Kentucky Ghost Towns Part 4 ||| Blandville, Lovelaceville, Lowes, West Kentucky Raceway

[@titchyjp]

Found Facebook page for West Kentucky Raceway,and from the photos on this page it looks like the last racing there was 2018.Great video as always 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Very cool!

[@sueelliott3206]

Great video! I love these old old towns that actually still have buildings. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Glad you enjoyed it! And I agree!!

[@lifewithjosef]

My dad and uncle raced karts decades ago. I remember seeing a few trophies in a box when I was young. Another banger! As always...

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That’s cool! I’ve still got a bunch of old go kart trophies too 😊 Thanks!

[@pettythief43]

Man I hate seeing all the closed racetracks around the country. Dale jr’s lost speedways is a great show. Our beloved Brown County Speedway has been closed almost 15 years now. Another great video!

[@ronfullerton3162]

Another great road trip with the Wise Guy! All the little towns seem to of been kept up enough to show some life. That is nice to see. The race tracks had big crowds and great competition back in the day. But the tracks have really been dying out in the last twenty years or so. Have seen several that still had good crowds go by the wayside. I think several died out more to towns growing out into their area, and then zoning, taxes, and land prices put the final squeeze on them. Just as with the small towns we see highlighted on this channel, time has really changed the look of our communities in many ways.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I actually went past Brown County a few years ago and saw it was abandoned. Maybe next time I’m home we can do an abandoned speedways video together!

[@pettythief43]

Fun fact, I won the final race ever held there. It’s my claim to fame. 😂

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

@@pettythief43 An even better reason for you to be the star of the video!

[@ronfullerton3162]

@@pettythief43 It is in the books, and no one can ever take that away from you! Job well done. Do you still race since then? I knew fellows my age, and they had a hard time giving it up. Some were running the sportsman class stick cars, and another batch were running B class sprinters. Both of those classes were dropped at the same time. Three friends; one ran sportsman, one ran B sprint, and the third ran IKF gocarts, banded together and made a gocart track out in a creek valley. It went great for a number of years with all the displaced racers buying carts and racing. I moved away and only know the track is no longer used. They even hosted an IKF dirt national one summer. Must of just withered away like the ghost towns.

[@terriquotskuyva4594]

Love the bank!! That’s was cool 😎

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

My favorite!

[@bertholini2810]

Hey.... really nice shirt. I too used to ride/race go carts, but that was a long time ago. Nice video. Be good, be safe ! Really cold weather coming, -7 low to 3 degrees for the high ( argh ).

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! Go karts were so much fun for me! Cold weather here too 😞

[@aliceevans3357]

My niece raced go-karts, then she moved up to shifters (?) She won some championships. Love seeing different parts of the country. You realize that no matter where you travel we're all really not that different. Another great video. I got my sticker today! Thank you for offering these. I have some material I use to make fridge magnets, that's what I will do with this one. Stay safe and GOD bless

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That’s awesome! I grew up wanting to be a professional race car driver so it was a big deal for me. It was a great way to travel the Midwest as a kid! That’s great about the fridge magnet - I’m honored!

[@rosseganjr9402]

sorry I have missed a lot of your videos the past few weeks! I have had back surgery and hopefully I can catch up on your adventures ✌️

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Hopefully you are recovering nicely from surgery! All the best!

[@aliceevans3357]

Prayers for a complete swift recovery dear.

[@pamelacrowe4971]

Another great video. Thanks and be careful out there.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! Hope you’re doing well!

[@Mikell-h2c]

another great production ❤

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you 🙌

[@lindastepp9842]

My husband is from Eastern Kentucky, a little place called Lovely. I got my official "Travel With Wiseguy" tshirt, mine is orange, to cold to wear it right now. Great video, tag along 71 😎

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you for the support! Hopefully it is a good quality!

[@bigjimslade6250]

Stepp is a good Martin County name. Read about Moses Stepp sometime. I remember Lovely just down the road from Beauty. Near the Huntley Brinkley Road.

[@lindastepp9842]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy The shirt reads on the tag, Hanes, so that is a good brand 😎

[@lindastepp9842]

@@bigjimslade6250 the way I understand it, my husband is related to the Moses blood line 🤔

[@bigjimslade6250]

@@lindastepp9842 It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at it but at one time I thought that I was in that line too. Turns out that I’m not though. Moses is a proven DAR Patriot for his service in the Revolutionary War.

[@jerrysullivan8424]

Thank you for sharing,

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks for watching!

[@billiegutierrez2506]

What a lovely little adventure thanks for sharing where to next? 😊

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

See you Sunday in Tennessee 😊

[@mikepage2709]

Love to find a place like that. From the time I was 1 to 10 I lived in a small town in Kentucky and from 10 to now at 66 I live in a city love to get back to my home in Kentucky

[@sandiewilliams7407]

You are expected to stop completely at a stop sign...the rolling stop you did is against the rules. Jus playin! Be careful out there Coach Wise! 🏃👟

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Haha thanks for keeping me in line 😂😂

[@nadie2795]

Wondering if you can add these to your videos as they are important to me, probably others: how many grocers, gas stations, dollar generals, proximity to urgent care/hospital,,,, regular amenities people need, for each town. Thanks

[@kathyscoppettuolo7168]

Same ☝. Having lived in densely populated areas most of my life, can't imagine not having these services close by.

[@onrycodger]

Kintucky! Where everyone is related to someone in thim thar mountains.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂

[@greglewis8752]

Kentucky is not ALL mountains....

