Ella's Frontier : Abandoned Route 66 Roadside Attraction w/ Vintage Footage

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[@countryroots]

WoW! WoW! WoW! As SOON as I seen the FRONT of this building, memories from 1968 POPPED into my worn out brain!!! In July 1968, my Dad, Mom, my two brothers, and myself loaded up in our 1962 Ford Galaxy 500 in Rush Springs, Oklahoma, and headed West on Route 66 to Weldon California!!! And YES!!!!!! We DID most certainly STOP here to hunt for Tourist Treasures!!! I purchased a Life Like Rubber Snake for $1!!! And I scared everybody I could with it UNTIL it got it's head got chopped off!!! It was that real looking!!! LOL We visited my Uncle and Aunt who lived at Weldon, which is just East of Lake Isabella! In 1972 we made a return trip, back to Weldon, with my Dad, Mom, Little Brother, Uncle, and Grandmother and me! However I do NOT remember stopping here on that trip!!! I wish we would have!!! Such GRET memories!!!! Thanks for reminding me Hoss!!! LOVE IT!!!!

[@DanBellFilmIt]

+Joe Slawson Such a great story, Joe! Thanks for sharing.

[@scottt3100]

I'm feelin your nostalgia brother. Great memory for you. Thanks for sharing.

[@AlidarJarok1]

Rush Springs huh. I don't live to far from there. Very nice story thanks for sharing.

[@InfernalSpawnODOOM]

I love when you get footage from when these business were open, like you did with some of the Poconos resorts. Always love your stuff from both channels, Dan. Keep up the good work, sir.

[@WildDieWoodard]

The old footage and organ music was truly heartbreaking. :(

[@MaximusGaming]

Nice video, it's been abandoned since 1984 when Ella died.

[@jenclark3021]

Maximus 65 thanks. Interesting. Sad.

[@lazerpeabody8062]

I hope one day it is refurbished to when it was in the 60s and 70s here's hopeing

[@annanym2238]

Who was Ella? What's her story?

[@KiloByte69]

+anna nym You're lookin at it.

[@Hollyweeds]

Really love when you edit in the old footage, this was so cool thank you!

[@shellebe4503]

I love that the blending of old photos with current footage and the creepy music adds to the bittersweet nostalgia of the past.

[@loditx7706]

Hey, Dan, Since you seem concerned about rattlesnakes I will tell you what my Daddy taught me. He was bitten by a rattlesnake when he was about 12 , for which he took total responsibility. He jumped over a fence without checking the other side and landed on a snake. He felt the snake acted in self defense. First you don't stupidly stick you hands anywhere you can't see, like in holes, found bags, tops of rocks, etc. Second, a snake doesn't want to see you anymore than you want to see it. While a snake might bite you; most usually in a confrontation between a person and a snake the snake ends up broken and bloody or covered in gasoline. (My sympathies are with the snake.) So, you make noise. When you walk in woods or brush hit a tree with a stick, talk loudly; if it can move away from you, it will. I am old now and my Daddy is dead, old age, not snakebite. I have walked in many woods and through much brush and have never in my life seen a snake in the wild. Also, rattlesnakes, maybe all snakes, I don't know; cannot adjust their body temperature. They rely on conditions around them to maintain their temperature at a livable level. So when it's hot, which it frequently is where they live, they do seek out abandoned buildings, garages, under rocks, in order to cool off. If it is cold, they might lay on top of rocks or paving which holds the sun's heat for awhile. They are not monsters and they are trying to do exactly what we are trying to do, stay alive.

[@miami4253]

I encountered a snake once. A lawnmower's motor should have made enough noise to warn it. Maybe it was deaf.

[@HorrorGalSusan]

This was actually sad to watch...great that you documented this

[@RobbWilliams11]

Gets an instant 'Like' just because it's Dan Bell and Will Krupinsky

[@AH-jk8jj]

i like the professional b-roll he adds sometimes to these forgotten oldies, especially the movie set episodes

[@porridgesilt]

Thank you for the quick fix, Dan. I like how you made certain parts "old timey".

