No Man’s Land Oklahoma Ghost Towns - Kenton, Beer City, Gate

[@Avarim]

I just stumbled across this channel, because I want to learn more about the "real" America beyond the metro areas. You are doing a great job. Greetings from Germany.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That’s awesome! Thank you very much! Always fun to hear from someone across the pond!

[@bp5439]

What are the small towns like in Germany? I bet they are lovely.

[@anthonymort5202]

By the way you probably shouldn't suggest that some Americans aren't real Americans because they live in Metro areas it might get somebody mad enough to point out that everybody in your family was a genocidal Nazi

[@MixerElixer]

@@bp5439As a German, it's interesting to go to a couple, but once you've seen one, you've kind of seen them all

[@billybilly3777]

@@MixerElixer A lot of our small towns are dumps. Is this true of Germany?

[@useyourimaginasean]

I respect the people who live in this part of the country. Making a living and finding purpose in a place where most people see desolation is salt of the earth stuff. That’s making community happen and that’s a life well lived

[@stevemccoy8138]

I love it out there, in the middle of nowhere, that's where I should be living. Thanks for the tour. 🎅

[@MegaMegaman87]

Something you might not know from your visit near Kenton is that the area is well known for Having an amateur astronomy Event during the fall, usually in September or October during the new moon. It's called The Okie Tex star party. If you're ever in the area and are interested,please come on by.We also Are attempting to run public events out of black Mesa state park. The reason I bring this up is because I am a frequent traveler of this area and a member of the astronomy club out of Oklahoma City that helps run these events.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I didn’t know that - very interesting! Thanks!

[@MegaMegaman87]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy Not a problem.

[@w3tua]

I just attended the 2023 event and the skies are amazing! Although the weather was bad except for two days, I'm still planning to come back in 2024.

[@chiefproblems751]

I filled up with gas at that old store in Kenton around 1979. Was going from Norman OK to Roslyn Washington.

[@StanleyHarper]

Love the drone shots. May be the first drone shots of Kenton I've seen. I grew up in Boise City and Kenton and Lake Etling was where we spent a lot of time. We natives of Cimarron County are kind of tight and pretty proud of our little corner of the state.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! It’s a very beautiful place - you have a lot to be proud of. Definitely an area I want to go back again to explore. Thanks for the comment!

[@hensonrobert5547]

I can remember eating lunch there ; at the Mercatile in Kenton after church, buying fish bait and tackle from the 1960's -1980's. They sold gas and groceries.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Very cool! I wish it was open when I visited!

[@PaulShaw-ex7ri]

​@@TravelwithaWiseguythe man that owned that store died about 20 years ago.

[@w3tua]

I attended the 2023 Okie-Tex Star Party in Kenton for the first time. The area is beautiful and the mercantile store is awesome. The lady that owns it was interesting and we talked for a long while as other people from town came in and out. The skies in that part of the country are dark and beautiful at night too!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed visiting Kenton too!

[@dennistrue7190]

Awesome video. Thank you for your hard work putting the videos together.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Appreciate it! Thank you for watching - it’s a lot of fun to do!

[@phillawson9453]

I live here in Sacramento California I really appreciate you posting these always wondered what it was like around these states

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! I hope to show some California towns someday! I know there are a lot of small towns out there!

[@tylerclayburn8688]

​@@TravelwithaWiseguy check out isleton california! Former boomtown in the 1800s on the sacramento delta

[@johnf817]

Stay where you are

[@davidsimon1324]

That was very interesting!!!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😊

[@ashesantics]

Great video. I grew up in Eastern Oklahoma and alot of ppl don't know half Oklahoma a desert other half green and hills. I grew up a few miles from poteau ok. We're the talliest Hill in the world is. I was a farm painter for 25 years from Texas to North Dakota. Man I've seen some beautiful countryside.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you very much! Oklahoma is so different from east to west! I’ve enjoyed exploring all around and there are lots more places I want to go! The tallest hill in Poteau actually made one of my early videos about Eastern Oklahoma!