[@robertsimpson4123]

No mountains Western Kentucky

[@buck644]

West Ky raceway was/is owned by Jason Hays who lives in Cunningham Ky and owns Hays Backhoe and Concrete. He’s on Facebook. They raced anything from 3 wheelers to souped up rails. Sadly it didn’t get enough support to keep it going. Not sure what year it opened but I remember watching races there in the late 70’s.

[@stevehilliard1495]

Didn’t get notified of this video until evening, usually around 7:00 AM

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Interesting. I wonder if others had the same thing. It went live at 7am.

[@stevehilliard1495]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy I scrolled back and I received it at 7:00 but I slept until 8, so no foul on their part

[@Howelton2020]

All the lives that were born, lived there and died there. It must have been very lively at it's peak.

[@farmerthatflies]

The lovelaceville track is still used on occasion. For short drag races obviously. Not completely abandoned

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Oh wow that's great to hear!

[@DD-bn2mx]

these days, you have to see who lives there, before wanting to more there. lol

[@jerrysullivan8424]

So true. :)

[@INFERIORPLAY]

From slave graves to ghost towns from indian mounds to civil war battle west ls shrinking espeically after the tornado that hit mayfeild ky we have some new factories opening up and old ones updated so hopefully in the next few decades we get west ky back to the husstling bustling river counties they used to be

[@bigjimslade6250]

I enjoyed the video but I wouldn’t call any of the towns as ghost towns. I drove through Ballard County twice this week on my way to & from Kansas. The Mississippi River counties are special with the bluffs overlooking the rivers. The area was the starting point of the Union Army invasion of the South. Read the book Grant Moves South for some great context. Also check out the Columbus Belmont State Park just down the road to see the chain used to attempt to control the river during the war.

[@juliogonzales5441]

Love car Racing 🏎 Dale..3#

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Yes!! I’ve got another racing type video later this month 🚗

[@tinman7130]

Nothing Bland about this one. Although I was surprised when you rolled into Lowe no one came out to offer assistance with your home improvement projects. Maybe they ran over to Lovelaceville, there were a couple buildings there could use some help.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I really was wondering if the first Lowe’s started there 😂

[@INFERIORPLAY]

Idk if you already covered columbus ky ,hickman ky or clinton but you should

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks for the suggestions!

[@10-4-d7d]

Any good rural restaurants or diners?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Not much

[@mikehandegan1104]

When I was a kid in 70's, the baseball team I was on traveled to Lovelaceville to play a team there. We beat the crap out of them, and the Lovelaceville parents weren't happy about it. By the end of the game it got ugly, and they were trying to fight our parents. We had to high tail it out of there. It was like something out of a movie. That should give you a good idea about that place back then.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😮

[@travis303]

would have been funny if you went in the old bank, saw all of the empty safes and screamed "AHHH, THE BANK'S BEEN ROBBED!"

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂😂

[@travis303]

Oh, I thought I would mention I dare you to do Iowa ghost town videos now with a foot of snow and temps, highs even, well below zero, lol

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Haha! I’m good. Although it’s gonna be negative in Wichita this weekend!

[@travis303]

There was a, oh shoot, I forget his name, The Carpetbagger video? something like that kind of like Woo, he does travel videos and he actually visited Iowa in winter one year, during weather similar to this where the temps were around zero, something no other travel vlogger dares to do. I was impressed. @@TravelwithaWiseguy

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I’ll add it to my bucket list. I definitely want to impress you! 😂😂

[@travis303]

🤣🤣@@TravelwithaWiseguy

[@travis303]

OK, it is The Carpetbagger. Look up this video from two years ago Hometown of Captain Kirk - The Flying Weenie - Lebowski Themed Bar - Plus MORE!@@TravelwithaWiseguy

[@larrycates7655]

It is a dirt track. I grew up half mile from there. When real floods they race John boats .

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Oh wow 😮

[@pennyfields491]

Alben Barkley was from Wheel, Ky

[@INFERIORPLAY]

The race track They did tractor pulls and all types of stuff on that tract its not as abondened as it looks it prolly shut down ten years ago or so

[@NoneofYourbusiness-j8x]

Im originally from Bandana ky. Its almost completely gone, and oscar is gone

[@NoneofYourbusiness-j8x]

That race track was for dirt drags, 4x4 trucks or whatever you brought

[@whatsmyname3237]

Lowes building bank hours? 9am-2pm. There's where the term "bankers hours" came from,

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂

[@robnewman6101]

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865. Was born in Kentucky.

[@travis303]

So you discovered the speedway accidentally or was this a part of the lost speedways show?

[@travis303]

I guess you discovered that on your own

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Yeah just randomly saw it there

[@travis303]

I'm not into racing, never heard of the show, but always fun to see relics from the past@@TravelwithaWiseguy

[@Phillip-on3ce]

My relatives lived in and near Lovelaceville. My cousin raced motorcycles at the track. Nice people, but if you had any ambition and got an education, then you had to leave the area to get a suitable job. Westvaco was a good Ballard County employer since the mid 60's, but it has closed fairly recently. Both of my grandfathers were tobacco farmers in the Lovelaceville area, but one rarely sees tobacco fields or the smokey tobacco barns anymore. Great fishing and hunting in the area. Duck hunting is great in the many small lakes and ponds of Ballard County.

[@johnr8476]

As my drill Sargent used to yell at me in 1969, I can't hear you.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Sorry 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@DD-bn2mx]

no volume?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Not sure what you’re saying. Haven’t had anyone else say that.

[@fredcloud9668]

"You Know"