[@sagehasatarantula2749]

The old time cut sways of what it used to look like are always my favorite

[@patigiddens1314]

I like when you do the old footage as well ! Thanks Dan as always!!! Stay safe!!😀

[@U54RMYM3D1C24]

On your next motel forensic scenes can you do more black light, especially near the beds? Love the videos Dan! 😂☺️

[@mariavelazquez8260]

Have you seen Route 66 (1985) here on youtube? Fantastic documentary that features that vintage footage

[@skully5804]

wonderful camera work

[@hankster9940]

Cool how you tied the vintage images into your video, really brought it together

[@ChloeClements34]

I always love the choice of music you pick.

[@khakibobacki2216]

Awesome old footage and love the music! Thanks, Dan!

[@marcelomartinez5415]

Your work is amazing Dan, you've a fan from Brasil now. = D

[@DanBellFilmIt]

Obrigado, Marcelo!

[@SoSo-hb1my]

And fan from Australia

[@evamnuelepifanio3994]

Também sou super fã do trabalho dele, super divertido e interessante. P.S.: aliás, é por isso que estou vendo os vídeos mais antigos XD

[@Brianthehistorynerd]

Outstanding work guys I'm loving the old footage. Really amazing stuff.

[@Milcom34]

Welcome to Arizona Dan and Will. Cool Video. Take Care, From Prescott AZ.

[@mushroomsamba82]

Hey Dan if you're ever in the Shartlesville PA area you gotta check out Roadside America. It's not abandoned by any means but it is almost a hundred years old and full of campy Americana. The main attraction is the large miniature village and model trains they have set up inside. Definitely worth checking out if you're in the neighborhood.

[@clenaghen123]

Always enjoy your work,, the old and new footage is excellent! good day to you,, Sass

[@madonnalove2002]

Great video dan and will. Always excited when you upload before bed

[@TattooTonyAlton]

footage is awesome. absolutely love the blue sky.. I really love these videos out west. If you ever get interested Come to St. Louis, a lot of history here. I could send you or show you enough to keep you busy for days. It's similar in ways to your home city Baltimore. A lot of abandoned row houses, victorian houses, theatres, factories, schools. It's all stuff built turn of the century through the 20's...

[@TattooTonyAlton]

the city once held almost a million people now down to 300,000 crap tons of abandoned and dilapidated blocks.

[@dmc414141]

You're so brave to even get that close to a bee after what you went through!

[@Sampler19]

While watching these videos i often forget how hot and sweltering it feels to be in the desert - and then i saw Will.

[@Scottland559]

Wow. I was just thinking of your videos while driving along Rt. 66. Weird. Great vid.

[@susanareid9887]

Great video and poor Ella losing her shoe! Thank you guys so much for another neat video. I was thinking that when you saw the bee you would take off running since you got stung so badly some time ago. Thank you for the hard work! Take care you guys.

[@HkSniper]

It's so cool to see something like this. To see it how it was in it's prime. Cool, but also sad to see it how it is now. But great video. Thanks for the mashup between the old and current footage of the place!

[@gregggoss2210]

Very sad indeed. Uh, by the way, when you guys are out west, please try to refrain from eating those cactus buttons, you know, the ones that make you see KILLER BEES! Seriously though, where did you obtain that old movie footage? Brought back memories of my many visits to roadside tourist traps. I liked this video so much I just subscribed. Keep up the good work.

[@MaliceDoll]

yay Will!!! another great video Dan! so interesting..

[@kokkonutfreaks]

I love the old footage!

[@jenclark3021]

That's was a great clip thanks. Glad no bees or snakes.

[@Epiano-le9rz]

The organ music fits very well in this sad little place. I have a feeling that something really sad happened here. I wouldn't say scary, but just sad.

[@HappyQuailsFarm]

Hey Dan? I remember mosquito netting made into a cap that drapes over your head and neck like a veil and another one made into a shirt and I think pants that are worn over the top of clothes which are a cheap green mosquito netting... could that help keep bees from stinging while allowing circulation of air through the mesh? Also, maybe you could each carry a can of Cedar Spray insecticide, I can get a brand name for you, to spray on one another if you should ever encounter them again?

