Western Oklahoma - Ghost Towns & Abandoned Places

[@History_v_detalyax]

Even though I'm from Russia, I really like your videos. It's always sad to see abandoned places where people lived.

[@tylerjones2695]

Hey there from America

[@NoName-rl3fh]

Greetings from America. And yes, decay places can be both interesting & also bittersweet.

[@noworriesmate2323]

So am and do I

[@sealstech8087]

Since life usually has such a desire to exist in spite of the world being in our opposition, its off putting to see when things failed.

[@rjn6953]

My grandparents lived in Gate Oklahoma. Seeing it featured on your video brought back many wonderful memories. I remember going to Avery's and Curtis' grocery stores with my Grandma when I was a little girl...

[@attrell]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@shinybudlv-kg7ok]

Bro my great grandparents lived there too. That’s crazy. Now they’re in the panhandle of Oklahoma

[@carolobrien7071]

My husband and I took a trip to Oklahoma in September to see Fort Sill in Lawton, where he was stationed when he was in the Army. Seeing this video made me want to take a side trip to Gate and he agreed. It took us 5 hours to drive up there from Lawton and we arrived around noon. Yes, luckily for us Laurie's Cafe was open for business, so we were able to get some lunch there. Several people stopped to get some take-out while we were there. Afterwards we checked out all the wonderful murals. I wish we could have found out who painted them and when they were painted. It was very hot that day and it was a long drive but well worth it. Thanks for the upload!

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@JeffreyBarkley]

Chris, The building in Alva was a flour mill. Also the grain elevators you showed are still in operation. One of them used to be owned by my grandfather.

[@attrell]

Thank you!!

[@tylerjones2695]

Love to see people document these little towns, they were the Wild West once Sorry to see people have to leave their home places for financial reasons these last 30 yrs and glad people in other parts of the country can see them because you explored them

[@billzeralsky2969]

You did a nice job showing these dwindling little OK towns. I enjoy seeing them & what you're doing here.

[@reedsilvesan2197]

I'm old enough to remember when these little towns were bustling with life. I even remember the trains with the wooden cars, the transition to steel cars was just beginning.

[@tylerjones2695]

Me too

[@johnleak8396]

I know Kenton, OK pretty well. My great grandfather, John Duncan, used to run the Kenton Mercantile. He passed away in the late '70's at the age of 103,. I also had a couple of my mother's aunts and uncles, that lived at each end of town.

[@attrell]

I enjoyed my visit to Kenton

[@MrDarkTenebrae]

it s incredible the enormous amount of abandoned towns in Usa. I enjoy so much see the users who are dedicated to documenting him. Greetings from Bs As , Arg .-

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@LisaCabelarow]

​​@@attrell what is the name of the mayor of the town Gotebo OK in the thumbnail with the Massey Ferguson tractor sitting abandoned on the street ?

[@jeroberts7228]

I loved this tour - it was so fascinating!

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@kenthompson5723]

Gage, with over 400 people, I would not consider a ghost town, though a lot of downtown does seem abandoned. A couple of interesting things about Gage >>> First, the National Weather Service still maintains a weather station here, which has been keeping area weather data for over one hundred years. Second, Gage has an Artesian Park, consisting of a spring-fed, artesian lake the size of five football fields. The Park, located just east of town, functions as a large outdoor swimming pool, with a water depth that ranges from 3 feet to 14 feet. At one time, the park was so popular that is supported a motel nearby. Nice video. There are several additional ghost towns, or ghost towns-in-the making, in western Oklahoma, that I am aware of.

[@attrell]

Thanks for sharing! I am eager to visit again, I really enjoyed the area. I'll check out that park next visit.

[@aaronshoyt]

Do you know any Clark's there?

[@chriscosby2459]

I remember growing up in Tulsa the local TV station would always list the temperature for Gage.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Fund comptrollers, need their ear to the ground and maybe they can come up with necessary people/ funding / labor to get things done. Hope

[@docshreck4]

I grew up 7 miles east of Putnam, Oklahoma on the family farm. I attended the Putnam Schools from 1st through 4th grade. I still have the family farms and travel out there and through Putnam almost daily. The first building you showed was the lumber yard and general store.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@JoeBachmann-ry7wm]

Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. It is very interesting.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@lefturn99]

Don't know how I missed this video when it came out. Many familiar places. Very well done. I'm sure you know, but rural towns lived by the railroads and schools. When trucking killed the minor rail lines and consolidation killed the local schools,.....