[@loribrogdon7842]

What are you talking about tallest hill. I'm from Tulsa. Okla doesn't have hills

[@nanspark1870]

@@loribrogdon7842 there r lots of hills in Oklahoma. I’m born and raised there. Cavanal mountain at poteau is suppose to be the tallest hill in the world

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

@@loribrogdon7842 It's kind of a joke because a hill in less than 2000 feet high and this one is like 1999, so it's the "tallest hill" in the world haha.

[@wanderingshep2170]

Great video John - I agree with Andrew as a fellow Aussie - very outback NSW. My boys and I have watched all of your videos and really appreciate your amazing commitment. We loved the US89 series especially, with the kids following the video on Google Maps. On one of my 4 traverses by car across the USA, I made a 300 mile detour to get to Boise City, so was only 35 miles away from these places without ever getting there. Hopefully your videos will continue to provide insights into, and examples of, places to visit if and when we get back to the USA.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you so much! That is such a nice message - makes me feels so good that you and your boys watch the videos and get something from them! I would love to visit Australia and especially the outback someday! Yeah US89 is really great and highly underrated. Hopefully more people will take that trip in the coming years. I actually stayed the night in Boise City before driving over to Kenton - it was the closest place I could find. Just goes to show how far out there it is. I’ll try to keep making interesting videos - thanks again!

[@brettwilliams2725]

Thank you for adding to, and keeping alive, the history of the US. Really appreciate your passion for our history - small and consequential - all a part of the big picture of who we are and where we came from.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you very much! I loved visiting this part of Oklahoma!

[@ricsmith2185]

I have never ever thought about that little piece of Oklahoma and what it looked like. John you did an amazing job now I want to go visit. Thanks for the great videos bud!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I love finding those hidden gems in the corners of a state like that. Definitely a cool place to visit and explore. Thank you!

[@louisliu5638]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy the banjo music fits the scenes. wasn't mean mary from around these here parts??

[@kaymerry369]

These old towns with great history never are boring . Keep up the great videos . Thanks for sharing you love of traveling.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! Will do!

[@johns7868]

We stayed on the Kenton Mercantile premises in one of the tiny cabins on the west side of the building. It had a tv with a built in vhs player and the clock radio managed to get some am stations

[@thespud530]

It’s cool that people still live in Kenton

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Beautiful little town!

[@jcolumbiap]

Thanks for doing this! We stayed on the West side of the court house in the 1990’s. Quiet and nice! That night they closed the road to the West and put out a sign saying “Children Playing! “

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Kenton was a great place to visit and I’ll definitely be back. Beautiful area! Thanks for sharing - great story!

[@Rags2Itches]

What surprised me about Beer City was that there is no sign of a cemetery remaining. Even though it was only active for two years , you'd think they'd of had some sort of 'boot hill'.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Very true! With it being such a short period of time, I wonder if that’s something that would’ve needed to be organized by someone and no one had the foresight.

[@theskyworrier]

There's a cemetery nearby called Tyrone cemetery. Maybe that's it?

[@buzzsaw99]

I grew up in Liberal Kansas. One summer night after a few drinks me and my buddies loaded up with shovels and headed just across the state line to see if we could find any remanence of Beer City. Sadly we didn’t find anything but I picked up a book from the local library that had a story about PussyCat Nell. She ran the saloon and bordello in Beer City.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

You and your buddies had a good thought!

[@paradoxstudios6639]

I wonder how she got that name ?

[@geneballay9590]

another grrrrreat video. thank you for all the work and then sharing.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

One of my most fun trips!

[@theadventure9450]

Just now learn about USA, and found your video, it's so mean to me who wanted to teach my kids about USA and its States. Thank you

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Welcome here! Thank you!

[@iLikeMike]

Just saw your Kenton video. This is neat. I'm walking across America right now and will be entering Oklahoma at Kenton. Your other videos will help me see what's ahead. 🙂

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Wow that’s amazing! Best of luck in your walk - absolutely incredible!

[@louisliu5638]

Beer City; est 1888.....abandoned 1890. I'm dying.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Crazy story!

[@stixstat]

Another awesome video! Although, having lived in Liberal for a few years before Sublette, I’ve never heard of Beer City!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Well it was from the 1800’s. You might not remember visiting!

[@BarryMckockinner]

Nice video. Thank you for taking the time to educate us.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

You bet!