[@cherylpesutimassie5010]

love your video, I live in Arizona, didn't know anything like this was here

[@ladylakemusic5958]

Very cool loved the flashback of the place!!

[@jeepguy95]

You guys should go to Frontier Town in Ocean City, MD. Similar to this but still open.

[@W1se0ldg33zer]

The new highway was close - might as well been a thousand miles away.

[@myu2k2]

The abandonment of the mother road is a rather sad story in American History. I am in IL and live rather close to what use to be Route 66, it had been taken over by several other highways once I55, I64, and I70 came through the area. Parts of IL111, 140, 143, 157, 159, and Route 4 use to be Route 66. Very few of the road-side attractions and mom-and-pops survived, especially if they where no where near an interstate exit.

[@dusko.9910]

MAD AT YOU GUYS!!!!!.....MY HOUSE IS LITERALLY ON ROUTE 66 IN SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS!!!!!....GRRRRRRRRR

[@Marcellillig]

The Music

[@another90daystochangethis34]

It was pretty chill.

[@MrDan708]

1:00 The guys on American Pickers would really like that old sign!

[@kathybrenneman1868]

Hi Dan ad Will, It is so great to see Will giving us more face time as time has gone on. Thanks for bringing this to us. I have loved this travel series. Have a great one and stay safe guys. Kathy B. (fairylady0227)

[@marcindaallison4804]

Love it! I'm from Holbrook, Az. 10 min. West of Joseph City. There is an old motel in Holbrook you should check out. You would head south on Navajo Blvd. go over the tracks an immediately turn right on Bucket of blood Rd. There are a few old buildings in that area. I just love your you tube channel! Thank you!!

[@DanBellFilmIt]

+Marcinda Allison Thanks, Marcinda!

[@marcindaallison4804]

Lol I meant east. Ooppss!

[@jesseromero7149]

Dan bell you are freaking awesome love your videos keep it up man come to Colorado sometime I can show you some awsome places in colorado

[@Jabeye]

I enjoy Will in your videos. Nice, funny guy.

[@AracelyDreamer]

@dan How did you get those old images? I am your fan !!!!

[@thecatsmeowfromny]

My name is Ella... and I did lose a shoe once but it was at the beach

[@polferiferus1938]

Was it blue?

[@ScottScottJenniGerber]

Love seeing stuff like this.. Awesome... :-)

[@billstrikesback]

That video was lovely x

[@kittyfriend9888]

thumbs up for ella's lost shoe

[@luissdstuff6381]

Thank goodness!! NO killer bees!

[@meghanmurphy9122]

awesome video as always!!! :D

[@kimberleywright3277]

Amazing!

[@themadcoachman]

Anymore creepy nighttime films coming Dan?

[@charleneemery7564]

That was really cool.

[@CaptainSouthbird]

One downside from the construction of Interstate and other modern highways was the death of roadside Americana. Perhaps none worse than former (!) Route 66 that in some cases left entire towns without their primary income.

[@octagonseventynine1253]

These Western videos remind me of Fallout New Vegas. Just waiting for a Death Claw to pop out.

[@DanielDanger420]

Will's got a body like a melted candle.

[@dieromantic3651]

Dan D. Warhol Wtf!? Lmfao!! 😂😂

[@dunhill1]

That is mean, but i can't stop laughing. LOL.

[@polferiferus1938]

So true.

[@reverb13thh]

More like lady hips

[@kgbeezr75]

Lucky for him he doesn't have your face.

[@polferiferus1938]

Heres some info about that location. The full name was "Ella's Frontier Trading Post" - read from Ghost Towns of Arizona and Surrounding States - www.ghosttownaz.info/ellas-frontier-trading-post.php

[@AracelyDreamer]

you've a fan from MEXICO !!! C:

[@dragonmaid1360]

Okay that building is the only thing around for miles. there are bound to be rattlesnakes and scorpions heading for that hideout from everywhere.