[@attrell]

Thanks for sharing that, I was surprised that rail at Keyes doesn't operate anymore.

[@lefturn99]

@@attrell Apparently the farm trade was not enough to keep them going. Of course, many unused rails were pulled during WW II for their steel to support the war effort. After the war, many of the elevators consolidated but were finally abandoned. There is a rail bed you can still follow on google starting a mile south of Keyes going east to Hooker.

[@madnjones]

I really enjoyed your video. I was born in Snyder, OK it's just a few miles from Cooperton, OK and Gotebo, OK. My family moved from Snyder in 1955, when we moved I was only 5 years old, we moved to Jones, OK. I remember when we would go visit family members we drove through both Cooperton and Gotebo. It's sad to see what the town's look like today. Thank you for sharing.

[@attrell]

Thanks for sharing!

[@diambo4life]

Used to drive through Snyder on my way to Mangum where my ex was from. Very ghost like towns down there. Sayre is another one...

[@hensen5309]

As a native Oklahoman, it’s really really cool seeing this. I hope I can find the time to visit these amazing places

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@Bud1632]

Could you please show the firehouses in the old towns you showcase?

[@attrell]

Good idea, I will do that!

[@latanyadavis8700]

Picher, Oklahoma is a ghost town as well. Both of my parents were born and raised there, and I spent some of my childhood there.

[@attrell]

I drove thru that town, so sad. Out of respect for the residents who remain, I didn't include that. I feel just awful what happened.

[@vic88-i4p]

My favorite channel. Organized, no rambling, informative and fascinating. Sometimes the distant past makes me ponder that life is just a short journey.

[@attrell]

Wow, thank you!

[@michaell8645]

My father was born in avard went to school in Alva and graduated from nwosu in Alva. Two of my sisters and myself were born in Alva hospital which is now a museum. All three of my sisters graduated from nwosu. Our parents and one set of grandparents are buried in Alva.

[@RealityUrbex]

Nice video. I like to see the differences between abandoned places in the US and over here in germany.

[@attrell]

Must be amazing stuff over there!

[@jefferylee3121]

I live in Alva Oklahoma and that abandoned brick building you came across on was a grain elevator

[@attrell]

Oh thank you!

[@apocyldoomer]

Chris, beautiful decay, good stuff man, yet, sad!

[@attrell]

Thanks!

[@vaclavshabanov8511]

Little mayor looks great 😊

[@attrell]

I think so too!

[@mjeanhibbs3272]

Love your video!! I grew up in western Oklahoma! I had to chuckle a little when you said town of Gotebo! I think you're the first person to say it correctly. Great job on the video❣

[@attrell]

Oh good! I am thrilled you like the video! Thanks!

[@REGINALucas-n7m]

Our Family Farm still exists outside of Gotebo

[@planetbell1]

Hahaha, that same cat in Kenton is in my most recent video. She gave me a tour!

[@attrell]

Too funny!!

[@brendasaunders4956]

Love these old buildings from the past wish they could be restored some good memories of people who once were there

[@waynehawkins9090]

Been thru some of these towns in my previous job.

[@anthonybaroni3285]

Seeing old towns like this is why I take my road trips...Great job!

[@attrell]

Thank yhou!

[@nickmerrick18]

Great HD and camera work. The colors really stand out.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@jjnich4915]

Really cool video. My grandmother grew up in a dugout on the side of a cliff in rural western Oklahoma in the 1920's. I understand it was somewhere West of Watonga. I have been all through the West there. She ended up in Geary, Oklahoma and even seeing houses there collapsed and boarded up only to realize people still were living in them. It was like going to a different world since I am from Canada.

[@weekendwithbevoblog2171]

Have to love the humour in the antique shop sign.

[@attrell]

Yeah I liked that one too.

[@zacharycranor7071]

I recommend trying the Mexican restaurant in Cherokee or "Ingersol" BBQ (on the Hwy from Cherokee and Alva) or if you're in Alva, Taco Village is a long time multi generational local eatery! And a Family Favorite for my wife and her mother!