[@user-cl2es9iu1j]

I learned from you, thanks! Never knew of Beer City and Gate! I’m an Oklahoman and love the High Plains country.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Very cool! Such an interesting area!

[@SuperMickey57]

I've only been to the panhandle once when I worked at the Highway Department. We drove a lowboy trailer from Muskogee to pick up a backhoe from a location that was shutting down. We got lucky on that trip, because when we got back to the yard, we filled up the fuel tank and the tie rod broke leaving the pump. If it had broken on the highway, we most definitely would have crashed, especially on the return trip loaded up.

[@ChasinSimplicity]

Thanks for the video! Good to see the actual towns and learn a bit.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! I really liked making this video. Thinking of going back to the area again to visit some more!

[@nomaderic]

Just spent about a week traveling around western Oklahoma on my way back to Colorado from Texas and man, what a cool state. I ended my trip by staying at black mesa state park way out in the west, then traveled through Kent and stayed on that little road all the way to raton. Great drive, when though the road stopped being paved at one point. Truly a remote no man's land out that way

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That’s awesome! Yeah I really like it out there too. Hidden gem!

[@71chadknight]

Interesting....I've been through that area many times over the years but of course I'm on my way to next job as always and have never heard of these little towns. Maybe the next time I'm traveling that way I'll have to venture off the highway and pay these towns a visit.. as always John, another great video my friend!! Keep on Keeping on!! Hope you have a Merry Christmas!!⛄🎄

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! Kenton is kind of out of the way, but definitely worth the trip! Very beautiful area! Gate was interesting too. Not much to see at Beer City, but the history is crazy and I just wanted to say I’ve been to Beer City haha.

[@bigjohn2048]

No mans land was also called the Cherokee strip or the indian outlet. It was originally left so the tribes that had been moved to Oklahoma or the new indian territory as it was known. Before Oklahoma was a state the only lawmen that had jurisdiction in the area was federal marshalls. The strip called no mans land was left out of Texas so the indians had an outlet to the western plains to hunt buffalo without crossing into Texas or Kansas. The strip provided them access to Colorado Wyoming and Montana plains which were not states at that time. The area was added to Oklahoma when it changed from indian territory to a state. Oklahoma became a state mostly because of the oilfield that was discovered there. The whole area had been given to the Native Americans as reservation but then when oil was discovered the politicans and rich oilmen decided the Native Americans didn t need that much land and broke yet another treaty with them and reclaimed most of the territory and opened it to settlement with the Oklahoma land rush after they gave the oil companies and the railroads huge sections of it.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Great information! So much interesting in an area that is so wide open still today. Thank you for the comment - I appreciate it!

[@johnnorman7708]

I spent some time visiting Kenton. So many memories. I think 2008 was the last time I went through there. The Duncan family that we visited there and had nearly a century of family connection with are all long gone from there now. I miss them and visiting Kenton. John, Golda, (Goldie) and their daughter Mildred and her husband Bud. May they rest in peace. Seeing this video made me so genuinely sad. I once had dreams of living in Kenton myself. It was and is a very special place to me.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks for sharing - I really enjoyed my visit to Kenton 😊

[@danmartin6225]

the sky look amazing

[@paulis7319]

Very interesting! That's a place I want to visit someday, and document it like you did. What were the locals like?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I only met people in Gate but they were all very nice!

[@brandiewhisenhunt289]

How cool! you did this for me?? Lol. I'm from Turpin Ok. So Liberal ks is my old hub. Lots of bon fire parties near beer city. Some of My family still lives nearby.. my sis in Hooker ok.. and my brother in Hugoton ks. Thank you so much ❤️

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That’s so great! I loved exploring that area. I couldn’t find anything notating exactly where Beer City was located, but I could imagine some wild times! I also got a funny t-shirt when I passed through Hooker 😂😂

[@brandiewhisenhunt289]

Hooker hornet toads?? That was the semipro baseball team in hooker & the BJs were the liberal team

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

The shirt I bought said I support local Hookers 😂😂

[@AD4M88]

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[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Welcome aboard! Much appreciated 😊

[@AD4M88]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy always find it fascinating to see small America! I did a road trip across Texas before and the amount of tiny towns we stopped in, where we were the only people walking the streets, plus the amount of looks we got 👀

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I bet! Texas is a very interesting state to get lost in 😊

[@georgesheffield1580]

Kenton has some fantastic history and countryside , go on up the Cimarron in NM allthe way to Raton or Trinadad

[@andrewwebb17]

That first town reminds me of outback New South Wales My back yard Well done and Merry Christmas

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

New South Wales must be pretty cool! Thanks and same to you!