[@Daniel28021991]

Cool place

[@crowmigration8245]

Check out Roamin Rich if you haven't. He is all about preserving and documenting route 66 and there are actually a lot of historic places like this still open.

[@danieljohn2030]

Was that a upside down cross on the building? 😱

[@palespectre]

is the music by Joe Meek?

[@llyn7409]

Come to the Adirondacks, we have a CRAPPP ton of abandoned stuff. Even a ghost town.

[@demented12]

How did you get the old footage? Did you find an old VHS tape on site? Cool video as always.

[@TheChicagoCourier]

a little late but it's from a 1985 documentary called Route 66. it's on KZbin "Route 66 1985"

[@demented12]

@@TheChicagoCourier Thank you for the info.👍

[@MaggieS81]

I think I saw Will's doppelgänger in Fairfax City tonight

[@reverb13thh]

Vincent Gallo??

[@applevalleyhillbillygarden1093]

Cool !

[@Zynyster]

Please More Dead Mall Videos! Thank you :)

[@Sean-ll5cm]

Do a Rust Belt tour

[@polferiferus1938]

+Sean - Yes! Detroit alone could supply 100+ episodes!

[@VeXis101]

I've been attacked by yellow jackets and know the feeling. I can now spot a yellow jacket at like 100 feet at least.

[@marcblack7429]

Before or after the killer bees?

[@Mickeyla82]

Marc Black I'm guessing after.

[@gripplehound]

I don't get how the sky looks bigger there.

[@trajan4824]

That's why they call it "Big Sky Country"

[@pigoff123]

I meant the walls were all still standing on the first building

[@2utoday]

Another fabulous video!

[@phoebexxlouise]

"I think Ella lost her shoe" - I think you mean Cinderella

[@VerbfromarizonaBoomBapBeats]

i swear i just seen that indian shed a tear.....for all the trash in his old place now..... lmao....

[@christy76840]

not only snakes! THE BEES AND WASPS! 😣😣

[@SoundtrackOfOurLives]

Ella Fitzgerald's Frontier? :)

[@ourevilone]

do you or will you shoot in 60 FPS?

[@LaudiumEnoch777]

Not on this channel, because he said he uses his iphone or smart phone.

[@vinciroth]

Remember if you ever do get bit by a snake try your best to stay calm and get to a hospital asap. I dont want to hear about my dude Dan or will almost dying

[@curtis13450]

that my cabin

[@Amers415]

Will is bae

[@jayneemmapage]

+Crazy Monkey1208 😂😂 I always think that too when I see that written. BAE systems is near where I live

[@jemmyxx3107]

Plumbles I have a bae building in my town!

[@dennisolof9994]

These videos are so great, with background story, pictures, videos, music etc. Compared to your standard exploring videos. If you like Dan Bells stuff check out "Aces Adventures" here on YT. Oh, BTW watch out for "killer bees"

[@motorcyclefan2223]

sup DanBell

[@hereisalex]

Rumor has it Dan neither reads nor responds to KZbin comments

[@dekuscrub7423]

Alex McKenzie rumor has it that he doesn't respond to bait. 😉

[@kathleenpatricia728]

Does that make you a rattlesnake as well? 🐍 🐉

[@pigoff123]

They sure made the place to last

[@wongtongthongbong]

👍👍

[@vcvcf1896]

33333 subs!

[@ginathepeasant]

You always seem to find shoes. Also, who would want to camp in the desert?!

[@MrDan708]

I'll guess that the campground served as a stopover for people traveling on Rt 66 to some other destination.

[@TheKriswiccan]

the bee's

[@cinderellacomplex7]

Don't get me wrong, I like Will, but can he really not find any looser t-shirts or pants? He always looks like he squeezed himself into his clothes and can't breathe in them. I'm not calling him fat because he actually isn't, it's just that his clothes always seem a size or two too small for him...

[@trajan4824]

cinderellacomplex7 he's gotta show off the dad bod

[@stride9k]

Cx

[@DaddysToyKingdom]

I didn't see the ferris wheel remnants. Did it fall over?