[@attrell]

Thanks for the tips! Next time I a there I will!

[@Route66BothLanes]

The memories made in all of these towns and buildings is something we think about as we travel. So much life was lived before everyone left.

[@marshajones5317]

My Dad is from Gotebo... enjoyed the video...look forward to more 😊

[@attrell]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@mikefightmaster]

​@@attrell Pronounced Go tee bow.

[@helmhamburgerhand]

I love seeing places like this. Hope one day i can travel to so many of them. Just imagine the old life they had in them

[@pattylawson1696]

I grew up in Aline the garage was my uncles it served as a garage for the town

[@attrell]

Thanks for all that info! Great town, I am glad I checked it out. ALmost missed it because it was so foggy I missed the turn off from the highway.

[@sunnyskye213]

Great video/material/history.....Enjoyed; THANK U.....

[@attrell]

Thank you too!

[@dougrobinson5830]

You could get many more ghost towns in Okla. Ive been to many. We are moving to the town of Depew soon. Pop. 400.

[@attrell]

Hello and I agree! I wish I had 2-3 more days on that trip. Will go back next year. I added Depew to my Route 66 abandoned video I uploaded today. I enjoyed that town.

[@drummersagainstitk]

Thanks Chris for your work. W. Ok is a very interesting vibe. GAGE was really interesting.

[@attrell]

Thank you!!

[@ddoppster]

I'll never get there, so thank you for the tour, it is captivating!!

[@sailingaeolus]

Spent time in Lawton and Altus as a kid - that was 45 years ago. Oklahoma then had the nicest people I've ever met. Hurts my eyes to see those towns falling apart.

[@lostvlog6857]

Really good with locations! I look forward to watching your other videos!

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@bmichaud1000]

Nice job Chris.

[@attrell]

Thanks!

[@bearingcee]

If you haven't already. Be sure to make your way to Roosevelt, OK and Gotebo. The only thing keeping Roosevelt from dying is Parts World the junk yard. The only thing keeping Gotebo going is the grain elevator. You can find Cooperton between Mt View, Roosevelt and Gotebo. Good luck and safe travels. Oh, Dill City and Lone Wolf oklahoma are Ghosttowns as well.

[@bearingcee]

Lol you made it to Go Tee Bo. 😂

[@attrell]

Hey thanks! I will go check those out!

[@kimberwest7304]

Addington looks like Shattuck, back in the Gage area of the video because of the windmill museum 😊 thanks for your content! Arnett, Oklahoma here… (the armpit of Oklahoma 😂)

[@attrell]

I was in that town in 2013 when I was chasing a potential tornado. Had to turn around when I got to Canadian because the storm was moving too fast. I may have even took some photos in Arnett.

[@dallasdillmon6653]

How about doing this same thing in north central Oklahoma? Around Medford, Wakita, Deer Creek, Lamint.

[@attrell]

Yes! I am eager to go! Thanks.

[@Blazefork]

I'm guessing the building in Alva was a flour mill, my grandpa grew up in Waynoka

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@Blazefork]

@@attrell your welcome, enjoyed your work!

[@alexzildjian]

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[@tylerjones2695]

When I lived in S California we used to go to Rosarita Beach and Ensenada

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@stuartpage5696]

Should have checked out Freedom OK. 25 miles straight west of Alva.

[@attrell]

I put it on my list for next trip, thank you!

[@suttonmaple-pr4nh]

My dad and his siblings are from Freedom..the French family..pug and Nellie are my grandparents.

[@mikenichols4889]

I hope you go to the other end of Oklahoma when I was a youngster back in 1995 I was young man and we built the movie twister and a lot of the towns. I think it was Enid Oklahoma was one of the places we built I remember going in the back vacant town and putting fake store, friends and building fake homes over the pre-existing homes. The town was 95% deserted. It was right next to Kansas and I believe the story goes that a twister scared everybody out of town. I would love to get back there and see what the town looks like now.

[@attrell]

I am going in spring to the rest of Oklahoma!

[@mattcero1]

Yes, it had a motel. It was only open on prom night though.