[@kedronking]

I love this stuff, subscribed

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Awesome! Thanks so much!!

[@alandavis9644]

It was the top of the Texas Panhandle but the Mason Dixon deal line made it move south 34 miles creating No Mans Land. Both my grandfathers homesteaded there in Beaver county.

[@caryharper9190]

There is much to explore in and around Kenton. Fun fact the county seat, Boise City. Was the only main land town to be bombed WWII. Also I believe Kenton had some of the last wind-up gas pumps. I believe they are long gone by now. But it was fun watching people attempting to use them.

[@johnnorman7708]

I sure do remember those crank reset gas pumps at the store. I loved every minute there. Got to eat community Thanksgiving dinner at the old school one November back in the 80s. Went to a skating party at the school once too. I never learned to roller skate but it was fun to be there. Yes, I miss going to Kenton.

[@user-cl2es9iu1j]

I was going to bring up about Boise City being bombed by the U.S. in WWII! Something the flight crew was not very proud of!

[@ambercarver791]

My great grandmother was from Gate. We visited her every summer when I was a kid. My parents also got married in Gate.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Nice! I really enjoyed visiting and exploring Gate!

[@KenBurtner]

Thanks again I wounder what rush hour looks like.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂

[@janicevaneck6984]

I’m from Liberal, Ks. & had relatives in Turpin, OK, Beaver County & Liberal area.

[@otispugh8162]

Good job,keep it up,stay safe.

[@beameup64]

In Boise City all we could leally get was 3.2% alcohol beer when I lived there in Cimarron County.

[@jamesharris40001]

Thanks for the history and stories

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

My pleasure!

[@sweetpeach6583]

New sub here. Interesting history on my home state! Never seen the panhandle though.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you very much! Fascinating area to explore!

[@robertodebeers2551]

What I remember of driving across the panhandle was the wind. And buildings in the middle of nowhere made entirely of concrete. Gate looked pretty good, though.

[@gszhsdhxjd9809]

This No Man's Land area is kind of similar to Slab City and the Emerald Triangle area of California. These places are basically what is left of the anarchy in the Wild West.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Very true - there are a few places like this around the country at different times in history and a couple have also been called No Man’s Land.

[@DavidGrapesVinyard]

great video!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you 😊

[@skylersadventures]

Kenton is awesome.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Agreed!

[@travis303]

Oh, I know these places, at least Kenton anyway. I spent two years in guymon.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Really enjoyed visiting No Man’s Land!

[@joeyjohnson7795]

There used to be a museum in Gate about 7 years ago when I ran FedEx through that area. I'd love to know if it's still open. It was on the main east west road on the far east side S side of the road. If memory serves it was near the old railroad tracks and part of the museum may have actually been the old depot.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Would be a great museum to check out! I didn’t see it, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

[@isabellam1936]

Great vid thank you

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you very much 😊

[@noetic8]

Gate City dropping down 67% and only 10 years is actually kind of sad. Imagine the people that were still stuck there young during the depression damn that sucks

[@alandavis9644]

If your traveling the area Beaver is a great town to visit, it was the only county seat when it was No Mans Land as it served the whole Panhandle. My great grandfather was the sole civil authority over the panhandle. BRAIDWOOD was thr name. My mother madian name. My fsthers Dad, John Davis homesteaded east of 83 hey, south side of the Beaver River. The original homesteads burned in a wild fire last year.

[@dr.javierchagolla3036]

Hasta allá llegaba el territorio de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos 🇲🇽 México antes de que lo arrebataran en la guerras de invasión norteamericana. 😢

[@kenlewis4480]

Love it out there. Peaceful and beautiful. You can forget the city troubles in a place like that. I was there twice last summer. Had a picnic at Etling lake near Kenton. Check it out.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Such a beautiful and interesting place full of history!

