551]

I love my home town of Shamrock tx

[@YellowRoseoftx]

Very interesting this will be a good day trip thank you!😎

[@moretoexplore6736]

Exactly what I was thinking 😊

[@EverettBaland]

Always love the area. On a trip through all these spots, I also enjoyed the dinosaur on the butte. But I need to get up there and catch the museums!

[@mimiisme2728]

Oh my goodness. This makes me wish Rt 66 was the same .We traveled down 66 at least once or twice a year. I remember the neon. I watched CARS with my grandchildren. So many of the background buildings were so similar just minor changes to scene's. I really enjoyed your video too have yet to made the full Rt 66 Just Wes t to OK I do have old movie film from the 50s to 60 of The Mother Rd in her glory day's

[@tomcaldwell5750]

You make the best videos about Texas. I was 5 years old in 1962 when the my father got station in Sacramento California with the Air Force. We drive Route 66 from Joplin, MO. Of course I do not remember much, except for how hot it was in the desert. No air conditioning in the cars back then. Cars carried extra water in a canvas bag strapped to the grill.

[@misslin1717]

Nice video. My husband & I enjoyed remembering our old Hometown.

[@cindibaker4341]

Thank you for the lovely video!

[@Lora-Lynn]

"I never knew a barbed wire museum could be so interesting. " ... You have inspired me to go travel around the panhandle. As a native Texan, I am ashamed to say that I never have been north of Lubbock when traveling to New Mexico or Colorado.

[@secretsoftexas6872]

Great! That's why I'm doing this.

[@Lora-Lynn]

So here I am watching this video again... just after your latest video. One can't help but rewatch your great Texas videos.

[@tomcaldwell5750]

There is a much smaller version of the Do Drop In gas station and cafe on the western edge of downtown San Antonio. The station was a 1930's Mobile with a Pegasus shaped sign lite with neon atop a spanish tiled roof. It set empty for many years until the whole building was converted into a Mexican Restaurant in the late 1990's.

[@kimballamram552]

Thank you for a nostalgic tour of towns along Route 66 in Texas. It is nice to see some buildings being preserved as tourist attractions from a bygone era.

[@arthurledezma2460]

I took my dad for a little historic 66 hwy, from cadillac ranch all the way to OKC, went there in shamrock and seat there where once Elvis eat.

[@Corolrose1218]

I’m so glad that I grew up in the sixties and seventies. We took several trips across country from Buffalo, New York to Phoenix, Arizona. I remember how exciting it was to stay in a different themed motel every night. They were so charming.

[@concretecowboy4212]

Thnxs 4 uploading

[@brassteeth3355]

Haven't been through shamrock in years. Thanks for this.

[@hhawg1]

Sad to see these old towns dying.

[@Bware1551]

Hey I live here

[@svenneoo3446]

​@@Bware1551 how many people live there? :)

[@lifewithjosef]

Another excellent video. I love your content and am a subscriber.

[@secretsoftexas6872]

Great. Thanks for visiting and subscribing.

[@samlindsey1078]

I have family in Shamrock that have lived there for the last 50 or so years. I lived there for bout 2 years in late 1980s. I have actually been up on the catwalk of the watertower. I was working for the city of Shamrock, and a few years before I worked there, some teenagers had climbed the watertower and painted some graffiti on the tank. Well, the town council decided to take the ladder that went to the catwalk down to keep the kids from climbing up there, which was a popular thing to do, as it was in many a small West Texas town, and probably alot of small towns across the country back then. Anyway, they took down the ladder but didn't paint over the graffiti before they did. I was a 19yrs old boy at the time I worked for the city and I would climb anything back then, so I told the boss man, I'd climb the leg and carry several cans of white spray paint in a back pack and paint over the graffiti, which is what I did the following Saturday morning. I don't remember just why, but they wouldn't let me do it during my regular work hours, and they paid me a flat $100 and it was separate from my regular pay check. Then, awhile later, the man in charge of the radio tower out by the cemetery, East of town told me he'd pay me $200s to climb to the top of the radio tower and replace the burnt out light bulbs. I had got laid off from the city job due to budget cuts by that time and my first son was just a couple months old, so I jumped on that offer with both feet. I still have some pictures I took from the top of that tower. It was, if I recall right, 500ft, or it could've only been 400ft, but I could just about see all the way, from the top. It took me 42 mins, counting 11 minute rest stop I made about 3/4 of way up, to get to the top. I made the climb back down in 9 mins, and didn't need a rest stop going down. I had a few adventures in the couple of years I lived in Shamrock Texas, but my best times there are the ones I have now days on the far too rare times I get to see and visit my 3 grand babies and my son and daughter who live there now. Enjoyed the video and the memories it stirred.

[@f3uibeghardt522]

4:55 Did you know the history of that red star? Apparently, it was brought by German immigrants to ward off abominable creatures like the snallygaster.

[@texan-american200]

That's a new charm for warding off evil spirits, that I've heard of, many Europeans brought different charms and talismans and installed them in their barns to protect their farms.

[@f3uibeghardt522]

@@texan-american200 Which is exactly where you find those stars. They became more widespread in decorating within the past 2 decades to where even a lot of suburban homes feature them, but they're definitely associated with barns and rural properties first and foremost. All my neighbors have them, and you see them everywhere along rural routes.

[@Priscilla_Bettis]

"This is definitely the scariest room in here." Oh yeah, I am SO thankful for modern dentistry. Another charming TX area!

[@censorshipoftruth8531]

If you grew up in Texas, you probably have a barbed wire scar or two.

[@WillWoods-qg5pu]

Amen!

[@craigdamage]

I'm Craig Adams. Adams Hardware at 0:44 was my Grandmother's.

[@r0bl0x..w0man_.]

Lemme tell ya something.. I LIVE THERE!

[@rvrandy1710]

Is there no people in Shamrock?

[@secretsoftexas6872]

There are a few but I also tend record towns at times when they are less crowded. It's much easier to get good shots of buildings etc.

[@bigs2201]

George Nickel is my great great grandfather

[@reefsroost696]

For the algorithm 😉

[@winstonrocco1981]

Why is there never any people

[@secretsoftexas6872]

I generally try to avoid recording people (including myself). I find it easier when things are slow.