[@jasonsmith8756]

Great video. 😊😊Its always good to see other ghost towns history that can be related to Saskatchewan in some ways. 😊😊Thanks for sharing these moments Chris.👏👏

[@attrell]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@CyrusToweh-z7q]

For me it's so sad. Where are the Generation of these people who built all these things, towns and cities? Are they all dead or did they vanish? There should be a cause thanks for your updates

[@CyrusToweh-z7q]

Thanks for escepting my comment. I feel sad because my late father had a farm planted with Rubber, Coffee and Coco ect. In LIBERIA, West Africa but the generation continue to keep it warm thanks again 👍💯🙏

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

Corporate farms killed off the small farms, so the towns died.

[@vjbull8172]

Neoliberalism

[@cherylspelino2365]

This is my first time watching your videos. I really enjoyed it. I love looking at abandoned buildings and older things. Please post more videos.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@attrell]

Thank you I will!

[@mikehaney6922]

Nice winter weather for the most part of the trip

[@attrell]

Yes it was!

[@MichaelNehring-p4v]

Avard, Okla. two railroads, former Frisco/BN& Former Santa Fe, now both belong to the BNSF, the Frisco ends there, but heads back East through Hopeton, Dacoma,Carmen, McWillie,Helena,Goltry,Carrier & then Enid, continuing on to Tulsa, Springfield,Mo. former Santa Fe runs East West, it's called the Transcon, LA to Chicago.

[@RRW177]

thanks for the video. Makes me want to go there.

[@soonerstatefirephotography]

I live about 45 minutes west of Tulsa, so pretty much the northeast of the state. There is a town in south-west creek county, called Depew, and most of the businesses are gone. But some person, group, organization idk, came and painted the windows of the abandoned buildings downtown, so it looks like there still open.

[@attrell]

I enjoyed my visit to Depew

[@danielclayton7524]

It's an old flower mill. Critic mills used to have them. There's another bldg. ,same design in Beardstown il.

[@NBZW]

What’s amazing to me is the number of unbroken windows in these places. Shows there is still some respect, thank goodness...Research the history, the collapse of the homeowner farms began under the Regan Administration when the corporate owned farm was said to be much more efficient, Regan applauded this.

[@michaelgreen4838]

Very good job!

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@jerroldmcley4347]

Love those old towns have you ever watched Joe n nics road trip

[@attrell]

I think I saw a video from them about texas towns

[@jerroldmcley4347]

I like the way he tells you the history what it was what it is n

[@jerroldmcley4347]

Now housing prices and what it's like to live there

[@horseman942]

When was this filmed? Really enjoyed it!

[@attrell]

This month! Thank you!

[@GABYDOW]

Much LOVE from Roumania

[@marrissadonet698]

I love your videos it's like a time travel. Thanks from Canada

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@pattylawson1696]

And the ioof building was on the end where we had Eastern

[@W5alz]

Rumor has it the old high school gym/roller skating rink in Avard, Oklahoma is haunted!! There is supposedly a portal to the other side!! Vina Rae’s grill and graze restaurant was there!! Lots of paranormal activity went on there!!

[@attrell]

I got to check that out!

[@jkingsley9385]

I would suspect that the abandoned large building next to the railroad tracks in Alva would have been a flour mill as it is connected to the grain elevators.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@travelvideos]

It looks pretty ok shape after such a long time. Ether weather is not that harsh or build quality is great. I guess the second most likely.

[@jwrappuhn71]

Great vid.

[@attrell]

Thank you so much!

[@pattylawson1696]

That used to be goodno grocery store the section to the to the north used to be the post office until I moved across the street

[@honeybeeharbour1625]

I live in this area. While the area and people are charming it does come with it's own challenges. Declining populations, increasing commutes for work, lack of employment opportunities, good luck finding groceries locally in many of these small towns. With the increasing encroachment of businesses like Dollar general and Walmart pricing out local business and then even those closing, goods and services are in short supply.

[@Terry9624]

Glad you put this om I can see what I can no longer travel to. From a small town and I know all to well how so many places get Abaddon, glad I could se, sad that they have lost their [people. If I had the money and the health I would try to bring life back to one of tham

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@bettetindel2127]

Should do Hastings, OK , used to have college

[@attrell]

THanks! I added to my list.