[@jvon3885]

I grew up and have family everywhere out there.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I really enjoyed visiting. Definitely different from the rest of the state!

[@abstracttom.cleanelephanto5659]

I’ve finally found a reason to come back to Oklahoma

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😊

[@SeanDiVarco-bu4eu]

Good morning 🌅.

[@sueelliott3206]

Love the Beer City story. Maybe that's where firing squads came from after hangings lol

[@vickihittle609]

You missed Beer City. It is still there. Now it is a few houses, a used car dealer, and a drive-up beer place. Back in the day there was a great honey tonk there called Kickshickers. It was open for many years. They even had a house band. Laurie's Cafe in Gate serves a nice steak on Saturday nights. Laurie is a super nice lady.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Really? Do you know what street or intersection it is near? I read everything I could and thought I was about as close to the original Beer City as I could be. It was gone very quickly so maybe those more modern places were close and took the name Beer City? I’m very interested to learn more!

[@robincooper371]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy so, my dad was born and raised 2 miles from where you shot your Beer City monologue shot. He still lives there. He’s 78. He said when he was a boy in the mid 1950’s he and his dad tore down the last building remaining from Beer City. It was a mile north of his house. So, you were about 3 miles away from what he says was the actual location. He says the actual location is the intersection of NS 117 and EW1 on the southeast corner. He has an old cabinet that is from that building.

[@d-rayphelps1630]

​@@robincooper371I love Oklahoma! Have friends who live in Arnett. It's awesome that the roads really run North/South and in numerical order. I was told that each intersection marks a section of land, 640 acres? I can drive through this area for hours. Beautiful places.

[@zachariahshort6546]

Beer City?! Sign me up for a visit!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂

[@rickallison5411]

Uh huh, I know you stopped by the Casino that's up there now. 😅 I weny by Medicine Mound coming back home from Dallas a few weeks ago, but didn't really see anything. "RickInAmarillo"

[@sswolf7248]

Imagine all the history and people once were there

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

For sure!! Fascinating history.

[@alexikamran7039]

watching from Bangladesh!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Woohoo!! 🇧🇩

[@mattengelphoto4936]

bro. that pic is not black mesa. you probably drove past the mesa a thousand times. you can't miss it its HUGE

[@TomFletcher-dl7zt]

You ought to travel to lookeba sickles,that is where scott oklahoma is

[@GabbyNurse]

What's up with that vending machine??? It still looks good!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂 I’d say it’s probably the most modern thing in town!

[@GabbyNurse]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy I wonder if there's rusty quarters in there! Lol

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

@@GabbyNurse I bet there is! hahaha!

[@louisliu5638]

Kenton and 5,000 feet up to the plateau?? I was in Tulsa for grade six in the sixties. Always wonder about these videos as per heat, humidity, and WIND. Not a fan of wind. And don't forget WATER.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Very different from Tulsa to Kenton!

[@pi5tolpete989]

I subbed brother cool channel

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I really appreciate it - thanks!

[@airington01]

Your in my favorite part of Oklahoma

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

One of my favorites!

[@crystalgraham6728]

My favorite is gate

[@daphnebrooks3966]

How many ppl live in these towns. I think you should give more info

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I did show the population in Gate in the video. Kenton is 31.

[@georgesheffield1580]

Dinosaur quarry near by too.

[@amranackerman9656]

Always wondered were the exact point Beer City was---- or if any one would post a video trying to find it. Cheers on yhis vid yeehaaa

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! I’ve always been curious, but have never found anything claiming an exact point. I wonder if there is anyone that knows 100% for sure. I think I was very close. I think someone should put a landmark there!

[@amranackerman9656]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy hmm a metal detector should do the trick. Any Metal scraps -- and I'd assume alot of it scattered around the field or fields. And in beer city -- a few bullets and guns coins. This area would be very interesting to scout

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Good idea! I don’t have a metal detector and I try not to look like I’m snooping, but I imagine the people who own the land have found some interesting items!

[@daphnebrooks3966]

Huh? No building or anything in beer ?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Nothing left there.

[@brucemorris6319]

My daughter lives in Gate.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I really enjoyed visiting Gate! Loved the nods to history there.

[@brucemorris6319]

Just north from town there’s a Silica mine that’s about the best in the country. I worked in the plant for years. Tornado took the plant a few years ago. About a quarter of a mile from town there was a tree there everyone called the hanging tree I guess they hung a bad guy there back in the old days the tree fell over few years ago.

[@jimbird963]

We’ve built barns in the area rattlesnake country lol

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂

[@chrismach454]

Feel bad for ppl who live there

[@JamachaBound]

Was there any other ppl there?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

None in Beer City. A few in Kenton. A few more in Gate.

[@williamboucher6719]

I live in gate lol

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Cool town!

[@williamboucher6719]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy you were standing right in front of my house! I live right across the street from the cafe on main st!

[@navajo6931]

Ie indigeouce Montagnard Jarai I love old town

[@georgeschlaline6057]

Wrong horses are 6,000 years old not millions of years

[@rigsospuro7158]

It was Texas at once

[@keithhowell1551]

Not Oklahoma territory was Indian territory

[@SusieDaw-ix6pv]

No thank you. I've seen that panhandle coming and going. Desolate, empty, dangerous.

[@xyz5765]

Yes dangerous. Ask the 2 women that were murdered and put in a freezer and buried on Mother's Day 2024

[@PutRandomNameHere]

How is Beer City considered a ghost town if literally nothing is left? The people are supposed to be the ghosts, not the buildings themselves lol

[@nighthawkminerals]

Follow the Kansas mom’s murders! 4 corners it’s a sad story

[@308dad8]

By your account beer city isn’t a ghost town because there’s nothing left

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I would definitely consider Beer City a ghost town. Have I previously said that if there was a town and now there is nothing that it isn’t a ghost town? If so, I misspoke. There are many definitions of ghost towns and I consider a ghost town to be either totally abandoned (or gone like Beer City), or a place that’s a small fraction of what it used to be (usually 10% or so of its peak).

[@308dad8]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy No. you said it’s a ghost town but you said there’s no remnant of a town. A ghost town leaves behind remnants, some evidence of the human past. Beer City could’ve existed, but it could be a load of crap made up to get people to drive to the middle of nowhere and need to buy gas and maybe a coke at the nearest gas station. By your account there’s no physical evidence that a town ever stood. That there needs to be evidence to be a ghost town was my own assertion. It’s a neat story, but it’s just a story. Like talking about anything else that can’t be proven what and where it was/is. I recall a story of a campground my scout troop used to use that it was built by German POWs and that one escaped and was never recovered. Fact? No that’s a long way to transport a prisoner from the European front.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Ok I understand where you’re coming from. The first photo I showed during the video is supposedly an actual photo of Beer City. This has been documented in a couple of books I read. You may be correct since there is no current evidence of the town. However, it seems as though many people wrote about the existence of Beer City. If it wasn’t real then many people colluded on a great story haha!

[@308dad8]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy Interesting. Shame even footings are gone

[@janetdonkersloot9393]

Tell us more about these places! For instance, Kenton Ok. has 17 residents. Every one of these places has some history that would be interesting to hear! Less face time and less drone time and tell us what is or was important about these places!

[@chrismach454]

I could imagine everybody being really big on the KKK there

[@retrovideoquest]

I don't know what is with youtubers who make channels for supposedly "showing" stuff, and then their whole videos just show their faces blocking the scenery they were supposed to show. Ego? Need for attention? I mean, we can *hear* what you are saying, but we really don't need to see your face... right...?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

The reason most of them do it is for branding. It’s the same as a tv show, movie, podcast, late night talk show, I could go on and on. You’re probably not a regular viewer of mine (which is totally fine) but this is an older video and my more recent videos are less of my ugly mug. As for me it’s definitely not ego but you are free to think (and say) whatever you like!

[@lllllIlIIII]

No your wrong oklahoma belonged to the natives

[@timhulbert6139]

In 2010 that courthouse/general store was still open!

[@w3tua]

I was there last month (2023) and it still is open.

[@timhulbert6139]

@@w3tua it was closed for a long time 7-Eleven