[@michaelsmith141]

My mom was born Gotebo, OK.

[@vladstad8102]

with that fog, putman ok looks like something out of a silent hill game

[@BarryKaiser-tp4lj]

There is a cemetery in Aline Oklahoma..has 1,090 graves.

[@attrell]

That's a lot of graves!

[@Lyle_918]

The dust bowel of the 1930's took a toll on that area. Most of the original inhabitants are still nearby ... at the cemetery.

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

I went to Oklahoma when I was 17.

[@puckerbutton7025]

Hi oklahoma resident here This is just north tulsa You gotta go south of admiral to see the nice houses

[@attrell]

I'll do that!

[@thejewishredneckprepper4675]

I love all of your videos. Yet I have learned alot from your videos and others.One thing I do on my channel is Ghost towns, here in Ga. and SC. I believe that once the heart of a town,aka business district dies. The town is dead no matter what the cause of the town dying. It is people that make a town not just its business. Once unity is gone and the soul of the town is gone it is dead. Shalom my friend.

[@attrell]

Thanks for sharing!

[@shinybudlv-kg7ok]

My great grandma who is 94 or 95 was born and raised in Gate Oklahoma. She told me her dad owned a drug store as in the general store back then. And that it caught on fire. That’s all I remember. So interesting

[@pattylawson1696]

That building was a meat processing in locker plant for many the springers ran it fo ears

[@RamblingRodeo]

You know it is sad to see this, but in this day in age, could these little towns be revitalized in some way? People are moving out of the US BIG cities, new industries need areas to build, i know it would take a lot to do so but so many want to move out, to repurposing should be pushed into these little towns. I am not sure what that might or would be, but i think and would hope that something could be looked at doing so.

[@zzzzzz1220]

Man merkt es regnet dort wenig dort ist alles noch so gut im Schuss

[@revanshamas9894]

6:27 😊😊 it makes me I am watching lee van cleef movie

[@NoName-rl3fh]

If I was ultra wealthy (and maybe had several lifetimes) I'd consider moving to one of these places and just revitalize it like crazy.

[@attrell]

That would be fun to do!

[@jewishman2687]

I do not know what that building in Alva was used for, BUT my father said they imprisoned high level Nazi's there during WW II. They also made Case Tractors there..

[@attrell]

Oh wow! Thanks for sharing

[@FuHackers-wx9lq]

OMG!!! Crying room? They need to bring that back. Also, make them for planes too! Amazing... 👶👶👶👶👶

[@ChrisSmith-qq4mv]

Fr Toronto 😢 the cat walking around in a abandoned 👻 town scares the s*** out of me 😭

[@attrell]

They are happy as can be!

[@riverraisin1]

I feel like I know your shadow, personally! lol Very interesting and enjoyable walk thru old time OK. Thanks.

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@aaronshoyt]

I'm from Cyril, Oklahoma.. We have around 2,000 Residents.. Great video man, where are you from?

[@jocelynzahn1896]

If you look up tornadoes and these towns you will find that some were destroyed in tornadoes, like Tipton was hit by an EF 4 in 2011.

[@attrell]

Dang! Never thought of that.

[@FuHackers-wx9lq]

Love how you call cats mayors. What are dogs sheriffs? 🐶

[@attrell]

YES! :)

[@Rosey-d9v]

My granny & granddad were from VINITA OK.....

[@pattylawson1696]

That was Otis hasty chiropractor

[@rodewaysanangelo919]

You missed Cowden and Cloud Chief, Oklahoma.

[@attrell]

Thanks, I will check those out.

[@ReynoldsBerry-xe8np]

Takes me back to Lawton in the 1970s😊

[@evilgenius4213]

So, the buildings you saw in Putnam that you thought might have been hit by a tornado were burned during the Rhea Fire in April 2018. Also, Aline is pronounced Uh-leen.

[@attrell]

Oh thank you!!!

[@bandaf.2899]

You totally missed Waurika, OK. The antique shop there Nancy's Antiques is a fantastic antique shop, you totally missed it!

[@attrell]

Next time! I was there in 2014. I will be back!